Game 20: Stop the bleeding
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RAWR!!! (Photo Credit: Rob Carr, AP)
As fast as the start to the season was for the Yankees, things turned in the opposite direction just as quick. They’ve lost four of their last five games despite being outscored by just three runs during that stretch. Even with their recent dip, the Yanks still have the fourth best winning percentage and fifth best run differential in the game, plus … you know … the season is far from over. They’re still on a 102 win pace.
CC Sabathia gets the ball tonight in an effort to right the ship, back at the site of where he first announced his arrival to the Yankees last May. He faced Jeremy Guthrie that night, and he’ll do the same again on this one. Of course, Alex Rodriguez stole the show in that game when he hit a three run homer on the first pitch thrown to him on the season. Such a selfish jerk.
CC’s coming off back-to-back complete games, except one was rain shortened and the other was an eight inning loss. You can tell Joe Girardi is really trying to get off the schneid tonight, he’s sending the A-lineup out there to back up Sabathia…
Jeter, SS
Johnson, DH
Teixeira, 1B
A-Rod, 3B
Cano, 2B
Posada, C
Granderson, CF
Swisher, RF
Gardner, LF
And on the mound, Carsten Charles Sabathia.
First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm, and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
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Let’s go CC!
plus … you know … the season is far from over.
You mean… the World Series isn’t gonna be Padres/Athletics?
Mets/Twins.
What do the Mets and the Padres have in common?
They both remind me of a whale’s vagina.
If the Mets were a man, I’d punch them. I’d punch them right in the mouth.
That is bush. That is bush league.
Let’s go Yanks!
I wanna see a CC roar.
/will be GameDaying it til about 8:10.
Mark my words, today will a massacre of birds. Tex will have an awesome day, nick johnson will have himself a fine day as well. KK Sabathia will finish the day with 8 strike outs in 7.2
Today is the day to stop bleeding, and for tex and nick to wake up, yankees win 10-1
With that score it sounds like we have room for a Jeet & Arod warehouse bashed ball.
Warehouse shot from a righty? I don’t think so
If anyone can do it, it’s the Centaur.
So you’re saying Rodriguez, won’t make any really good contact.
If anyone can do it, it’s A-Rod.
Get more tits and ass.
The Yanks have a collective .869 OPS vs. Guthrie. Oh yea.
God, don’t TRY to jinx it!
(Insert Michael Kay style rage here)
Condiments! The horror!
8 to 1 in the 6th…so far so good
Ok guys. Predict The Player.
Tonight?
Curtis.
I say 0-4 with a BB.
1K
Also, lets here your other ‘stat predictgion of the night’.
Pitching: I’ll go with Joba striking out two in the 8th.
Robbie Cano: 2-for-4, HR, 2B, 3 RBI
My other “predictgion”:
CC: 7 IP, 4H, 5K, 3BB, 0R
wow, i was going to do robbie and had him very close to that.
only thing was 2 RoBI’s
I’d settle for two RBI
Nick Johnson: 1-2, H, 2BB, K, 2R
Mo: 1IP, 1K, S
I think Curtis will do alright tonight. I’m hoping for a big night out of Tex!
ARod: 5 for 2, 6 homers, 8 walks, 29 RBI.
I’m going to say 7-8 with 2BBs, 1K and 5 home runs.
Joba will go for 1/3 of an inning with 15 earned runs. That one out will be a K, so it’s not all bad.
Boy, this prediction thing is fun! I’m off to grab some scratch-off tickets. I’ll catch up with you later!
I think the Yankees win tonight. By walk-off home run, on the road.
Jeffrey Maier will hit the winning shot.
We might need a new terriost threat level if that’s what Joba does.
haha. yes. one above ‘Javy’
Don’t hate on the Grit or the 100-grand.
I’ll go Jeter:
1-4, single, SB, R, HBP
were u yelling for him to hold up at first there? lol
j.k.
I know our bullpen sucked last night but…we could have Trevor Hoffman as our closer.
