Aug
02
Game 105 Spillover Thread II
ByLeadoff triple, and you will get … NOTHING!!!
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You lose! Good day, sir!
aight yanks lets get CC some more runs
I was listening on the radio, but I turned it off in frustration after the bomb to Thome. Glad Sabathia got his shit together and battled back to have an acceptable start.
Not even a five dollar footlong.
“This chipotle cheese steak sandwich is so big, it’s like beating ‘you know who’ big.”
How would CC know what it’s like to beat the Sawx as a Yankee?
Maybe “beating you know who” referred to masturbation.
/pat’d
Are you suggesting that CC likes to bless the alter boy?
I don’t understand why so many yankee fans have a problem with Hawk. Dude’s a regular ChiSox fan, he just also happens to call their games.
Because he’s extremely annoying. Why can’t he try to be objective? “HE GONE!” When the opposing team hits a HR, he doesn’t say anything. He’ll mumble “that’s trouble” and then it’s dead silence. He’s an awful, awful announcer.
Word, but he’s extremely annoying to you or me, because we’re not sox fans. Obviously it sucks if you’re subjected to their broadcast.
Um, no. He’d be a Yankees fan if he were still broadcasting for them. Or a Red Sox fan if he were still broadcasting for them.
Um, okay. He’s been there for 20 years, are you saying he’s not a ChiSox fan?
How is a regular fan calling games listenable? Could you imagine someone here calling a game?
Yeah, I’d be full of inhuman yelps and groans during the course of a game.
“Alex strikes out on a 68 mph fastball down the middle. Was the nastiest pitch I’ve ever seen.
Cano strikes out on a 82 mph fastball right down the middle. Just sat in the middle of the plate, very unexpected pitch so Cano couldn’t do anything about it. Nasty pitch selection.”
Haha, tbh it would sound exactly like Hawk, that’s why I don’t have a problem with it.
It’s just a routine, it’s not as if he’s up there bashing the opposing team for the whole game. He makes a few remarks here and there, adds some color to the game.
I guess everyone here is too young to remember when Hawk was a Yanks broadcaster.
He’s an odd guy, he used to tell a story that when he played, he had 9 pairs of cleats that he would polish to a high shine and change them each inning so he always had a fresh pair on.
Hawk is the Glenn Beck of baseball announcers.
Every team should have a problem with him.
Cuz there’s something called professionalism. Doesn’t mean ur a fan of the team ur covering doesn’t mean you gotta be that damn bias. Vin Scully would love for the Dodgers to win every single game or even every single inning, but he knows he has to be fair.
It’s his enthusiasm. *Side-note, in the late 1800′s, enthusiastic was synonymous with fanatical, approaching insanity.*
But his enthusiasm is reserved for the Sox. He calls the game to a bare minimum for half of it, the “villainous” half. And he goes into a tizzy every time the ChiSox do anything. It’s hard to take him seriously.
Plus he deals in bygone parlance, at least to a coastal persons perspective.
Also, it sounds to me like he is the grandpa who comes to all the little league games & gets really emotional about it. But the little league team in question isn’t a little league team at all. It causes me a little cognitive dissonance.
That’s why “gritty, gutty, and scrappy” are worthless terms in baseball. Thanks for the out, Pods.
Did Youk just make a new record? 13 straight AB’s he has reached.
shit. dude was hitting 300 the other day, now he’s at 316
Nope, still very impressive. The most since Ted Williams 16 times and then the all time record is frank ward – 17. 1893.
The most in the modern era
sinceis Ted Williams 16 times and then the all time record is frank ward – 17. 1893.CC ended up turning this start around. Hopefully, the Yanks can hold on and get this one.
“Leadoff triple, and you will get … NOTHING!!”
Sounds like our offense recently. Except today
Sabathia will probably come out for the 8th, 99 pitches.
no, hes done. hughes is up already
runner on 3rd, no outs, and 0 runs? I thought only we did that.
See Pale Hose, this is what happens when you guys cant get those lucky bloop hits with RISP and our hard hit line drives arent being caught
Who are you: Victor Rojas? I thought he was the only one who called them the “Pale Hose.”
What’s the record for being on base in consecutive PAs?
Modern record is 16 by Ted Williams. Frank Thomas got to 15 a few years ago. Some dude in the 1800′s got to 18. NCAA record is 18.
I don’t think Youk gets there.
He will. He’s got grit.
CC may not have started out pretty but the Yanks are winning the game with their starter and the Sox are working their fifth arm.
how do you kill your bullpen when your offense scores 16 runs in 6 innings
nevermind, they only used 2 arms today so far
I was trying to praise CC’s comeback for today’s game.
