CANO .514 in the last 8 undefeated games!!!
Sunday Prediction: The Yankees can win with Ponson on the mound as long as they score at least 17 runs. It's not impossible... They already got the series but a sweep would be so fucking sweet.
a delayed start ot live bloggin due to relationhip issues. we apologize for the delay.
7:19 the moustache is looking good. oh snap beckett punches him out. just proving that two world series rings trumps one steroid aided mvp trophy.
7:23 jobs'a no-hitter breaks up rather early and...wait a minute.....that's big papi's music.....high hopes for this at bat.
7:29 pedroia never fails to make me proud, great steal in the wake of a great strikeout by joba
7:30 now comes the long awaited youk-joba reunion, spine chills...not really. you know minus posada, matsui, damon, sheffield. these guys don't scare me. nice pitch by joba...he's on fire! the way he's headed he might get 7 wins this year!
7:39 beckett doesn't look sharp, at all. more and more it seems francona puts ellsbury in left, with coco in center. with manny's contract being a team option and such good fielders already under contract. i don't know, it makes manny's departure seem somewhat of a foregone conclusion.
7:51 oh damon's in the game! we have a duel folks.
8:12 joba is lighting us up, oh and tek nails miguel. 3 hits, yikes!
8:30-something: varitek simply cannot hit all-star pitching anymore aka breaking balls if you want to call that all-star pitching
9:05 (i had a visitor, thus the delay) we still have a duel. it all seems to hinge on that giambi shift, which i hate, especially when runners are on.
9:09 by the way, the home plate umpire seems to be blatantly prefering high strikes, to the sox disadvantage.
9:10 can't wait for the jeter/farve-like fallout, i wish it would start right now. nothing would please me more than five million yankee fans self-abusing themselves over derek's demise.
9:16 !!!!!!!!!and joba gets his comeupence, nails youk? what? doesn't nail youk? i'm confused. seemed to hit youk but it's 3-0...now it's 2-2....and youk strikes out that is a classic what the fuck at bat. joba is surely turning it up a notch. mariano looms in the distance.
9:24 oh no! i mean yea! it's.... it's javier lopez (god, he sucks half the time) oh no. i mean, yea! he gets the one guy he faces out. and thus starts the chess game. a new pitcher in. it's time like these i miss torre, francona and torre could stretch out a "normal" game at least 20 min with pitching substitutions. i'm not sure if girardi gets that yet.
9:30 delcarmen! with the arod strikeout! that's weird because normally arod is SO clutch? i guess even the greatest have their bad days. and....bye bye manny delcarmen, some sort of hangnail injury no doubt. i wasn't joking about the time difference of a normal game and this.
9:37 oki gets giambino averts widespread depression in new england. film @ 11.
9:46 coco...the baserunning pacifist
9:52 don't get too cocky yankman...eeesh ellsbury caught looking.
9:54 fuuuuuuuuuuuuck, pedroia on a squiber to sandman strands two in the 8th, that's the game. i imagine papelbon os due to arrive? nope oki.
10:00 oki looks competent tonight, gets the job done...sweet
10:05 bottom 9th youk reaches 1 out after ortiz fly, lowell up, drew next
10:10 oh and lowell (the unofficial team captain) gets tossed. 2 outs. and jd strikes out in 2 seconds. yanks are back in the mix.
oh mister cashman, i rearry tink i need to take the year off. aw don't be said, smire! i can spend time with my girfriend. i drew a picture of her. she is beautifur. i tink i may retire...now i'm just being sirry. we are regestered at oscar de ra renta by the way, hint hint.
p.s. brother james: fuck you and your dreams of a yankee pennant
manny: amigo, can we go to material girl's house after this? i've got lot like a "lucky star" i need to show her, comprende?
arod-icus: your crossing the "borderline" manny.
manny: good one bro, but seriously, big papi told me to ask for him too. hey man, you got any like used condoms you no using anymore.
arod-icus: .......
manny: whatever, ese.
Yankees sweep. bosox get swept. A fine weekend. The Red Sox look awful and ready for fourth place in the a.l. east. The Yankees seem primed and ready for a brilliant 2nd half and 27th world championship, get on board...