See, you feel better now, don’t you?
much
Or we could have Ken Griffey, Jr. What an embarrassing end to a career.
what’s this about? is he sucking?
.226/.293/.245/.538/52+, .254 wOBA, 52 wRC+.
he’s probably like the third-best member of the Mariners lineup, though
CC will be teh dominance tonight.
It’s gonna be like beating you-know-who big.
i”ll keep tabs on the Preditc the player this week.
One who gets the closest stats for a full week, ill send some sort of yankee thing out. to the winner
edit: ‘predict’
also, why oh why can’t the yankees have different radio announcers?
you can’t predict baseball!!
i swear i once heard Sterling say that on a high first pitch.
Yeah let’s have our offense not only centered with Cano and JoPo today.
Swisher says hi.
How could I forget road Swish?!?
Swisher is a chill dude, I’m sure he forgives.
Wow that stadium is empty.
nice start
pastalunging!
Wow, Atkins is awful in the field.
Way to get it started, Jeet. Bring him around!
Yeah Nick!
Woo! Double… in foul territory… wait… are these the same umps from last years ALCS or is game-day on something.
I don’t believe what i just saw!
/Jack Buck’d
What! God I wish I had my sports package.
But I thought NJ could only walk!
Johnson looked out at first sight.
I already have the feeling tonight will be better than last night.
Hey Nick Johnson got a
walkhit!Nick DA STICK!
It’s the #36. Huge.
He obviously had Jose Molina Disease.
#36 = Cure
Did Jeter score via fielding error or throwing error?
fielding error I believe
Yay excitement!
Johnson can hit?!
::head explodes::
Nick, at nite!
Sacrifice hit!
Oh, wait.
Sacrifice fly!
Really this time!
OFFENSE!
Where was the first pitch 3 run homer alex??? Kay told me it would happen!
Not a HR? DFA! Narrative killed!
A-Rod’s sac fly looked quite deep on GameDay. How was his swing? Did he just get under it?
it WAS really deep. TWSS! Swing looked pretty good.
Judging by the twittername, I guess Kyle Wilson is going to rock Thomas Jones’s old #20 for Green and White.
http://twitter.com/therealKDUB20
(That Mets jersey/hat, though… ugh. I guess they don’t teach ‘em class in Piscataway.)
NJ’s got wheels, yo.
Cano’s hitting EVERYTHING really hard this year.
I feel sorry for the hookers he gets.
http://hiyoooo.com/
23.4% LD rate this year.
Good quick first inning, pushing across a few scratch runs.
CC’s first few innings will tell the tale, he gets his motor going thru two, two will be all we’ll need.
A-Rod is unimpressed by your bunting, Adam Jones.
He just did all he could so he wouldn’t K.
bunt for hit FAIL
Wow that was beautiful.
I’d give that webgem #4
Arod as Brosius, nice play.
A-Rod still has that cannon.
What was that Markakis double like? Looked deeeeeep on gameday.
It was down the line, just fair. It rolled deep, but it didn’t touch down very far past third.
very good… very good indeed.
The whiff
I still think Cano beats Pedroia.
maybe at the end of this year. Not right now, though.
KK
ok, chill Ceec.
My fantasy team weeps, for I have Wieters as my starting catcher.
Guthrie reaaaaally needs to stop hitting Yankees.
yes I know it’s not on purpose.
Jesus vs. Aroldis coming up soon. I’m as excited as JMK at a Justin Bieber concert.
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday.....a_swbaaa_1
I thought the restraining order prevented him from attending?
If anyone can actually pitch over the plate on the opposing team, let me know.
Thanks curtis. you were freaking me out, bro!
An even slower Jorge? Good luck.
Damn I wish we were in the NL.
CC getting some back would be awesome
Slump bustin’ kinda night. First NJ, now Curtis.
Does Jorge get lifted at any point during this game?
SWISHAHOUSE!!! BITCHESSSS
ROAD SWISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Swishalicious!
Road Swish strikes again.
A Swishle!
statement game from the yanks.
