Apr
26
Game 18 Spillover Thread
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Man, what I would give to be able to hold a lead…
Damn. Just missed.
On the plus side though, I LOVE the sound of a groan going through the crowd in Fenway.
Whoops! How’d this get up here?
Who would win in a Scrap Off. Pedroia or Gardner? Pedroia would have to spot Gardner 20 grit points of course.
Pedroia by a Pacific Ocean.
Ooo that’s a good one. Both are short, white, bald, lacking oodles of talent … that’s a tough one..
You have to remember that Pedroia was a highly regarded college player in a major conference and Brett was a former walk-on at a shit University.
Neither. David Eckstein would come out of no where and win.
Blegh, beat me to it.
Eckstein.
Is there something about the words ‘gritty’ and ‘scrappy’ that require the player to be white?
Yes. If you have a black guy that plays like that, he’s exciting and a playmaker.
No. He’s in the minor leagues.
Touche.
You forgot athletic, and talented
what if they’re latino?
Do you mean on the mets?
I really don’t get the aversion to playing Pena.
I get it on a day when Damon is out- Berroa is more likely to hit.
betemit> berroa… and that says something
Swisher > Betemit.
‘Would you rather have Youkilis hit with…’
Um…
Wow.
These guys are beyond stupid.
Stealing 20 out of 21 bases means you’re not a base-stealer…? How fucking delusional are these guys?
Scott Podsednik = base-stealer (76% career rate), duh.
95% success rate? Nope, not a base-stealer.
Obviously.
Yo, Robbie, put the gum in while you’re in the dugout.
swish k’ing a lot lateley
Swish is k’ing a whole lot lately. But, that is part of his game.
damn Swisher..
Swisher needs to heat back up.
Anyone else not getting pitch type and speed from Gameday?
some days the full program doesn’t run I guess. I ain’t getting anything either. Sucks without that because it tells you nothing.
It’s a premium feature I guess
no, last year they had everything without premium. The premium was all that yellow crap.
Swisher’s always K’d a lot.
Brazilian announcers are talking about Youk and how much of a dick he is. I don’t know how they got to that but I’m loving it.
Fuck, I Love Brasil.
they’re lationo , so obviously they’re siding with the less white team
So what’s Robbie’s hit streak now?
B.J. Upton makes that play. Crawling.
Definitely.
Better season:
Cano or Pedroia?
Cano
Cano, and it won’t be close.
Canó
pedroia. the sliding stops gives him the edge.
* diving.
Then at the start of 2010, who is portayed as the better player?
cano in ’09.
Hey Mike, they’re talking about you. haha
Heh, I just made a comment on the rotoworld liveblog as “redcocklover” and he answered it!
link?
http://bases.newsvine.com/
DAMN, Godzilla just missed.
haha sick. I got the Joe Morgan comment in there.
Haha. I have fun with those when I can.
Dude answers me on Twitter all the time.
Hey Steve Phillips is giving credit to the Yankees!!!!
“They already traded one good second baseman in Alfonso Soriano. Maybe if Cano gets traded, they’ll trade the next guy.”
HOF analysis by Morgan
Seriously, he failed to mention who they traded Soriano for.
That was foul by about two inches.
tough luck Mats
How many runs do you have to score if you give up 22?
23. Simple mathematics fail
damn, I thought that was a HR..
I love how they’ve gotten absolutely zero production out of the third base position but they’re still averaging almost six runs a game. I cannot wait til A-Rod is back.
Other people will cool down, and it will be Alex’s fault because he made them tense.
/
Matthews’d
Oh it will be awesome.
….and then Mike Cameron (damnit Melky).
Hideki el fuego
no sólo se arde él, pero él tiene una colección enorme de la pornografía y una esposa falsa.
LMFAO
Ya escuché mucho sobre la colección enorme de la porno!
Los enanos, la esclavitud, zurrar, él lo tiene todo.
matsui looks good tonight.