Mussina won his eleventh, which really could have been his 13th or 14th. He really has been THAT good and deserves to be on the all star team. The rest of the team is just a mess, a mixture of old timers and triple A stars of tomorrow. It is incredibly frustrating to follow, and Mariano didn't make it any better on Saturday, but the real problem is that you can't pitch him once a week and expect him to look sharp. So tonight we have a Boston old timer going against another Yankees triple A star of tomorrow. We'll see...
(atleast they found out how to pitch to manny)
I could hardly recognize Tropicana Field last night, for several reasons. The first being that there were actually fans in the seats and, secondly, because the team on the field was making the Red Sox look stupid, with the brooms out.
On the other hand, I certainly could recognize The Yankees last night, losing a string of easy games and then scoring all their runs in one fucking inning. You should never be excited by defeating the fucking Rangers.
So here we go again. Fourth of July weekend. Same old Sox vs. Yankees. Except something is very, very wrong. Who's in first place? Who is looking convincing in first place? Not The Sox, not The Yankees. The Fucking Rays, and the new rivalry formula truly is X. Vs. Rays.
For this series I have no expectations. Probably a split. We'll see...
Happy Retirement, Schill! Now you'll have even more time to sit around painting socks...(psssst... wanna be a yankee??)
youk is driving me loco amigos, first he like wipe my glove on his butt 'cause me and lugo we're stealing gatorades then i see him like disrespecting my dreads, j'know.
hey homes, looks like we in the ohio or something. it means like "good weed" in indian or something. why can't people just speaca de english? i just started dating this chick named amy winehouse bro, we slept in a dumpster last night. i tink i love her amigo.
looks like they keep the gatorade, like, out in the open in ohio too! white people are stupid homes. me and lugo been selling this gatorade to kids for like a lot of money.
Pettitte gave up 10 runs and Mariano gave up a home run, but the Yankees did not lose. Damon went 6 for 6 with a ninth inning walk off double. What more can I say, "what a mess..."
Anyone who saw Wednesday's game knew that this was coming Thursday night. I love that post game interview with Coco calling the Rays a bunch of little girls. He's ready for another round. (btw- Shields, you need to connect if you are going to take a swing like that. I am convinced Coco spent a couple hours in the ring sparring before this game)
As a Yankee fan I couldn't be more pleased. I can just sit back, relax, and watch these two teams destroy each other. Or even better, I can watch these Red Sox self destruct. How many Red Sox injuries were there on Thursday night, or even in the last week? What about that bitch fight between Manny and that bald fucker Youkilis in the dugout? That can't be good...
I prefer walk off pinch hit homers for my team. This should be a good Yankee weekend. Summer is here. Four versus the Royals in the Bronx. Not to mention that Posada is back. Now it is time to get serious and remind the A.L. East of who is really in charge.
HOLY SHIT! the yankee bullpen didn't implode tonight. Mussina pitched six masterful innings. some other clowns came out and didn't shit their pants, and Mariano had to come out in a non save situation just to run the mop and make sure that a win is a Win. 9 wins for the moose. yankee ace, by the way... (his 9th win of 2007 came in september). and he didn't look like an old man at all, this was a great performance.
Jeter also passed Mantle on the Yankees hit list, he is a living legend along the lines of gehrig and mantle and dimaggio. it's like watching history. beleive it.
in other news: Coco Crisp is going to get hit in his face tomorrow. I'll yell "DUCK" now...
Well I think we are about a 1/2 game out of first place at first pitch tonight.
A few notable notes from Brother Bartles:
Our young pitching: Has vastly surprised nobody. We knew Lester was going to be a big time pitcher when he started off 4-0 in mid-'06, he just had a few bumps in the road. Bucholtz looks to have more potential than even Lester! Only problem is that he doesn't seem as durable. Oh, we should mention Papelbon, he's been around since mid-'05 and been getting paid less than a million a year to be our lights out man, he's completely taken for granted. Delcarmen has been steady in the bullpen. And lastly Masterson looks to be a top 3 starter someday, he's just so good you hardly notice he isn't giving up any runs.
As for the older guys: Wakefield, jeez I feel like one day i'll bring my first born to see him pitch and this hypothetical kid hasn't even been born yet. Schill, who cares really...just retire dude but really thanks for the memories...you're the man...now go away. BARTOLO COLON! former cy young winner, signed to a minor league contract during spring training. That was a Cashman-like signing if there ever was one. Timlin, every time we say he's done there he is in the playoffs killing innings.
