Just as some lovers will always have Paris, C.C. Sabathia always has Milwaukee where he once pitched his ass off for half a season. C.C. made his name in Cleveland and will pitch for the Yankees for a long time but his brief stay over in Milwaukee saw him at his best.
We can only hope the comfortable surroundings bring good things tonightski.
We are also treated to the defensive stylings of Brendan Ryan. Welcome back, dude.
Jacoby Ellsbury CF
Brett Gardner LF
Carlos Beltran RF
Mark Teixeira 1B
Brian McCann C
Yangervis Solarte 3B
Brian Roberts 2B
Brendan Ryan SS
Never mind the sausage race:
Let’s Go Yank-ees!
ok! i'm not optimistic with CC going, but i'm hopeful. Let's Go Yan-Kees!
Btw, I like Miller Park. The tailgating there was a blast the one time I made it there. We even sought out the Uecker seats and sat there for a couple of innings.
Come on, formerly large man.
Aw crap.
cc, he destroyed that pitch. that is not good.
Ugh.
That's no way to say "Thanks" or "Welcome back" to the guy who carried your asses to the playoffs.
ok that's one.
ok, it was just one run. He settled down fine. Still, CC makes me nervous.
ok, let's do this! nice hit tex!
Just tuning in, are they playing in New Delhi or Beijing? Why does it look so hazy?
huh? with mccann batting?
[11] The sun is really bright in center field so I think it's just causing that hazy look in the center field camera.
Oh good. A play.
[11] Same with the Brewers feed? Looks like they closed the roof and then had a fireworks show. Don't know.
solarte!
Much better CC.
Good inning CC!
Good job Brendan.
Nice ovation for CC.
Exactly, Michael. "The unfairness goes both ways." That's the kind of unfairness that we sometimes call: fair.
Gritner!
gardy! yes!
Holy fuck. That was fast. Both of those guys.
[20] Yes! The mutual unfairness likewise goes both ways, as does the complmentary score now!
If we could just avoid those fucking double plays, we could have a pocketful of runs by now.
Woo hoo! Two out hits.
nice!
Excellent!
[25] We should do more to avoid outs. I think that would help a lot. :)
[29] Fewer plays -> fewer outs.
[11] I agree. The game was on different channel than YES and it looked like a grainy 70's movie. I figured it was the channel. Tonight it's not much better. Do they put cheese dust in the fireworks?
[31] Shotz wort residue?
Booooooooooooooootsy!
Oops
Good work, CC. Way to pick up your teammate.
Oh fer crissake.
fuck, shit, piss, and...hell.
Oh, Dear Mo. : (
ugh. horrible.
Fucking batting practice.
cc - what the FUCK???
these balls are being CRUSHED!
What the hell? I leave for a minute and there are now 4 runs?
That's 850ft of taters..
Of course
Ryan made an error but the bulk of this is on some real bad pitching.
cc has given up TEN homers already.
[46] And yet, only one of the four runs is earned! (Although Gameday says two. That's obviously wrong. Only the first homer is an earned run.)
[47] Today?? I thought just three.
[48] yeah, i'm glad for that in a weird way. I want cc to right the ship and finish with a solid ERA.
Boy, that sucks.
[49] well, we are only in the top of the 4th.
[...this season.]
This Miller Park is kind of ugly. I liked the old County Stadium better.
I am in complete despair over CC. Is there any reason not to be in complete despair over his utter uselessness? Other than this just being a game, but seriously, complete despair.
That contract is death. Please help me find something within this cloud. He's fucking killing this team.
Beltran is looking a bit paunchy these days. Much more than in his Royals days, and even more than in Spring Training.
Come on Kay, do that slide.
Meredith Marakovitz is 6ft tall?
Over the yellow line.
BOOM!
Mark goes the other way!
