I think a 10-0 home stand is a reasonable request. Happy Labor Day Weekend, all.

Harmless double.

Mac Attack!

kills speed.

Rays getting good swings off Luis.

nice k, kid!

I like this kid.

Straight Cheese. Whiff!

Base runner.

Hell Yeah!

Boom!

Sweet

Wow.
True Outcomes inning!

681 homeruns.

[in his career, RI, not this game. that would be some sort of record.]

Oh, I was confused there. Just for a second. I mean, it was only the second inning, how could he possibly have that many homers, I was asking myself.

Jeez, he drubaled that one between the fielders.

Uh oh, not a good situation. Although Kiermaier isn't too scary.

Okay.
Nice game so far!

Amazing.
Two hits for us tonight, two homers.

MAC ATTACK!!

Nice! Atta boy, Brian,

Lovely long HR, Brian!

More true outcomeness

Nice shot Bryan

Uh oh, no Jacoby.

So, huh, we have an awfully good pitching staff.
Without CC. I mean, plainly better without CC.

[25] apparently he's coming back Wednesday. I'd rather he pitch Thursday.

[24] he has an upset stomach. my stomach is upset for a different reason - lack of food. i'm headed out to pick up thai food. be back soon.

please keep the shutout in tact. you can have my fortune cookie.

Ah. Oh well, it didn't look like it was going to be a shutout.

[26] I dunno, I think he's our worst starter, by a significant margin. If he doesn't pitch against Toronto this coming series, that will be okay with me.

[28] no fortune cookie for you!

[29] isn't Thursday an off day or did I misread the schedule?

Got 'im, whew!

Very good outing.

There ya go, Sevvy!

Thursday the 10th is the first game in a 4-game set against the Jays. Thursday the 17th is an off day.
But now I better understand your thinking!

[30] Just bring me some basil shrimp, how about that.

Sevvy! What a fortunate thing.

Ah, thanks. Yes he should come back on the 17th.

The O's got some homers and have a good lead over Toronto now. Sixth inning.

I wonder what crap announcers Fox is giving us tomorrow

gg, kid.

Wilson looks like McCann.

Strike this chump the fuck out.
We do not want two base runners for Longoria.

Okay, that will do.

Oh, no mix-n-match?? Justin Wilson gets to pitch to Longoria? Joe knows he's a right-hand hitter, right??

Yikes!

Looking good now.

Third out!

Russell Martin GIDP to squelch a budding Blue Jay rally.

So now the jig of Beta-Mill to finish the game?

alright, folks - i'm back.

dinner is served!

Oh, yum, thanks -- what did you bring us??

McCann is having a True Outcome game.

Only the good ones so far, of course.

[34] i brought you some spicy basil with chicken instead. and, yes, i did get you a fortune cookie.

[38] i was thinking about that too.

Hey ho, tweet tweet!

bird flew into the second deck!!

Lovely Bird!

Just woke up (Hey, it's Saturday). What a beauty. A BEEE-U-TEE!. It could only be ruined by….jingoism at the Stadium. So I tune out, Kate Racist Smith's God Fuck America to say, "hi." (BTW, I am proud to be a U.S. citizen, just don't need to wave a silly flag, or sing a song to show it). Sorry for breaking the rules, Alex.

Man, or man, HRs by McCann and A-Rod. Another gem by Severino. What more could you ask for on an overcast Saturday in Tokyo. Oh, I got it. The girls are gone and left in the house alone to drink coffee and watch the Twin Towers finish it off.

Love you guys.

And more true outcomeness! Insurance. Maybe another night off for Dellin & Miller?

Man, I was worried he'd strike out for the third time. But Bird flies one!

Word to Big Bird. Kaboom!

should GI Joe have let Sevvy finish the 7th?

[56] Dude, you don't sound like you just woke up.
Maybe too big a lead for the Twin Towers, though.

enny romero will do.

[60] Maybe, not hard to criticize. We want the kid to still be strong in October, right?

Coney said the Jays were playing at 135 win pace. Since the '98 Yanks only won 116 I hope the math catches up.

[62] The pitcher isn't the one responsible for that odor, izzi?

mac has scored three times tonight.

[65] oh, door. i mean, dear.

[63] yeah, and it was his first time pitching into the 7th. 91 pitches is a goodly amount too.

[64] I doubt they'll win 59 out of their last 29.

I'm not sure I know anyone who uses the word 'goodly' besides you.

AW on for the 8th. My root beer is Barq's, however.

later, the suds will be from the Highland Brewery in Asheville. their Kashmir 'English Style IPA'

You have been Warrened!

[61] (*J*) Good one.

I did get yelled at by the wife as she was leaving for my daughter's poor marks in gym. I knew I lost the argument when I brought up Stephen Hawking

I'm drinking some Muscato. I must say it's not my favorite. I have to think of what to do with the rest of the bottle (it's bubbly so it won't keep well).

Wait Hoyt is good company to be in

[70] good, lee.

i'm the goodliest person you know!

it is a word. i think my mom or brother use it. i think it's good to use with amounts.

[73] Awesome.

great inning for adam. just send him out to finish it off.

[70] it's that Southern thing rubbing off on the Queens boy.

The Warren Commission!

Oh, it's definitely a word! It's Elizabethan, Jacobian, Shakespearian, kind of thing, isn't it?

Along those lines, I like "methinks", and I actually use it aloud. I don't think I use it on Bronx Banter, though. It looks a little pretentious when I write it. I assume it sounds pretentious when I say it, too, but I don't notice that.

[79] ha!

ah, i don't think i know anyone down here that uses it either. : )

[76] Do you say, "might-could" too? My buddy from South Carolina used to say that.

Not to jinx anything, but it looks like we'll be picking up a game on the Jays tonight...

[82] well bless your heart.

[81] hmmm, my brother uses "methinks" all the time in emails. that's "prolly" where i get goodly from too.

[69] 83% is what he meant I think. Of course you knew that!

[85] big smile! yeah, i hear that one all the time. not much of a fan.

might could, might should...

i really hate "fixin'" and "cutting" lights on/off.

Oh, I'm actually kind of disappointed that we got a non-homer hit!

no, no, no, no, NO!

walks or homeruns. he didn't get the memo.

Shades of Ichiro!

Line drive in the box score. But I want more runs than hits. Love that oddity

[88] how about, "he needed a killin' " as a defense in court?

[83] see [88]

i don't say any southern-isms.

i still make fun of "yins" from where i went to college in PA!

Oh, I like double modals. Sounded dumb the first time I heard that construction, but now it sounds, hmmm, quaint.

'Methinks' is the only extant verb in English that does not take a subject. Isn't that amazing? I think that's amazing. English is so fucking weird.

[93] i've been here for 19 years and thankfully have never heard that!

[95] i'm with you on the double modals.

i do prefer locrian mode. lydian is really nice.

[95] methinks is a weird verb completely.

well, damn, i'm still hungry.

[96] heard it when I lived in South Carolina in the late 1990s. Thought it was an actual defense.

Watched a 197os or 80s 60 Minutes show where a NJ town bully was gunned down in broad daylight. No one saw a thing.