Wow, Matsui 2-2.
However, my faith in the Yanks’ ability to get Canó home is somewhat stymied by the BLACK HOLE OF DOOM at the bottom of their line up.
Like I said.
So far Berroa has bunted and made some bad defensive plays at 3B, why exactly is Pena not starting?
Classic Melk.
Fuck Melky at least see more than one damn pitch.
I’m assuming you said fuck Teix in the previous inning?
tex can swing at the first pitch if he wants to because by the end of the year he will probably be hitting around .290 with over 100 RBIs Melky will be nowhere near that. Plus i like tex.
Why are we first pitch swining with men in scoring position AND on breaking pitches?
swinging*
I like ‘swining’ better.
Fuckin pigs.
Nope, any hopes that Melky’s improved his approach at the plate are unfounded.
I had high hopes for him, but if he can’t improve his approach, he’s just a fourth outfielder. Shame.
Nice one Melk. You hit those two homers in teh bandbox the other day, by all means, keep swinging for the fences.
Another 4 runners LOB in the past 2 innings.
Love it when the guy can’t throw strikes and we swing at the first ball. Also Tex and Swish don’t need to swing at balls at their eyes.
Andy Pettitte: Hall of famer?
Does he get in if Moose does?
If Moose doesn’t?
Does it not matter?
I have to go no on Pettite HGH hurts him.
Or, it’s his non-HOF numbers.
Wow. Where the fuck did that 1-2 pitch miss? You have got to be kidding me.
this is also true.
Nah, at 217-127 he’d have to pitch another 5 years at a high level to get serious consideration. He falls into the ‘very good, not great’ category with a zillion other guys.
Moose is a 50X better HOF candidate than Pettitte. Although in a few years if Pettitte continues to pitch and approach Moose in wins that would change their cases obviously.
If Dave Stewart, Jack Morris, and Andy Pettitte get into the HOF….
Just let’em all in. Everyone’s a HOFer.
Damn it Mike, you beat me again. You bastard!
It’s like Tee Ball…everyone gets a trophy.
I really wish the MSM would stop calling the Smoltz signing great until he actually, you know, pitches.
If Jim Rice got into the HoF, so should Andy Pettitte. Standards have fallen that much.
Bubba Crosby is awaiting his phone call from cooperstown.
You still have to play ten years. There are some standards.
I say everyone should go in the Hall of Fame.
Can’t wait for Turk Wendell’s acceptance speech.
There will be black licorice juice everywhere.
Man you guys are harsh.
Ayayay Andy
Good, walk Bay. He’s killed us this whole series.
Is it too late to delete this comment?
He’s better than Manny, in case you haven’t heard (from the Sox FO and ESPN)
If Pettitte is losing his pick-off move due to old age, i’ll take it. He still knows how to pitch.
So, what have I missed?
Bases loaded, no outs. Berroa grounded into triple play to end the inning.
He also was going back for a pop up at 3B, the ball hit him in the head about 10 feet behind the bag and it went another 230 feet in the air over the wall.
A ton of Pedroia fellating.
Bye bye, Mike.
Why can’t CC and Joba do that?
ESPN: “John, How come your pitchers are so great and the Yankee pitchers so bad??”
“We are about winning, not money”.
Alright, c’mon offense. Pick up your pitcher.
It’s amazing that Lincecom throws exactly the same now as he did as a litlle kid.
yeah i really like that commercial.
the “this is beyong baseball” commercials just don’t compare to the “where amazing happens commercials”
“where amazing happens” commercials
fixed
I think MLB stole their beyond optimism campaign from me.
Farrell’s comment just makes you wonder why the hell the Sox used Papelbon in a five run game yesterday.
Yeah, just gloss over those arm problems…
Philips, stop making these comparisons.
Except Smoltz is on the DL now until June so is Baldelli.
That first pitch foul ball looked fair on that bizarre camera angle they had. Am I the only one who thinks that?