I'll say it again. I just don't see what everyone else sees with Brendan Ryan. People get so excited about range that they're willing to overlook when he makes silly mistakes on easier plays. And he makes *a lot* of them
[61] I don't understand people seeing anything in Ryan, period. He can't hit. Isn't that kind of disqualifying? It makes me sick to see him on a lineup card.
[57] like most statuesque women, she's 5 foot 12.
[54] someone has to pitch 200 innings this season. CC has I believe this year and next left on contract. If he can get through 6 and give up 4 runs, that is marginally acceptable in the regular season. I hope he gets better soon.
[63] I believe we're stuck watching him in 2015 and 2016 - AND - there's a vesting option that's likely to vest in 2017. The contract is death.
[62] You know what? If he was Ozzie Smith in the field you could overlook it. And people want him to be so badly. But he's scatterbrained or something. Remember when he allowed a runner to score from second on a groundball to shortstop last year? I've never seen any shortstop, good or bad do that.
He's also no Ozzie Smith with the bat either, but that's another matter entirely
I can't take it. He is HORRIBLE.
Seriously, is there a worse contract in the major leagues?
I don't think there's any way out, and I see absolutely no signs to indicate anything is going to change.
CC looks like toast at this point
[62] totally agree. The pressure for him to be great in the field, and he boots easy ones. He doesn't have many productive outs either.
[65] I've certainly never bought the idea that he is in any way exceptional in the field.
[66] Arod's?
Nice job, Kid. 1 more out.
betances! one more man...
Nasty!
Nice stuff for DB!
Holy smokes, this kid is the real deal.
this kid owns!
Freaking awesome by Dellin, but man, CC is a HUGE problem, figuratively, if no longer literally.
Betances dances out of trouble again!
Dellin!
So, not for nuthin but, CC gets one earned run for that performance.
[69] The suspension gives my ears a temporary reprieve from all the steam caused by that one.
Dellin tto the rotation! Dellin to closer!
One of these Yankees short relievers has to be valuable trade bait ...
Alfredo Aceves is getting his gun hot in the Yankee pen???
Did Flash really say that?
[82] Interesting idea. I like it.
I would trade any of them except Betances. (And I like D-Rob a lot, but I just think relief pitchers not valuable except for the handful of truly great ones.)
[83] with that lisp...
[85]??
Well that was a gigantic fucking waste of an at bat.
Shoulda bunted.
Hellsbells should have bunted there, he might have legged it out.
Whoo-hoo, Sori!
[86] Flaherty does have a slight lisp.
And Fonzie hits one 50 feet to tie the game!
Michael said "a base hit" before the ball got through the infield!
Shift that
Nerts
DAMMIT.
Bellie might have been safe at first there.
Ace had "an innate ability to pick up victories."
I wonder what Michael's first language was.
You have to catch that ball, Carlos!
Balk?
[97] Bronx-ese?
Fuck!
Muthafugger.
[97] NY Post prose
Lucroy is the 2014 edition of Yankee Killa.
So, the pitching and the defense are costing us this game. The hitting is fine, although the timing could have been better.
Every time Kay says Lucroy's name, it reminds me a Jerry LaCroix who played with Edgar Winter's White Trash band. That Road Work album is indelibly stamped on my brain (that sounds like something Michael Kay would say).
[105] He'd say it was stamped inedibly on your brain. Or innately.
[105] I always think of Matt LeCroy, the man that made Frank Robinson LeCry.
Losing a game to shitty defense is unacceptable. At least I didn't get to hear Kay talk about his fallacy of pre-determined outcomes.
[105] a lot of Yankees will be losing sleep tonight. Ryan, CC, Beltran, and more.
Well then, let's give K-Rod an era
109 for 104.
Just gotta say... I am not happy typing on an iPad.
[112] I assume you're using landscape view?
[113] yes! but without key feedback, it just leads to one finger hunt and peck.
20 years in and Kay still can't read an outfielder.
Ah well.
Crappy game. Some bright spots.
Win the series tomorrow!
Boo. Night all.
Yankees could have won, but should of?