Yes, his defense is pretty good (though he sometimes takes poor routes to the ball and misjudges it), but I really don’t think it makes up for his offense. Watch him swing. It just looks all kinds of off. He should be slapping at the ball and getting out of the box quickly. Not taking wild upper-cuts and watching balls go by. You can’t have a hitter like that consistently down 0-2. He doesn’t have the power or mechanics to get out of those situations.
Have you ever watched ants eat? They carry their food to their larvae, who digest it into a nasty goo, which is then carried to progressively more important strata of ant society, being further digested at each level, ending with the queen.
Thus she gets the purest food.
But they don’t each eat individual grains of anything, let alone grits that expand inside them & pop them.
I told you that the Wikipedia told me dry grits can kill entire colonies in 48 hours. I haven’t done the research myself.
I don’t eat grits because I think they taste funny. Then I read about the ant colony thing. Now? Even the slightest probability that it happens has sealed it—I will never eat grits again.
So in the 19th century, an actor’s brother saves a politician’s son from being hit by a train. They never see each other again. The actor was John Wilkes Booth and the Politician was Abraham Lincoln. Crazy story. Yanks in 6!
Helluva job by Hughes! Lets Go Yankees! Win it tonight! Got the big bats coming up! I want multiple home runs!!!! Woo!!! Rally time!!!! I want to be chugging and pouring beers all over myself tonight!!!!
The Yankees, right now in the top of the 9th in Game 5 are like the 101st Airbone in the Ardennes during the Bulge. They can hold out and win. However, a rally in the ninth would be like Patton riding in and wrecking the Germans’ shit, giving the Allies a path to victory.
I just gave a cold icy stare because someone in the room said “it’s impossible for them to tie it up”, nearly stabbed him with my tooth pick…. luckily my girlfriend stopped me.
I was thinking having Pena at least have a head start and slide into Utley, making it difficult to turn a DP. Or hell, I don’t know, stealing a base, maybe.
i figure it will be madson
Agreed.
You’re stealing my thunder.
3 runs. meh, no problem off lidge.
Dammit Phil Coke
Hold them this inning and put up another 3 spot and I’ll be very happy. Lets Go Yankees!
No thanks to Coke.
To all those who lobby for Gardner to be our starting CF: Do you watch him at the plate? How can you possibly advocate him as a starter?
He should start in Scranton
I think it comes from him being hot right before his injury.
I retract my lobbying.
who else makes the catch in left center? did u see hairston’s ab?
Yes, his defense is pretty good (though he sometimes takes poor routes to the ball and misjudges it), but I really don’t think it makes up for his offense. Watch him swing. It just looks all kinds of off. He should be slapping at the ball and getting out of the box quickly. Not taking wild upper-cuts and watching balls go by. You can’t have a hitter like that consistently down 0-2. He doesn’t have the power or mechanics to get out of those situations.
What does Hairston’s at-bat have to do with this?
Have you ever watched ants eat? They carry their food to their larvae, who digest it into a nasty goo, which is then carried to progressively more important strata of ant society, being further digested at each level, ending with the queen.
Thus she gets the purest food.
But they don’t each eat individual grains of anything, let alone grits that expand inside them & pop them.
Sorry, you got me curious.
THis is what happens when they play like crap!! Ant stories!
Somehow it developed into a bit of an inside joke.
You were insistent & had never heard it before.
I had never*
Wow.
I told you that the Wikipedia told me dry grits can kill entire colonies in 48 hours. I haven’t done the research myself.
I don’t eat grits because I think they taste funny. Then I read about the ant colony thing. Now? Even the slightest probability that it happens has sealed it—I will never eat grits again.
Good research, though!
Im just saying, they’re good is all.
All this time, JMK, you’re missing out.
Who is pitching? Still Hughes?
Gardner is terrible. He needs to be bunting for basehits.
yeah, I don’t know why they didn’t say anything to him after his last at bat. Something like “bunt, swing, anything…”
I’m pretty sure he’s an admittedly awful bunter, which sucks for someone with his speed.
which is beyond belief. With his wheels he needs to be like Brett Butler
Has zero approach right now; partly due to inactivity. Gardner is in over his head. Pop outs are no shocker. Cano however … wtf ?????
why does Gardner keep trying to hit shit in the air? he’s so quick that shit is just annoying.
