Oh man, I'm nervous about Deivi, I don't mind saying.
Maybe this will be The Beginning of His Story. Could happen!

Fucking Ass-tros

RIP, EVH.

(3) :(
(2) Good to have a villain team?
In and out all morning here, Let’s Go Yankees!

Sigh.

Fuck that motherfucker.

Yeah.
I just don't feel like Deivi is quite ready.

Not like there are a lot of good options after Cole.

He’s nervous for sure. But hopefully having that inning done helps him relax. The bare handed grab was nice.

Holy shite! Rocket man!

That was beauteous!

It took long enough for the first homer

Stanton!

Stantonian!
Not at all clear what’s the point of Garcia for one inning then going to Happ..

If there’s a Game 4, who starts?

Lame! Fucking Lame!

This has all the makings of a Girardi-ian disaster.

Who pitches game 4?

Boone: there won't be a game 4.

Quick hook.

#$%@#$$%@$#%@#$%@#$%@#$%@#$%@

Great idea, Boone.

The home run pitcher came through

Devi could have done that.

Maybe Deivi starts Game 4, with Monty prepared to go a lot of innings.

To their shitastic number nine hitter too.

Why didn't they use Garcia for 3 or so innings? He could have had a short leash.

Look up job security in the dictionary and it says, lefty veteran.

Garcia wasn’t the one who needed the short leash.

Well this team was never going to win with pitching with when Cole doesn't pitch so 8 runs please.

So this is Burn the Bullpen day.

Views from 314 indicated Devi to Happ might be the plan, but the opener is supposed to go 2-3 innings.

Who dreamed this bullshit up?

These outside strikes Glasnow is getting aren’t helping matters.

Wow. Sweet pick followed by a Giambiesque play by Voit. lol...

JFC, HAPP. Get a lefty out!

Atta boy, Happ. Way to keep 'em in the park. Good game plan, Boone.

Ah but Boone is teasing us. The real starter is coming in to start the fifth.
But not before he burns Tanaka too.

Yup, switching Deivi for Happ was such a smart move.

/sarc

Boone better keep Happ in there now. No need to waste the pen.

This a management manufactured disaster. And now there's no where to go.
We have to hope Tanaka has his best stuff tomorrow and can go 7 innings.

Dagger time. To shit or not shit the bed.

We got them right where we want them.

If you didn't know who was the rookie you'd think it was Happ.

Sit meatball.

Ayuh.

Holy crap!!!!

JAY-SUS Ceeerist! Where did that go, Giancarlo!

If it wasn't for Boone, that Bombers would be doing OK.

Stanton: 4
Boone/Rays: 5

Finally

At least he didn't give up another 2-run homer.

Happless. If Ottavino doesn't allow a run or more, the next round's on me.

Happ followed by Ottavino, should be the name of a horror movie.

Put a tent on that circus. YIKES!

Well that play was an adventure. Phew.

[3] : (

i HATE the leadoff walk. dammit.

I hate watching Zero pitch more than anyone else on this team. He sucks.

gary has a canon. it'd help if he could, you know, catch the ball. : /

[56] i was really excited for him last year and like[d] him a lot. his slider is video game like. he really SUCKS this year. i'm pissed at that leadoff walk.

can't let this run score. johnny lasagna to face a lefty with a man on 3rd and 1 out.

Hopefully he does serve up meatballs

[59] i'm hoping for lotsa cheese.

So it’s burn the pen tonight.

FUCK

Lead off walk. Courtesy of Zero.

Boone is pressing all the right buttons tonight.

Can Stanton pitch?

[64] stop your sentence after the third word.

[65] kratzie!

SWEET DP, DJ!!

I approve of that. Phew.

now THAT is a leadoff walk i approve of. get glass out...now! ; )

Helluva an ab by Hicks.

Hicks is always reliable when healthy

do it again, G

crap. hit it on the screws. their left fielder is A PROBLEM.

2 hours and 30+ minutes to play 5 1/2 innings. Fucking Bollocks!

Surprisingly, despite the best efforts of Boone, the Yanks are still in this.

mother. fucker.

[76] hmmmm...

Night all, I’ve got two Jack Russell terrorists to walk in the morning

and, also: FUCK the asstros, especially correa.

sit the FUCK down, asshole. fucking *finally*

[78] Oops. I guess I wrote that too soon. Grrr.

[80] You KNOW we're going to play them in the ALCS though, right?

[83] not unless we come back tonight... [i know, i know. but, still]

another thelarmis approved leadoff walk. turn the walk into a ... run!

Clint wants a heater.

Woo-hoo!

Cmon build a rally here.

[83] Yeah, I've felt that was agreed to in the writers room at the beginning of the season. Unfortunately, no fans with trashcan lids.

let's go, gary!

0-2 right away. of course. hit a fucking homer, gary.

fucking bullshit. : /

i just saw that grienke is battling 'arm soreness'. not an injury, per se...

CB - i can't scream this loudly enough: FUCK YOU!!

That was too close to take with 2 strikes

Eat Fucking shit CB!!!!!!!Darling, you're Fucking garbage, too.

game over right there :_(

Gleyber just took a pitch less off plate than that and it was called a ball.

Live by the homer, die by the homer.

Time to bench Gary until March, I’m afraid.

Boone would have to be fired before he realizes Gary is a zero at all sides of the plate.

Gary and Aaron swung at obvious balls to strike out. They beat themselves.

With all due respect, blaming the ump is for losers. Both teams have to deal with CB.