Prime years pitchers: Beckett, god, I hope we re-sign but he is going to make a disgusting amount of money if he stays healthy. Dice-K, what's he like 8-0 and on the DL? I'll take that...he hasn't been the force of nature we thought he would be, but he hasn't exactly struggled either.
not mentioned: craig hansen (horseshit), javier lopez (good young lefty reliver), david aardsma (who throws 100mph!) hideki okajima (anyone seen this guy lately?)
WHAT THE FUCK! this isn't spring fucking training. somehow the yankees got ass fucked by judge reinhold and ended up trading places with the tampa bay fucking rays. it just goes to show that sometimes payroll has nothing to do with a winning baseball team. the horror- the fucking shitting fred savage mother fucking horror... fuck these joba fucking rules and fuck you 2 and a third fucking innings....and then you bring in another fucking kid who has never pitched in a major league fucking game? are you fucking serious? are you shitting me? or shitting on me? is there anyone in that bullpen besides fucking mariano who can pitch a cunt sucking inning??? why not make mariano a fucking starter??? is goose gossage still alive??? what the fuck! i never thought i'd ever be happy to see mussina on the mound, even though he can only manage five pussy assed innings per start...which one of those cock smoking assholes is going to give up a lead tonight??? fuck it. what can you buy for 218 million these days? obviously not as much as you can buy for 44 million. perhaps i am getting a bit heated about this... i'm gonna' go listen to some zappa and try to relax.
Matsui is leading the league in batting avg...
Mussina is tied for the league lead in games won...
and Joba starts Tuesday...
hey homes you hear i like de 499 or someting? that's cool but what number comes next? sometimes when we like on de road, jknow?, i eat the hot dogs in the trash after the game. my favorite dugout to sleep in like kansas city, cause they don't have any bugs. de janitor there is named eh, hector. he's a good guy. hey man, seattle is like far away bro we had to take the silver bird again.
Arod has hit 3 homeruns in his first 2 games back. (despite what the umpires called).
Joba is being transitioned into a starter.
Rasner has won his 3rd start in a row.
Yankees domination is always just around the corner...
it is getting rather difficult to watch most of these games. i don't have much more to say. where is the spirit? where is the spark, the yankee magic that i remember?
A pretty damn good Yankee weekend. Wang, Mussina, and Rasner all get wins, holding The Mariners to 4 runs over 3 games. Thankfully, Kennedy is sent back to AAA. Bats are finally making contact with the ball. Finally, a series of games that I didn't have to get angry while watching. Good times, good times...
hughes sidelined with mysterious burning in his chest, in a related story johan santan goes 31-2 on the season, says psychic.
14-14 on the last day of April, Posada and ARod on the 15 day dl, Two rookie pitchers who have yet to win, or even come close to winning a game, a different line up for every game of the season so far... the good news: Wang is 5-0, Rivera has 8 saves in 8 save opportunities with a 0.00 era, and the new Steinbrenner is just as crazy as the old one. On this date last year they were 10-14. I've been watching most games with my hands over my eyes.
For how many years have I been repeating the same thing: DO NOT PITCH TO MANNY!!!
and if you ever wanted to see the effects of a sudden withdrawal from steroids just take a look at David Ortiz, what a mess... Game 3 tonight!!!
Yanks unearth Sox jersey at new stadium
By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - So much for the curse. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Boston Red Sox jersey.
Team officials watched Sunday as construction workers removed the jersey, with slugger David Ortiz's name on it, from 2 feet of concrete in a service corridor of the stadium that's under construction.
The team says a construction worker — who is a Red Sox fan — recently buried the jersey there while on the job. Two other supervisors found the tattered shirt Saturday.
The Yankees plan to donate the jersey to charity, and may pursue a lawsuit against the construction worker.
Girardi is a genius. Start with the bullpen and then go to your starter in the sixth inning of a game that you are losing. I love that Girardi was trying to out-smart the weather. Why didn't Kansas City have any of these problems with their pitching? Girardi has balls. I just wish he would start A-Rod at shortstop while Jeter is out, but we all know that would be a mortal sin. It's time to wake this team up before they go to Boston on Friday night. Maybe Mariano will start tonight?
Considering it was snowing last week, i'd the say baseball gods were quite kind to give us 55 and sunny for the ceremony that never gets old. Can't help but feel lucky that i was unemployed at the time since the games start at 2 in the morning. hey selig fuck you.