Treat him like Willie Mays Hayes and make him do 50 pushups every time he hits a ball in the air.
Seriously… This is like watching the Spring Traning scenes from Major League. Push Ups are teh answer
with jorge, matsui, jete, damon, teix and a-rod 3 is not a problem.
AstroBoy has better looking hair than Chase Utley.
Chase Utley has that Terry Benadict hair going pretty strong for the playoffs…
Would you guys consider this a “moral” victory if we put pressure?
nope. A moral victory is Arod not back tapping Kate Hud after the celebration tonight.
Hold ‘em and put up three plus with Jorge/Hideki/Top.
Do it, Yanks. Do it.
BG must only bunt he is so feable. Next time he pops up I want him to do pushups in the batters box.
swish cano grit killed that pretty fast
That’s what they’re there for!
We haven’t touched Madson…if he comes in we could be in some trouble. Anybody else and I’ll be happy.
How are we not hitting Chan Ho Park though?? The guy stinks and we’ve seen him a plenty…
slow, slower, and slowest.
Madson’s looked good. But the guys on my fantasy team have stories to tell about how he handles pressure.
How are we not hitting Chan Ho Park though?? The guy stinks and we’ve seen him a plenty…
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs.....rk-is-good
thats what i mean. its almost like el duque out there towards the end of his career. like 3 different changeups
Yah, in our heads I understand “Park sucks” automatically, because of how we remember him.
But he was very effective this season.
Gardner, huh? Man, why do some guys want more of that? Right down the pike, as they used to say.
ive always been a gardner fan but he really does hit like a little leaguer…..but we got big bats in the 9th if we hold em here
I miss Melky already. And I still hate you Phil Coke. If it was 6-5 I’d say it’s almost guaranteed Yankees win. Now…not so much.
OUCH those Utley/Ibanez solo shots sting right now
You’re the man.
Those Phil Coke unnecessary extra home runs sting worse…
A “left specialist” who gives up 2 solo jacks to lefties in the world series. Nice job. Glad we brought you aboard…
Wait, are you really Michael Kay?
/dumb question’d?
If I’d known Yankees would get 5 off Lee I’d have said surely they must win.
Just like Game One: CC goes 7 IP 4 H 2 ER and they lose? Damn.
Still time to win this game, though. Just hold them to zero runs here.
fucking cheap ass hit.
Jeter has to make that play. That ball bounced 30 times before it got to the OF.
Fucking Ruiz. Jesus Christ.
Another ROCKET given up by Phil Hughes…
the world series jitters HAVE to be gone by now right?
It was a joke. That ball bounced 10 times before it got out of the infield.
my comment was more to the general
Ruiz = Jeff Mathis.
Good lord.
Come on, dp.
lets get outta this.
Maybe I’m being fickle, but I’m back to feeling the same way about Cano as I did a year ago.
You’re being fickle.
I think its the chewing gum and nonchalant look on his face that kills me.
My advice:
Stop paying attention to dumb, irrelevant shit like gum-chewing and facial expressions. Don’t search for narrative to explain the random.
Yeah, that’s fickle. 162 is more the real deal than the how he does in the pressure cooker at a young age.
you dont trade or bench a guy who hit .320 with 25 jacks
Woah, I wouldn’t go that far. Shitty Cano > Good Hairston
I missed most of the game, so not sure who is available, but why not PH for Gardner there? Get someone with pop up there?
I mean, defense doesn’t matter unless we get hits and runs, eh?
Am I foolish on this one?
Never mind. I see Hinske and Hairston were both used. Only avail bat was Matsui, and need himj to hit for pitcher. Sorry.
who is gonna play center, pena? and why pinch hit with 2 out when matsui can back 2nd next inning?
Pitcher is coming up…and it sets up the order nice for the 9th…
Posada, Matsui, Jeter, Damon, Tex, Arod…then team buzzkill from there
Hairston and Hinske were already used as pinchhitters. With both Melky and Guzman not on the roster, we have no more outfielders.