Yea it did look like it bounced inside the line.
Why do I feel like I’m watching NESN?
Billy Beane wanted Mark?
Billy Beane in oakland coveted Tex?
I see Gardner learned the classic ‘show bunt before watching a strike’ move from Melky.
Boston’s brilliant acquisitions:
Baldelli: Disabled List.
Saito: 5.06 ERA
Penny: 7.80 ERA
Smoltz: hasn’t pitched yet
But Theo is a genius…
Oh yeah. I forgot. My bad.
But only $12 million……
Gardner really hates fastballs
Gardner swings like he has a dick up his ass, pardon the language.
He swings like he has a potato chip between his butt cheeks and he’s afraid to break it.
Ya, you would know that feeling, wouldn’t you?
Your Mom was putting them there last night and eating them out.
Jeez. Kind of hardcore maynne. I was responding to BigBlueAl’s anyway.
i was doing the Trebek thing…..
Lol. Me = fail.
Gardner looks so overmatched. Maybe he should bunt more. Can’t hurt.
Gardner’s an igniter.
Gardner really does suck…
Gardner has Swisher’s patience.
Unfortunately, he has absolutely none of his power. Thus, pitchers don’t actually throw him balls.
Someone please get Doug Melvin on the phone.
Gardner needs some “red balls”.
It gives you wings!
Mayday, mayday, we got a crackhead lifting the bus.
Single. Captain.
Cmon Tex. We need that Yankee moment right now !!!
Would be nice for Tex to just drill one here.
When do we really start talking about Toronto being for real?
Well, people (including me) were still saying the Rays were going to collapse coming into the All-Star Break.
I didn’t. I thought they were a legit 90 win team.
Not an AL East winning team, but I thought they would be a competitive 3rd place team.
When it’s not April and they make it through the league a second time.
When they beat (more) legit teams.
When they’re in 1st at the ASB.
When they make the playoffs. Seriously though, after the All-Star break. Just like Tampa Bay last year.
When its June and they are 10 games ahead of the Yankees. Sorry had to go there!!!!
They have a starting rotation on the DL and their closer looks like a Yankee set up man. The define fraud.
Yeah I cant imagine the Blue Jays hanging around even until the AB.
I really hope we see Melancon tonight. I hope he pitches a shut-out eight and Mo nails it down in the ninth.
This was suppose to be a standalone comment.
Hopefully this one isn’t put as reply, too.
WTF?
Gene Tenace at the plate….WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMY!
Me, you, a little chicken, maybe some sex? Whammy!
I don’t know if you heard me counting. I did over a thousand.
The arsenist had oddly shaped feet.
Straight shot. Right to the baby maker.
Mother f-ing fucker.
Goddammit, the ball is just not carrying to right tonight.
Oh well. Maybe later.
Get tex back on those roids.
when the hell is Tex gonna get going?
Same time as every year.
Just missed…
where’s the power??
ummm did you not see that last play?
In the needles!
Masterson really sucks.
I really wish Andy Pettitte could get a strike on the low outside corner.
Walking Varitek is inexcusable.
Good walk Andy.
Aysh Andy, why exactly are you walking Varitek on four pitches?
Because the umpire didn’t want to call a strike on the outside corner at the knees.
DP?
Well at least Papelbon isnt available tonight I assume. As bad as the bullpen has been, I think the Yankees will win a battle of the bullpens tonight, as long as Pettitte can keep it up.
Melancon baby! Seriously though, I hope Melancon gets a chance to prove himself in the next 2 weeks. I’d like to see him up for good.
Yeah. Wouldn’t it be nice if your fast guys got on base?
Walking Tek to lead off the inning=not good pitching.
Yeah, Joe and Steve, sac bunt with a guy who’s hitting hot at this point. Real good move, guys. Please, manage a baseball team together so we can all laugh at you.
It’s just good baseball.
Mike, it’s playing the game the right way.