Jeremy just got PWNED
I wonder if Jorge’s gonna stay in the game?
Frankie has the gear on so guess not
Nope.
Swisher with 2 triples this year, does that double his career total?
Is Pena the third catcher?
sure is.
NO COMMERCIALS, NO MERCY!!!!
An early 4-0 lead on a CC start. Things are looking up.
I’m predicting a CG SHO for CC.
‘Sado’ falls to the SI curse!!!!! lol
There’s the NJ we love.
looks like CC could literally ZZ through this start
Dear Yankees,
Please keep this up. I will be a happy person if you do.
Love,
bexy
That’s what she said! Literally.
Joined late, any updates on the extent of Posada’s injury.
he left the game. Cervelli’s in.
No word on how bad the HBP was, but for precautionary reasons, I think he’s been lifted for Cervelli.
Leg contusion. Can’t do squat
CC hits Wieters?
Nah, don’t take it out on the kid.
Eh, catcher for a catcher. Maybe Guthrie will be more careful next time.
lol kim jones without guys around her? are the men not into wimmenz?
Is she dating Kay? Fairly sure I read that somewhere
ewwwwwww!
That rumor goes around every other year. I don’t think it is true.
O_O
that would be horrifying
(oYo)
i need to fly to baltimore now to take up his spot
No, she clarified it on Twitter. Said he’s dating some other bimbo.
Sure she loved being called a bimbo.
Kay, smooth as ever
Are you being for real? I thought he was married.
Did not know Michael Kay was into women. But that works, too
this, a lot.
(not that there is anything wrong with that)
by the way using the word “dating” is hard for a non-american
YES camera work FTW.
ugh cano
Please shut the fuck up, Kim.
Shity SS do seem to hurt the Yanks. Like Nick friggin Green.
Got home, tired and pissed. Nothing better than to see the Yankees up 5-0.
That poll is really awful.
Anyone that picks bowl should be deported.
That is the single worst YES poll EVER. How embarrassing.
tex .125 BA?
1 hit in 4 AB’s eveyr night will take that thing forever to just get to 200! lol
ok guys, which will be lower this year, tex’s BA or Halladays ERA?
O:S
BA isn’t important tough. But obviously Teix will bring that up.
BTW Cano is a beast.
wow nice catch
What’s the deal with
airline peanutsbabip?BOOOMMM!!! Goes Jesus….fly out to RF
CANO!!!!
Woot. Robbie.
Cano On Crack!
Robbie!
What a beast. RBInson Cano.
We should give him a 5 year 125 million dollar extension for those RBIs
only when he’s like four years older and semi-fat.
ICWUDT
in all seriousness though why dont the yankees extend him? if all these great young players are signing extensions for the security over potential huge money maybe cano would too
He’s already locked up through like, 2013, how much longer do you want them to go?
Second baseman tend to fall off a cliff around age 31-32. Baerga, Alfonso, Knoblauch…
0h ok i wasnt sure how long he was signed through. thats fine then
cano <3
“Cano’s HR is not a good sign for the Yanks.”
Karros
Negative RBI for the yankees
I hate to sound like a dickhole, but I called he’d go yard:
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-858526
You’re a urethra.
You’re a vas deferens
I am used in joy, you are used in waste.
most of the time.
Maybe so, but I still called that homer.
KEEP FIRING, ANDYS!!!!!!!
ICWUDT
Be scared, be very scared of the lazy Cano.
how crazy is it that joepo gets injured on a ZZ start?
i swear the baseball gods want cervelli catching him
Guthrie was paid by CC.
lol what the hell is going on
Mike, you have a new contestant on DoTF tonight.
Figures, I have to sit through an extremely painful game to watch yesterday, and I miss a great run-scoring bonanza. Still, at least we’re finally crushing the Orioles. Cano for MVP!!!!
Is it me, or has Jeter not been fielding well lately?
It’s not you.