CB sucks. Sorry. When an ump is this bad it’s rarely balanced. Sometimes in our favor but not today

this sucks balls.

Yanks deserve this loss but the man in blue putting the finger on the scale makes it a lot more frustrating.

FIRE CB. That's disgusting.

CB strikes again.

C'mon

Utterly absurd

This is beyond bullshit.
This guy needs to be put on the curb tomorrow.

Phew

Thank F.

Geezus

do it, clint!

FUCK!!

Oh, boy.

No way you let Gary hit.

C'mon Gary, won't hit that high smoke!

Fuck now we are swinging before it’s a strike

Puke.

Gary is awful. I just don’t think i can take his swinging at anything anymore

jesus fucking h. christ

Just awful. Not even a foul ball on any of those.

Boy didn’t see that coming.
Meulens 2021

THAT'S how you hit a fucking ball.

bang the fucking gavel. give us the fucking lead!

Le Machine!

Not sure how Gary has a job in the majors. I'm not sure he's even AAA caliber at this point

Keep the line moving.

not a strike, you fucking fuck.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

That game was maddening on so many levels. FUCK!

Stanton/DJ: 5
Boone/CB/Rays: 7

Fuck you. Boone. Happ. CB. Gary.

OK. Tanaka tomorrow.

[134] let's hope it's Playoff Tank

dodgers making it interesting against garrett richards' moustache.

[135] indeed.

Michael Kaye today defending Boone and tearing a new asshole for management

[138] Well, you can be sure that idea came from Cash and his analytics people.

No cute stuff tonight

HOLY SHIT. HOW WAS THAT NOT A HOMER?!?! HOW THE FUCK DID JUDGE CATCH THAT?!?!? Wow!

Whoa. That was scary. Thanks for the Judgement, Arron.

Phew, Judge!

I guess this game may well determine Tanaka’s future with the Yankees

I am not digging this hard contact. Figure it out Masa.

Hmm, not liking this

I hate the Rays

I'll give tbs credit for 1 thing. Using the corners only for the strike zone is vastly better than the entire white square. If they told Darling to fuck off I'd have a 2nd thing to give them credit for. DJ catches that 99% of the time. Sigh,

[148] I like Darling! Much better than the ESPN crew at least.

[138] Saw that, he was fired up.

Morton is looking strong.

Always helpful at making Morton look like Cy Young. Not that he is bad. Just matches up well against us it seems.

way too many pitches for Tanaka through 3.

Pitchers that throw strikes make make the Yankees look stupid.

Morton wears a Kevin Brown like scowl. I hate his face.

let's get this going!

[152] He should be good for 120. He's from Japan.

Finally.

ok we'll take it!

I mean finally, a non-Stanton RBI.

I’ll take it.

Ball Four!

FAIL!

Ball Five.

That is BS. Robbed of a run.

Jesus these umps.

Rats, needed more.

on the plus side, Morton's pitch count finally higher. But it should be even higher.

The announcer is trying to defend last night's Cashman strategy debacle.

That woulda been a strike to a Yankee

Looked like strike 2 for Luke

And DP

Shit, #obligatorythreerunhomer

Think it might be time to change my plates from TANAKA19 to HCTJUDGE

The strike zone issue is killing us. Two nights in a row wth different zones.

JFC!

The refuses not show a replay on a pitch that would have been strike 3 to Voit. So we get a 3 run bomb instead of a strike em out throw em out.

Went back and checked. Tanaka needs to make a better pitch on 3-2.

Boone should curse out the umpire to his face and get thrown out. That may light a fire

Like it never happened. Fuck you, tbs!

Let's go Yankees. If you can't score 4 runs, you don't deserve to win.

fuck these umps and fuck the rays

Went to the MLB game play to further crazify myself. The 3-0 and 3-1 pitch to Voit were stirkes by the merest sliver. And so was the 3-2 pitch Tanaka threw. sigh.

The umps strike zone is screwing us. Voit did lose on close calls and Stanton did check his swing and the ball he was called out on, was off the plate.

while i'm at it...

FUCK BASEBALL

Regardless of what happens for the rest of the playoffs, this has been a shitty-ass 90% -useless season.

i really thought Tank had a strike 'em out, throw 'em out DP...

fuck kevin k. and his fucking eyeballs.

Typical Yankee postseason. Starters put the team in an early hole and batters start pressing.

and FUCK this Randy MOTHERFUCKER straight to hell. leave him there.

FUCK!

This whole situation of this game being almost must-win is on Cashman.

At least Deivi was the youngest starter in Yankee post season history. hurray.

So now it's down to Cole on short rest?

If they had started Tanaka in game two with the "momentum" of Game 1, I bet we are 2 up.

The Marlins were going to be my fallback option, but they are down 0-2. Mattingly finally getting a ring would have been nice.

I hate the Fucking rays. Puke.

yep momentum matters. Yankee management does a lot of overthinking things.

My fallback option is Altuve taking one in the ear hole and anyone but Houston.

gonna switch to debate and watch on replay later. I need to be able to fast forward lol. Given me anxiety issues.

[195] I'm going to start practiving yoga again while refusing to watch Rays-Astros. OR Braves-Dodgers, I hate all four those teams.

[192] Ideally A Boone goes back to broadcasting and the Yankees bring in a grizzled Mattingly, who then wins a ring as the skipper..

[191] this isn't going to game 5. cole will have plenty of rest before his opening day start...

[192] Despite Donny B, I can't stand to see Jeter being successful as an "owner."

batting champ.