Yah, I went back and checked the game log after I posed the Q. Sorry about that.
Got home and started watching just after Coke gave up the 2nd dinger.
Which I means I’m responsible for the three runs we scored, by the way.
Damn “job”.
Now he’s throwing that curve a little too much…
There’s men all over the United States at bowling alley’s drinking Budweiser that look like Matt Stairs.
IETC
If this isn’t a perfect description, I don’t know what is.
What’s wrong with Phil Hughes?
A) Fatigue
B) Lack of confidence
C) Succumbing to the pressure of WS
I’m gonna go with B
B and C go hand in hand
i think A
I’ll say mostly A and some C
I’m sure it’s a little bit of it all…
How about D, sample size
or E, he’s only 23 years old
We will get the tying run to the plate this inning
/comment fail
Other than Mariano and Marte, this bullpen has been a complete abortion.
http://unklesal.files.wordpres.....jipkjt.jpg
D-Rob says “Yo!”
utley: harrison ford in “regarding henry” before he gets shot
stairs: king ralph
Phil reduced to cleanup duty…quite a fall from grace.
i dont think it was clean up duty, but build confidence duty.
Plus the fact that those 3 outs he just got were huge in keeping the game within striking distance.
Not Hughes’ fault. BABIP fail.
So in the 19th century, an actor’s brother saves a politician’s son from being hit by a train. They never see each other again. The actor was John Wilkes Booth and the Politician was Abraham Lincoln. Crazy story. Yanks in 6!
There we go, nice turn boys.
I love me some slow old man action to ensure DPs.
Excellent. One more out then demoralization time.
Does it count as DP with Stairs running to first?
Huge. Get this big mouthed mother fucker and rally in the ninth!
Awright, GBDP!
1 more out, Philly!
Here. We. Go.
I’m going guess choppers and sharpening his axe are two of Stairs’ favorite hobbies.
On Wednesdays he goes shopping and has buttered scones for tea.
On Wednesdays he goes shopping and has buttered scones for tea.
lets go!!!
Hughes is back. throwing the curve too.
LET’S GO HIT!!!!
Damn, they have Madson up.
Here we go…
Good inning by Hughes. Maybe he’s back.
Good job Hughes. Lets win tonight Yankees
Lidge: Persona non grata.
Let’s do it Yanks!
Alright, time to rally again.
GET THE FUCKIN’ BAYONETS OUT!
3 runs for 3 outs. It can be done.
Nice job, Philly. Come on Po, need a little OBP right now.
Nice job by Hughes. Coke should take lessons.
they may roll with park until he gets in trouble…
Jorgie needs to get this shit started right and quickly!
Matt Stairs will finally retire after this right? right?
Helluva job by Hughes! Lets Go Yankees! Win it tonight! Got the big bats coming up! I want multiple home runs!!!! Woo!!! Rally time!!!! I want to be chugging and pouring beers all over myself tonight!!!!
COME ON MOTHERFUCKAS DO THIS NOW
Can I has Brad Lidge?
Can the offense bail Burnett and Coke out? Can we make a dramatic comeback to take the World Series? Can we tie the game?
We’ll find out after the commercial break.
Nothing like lowering your ERA 24 runs in one inning.
let’s not forget madson blew 6 saves this year too.
Yeah? He’s looked pretty sharp against us thus far…
just means we are due. lol.
I don’t like Madson in there…we don’t do much off him…or haven’t anyway
lets not be “men who stare at hittable piches”!
~MORE THAN A FEEEEEELING~
Well played.
Let’s him ‘em so hard they have no one left but Lidge.
Moral victory: 1 run
Win for the Ages: 4 runs
tying run to the plate
Let’s do this!
Okay so here’s an obscure reference:
The Yankees, right now in the top of the 9th in Game 5 are like the 101st Airbone in the Ardennes during the Bulge. They can hold out and win. However, a rally in the ninth would be like Patton riding in and wrecking the Germans’ shit, giving the Allies a path to victory.
Weird.