I have no idea what point you’re making.
Zack is an idiot. He makes no sense and sounds really stupid half the time. Ignore him.
No need for personal attacks.
“I want to see like a 2.00 ERA over the remainder of the season.” (from CC)
“I dont understand the broken clock is right twice a day. Can someone explain please lol”
“Atleast Josh Beckett is on the list of players that tested positive for steriods in 2003.”
yet im the idiot and dont make sense half the time
PWNED
i thought you meant boston was wasting their 5th arm
Chisox still have 2 ABs. Yanks haven’t won yet.
I meant “in this exact moment they are winning” not “they have already won”.
Victor Martinez is 4 for 5 today
He is streaky who cares.
Wait till Gammons compare him to Mantle.
OK I’m watching on Gamecast, how in God’s name did Tex straight steal 2nd?
I think it was a blown hit and run. Castro managed to glove the ball to the backstop.
He put his Nikes on
The catcher jumped up and it hit off his glove.
Tex with a steal?!!!!!
16-7? Holy crap is BAL garbage. At least Buchholz got smacked around again — 4 IP, 7 runs, 2 bombs.
Baltimore hasn’t been good since the Clinton Administration.
O’s hasn’t been good since the last season of “Married With Children”
Gordon Beckham is good at baseball.
Yeesh, maybe Hughes should have started the inning.
damn they are smacking extra base hits off cc today
Why didn’t Hughes just start the inning?
Because CC’s been cruising.
despite looking like matt damon in team america, beckham can play
IETC
good job CC
great damage control
Girardi baffles me sometimes.
Just wanted CC to get his ERA down.
16-9 double by markakis
Beckham is a beast
dye will probably get crippled by a curve
give him a curve
Things I enjoy list: swinging strikes on Phil Hughes’ fastball.
Smoked.
Just blew it past him. Gorgeous.
wow what a blow by on dye
76 then 96, dayummm
damn thome can’t catch up to that shit
too bad CC wasnt throwing 96-98 today
they wouldnt be able to touch him
CC struck out Thome twice.
“Proud of his fastball.”
/Flaherty’d
Hughes is good at baseball
Oy. GIDP, please. Two more Ks would also be acceptable.
i predict Phil Hughes will be good pitcher.
Keep Hughesy in there?
Keep hughes in
Cmon Hughes, get out of this
Goes to Mo here?
Depends on the result of the at-bat, I think. Although he may go to Mo even if Hughes does get Konerko.
Was that a cutter?
Yes indeed.
Ya, they called it a slider. He doesn’t throw a slider, you silly announcers.
Didn’t he used to, but put it on the shelf in AA-ish? I think that slider morphed into an Al Leiter style cutter.
Mo style.
i have no idea
just went to the left
sick nasty
I think so. Either that or he broke out the slider, but the break seemed to short for that.
Do we really think Hughes could throw a 90 MPH slider?
gameday says cutter.
Holy shit that was a sick cut.
Hughes drops the hook on Konerko for the K
or not
Bury a curve, plz.
Drop a deuce on him.
Hawk Harrelson > Michael Kay
Kay gets excited on any pitch hit to the OF
I’m “watching” on Gamecast and a few of the pitches Hughes threw appear to be strikes up in the zone.
Are they actually strikes or is it maybe a tight strikezone today? Suppose they could be balls, too.
Sit down!
holy shit what a sick ass strike out
anytime you freeze a good veteran hitter its a sick pitch
damn right
He gone!
HUGHES!
Questionable strike 3 there but I’ll take it.
I no it’s Mo, but you couldn’t Hughes in there.
What?
5 OUTS? DEAR GOD NO
4 OUTS? SURE
What an odd pitch for strike 3 — looked almost like a two-seamer.
That had to be a mistake pitch, it ran right back to the inside.
I usually never complain about going to Mo, but really? Show some confidence in the kid.
Eh, Hughes knows Joe has confidence in him. We lost 3 in a row, we need the W, let’s go to Mo.
Disagree. Mo hasn’t pitched in 3 days, off day tomorrow, go to your best pitcher once you deem him available. Hughes walked a guy, and lets be honest, he struck out Konerko but got away with two pitches where he missed badly.
Maybe Girardi’s reverse-stretching him out to transition him into a ROOGY role.
Now let’s score some runs to put this game out of reach.
I have no problem bringing in Mo in the 8th, but I do have a problem with the fact that all we hear about is how important and crucial Hughes is to the bullpen, yet it seems that in these types of games he’s going to get lifted for Mo.
