jacoby was in the original lineup, gritner out.

now, there's no ells vs. a righty...

rut-roh!

jacoby has a sore left hand. had tests, everything was fine.

pineda left a sim game with tightness in his right lat and is to have an MRI... karma?

http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2014/04/29/ellsbury-sore-hand-pineda-tight-lat/

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

If I was a player I would ask out tonight.

ok, almost game time. i'm ready for this!

That was satisfying.

Is Abraham Almonte half-Jewish maybe?

nice start.

[8] Don't think so. Dominican.
We traded him for Shawn Kelley.

Windy tonight.

Anybody else have Yankee-specific license plates like my TANAKA19 plates?

Mixed.

How do they think they know it's "more boos than cheers"? I mean, how do you count that?

Sounds like more boos than cheers from the radio...

(11) I prefer Kelly

more boos than i expected.

Okay, now pretty clearly boos!

(I've always enjoyed clear booze.)

[13] It was definitely more boos than cheers, even if boos cut through noise better. But it was mixed overall.

[16] As I told the generous bartender on Friday night!

wow, cc was dominant in that inning.

[19] lol. i drank some clear booze saturday night as well. I would have preferred whiskey.

hardly a hero's welcome for Robbie, but not at all unexpected.
you can't come home again when you snub a fat 7 year deal.

I had no idea Chris Young was still in baseball

unfortunately, we look equally bad at the plate thus far. c'mon carlos.

lame.

[21] Yeah, I actually don't like clear booze all that much, honestly.

This is not gonna be fun to follow if nobody hits, I'm just saying...

[27] If nobody hits?
It will be the best game I've ever seen!

Juuuuuuust got 'im!

jetes!

Nice, Cap'n

Was that possibly close enough for a review? I was only half looking (working).

[32] No. Close, but not that close.

[33] thanks

Beat the shit out of the shift.

I guess he's feeling better...

Dang, I just went to let the dogs out.

teix! I was starting to worry about this being a completely anemic game. That's something at least.

No no no. Walks before homers.
Idiot Girardi should have reversed them in the batting order.

Just got here; Robinson love not so much?

Mark appears back in the saddle.

[40] More or less. Some cheers, but the booing gradually won out.

Is that 2 HRs in the last 2 ABs for Tex?

Again, empty seats behind home plate, but 30,000+ in the stands. It's gotta be a buzz kill and keeping casual fan interest down. Certainly a design flaw of greed when NYS was built. Those $1000 seats cost the team money.

Hmph. Cheapie.

Yeah, he probly shoulda bunted.

Very tight strike zone!

CC's kinda laboring, huh? Has he broken 90mph yet?

I was hoping there would be no boos at all for Cano.

Chyll, you're probably too young to know this; there was a cartoon character I remember in the '60s named Chilly Willy the Penguin. You know him?

Excellent, excellent AB.

Michael Kay: "Eleven pitches so far. This will be the eleventh." (It was a ten-pitch walk.)

Yay!
Okay, now I will accept a home run.

I'm following SI's version of Gameday and the pics they have of the pitchers and the batters are rather cartoonish. Brian Roberts' pic looks like they might have cropped it from a Little League team photo.

[49] I'm never too young for cartoons... er...

Of course I know him, a B-level star of the Woody Woodpecker franchise, if you will. I used to get teased with that in elementary school. Ah, those were the days >;)

I always figured he chose the name because of Chilly Willie.

[53] Wait, you wore a tuxedo in elementary school? Or what are you saying?

Speed kills!

Remember how I used to hate plays? I'm enjoying the plays this year.

oh hey, we'll take that.

Well okay then, at least we got something out of all that.

I was Evil in elementary school but did not yey have an Empire.

Yet...ugh.

[53] you were already Chyll Will in elementary school?
Hurray! A cheapie run!

Thunderstorm rumbling its way in here.

Heh.
CC speeeeeeeds to the bag...

[54],[55] I identified more with Charlie Brown or Snoopy. I thought Woody was a jerk most of the time and Chilly was a victim of circumstance.

You got smoaked, dude.

Cole Gillespie's OBP is .143.

But you never can tell.

Evening all.

Nice to come in and find CC with a lead and pitching well.

Hear Robbie got booed. That's disappointing.

And with that, CC gives up a double.

Meh.

[67] you're right there

[61] Nah, Chyll Will came in junior high. I was actually Chill Will until I changed the i to a y to stand out from all the other Chill Wills. I borrowed it from DJ Chill Will from the Get Fresh Crew; long story.

Good work, formerly fat man.

Sweet

Doubles!

Port Jervis!

Now it's time for a home run.

That walk is why it was valuable for Young Jervis to steal. Because Ichiro could now steal second.

But, I forgive him.

Nerts.

Lackey and Bedard in a pitchers' dual.

No, duel. Sorry.

Wow, that's an out? Challenge time

You could tell in regular speed he was safe

I said "safe" ... and he was.

Hm.
I'll take a run-scoring dp here.

Not a good siturayshun

WTF????????

Christ.

Well here we go...

CC's on the mound. Just saying. . .

Looks like Roberts had broken for second base on expected steal when the bunt was laid down...

Here is CCs riddle of the night. Let's see.

Okay, that was better than a run-scoring dp.

ok, that's one.

I really hope they don't try to "jam him inside". Unless it's in the dirt.

What must Robinson be feeling right now?

Acceptable.

Nerts, run scores.

That was the only and right play for Tex.

GODDAM it.

I was just thinking, "Big batter here."

Dammit.

I can't say I didn't see that coming, I can only say I didn't see that.

C'mon CC ... I said dig deep, not dig a deep hole ...

Sheesh.

crap.