Can you imagine this Philly team right now with only a one run lead? They would be shitting themselves. Damn you Coke.
Ok, I’m done with the Coke bashing.
I believe they might still be shitting themselves…
The inevitable strike 1 down the middle call to Posada…
No Lidge?
Awwww, we may have to work for these three runs after all.
Let’s do it.
Think the Phils have the scouting report that Jorge can’t hit curveballs?
Madson was on my fantasy this year and he cost me a lot of points in the standings!…let’s hit this punk!
turn into that one jorge.
Posada, gotta take one for the team there. Bah.
damn, lidge not even warming up.
does jorge swing here?
lets do it
YES POSADA!!! KEEP A GOOD IDEA!!!
Can Pena catch?
For one inning, sure.
yes he does
no team until now, buck
get ready to sound sad, bitch
Alright, good start!
There we go!
myers is as big a headcase as lidge so if he comes in same dif.
YES!!!!! ATTA WAY TO GO, PO!!!
HERE WE COME FUCKERS!!!
HIP HIP
Posada made it to second!
/DEVIL HORNS
Great start for the BIG rally
Heh…
Of course.
HERE. WE. GO.
Posada, you magnificent bastard!
great start but we so could have used that homer….
here we go go!
YEAH BABY THAT’S HOW YOU START IT
Oh baby!!!
Hip Mo-fuggin Hip!
Get Jorge home! Then hit a 2 run home run! Or 3 is even better!
hip hip
If it bleeds we can kill it!!!!!!
Oh ya. Great way to start. Hopefully this blows up his confidence
HERE WE FUCKIN’ GO BABY! LET’S GO HIDEK!
I just gave a cold icy stare because someone in the room said “it’s impossible for them to tie it up”, nearly stabbed him with my tooth pick…. luckily my girlfriend stopped me.
oooh toothpick
Plz.
Never count them out
And the tying run is on deck…
So close to being gone
Godzilla magic?
Myers up. Is Lidge at a wedding tonight?
I would like to request a credit increase on my “Those Utley/Ibanez solo shots really sting right now” comment
can we give road pie?
Posada on 2nd is key…this would be the easiest double play combo in world series history otherwise lol
Good, get Brett Myers up.
We ain’t his wife. We hit back.
I picked up Madson on my fantasy both times Lidge lost his closer’s job. Both times he posted double-digit ERAs and lost it back to Lidge.
The pressure will get to him in a bad way again tonight.
Missed the pitch. That was the pitch to hit.
That was his pitch
NO, THAT ONE WAS
I’m glad he didn’t hit a hr there, would be a rally killer.
/figgins’d
Come on Godzillla
After we’re done with Madson, maybe we can beat up on Meyers and his wife?
ietc
LMFAO
OH YEAH BABY, HERE WE COME
OH SHIT
Mr. November!!!!
I think I just soiled myself
smelling blood…
TYING RUN TO THE PLATE!!!
Called that shit five threads ago.
Amazing call
You’ve been calling a little too much tonight Axisa!!!
nice 1
Derek Jeter!!!!!
Just getting warmed up
Rut Roh Phillies.
This team is so amazing.
These fuckers don’t quit.
CAN WE ACTUALLY PULL THIS OFF???
OMG….
Yankee rally?
YES we can
And Tokyo is in flames…
Excellent! Jeter drive it!
No Pena?
HR = Tie Game
nice call Axisa, they did bring the tying run to the plate, but was it too late?
Jeter hit a 3 run home run! Pena should be pinch running here though.
Madson’s expression: “HUH? WHA?”
You know what would be a good mascot for the Yankees? THE FUCKING PHOENIX CUZ WE CAN’T FUCKING DIE YOU PHILLY PHUCKERS!
WE’RE GONNA WIN THIS THING…../Agent Harris’d
No pinch runner?
How many people do we even have left on the bench?
Just Pena. But Matsui a prime DP candidate, and everyone coming up can run well enough.
You da man Mike. Let’s do this.
fuck you Phil Coke fuck you
these fans are scared shitless right now.
FUCK YOU PHIL COKE I HOPE YOU DROP DEAD GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
lol
Captain Jete… necesitio big hit please.