Jed Lowrie = ‘Excellent young shortstop’?
Where is he on the ‘Excellent young shortstop’ scale, with Hanley = 10?
About a 7.
20 of course, white = +10, playing for boston = + 10 , latino = -5, and playig for florida = -5
STFD, Nick Green.
(Sit the fuck down)
Well according to ESPN gamecast the red sox are 63% likely to win. Who would of guessed?
Throw a strike.
Andy, please, strikes!
The fact that Cashman couldn’t get a competent 3b to play 3b for a month and then play a versatile bench role for the season is inexcusable. Acquiring a guy like Mark Teahan would have been way too smart. But hey Cashman is real good at signing checks as a GM.
True story.
You’re right. He should have traded Austin Jackson and Phil Hughes OMG.
(To be honest, who would we have traded?).
I bet he says Kennedy.
Yeah, that was my first guess, also.
Yeah. And let’s not forget, A-Rod doesn’t pitch, and pitching has been our biggest problem on the way to this horrendous 9-8 start. Oh wait, we’re treading water above .500 despite a team ERA in the 100′s, and not replacing A-Rod is the problem. Nope.
Panic, and trade something of value away to replace a guy who’s out a month? No thanks.
Pettitte’s command has left him this inning.
Shit Pettitte’s pitch count getting up there now.
True story. Jason Varitek is in the Daytona Beach Baseball Hall-of Fame. He played one game for a summer league travel team when he was in high school, and he got put in when he made the majors.
Was he the Captain for that one game?
Fucker.
Ugh, I hate that.
Walking guys isn’t going to help Andy.
Gotta throw strkes, AP.
Girardi should tell Jackson to warm up. He has to start trusting him.
I wander if the Yankees starting rotation’s strategy for some reason is to walk hitters on purpose. Because they sure as hell love walking hitters so far this season.
CC and Joba are using it as a ploy.
Is theo’s plan to have josh reddick replace ellsbury?
Probably replace Bay. I don’t think Reddick could play CF, but I could be wrong.
Mother FUCKER.
I would say that those were bigger than an A, probably a C
Now is a good time to get Jackson and Melancon in the game. It is April, this games doesn’t mean anything more just 1 of 162 qames. Bettwe now than in September.
Hell of a time to break out.
Motherfucker.
Horrible, horrible job by Pettitte.
Fucking horrible pitch selection there.
WTG Andy. Great pitching, man.
Should’ve thrown the breaking stuff… C’mon, Andy. Get out of the inning with just that run.
Why the hell didn’t they keep throwing offspeed stuff away?
That’s why you don’t walk a guy to start an inning.
damn
Nothing like Yankee pitching to get a hitter out of his slump. Although honestly Papi really hasnt done shit this series.
a sox slam will make me turn off the tv.
Ortiz hasn’t made good contact with a fastball all series. Why go to the breaking stuff?
Any excuse for a Yanks suck chant, the chowderheads drool
I am so checking the pitch f/x on this inning after the game.
Did they say his name right???
OMG
Wow.
Wow, just wow.
Pathetic. That’s just embarassing.
This is getting to be rigoddamndiculous.
are you fucking kidding me.
What the fuck.
Pathetic.
Pettite = slow to the plate. Period.
Let’s put this ‘he’s awesome at holding runners’ crap to rest.
Posada wasn’t paying attention, either,
Why, because one batter stole home in a 15 year career?
Because he hasn’t held a single runner all year?
He has a great pickoff move. But he’s slow as an M-Fer to the plate.
Pettite’s a lefty. his fucking back is turned to 3B.
This really is becoming embarrassing.
awesome…just started getting happy about Mark warming….and then theres that
That is unbelievable and that is what happens when you are caught asleep at the wheel.
Well, on the bright side, maybe we’ll see Melancon.
Good play.
Melancon warming up. oh crap.
Just keep the wheels on. Please.
That play makes me wonder why Gardner is such a scrub.