I’m hesitant to make a strong statement on the matter lest I fall into “the Swisher fallacy” (watching a player make a couple bad defensive plays in a row and then concluding that they’re not defending very well.
Or the Jason Bay fallacy. Everyone thought he was terrible last year. Turns out his defense wasn’t as bad as everyone thought.
Not you, he’s bobbling a few too many plays, but I think he’s sick.
I really want a Granderslam, btw these sloppy gloves need to stop, there is no sense in giving the Oriels a free base.
Oriels is a pretty hilarious typo.
I always butcher spelling birds, grr.
alright how the hell is that scored a hit? i mean honestly that is a doable play
Damn.
To be fair, when Roberts is out, it doesn’t take much to be the best hitter on the Orioles.
man what the heck is goin on
heh?
i’m talkin bout the poor fielding
Pitching to the score, that’s what HOFers do.
/Jack Morris’d
Damn, it shouldn’t have been an earned run.
I wonder how many runs the CC-Cervelli tandem have given up? I cant remember the last time.
Dammit O’s…Cut the damn grass
Yeah Michael, stadiums have giant walls in the OF, that’s okay. LONG GRASS??!? I DON’T THINK SO!
Damn pussy hits…
can’t wait till ZZ’s fastball gets to 96-97 as the season progresses. he’ll be unhittable!
does Wieters have a really nice swing or am I totally misjudging it? jw.
It’s able to make flowers bloom, so what do you think?
So, what was the horrible poll question?
“if you could visit the White House, besides meeting the president, what would you do?”
Wow, that is stupid. FYI, I would sit in the president’ chair and put me feet up on the resolute desk.
I’d have sex in the Lincoln bedroom. With Senator Blanche Lincoln.
“Hide the cigar” one of the options?
/crossing lines’d
Find all the Civil War era porn in the Lincoln bedroom.
Hotbox the oval office
I’m not taking their poll questions seriously until they ask “If the moon were made of barbecue spare ribs, would you eat it?”
Note to Kay. Most great HS baseball players are also great in every other sport. Athleticism is all you need when you’re 17 to dominate.
IKE DAVIS = ROY ?
What has he been up for, 10 days?
you forgot
Jesus ChristJason HeywardIt’s possible, but Jason Heyward seems to be the likely winner right now. Obviously, there’s a lot of the season left.
After a good week and a half? Sure!
Yuniesky Betancourt for ss Silver Slugger?
FACT: Shane Spencer is still hitting 3-4 homers a week. He’s a beast on my fantasy team.
why him?
Darnell McDonald for the AL
[/gammons’d
gritster!!
Kevin Russo is unimpressed with Aroldis Chapman.
he hit a homer off him?
Si.
congrats to russo
proud of tha man
on a side note, the mets are in first place? 13-9!?
yep.
This shows how the season is, you know, long. A week ago they were a joke. Now they’re on fire. A week from now? Who knows.
true.
i see they have Philly up next. finally some competetion. this series will tell the tale.
It’s far more entertaining to see the Mets blow a 7 game lead with 10 games to play then to see them loose the whole season.
*lose
Meet the Mets, beat the Mets
Last-place teams defeat the Mets
Terrible pitching, second-rate speed
Guarantee to blow a seven-game lead!
TCWA.
lol
they are good at blue-balling their fans.
Cruise Control
Bye bye, Nolan.
Picked up Rich Harden off the scrap heap the other day. Lets see if I’m a genius.
if he can get past 3.2 innings (sorry)
*looks into crystal ball*
Nope sorry, you’re not.
ha i totally forgot about dick pole, the pitcher
Cano player of the month? near 400 avg, 6 homers, great fielding.
dunno about the “great fielding” part, but yeah decent chance
“Average fielding” is more accurate.
Fucking Liriano is gonna take pitcher of the month from Pettite. Asshole.
I KNOW GRRRR
(Not when Pettitte pitches his no-hitter on… Friday?)
That would do it. He’d tie in ERA and have a no-hitter, and it would be in April. ALl he needs is a no-hitter. No biggie.