This, then, really IS a waste of Hughes’s arm. He could add so much to the rotation with his stuff (theoretically), yet the team is content to let him dominate for 2 outs in a big spot? It doesn’t make sense, especially considering the rotation issues that are soon to face them.
Good point.
Phil Hughes = Tiger Woods of Yankee’s rotation.
I dunno, pretty sure Hughes is neither black nor Asian.
Um then explain the curl in his hair.
You got me there, man.
or the best pitcher on the team
nor in the rotation.
Yup. As long as Hughes remains in the 8th inning, he’s no better than the 6th best pitcher on the team. Behind CC, AJ, Joba, Pettitte, and Mo.
Even stuff-wise, out of those five, he’s probably only better than Andy.
Phil Hughes is not Chinese.
/TSJC’d
An oldie, but a goodie.
jose framing a close pitch >>>> jorge framing a close pitch
I’m not going to complain about using Mo, especially since he’s had a couple days off.
Mr. Girardi, have you never heard of a “Hold,” sir? Hmmmmm? Fantasy baseball, sir? Hmmmmmm?
I…um…why? Where is Phil going…?
fml
I don’t like this move at all. I know they have to win this game, but Hughes also has to prove, and thus be trusted, that he can get out of a jam like this.
Don’t we always talk about going to your best pitcher when the game is on the line?
I get that, but there’s going be a time in this same situation when Mo isn’t avaialable.
And then they’ll leave Hughes in, since he’s death on righties.
oh shit
this isnt good
Quentin’s bat flip is so f’in annoying
Becham is pretty annoying too. I think he’s batting .750 in this series.
and then mo does that.
oops
Ok, that sucked, but that was good hitting on Quentin’s part, is Chris Getz is crap.
Hope all those men left on base don’t come back to bite them in the ass.
That’s a rare cutter getting a run in
Chris Getz would be good on the Mets
No he wouldn’t
Mets = Old, Overpaid, Latino
I don’t like the Mets, but I’m already a little excited to see the Gerry Hunsicker/Bobby Valentine administrations that will begin this November.
This is true.
aight MO
one more pitch
Mariano Rivera is good at pitching.
wow. getz looked totally overmatched there
Poor kid. Just got MOwned.
Chris Getz, welcome to Mariano Rivera
Phew..now Mo gets their bottom of the order.
CC got charged with another run but I’m sure he’ll take the win if he can
heh, that cutter looked a lot like Phil’s cutter to Konerko, just sayin’.
You mean Phil’s cutter to Konerko was a lot like that cutter from Mo.
I just wanted to chime in on the subject of Hawk Harrelson, if I may: The reason that he is an embarrassingly atrocious announcer is not simply that he explicitly roots for the White Sox, or even that he does so with enthusiasm. It’s that he roots out loud on the air *instead of doing play-by-play.* That’s what’s so grating. He makes no attempt to add any information or expertise or drama to the broadcast, he just cheers for what he wants to happen. It’s just incompetent. Here’s my evidence that I’m being objective: Probably my favorite non-YES broadcast team was Jerry Remy and Don Orsillo for the Red Sox on NESN. They made no absolutely no secret that they were for the Sox, but they still respected the idea of being professionals and giving a performance. It’s the difference between watching a game with your friend who happens to root for the other team but is otherwise a good and knowledgeable baseball fan, and watching the game with a drunken lout at a sports bar who is just screaming to hear his own voice.
Hawk is a disgrace.
Remy and Orsillo are… not good. The Mets have excellent announcers. The Yankees and Red Sox have blowhards and homers.
Yeah, but do they shout “GET DOWN! GET DOWN!” when a White Sox player hits a line drive in front of an outfielder? He does this the whole game while going silent and mumbling when the opposing team does something good. Hawk is a disgrace.
Ok Robbie, time to turn that 1-4 into a 2-5.
Anyone else hear Randy Savage in the crowd?
No one on base, therefore I have deduced that Cano will produce.
Wrong again. Sheesh.
GIMME A TRIPLE!!!!!!
he has a chance!
CALLED IT!
There’s your triple, baby!
GOOOOOOOOOOO MELLKY!
HOLY SHIT!!!!
CYCLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, and we complain about Swisher in right? Did you guys see Dye play that into a triple?
That.
Heh, that reminds me of that conversation where someone said Dye was a much better defender than Swisher.
Whatsamatta, Podsednik, scared of the wall? You p#$%y!
/Hairston’d
I was cheering his ass all the way!!! LOL
TITS!!!
lechecycle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Melky!!!
HOLY SHIT MELKY!!!!!!
MELKY!
You are the fucking man!
Dye sucks in RF
that was really exciting
The most exciting play in baseball.