I hate Coke more with every swing.
Pena for Matsui, Yes?
i love this
Waaaahhhh, they’re talking to the pitcher.
Waaaahhh, that slows the game down.
why isnt pena in????
c’mon jeter…
Tying run! Let’s go Captain!
LIDGE is UP
No swinging at first pitch crap, Jeter.
DO THIS!!
Why no pinch runner for Matsui?
OK. El Capitan!!!
Brad Lidge sighting
The 2009 Yankees:
http://www.seagalology.com/img.....tokill.jpg
put pena in for a potential play at the plate
Jete going deep.
Wowsa
Why is matsui on first base. I really don’t understand that one at all…
“Before this stuff goes any further, I’d like you all to know that I will kill you and I’ll get away with it, cause I’m Kurt F’ing Russell.”
Isn’t this where a pinch runner should be used? Jeter does into a good number of double plays.
Goddammit, you’re prescient.
No DP Jeter
Fuck
Man, if he could sort that DP crap, he’d be unbelievable.
paging mister rivera…
Jeter with the single. Tex hits into a DP and we all get distraught. A-Rod steps in a knocks one out to tie it.
i’m feeling bases loaded for damon, mvp of the series
I’m excited!
i think pena is the emergency catcher at this point. no one else is left on the bench. no?
Lidge is up in the pen – Phils are getting desperate!
Jeter. You fuck.
Right on the money Axisa. Tying run is at the plate.
GODDAMMMIT DEREK
What did I tell you?
Fuck. Dammit Jeters.
Summamabitch.
Oh, Jeter.
!@##$$!@#!@$#$!#$!@%!!!!!!
fuuuuuuck
FUCK.
Cap’n Clutch.
Derek…
Ugh
Obviously…
Oh well…now it literally IS Phil Cokes fault…
scratch last prediction. shiteous AB
WOWOW that’s the last guy i expect to kill the rally
I unfortunately called that
That won’t go on the Jeter highlight reel.
Wow. Worst thing ever just happened.
Decidedly unclutch. FUCK
Having a PR would have really helped there.
Nah, not really.
yeah that was a perfect DP ball
I was thinking having Pena at least have a head start and slide into Utley, making it difficult to turn a DP. Or hell, I don’t know, stealing a base, maybe.
Jeter really lost his clutchness to A-Rod. What a joke of an AB. Fucking terrible.
Fuck you Coke you no good bastard. C’mon Damon hit a home run and follow suit Tex!
Marcus, why would you even put the words dp on this board. You are the phil coke of posters.
please damon
Worst AB possible
Its ok, guess who’s the go-ahead run now?
It won’t even get that far. Jeter totally killed us.
Nah, he just made it more dramatic so it’d be the greatest win ever. That’s why hes the captain
Really thought we had a chance there…. fuck Phil Coke…
Okay Johnny, make some more magic happen with 2 outs.
I saw that coming when Jeter took the ball before right down the middle.
Fuck you Jeter. Fuck you Burnett. Fuck you Coke. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
Stop..
Come on, Johnny. Just get on base here.
Just too many runs tonight. Games is not over. C’mon Johnny.
Damn, I so predicted that. Damn my mind for thinking of such things.
There’s the Jeter double play we talked about at the beginning of the year…
Oh well…nice comeback anyway while it lasted…
and playing the role of Johnny Damon for this at-bat, the secretary from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off!
This is not over
BATTLE.
keep battling.
Do it again, Johnny! Another epic AB!
Derek had that 2-0 pitch, that was his. Let it go for a strike, and then that. Argh.
So much for Mr. November…
AJ, Coke and to a lesser degree Jeter lost this game.
The Yankees lost the game.
if they lose.
Man, FUCK your blame game shit.
Battle Johnny. Dig in baby.
Helluva comeback no matter what.
Damn proud of this team.
Come on Damon, keep it alive.
Not over yet!
STILL ALIVE!
Johnny, I fucking love you.
All up to Tex’s cold ass bat.
Damon does it again
DAMON! I like that guy!
Damon is magic.