*all
spelling fail today
Or a perfecto. Easy, really
Liriano should take it. He’s not 2006 Liriano, but he’s been fantastic. Have you seen his slider?
yep. He’s been freaking nasty. But I’m a ridiculous homer, especially for my boy. =P
Let’s see some NJ power.
He powered his way to a walk.
How dare you question NJ?
OBP Jesus strikes again.
Come on Tex.
i dont get why NJ doesnt expect the pitch inside on EVERY 0-2, 1-2, 2-2 count?
i bet it would help his backward K rate
Pick him up, Alex.
SHouldn’t Mark be heating up by down.
*now
nah just wait till april 30th. He’ll go 3-4
So you mean protection doesn’t actually mean anything? Shocker.
A-rods in a mini-slump.
kinda, but he’s getting terribly unlucky at times (like yesterday)
Right, I momentarily forgot.
Kenny was an .829 OPSer in April; but that fell to .777 in May.
good god! 98 pitches through 4 2/3? wowzers
Anyone going to watch “Happy Town” on ABC?
No. All I watch is the news, the Yankees, Lost, and porn.
Massive, massive amounts of porn. Hideki left his Eastern Seaboard collection in my care while he’s on the left coast.
No daily show and Colbert?
(I may have omitted a few other shows I watch for comedic effect.)
I once had a Direct TV all access card, and we got every channel, all the time. All pay-per-views, all the porn. It was pretty cool, but after a while you would crave for a decent plot line or dissect the girls’ acting. Direct TV would zap the cards every month or so, and we would have to get a new one.
It was pretty cool, but after a while you would crave for a decent plot line or dissect the girls’ acting.
YOU PANSY HOMO!!!
/IronHorse’d
I’m semi-annoyed I’m missing America’s Next Top Model
(this comment is serious. And I’m not really annoyed because WOOO YANKEES.)
Left to get a soda and John and Suzyn were talking about Ryan Howard. I come back and they’re still talking about Ryan Howard.
Ugh…
Dave Winfree unimpressed with Aroldis.
but….
Aroldis unimpressed with Jesus…..:(
Look at Johnson go!
cano makes it too damn easy
Is he hitting 400 now?
you would be correct.
Oh yeah!!!!!
Beast, enough said
Johnson with the wheels! Robbie is just beasting.
Okay, look, I love Cano. But if there is anyone who thinks he’s better than Utley, that person needs electroshock therapy.
i think they need some cookoo tests too
where do I sign up for the therapy
http://webomatica.com/wordpres.....s-nest.jpg (safe)
I laughed a bit
that. a lot.
I think you could argue the whole AL East thing, and if Cano has an MVP calibre yer, it could be argued well. As of now, not close.
*year damnit.
Okay, Utley is better than Cano. Cano has the potential to be better, but until then Utley>>>Cano.
Cano has the potential to maybe match Utley, but not exceed him.
I personally would take Cano over Utley.
As of now, I respectfully really disagree.
Why? How? The only reason I can see is age/going forward, but in terms of current performance, it’s Utley by a lot. He’s got infinitely better patience at the plate, still hits for a good average, and also has outstanding power. His fielding is also miles above Cano’s (and everyone else’s for that matter).
Utley career avg.
295 avg, 380 obp, 30 homers.
Cano has a much high avg, and when a guy has 340 potential, he can definitely pass 380 obp. And Cano has 35 homer potential. I’de say he has the potential to offensively pass Utley. Don’t know about Utley’s defense.
not with Cano’s low BB%
You don’t think Cano’s will improve?
this year, he looks better. Fangraphs has been horribly slow for me today so I can’t look at his BB% there to see if I’m right. But he’s just not that kind of hitter.
His highest BB% is 7.4 (right now, this season) and league average is around 9%. He’s really shown no great improvement year to year in BB%, so I don’t expect it to jump up at this point.
Utley’s defense is much better than Cano’s.
I truly believe Cano has a few gold gloves coming, but than again I don’t watch Utley like I do Cano everyday.