Just shitting on them.
wtf Andy.
Horrible…
Sigh.
Can we trade our pitching staff?
Rofl, yeah, I’m overreacting, but fucking hell.
At least Drew’s on my fantasy team.
Take Pettite out now !!!!
And use our already exhausted bullpen? Great idea.
Awesome. My patience for and confidence in the Yankees are both falling. Fast.
Yea man. It’s rough. Maybe this lights a fire?
My confidence is still pretty high but my patience is running out. It’s getting hard to watch.
“My confidence is still pretty high but my patience is running out.”
I agree, it’s very frustrating.
This is when it’s important to stay off the ledge. It’s April and it sucks to lose like this to Boston, but this is still a very good baseball team at considerably less than full-strength.
I’m not saying people can’t be upset. I’m pissed. I’m just saying – it’s easy to tell people to stay off the ledge on April 5, but it’s moments like tonight when cooler heads have to prevail for the Yankees. It’s not just a matter of there being a lot of season left to play, it’s a matter of taking stock of the personnel and looking forward instead of back. This is still a very good team.
Comon Girardi, make a fucking move. Pettitte is done.
…
Our bullpen is dead tired. You want this to become a 20-1 game and blame it on Girardi for going to the bullpen?
Girardi can do no right, so yes people do expect him to pull Pettitte, and yes they will blame him for runs given up by the bullpen.
This is fucking embarrasing. This team aint the Yanks.
preach it
These last two games are embarrassing.
I know the move worked but…trying to steal home with two outs is not a good risk to take.
They want to embarass the Yanks.
No, they want to score runs and win baseball games.
When it works, its a ‘Gutsy play’. When it doesn’t, you’re a complete idiot.
Berroa was playing the Ortiz shift for Drew. i think the dugout was closer to 3B than he was.
You can’t blame Berroa. It’s his 2nd fucking time playing the position in the majors. You blame the coaching staff for not telling him what to do.
and what was that?
Yes you blame Berroa. He shouldn’t have been playing that far off the bag.
Do they not have the entire coaching staff 30 feet away?
i wasnt blaming Berroa, just pointing out that he was closer to where Jeter usually plays. bad play all around.
The Yankees are a poorly coached team.
Those 2 walks hurt…like always
Finally this dude calls a strike on the outside corner.
The Red Sox can just tape this series and they have a 2009 Greatest Moments highlight DVD that they can sell.
These are not ideal conditions to have your first appearence. Melancon must be shitting his pants right now.
I disagree. The Yankees have nowhere to go but up at this point.
just saw another highlight of the steal and it looks like Ellsbury tripped
it sure did. Even when they fall, they score.
Its unhealthy how much I hate just about every guy on their team, you would think they all kicked my dog.
Okay, it’s still only a three run game, we can still win this….
Right?
Please?
Yes.
The Red Sox are just fuckin laughing their asses off.
They pretty much humiliated the Yankees in every way this series…and they sealed it with a steal of home.. embarassing
Baseball is a 5 inning game now?
Let’s see if they’re laughing when half the team in on the DL in August.
Looks like Boston takes April. Hopefully we get the August and September series.
and may and october
Malancon exhausted? Really dude?
Yeah let’s use Melancon in his first ML start in a situation like this. Seriously you > Girardi. And please at least know his name before you try and epically failing to own me.
Sometimes ya gotta race!
This is one of the most embarassing series I have ever seen. Our closer blows a lead when we should’ve blown it open in the 9th anyway, we play (and so do the Sox and Umpires) one of the ugliest games ever yesterday and today somebody steals home on us and JD Drew actually gets a hit after looking foolish at the plate the past 2 at bats… Lets hope our bullpen can hold em’ for once and our offense gets us back in this game. This isn’t a must win, but every game gets magnified when playing these guys and it would be nice to not get sweeped our first meeting of the season, especially on 2 games beforehand that we should’ve won. C’mon, Yanks. Pick it up, you are all better then this.
swept*
They are still in it. You gotta hope they get some right back.
