At work, so no game for me today.

Ugh I turned the game on and Greene promptly loaded the bases. May need to just shut it off.

Brutal.

Glad I'm not watching.

glad i am - i'm getting to see jeter bat right now.

c'mon captain!

inside curve fouled off.

95mph heat. feeble swing. strike two.

fastball (96) outside. 1-2.

95 low. count even.

willie randolph in the stands double fisting beers!!

grounded to short...

nice play, tex.

[6] the Randolph interview was great. He was always one of my favs.

another good play by tex.

[8] ooh, i didn't see it! gotta find that.

i met him outside the stadium when i was a little boy. he was awesome. i treasured his autograph but it somehow got lost in the move from queens to long island.

wish he was still managing or coaching. kinda weird how he was sorta dismissed from baseball. he looks happy and i hope all is well with him.

i don't like adam jones.

[4] you're missing Eury Perez's debut in the field!!!

20 years from now, when Captain Perez is playing his last game at The Stadium III, I can boast about being the only banterite here to watch his debut with the team.

IBB to Markakis to load the bases.

Between this and Eury, I expect RI to show up.

Hughes in line to win his 16th game of the year, to go along with a 3.52 ERA, 1.13 WHIP, and upwards of 200 K's.

Eury - our 58th player used (this season, RI, not in one game, sorry) - with a nice throw, but the sac fly scored a run and advanced a runner.

guy i don't like gets a hit.

8-3. season over. captain will play 3 more games mathematically eliminated - 4 in 20 years.

oh, and hughes is over 200 innings...

buck with the pitching change to face Jete.

high heat fouled straight back

willie taking pix/video with his cell fon. tino too!

defensive half-swing. ground out.

HUGE ovation and chant.

DJ not coming out. it's still going on. here in my den, too...

chant STILL going on.

headley singles up the middle.

i'm really gonna miss Derek...

tex hit it really hard. 2-run homer.

9-5 in the 8th.

captain looking really contemplative in the dugout.

jesus buck. another fucking pitching change??? asshole.

c'mon young chris, make it a 1-run game...

ok, here's the moment we've all been waiting for...

Eury Perez debut at the plate!

EU-RY PE-REZ!! !!! EU-RY PE-REZ!! !!!

...chanted no one anywhere ever.

oh, damn you, GI Joe.

pinch hitter. Ichiro!!!

what could have been...

Blergh 1.

alright, someone get on base and avoid the double play if there's one out.

get Jeter another at-bat!!!

[26] Eury didn't get to bat. you missed nothing.

bad Ichiro. Eury could have done that...

brendan ryan up? ugh.

Blergh 2.

fuck.

c'mon gritner - do NOT leave Jeter in the on-deck circle (again).

please Please PLEASE don't make an out.

And there it is. Sniff.

wow. that was a really brutal at-bat by gritner. just awful.

season over. derek left on deck...

[10] i've always been a huge fan of WIllie's. Glad you got to meet him. And great job taking over the thread! I was watching but also working so wasn't able to post much.

Thanks for the running commentary, thelarmis! I was a huge Willie fan too, shame he got the Mets job years back.