As Bex said, Cano’s not going to ever be a .380 OBP guy. Ever. I’ll bet my cats’ lives on that. Cano’s defense isn’t close to Utley’s and he’s not nearly as good on the bases.
Cano has a better hit tool, but Utley is better in every other aspect of baseball.
Yea I see what your saying, I guess I’m just a biased Yankee fan, which I try not to be…But I love cano to much not to defend him a little.
As Bex said, Cano’s not going to ever be a .380 OBP guy. Ever. I’ll bet my cats’ lives on that.
Cano’s BA/OBP, year by year:
05- .297/.320
06- .342/.365
07- .306/.353
08- .271/.305
09- .320/.352
10- .389/.432 (SSS, obviously)
You know what? I’ll take that bet. He’s never going to lead the league in walks, but players do learn to walk more as they age (prime BB years are 32 and up). And, on straight hitting talent alone, he can already put up a .350-.360 OBP. He’ll crack .380 a few times, I guarantee it.
I agree. He’ll continue to rake through pitching and I definitely see him improve his BB rate.
cervelli!!
All rise in the presence of Dark Helmet!
Bullshit! Ludicrous speed! GO!
Wow, third Space Balls reference of the day.
Sorry, I haven’t been watching every post.
I don’t get why your apologizing. I just thought it was kind of funny. I love that movie.
President Scroob: Is it safe?
Commanderette Zircon: Oh, yes, President, Snotty beamed me twice last week. It was fantastic.
How do you know her name?
I’m amazing.
Also, the intertoobs.
Just assumed that you were getting sick of it. That’s the problem with this form of communication. You can’t hear one’s tone of voice.
So………
“Oh no, not again!”
“Hello my baby, hello my honey…”
Cano is just automatic right now. Batting .400!
Robo-Cano shall be his new nickname.
DOMO CANO
If he goes 0 for his next 25, he’d still be hitting .300.
Now this is more like it.
cisco velli!
Texas hung 5 on Peavy in the first. Come on Harden, give me 5 innings!
Peavy has just completely lost it this year. I didn’t expect him to be Petco Cy Young in the AL, but certainly not THIS bad.
how long until Ozzie calls him a choker?
coñaso ju #$%# suck bad #$%#$ I #$%$ you puta #$%$ cooz benchi #$#$%# $#%$%&$%licker inna chud roncho #$$%%#$*&^%
I give it…2 more starts. Then cue Ozzie and YEIK PEEVY CAN’T HANDLE THE AL. NOT A BIG GAME PITCHER nonsense.
His fastball is sitting at 90.
Barry Zito Pt. II
i think peavy would give his left nut to have zito’s 2010
He probably will… 5 years from now.
c’mon CC.
Cervelli 5-6 with RISP – one more hit than Granderson in those situations with 18 less at bats.
saw this on earl weaver’s wikipedia and made me roll on the ground in laughter
Ha. Nice anecdote.
very nice double play
ZZ makin it easy
That gap is getting a workout today.
/twhs’d
man i drop swisher from my fantasy team last thursday, and he goes on some wicked streak
harrumph!
Them’s the breaks. Swish is pretty much a lock for .380 OBP with 25-35 home runs. Hope you got someone good for him.
just picked him back up
Wish I was in your league.
ha yeah i am in a league of allegedly “baseball savvy” people
Damn, you’re lucky. In my league, he’d be picked up in .00001 of a second if dropped.
I dropped him yesterday. But my league doesn’t count OBP or walks just R, HR, RBI, SB, TB and AVG for hitters.
That’s what you get for having little faith.
GUTNER!!!!
Gardy better steal here
Run Grit.
jeterian
JETE!
Double steal!
Nice rip, Derek!