Hey Swisher, what’ll it be this time? Watch strike three, or swing at a fastball at your eyes?
Looks like B.
this game? or are we already shitting on what amounts to be our best hitter?
Wait, what?
I like him, I do. But our best hitter? Huh?
save Cano, gimme a better option.
Pettitte’s gotta go back out there for the sixth, right?
I’m making this one comment tonight…
Ellsbury just made us look like a bunch of fools and the Sox have embarrassed us this series.
Let’s go sweep Detroit.
Goodnight.
Goodnight.
The MSM is going to ride this steal of home for MONTHS.
I don’t know what’s missing… but I think it left when Joe Torre did. I wanted Girardi a lot. Whatever the “it” is that’s missing — I don’t so much think it’s Girardi that’s the problem so much as it is not having Torre.
Maybe it’s just an overreaction on my part
I think it is.
Clarify: I think it is an overreaction.
All I know is if Torre was still the manager after last season and so far this season everyone here would be calling for his head on a silver platter.
Its the fact that here we all sit, waiting for something bad to happen. Theres no more quiet confidence that our starting pitcher will be lights out and carry us, that our bullpen will come in firing lasers and get out of a tight jam, that our offense will come though in the clutch. I watch these redsox games and wonder what will go wrong next…and thats what is different.
If he was out we would all be talking about how stupid Francona is.
IF he was out. Instead it wasn’t even close.
There is a fine line between genius and madness.
If he was out we would all be talking about how stupid
FranconaEllsbury is.I highly doubt Francona called for that. Stealing home w/two outs is ridiculously risky.
agreed. but it pisses me off that elle-sbury stole home.
In all honesty, how bad is our team? 1-10…10 being the greatest. I say we’re about a 2 right now…we’ve declined quickly down to the embarrassing atmosphere…
http://soxblog.mlblogs.com/
Heh. Just don’t respond, I know it’s hard becase I constantlu respond to him but….. Axl wasn’t around at all during a 1-0, 1-1 game. He can only comment when the Yankees do wrong. It’s like a program inside of him. You won’t see him around here for the Yankees wins, just losses. At least, that is how it seems to me. Funny he shows up right after they lose the lead.
O god, Axl’s back….
Cano = awesome.
I remember reading Mlbtr posters regarding how Cano is washed up and overrated… Hopefully Hughes can also prove them wrong on Tuesday and every start thereafter.
at least Cano has been a bright spot out of this series
Right now I feel like Canó is single handedly trying to will the Yankees to win.
I just realized that they brought back the open stance with Cano, didn’t they change that last year? Or am I just oblivious to everything.
Nah he is getting closed though quick and doesnt have that leg kick anymore. He starts open but then brings his leg back and closes up before striding forward w/o that leg kick. Much simpler at the plate and obviously better results, although even with the old stance he hit pretty damn good too.
posada walks home tonight. he doesnt get to sleep on the bus; hope he’s woken from his nap at the plate.
embarassing is if the Yanks dont drill Ellsbury next time up – curtain call??
if they could im sure they would prefer to drill themselves for falling asleep on that play. the blame is all on them.
If we want to shut them up, how about our pitchers throw up some zeros. I’m glad Ellsbury took that curtain call. Hopefully the Yankees are as embarrassed as us fans are.
Can people stop selling Chase Utley short? He is the best 2B in baseball. Period.
Ian Kinsler.
Cano.
But Pedrioia won MVP!!11!!!11!!!!
Brian Roberts is no slouch either.
on the bright side, Papelbum isn’t on tonight.
That wasn’t Uggla’s first ASG, Joe.
Why is ESPN so dumb? At the top they show OBP%, SLU%, then OPS. Seriously?
ESPN >>>> Fox
Great AB, Georgie.
The Yanks have to show some fight in these last innings, and I think they will.