The best thing I've seen all week is the Chien Ming Wang + Joba Chamberlin + Mariano Rivera "lights out" combination. I saw it twice. Besides that, I've seen Toronto having a bit of fun along with Tampa Bay.It won't last. Men are getting paid millions of dollars to hit a fucking ball and they just aren't doing it, but it's only week one.
Bush getting booed in D.C. is awesome.
Cubs v. Brewers was awesome.
L.A. Dodgers are the team to watch.
Yankees rain out sucks, but so does baseball in March.
more games to watch, gotta' go!!!
we got rain in chicago, sun in LA & about 2 feet of snow in my yard......play ball!
| 6 games up today, looks like the Yankees are 3 up in the wild card. One more series at Fenway Then possibly a postseason dance perhaps This Sox, Yanks thing just doesn't seem to end does it, it would probably be good idea for a blog. Well I'm tickled pink to know we'll both be in it, it's really not any fun when you're playing the Angels. |
Well we always knew this bastard would haunt us, never really a doubt, never really any good times. At least Matt Clement went 8-0 to start off his dreadful term with the Sox.
This series was certainly not fun to watch, not that I watched it, I listened to it. A couple of things stand out....Joba Chamberlain has officially arrived & J. Damon still has a flair for the dramatic.
And who the hell scheduled this series in the middle of the week?
Regarding our diminshing division lead of 5 games, I don't think there's any question we will barely snake out the division, but seeing the Yankees in the playoffs with our bats this dead would be quite scary. Dice-K and Beckett clearly aren't pitching in a dominant fashion (which is what got us here in the first place)
But what this all proves is that Manny, not Schilling, is the heart of this team. With him out we really are an average at best line-up.
| Little high, Little Low. That clicking sound you're hearing is the all the tv's of Yankees fans turning off. A sweep this week in the bronx would end this nice and quickly...however I'd be a moron to to believe that's going to happen. Even when the Yankees are horrible they manage to keep it interesting, that impressive. 6.5 back.......hit me where the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me.....to me. |
| Wow, crazy comebacks, or non-comebacks that is. What a bizarre afternoon. The poster children for both teams, Manny and Sandman don't come thru in the clutch today. |
| Funny how just a few games up against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays will really make you feel like you're a winner. Right Yankees fans? It seems like only a couple of days ago the Red Sox were in bad shape with a month and a half to go. Got to love that bullpen of theirs and you got to hate Kazmir, that guy freaking owns us! You know who else owns us? Bedard of the Orioles.....the Yanks get him 2nite. |
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There is a five letter word that Red Sox Nation used a lot in 2004, and rightfully so, after that amazing comeback against the New York Yankees. It's still only mid- August so I will give The Red Sox the first letter in this word and we will fill in the blanks from there. C_ _ _ _ ... Anyways, Yankees sweep Cleveland. Everybody hits. ARod homers twice Saturday night. giambi homers sat and sun. YAWWWWWWWWWN!!! Let's get to the end of the season already... Let's get to the match up we've all been waiting for. AL East might be all tied up by the 28th, Sox could even be in second place by the 28th. Those three games might mean somebodies whole season...
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last nights game was crazy. best game of the year so far. i forgot all about jason giambi, he just sort of showed up.
| Hey Kids! Well the Yanks are scoring about 10 runs per game (like they should have been doing all year!). And the Sox have been scoring about 2 runs per game, nothing new there. The good news is the schedule gets a little tough for the Yanks, not that much tougher but they won't be playing Tampa and KC the entire season. But hey at least they are making things interesting! Brother Bartles is in a tizzy right now over A-Rod, you know what? I fucking hate John Sterling that's what. That 500th HR call was the most annoying radio call I'd heard since that cranky old lady announced Clemens was coming back. 6 games left head to head, this is getting very exciting. |
what else can you say about the world's greatest living ballplayer??? sometimes just sit back and enjoy the view. finally 500, (finally.... at 32) and the Yankees continue their daily batting practice against the al central. who needs pitching when you can score 17 or 18 runs everyday??? (don't answer that, i know the appropriate responses) and yes, the wild card is good enough. it'll have to be unless i finally get to see that Red Sox/Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash i've been dreaming of since 2004... and stay tuned because i'm getting back into getting back into you.
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