HOLY FUCK! MELKY WITH THE CYCLE!
Dye is horrible in the field. Cabrera was obviously well aware of the possibility of getting a cycle. Hilarious! lol. Congrats Cabrera!
Maybe he should have run hard out of the box, so he wouldn’t have been so close.
YEAAHHHHHH MELKY!! GET ON THAT CYCLE & RIDE!!!!
Now, if he could only remember who the cutoff man is.
http://www.sadtrombone.com
You know you post this all the time… Never gets old… Just cracks me up… Touche’
They actually make a instantrimshot/instantcrickets/sadtrombone/golfclap iPhone app.
It brings me so much joy.
AWESOME! I’m getting an iPhone (for work reasons, heh) next week.
http://www.app-to-date.com/2008/09/11151/
Is this Pete Abraham in disguise?
I believe it’s Lombardi
Woo! Cycle!
So why the hell does Felix Pie bat second?
Hahhahah. That’s so awesome.
Nice job Melky. Now, let’s get him in.
did he say “mame juevos”?
yeah, or however you spell it. he did the same when he had the walk-off vs. either the twins or phillies.
Ahh those suckers who sponsor that gimmick on 880 actually have to give something away now that a Yankee has a cycle.
the best is the triple play one. When was the last Yankee triple play, the 1950s?
My favorite is the Triple Play promotion. How often does that happen?
Or the ‘if the fourth Yankee in ‘x’ inning hits a grand slam’ giveaway, lol.
Hahah.
At the Tampa Bay Rays short season team, The HV Renegades. They have the “k man” on the opposing team. If he k’s 4 times, everyone gets free ice cream or some ish. It’s always like the best hitter on the team or the guy who never strikes out.
finally, we can stop talking about Tony Fernandez
Any time Melky does something good, he says, “Mama huevos” aka “suck my balls.”
HIDEKI MATSUI FOR HAIRSTON!?
FIRE GIRARDI!
Cody Ransom is clearly the only suitable hitter in this situation.
Oh. Phew. He’s running for Matsui. Pulling an Angel Berroa right there.
Cody is on the feild the yankees will lose this game now.
Congradulation Melky.
yuck, get this guy off the team
OH NO I SAW CODY RANSOM NOW I MUST BE ANGRY GRRRRRR MAD GNASH TEETH
I almost wish Ransom had gotten picked off.
that makes a ton of sense
Ransom has given away a lot more than one out this season.
Anything to get Ransom banned from this club.
Melky=El Heffe
jefe
dont GIDP Jorge…get Melky home to pad our runs and his stats
Mary Carey is going to be one happy woman tonight.
Hola!
I thought I was the only one who saw that video.
What so impressive is that usually the triple is the hardest one to get and he got it.
in his final AB in the top of the 9th too
And his first triple of the year.
Thank you, Captain Obvious.
What so impressive is that usually the triple is the hardest one to get and he got it.
/JoeMorgan’d
Ivan the Terrible, ladies and gentlemen.
i dont get why u pinch hit hairston but not ransom yesterday
Maybe he learned his lesson. At least he didn’t pinch hit hairston with Ransom!
Because brings a rare combination of grit and athleticism that Girardi just can’t quit.
Nick Green?
Nick Green substitutes all of the athleticism with SLIGHT abilities to hit and field. These are minor attributes in a baseball player. Almost a detriment to grit, really.
nice CYCLE! MELK MAN!
damn, Jorge is slumping badly…all he had to do was get the ball in the air
Jeterian
CAPTAIN CLUTCH!
Awesome hit and run. Big insurance run.
That was huge. Jeets come through again.
congrats to melky. what a fucking game!
Nice job Jete…pad the lead and Melky’s stats!
Captain Clutch!
Is it just me or has Yes’s camera work been really shoddy this series? I’m guessing they weren’t able to get great camera positionings at US Cellular…
Youk strikes out, ends that reaching base streak he had going. VMart is now 5-6 (1 2B, 4 singles)
Red Sox have 20+ hits, Ortiz is 0-5, ha.
Taking steroids on a Sunday is a sin. Duh!
Gameday says the new pitcher is erstwhile Yankee farmhand Jhonny Nunez!
Nunez??? Isnt that who we traded Swisher for?
Yup
with Betemit and Marquez, go ahead and take a look at Marquez numbers, Cashman cleaned up
traded all that for a 4th OF?
/kidding
Poor Marquez, I was rooting for him. He’s at 14.2 H/9, and 2.4 HR/9. Man’s supposed to be a groundball pitcher!
Apparently.
yes
Well, it’s probably more accurate to say we traded him for Kanekoa Texeira. It was a 3 for 2, but it was probably effectively a 2 for 1 (Betemit and Marquez for Swisher) and the additional 1-for-1 swap of Nunez and Texeira was the last little nudge that put it over the top.
But I’m splitting imaginary theoretical hairs here.
Great call on the hit and run, since it seems like Jeter hits so many grounders to short. Not sure if that’s proven statistically. If so, might be something to consider in the future.
He hits a lot of grounders in general. Not a bad idea to put the hit and run on with Jeter at the plate regardless.
Kay, no Jhonny vs. Johnny commentary?
I’m ashamed!
Somehow, I don’t think Mo needs a three run lead against Nix-Castro-Podsednik.
all fastballs?
Just got home from some social madness. Melkman hit the cycle???
He did.
wow. nice job Melkman.
yezzir
what is kay talking about, this harmonica thing?
Lind and Yogi had a fight after the game when Lind played the harmonica after getting swept four games straight in 1964.
its a story from when the white sox last swept the yanks in a 4 game series in 1964
Orioles need a touchdown to tie…
and 2 pt conversion
touchdown and the 2 pt conversion you mean?
ooh they just scored #18, they were at 17 when I posted that
Hmm, and that pitch was where?
drill him Mo
He’s the least likely pitcher on the team to throw at somebody.
He’s not a hot-tempered, vengeful, Old Testament Mo. He’s the benevolent, forgiving, peaceful New Testament Mo.
Hey, don’t forget the time Mo drove Yankee paraphernalia peddlers out of the bullpen by whipping them!
Mosanna, Mosanna in the highset!
http://www.bobandtom.com/gen3/.....seball.htm
Mo got squeezed but still got him out…nice
Dear A.J. Pierzynski,
I hate you and your grimey cheatin ways.
What in the name of Mo? I blame Posada.
holy shit a 4 pitch walk by rivera
2 of those 4 balls should have been called strikes
agreed
Damn, Mo. Why you gotta play us this way?
Is it just me or is Mo getting seriously squeezed? Two of those balls were strikes…I hate umpires
Uh-oh, GGGB at the plate.
Yay Mo! Yay win!
GAME OVAAA YANKEES WIN
Still in first place, now let’s start a new win streak!
BALL GAME OVER!
Melky hit the laziest cycle in the history of baseball.
Mo>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Umpires and White Sox
This is my favorite part of being a Yankees fan. The Melky/Cano interviews.
Kim Jones asks one question. Melky speaks. Cano answers confused; a totally different generic question.
I know.
KJ: Melky what was going through your head?
Robby: beisbol has been berry gut to me.
I’ve always assumed that Melky’s answers are too foul to be repeated so Cano has to quick come up with something to say to Kim Jones.
Does anyone on here speak spanish/read lips that can tell me what melky shouted when he made it to third?
He said hows the thumb Gardy?
Cocksuckers?
Mama Huevos!
Suck eggs literally but slang means suck my balls.
Kim Jones: So Melky, what’s it like to hit for the cycle?
Melky: (says something in spanish)
Robbie: He said “Stop living in the 1980′s and take off that ugly ass blouse, woman.”
IETCVVVVVM
+1
Melky’s lack of comfort with English didn’t stop him from banging Mary Carey. Interesting.
Mary Carey barely speaks English herself.
I don’t think speaking comes into play much.
I’m just saying, compared to the other guys in the circles she runs in, Melky Cabrera is practically William Shakespeare.
Melky the Bard.
True, she just sucks…
Your stupidity really knows no bounds.
Good job, Yanks. Glad they could get a win.
If/When Tampa Bay beats the Sox, and if/when we beat the Royal, we are in a great position going into the Boston-NY series.
Melky kept saying he was just grateful to play every day. Nice to keep it humble.
Did Melky hit for the cycle?
yes he did
Rays lost too!
no hit the other team trhough 7 then lose, that sucks
not for us
another come from behind victory?
yep
Yup. Yankees and “coming from behind” go together like Melky Cabrera and Mary Carey.
BOOOOOM, THAT JUST HAPPENED.
I like-a da woman!
IETC.
IETC
yep!
Melky went frigging ninja this afternoon. Time to catch the highlights.
Al Leiter, great interpretation and breakdown of what happened between KJ and Melky/Cano.
sportscenter: red sox almost take first
NO mention of Melky
Did Melky steal home? No?
Then f$%& that loser. That’s not a real story.
/ESPN’d
ESPN News gave Melky some love.
BBTN on now, lets see how they spin Buchholz and CC is a bust
Kruk: we know Red Sox are going to the playoffs because of their great pitching