THIS is how you play the Orioles
I’m going crazy. Could’ve sworn Kay just said “Rick Moranis the pitching coach”. It’s ’cause I was just reading the Space Balls references.
by the way
ladies and gentlemen, jon lester is back, and my fantasy welcomes him with arms wide open
[/creed’d
Same for me. Tough my offense is loving these 5/25 streaks. Smh.
same here. Still not sure if I’ll start him next week though. He’s facing Anaheim and the Yanks
Love being in a 10 team fantasy league where I can pre-set my roster to not autopick any Red Sox.
haha I’m in a 10 team league too. but i picked him off the waiver wire. His owner made a dumb move. I swooped in
Could never allow myself to do it. Dumped Ortiz before the season started last year when he somehow slipped onto my team.
Since I’m also a NY Giants fan, I refuse to have Cowboys and Eagles on my roster. One year I ended up with 3 Cowboys and it was so, so painful.
the Red Sox being bad > your fantasy team!!!!!
lol seeing that i have him and josh beckett, it behooves the sox to win their starts for me
Agreed 100000% That’s why I never draft Red Sox unless there’s absolutely no other choice.
Didn’t that guy get arrested for having like 700 painkillers (that were not his) at the airport? Or he punched someone or something?
A .500 OBP today isn’t struggling.
Striking out looking twice against bad pitching isn’t good. Especially with risp
Sure. But he isn’t struggling.
How dare you sully the name of Creed Bratton!
Not that I have any particular problem with it, but doesn NJ usually strike out this much?
*does
Career 20.9 K%, this year he’s at 34.
Ugh. Can’t get no respect.
Man, I like my job, but I REALLY don’t want to be studying right now.
1) Non-Discrimination testing for Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution plans.
2) Multiemployer Withdrawal Liability
3) PBGC Guaranteed Benefit rules.
Weeeeeee.
ha dude i am studying for the audit section of the cpa exam (hopefully it’s the last section i have to take, and i am taking it may 5th), and i want to give up, cuz studying 8 hours a day is brutal
I’m onto the 6th exam out of 9 towards my actuarial designation
You think the CPA is tough, take an exam that requires 300 hours of study every 6 months NINE times
that sounds super painful
Why challenge yourself? Asking “Would you like the super-extra-great value meal with a #5″ sets the bar pretty low. Hard to be disappointed with that.
Ok. The BABIP gods have foresaken ARod.
Yeah, I was just coming here to say something like that. Poor guy. (Not really, more like obscenely rich guy. But you know what I mean.)
BABIP being a bitch to A-rod right now.
Teixeira hit the one pretty solid last time. That’s what bothers me.
Ahh, that catch would’ve been super legit.
Miggy’s dive was epic.
I swear, BABIP. I will murder you.
/FrankVitchard’d
has CC had a one two three yet?
lol they should have a poll: Who would you pick in a 4 woman chocolate pudding fight?
1) Heidi Watney
2) Hazel Mae
3) Kim Jones
4) Erin Andrews
5) My Right Hand
forgot to add : “Pat’d”
I choose the Kobayashi Maru. I’ll take all four.
The Force is strong with this one.
/mix metaphor’d
Wow. Spaceballs, Star Wars, and Star Trek all in one thread. Fantastic.
If I’m gonna die for a word, my word is “poontang”.
http://twitter.com/darthvader/status/12983723744
Nick Markakis
Did you spell “Andy Pettitte” wrong, Bex?
I figured that would be too obvious.
now I’m distracted by the mental image of Andy Pettitte shirtless pudding wrestling some other good-looking baseball players. (what, if you’re going to talk about girls’ asses, I am going to talk about Andy Pettitte theoretically shirtless.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxDaP-U843s (safe-ish)
Even though she’s a bit busted, I’d go with Hazel Mae. Something about her voice.
Also, Inez Sainz of Mexican TV. HOLY FUCK-ARONI!
haha i actually saw her at the superbowl in 2008. Her ass is beyond unbelievable
Also, Inez Sainz of Mexican TV. HOLY FUCK-ARONI!
A MILLION TIMES, THIS.
http://www.google.com/images?h.....8;gs_rfai=
Enjoy. Probably NSFW, at least in spirit if not in full technicality.
Yes, she is amazing. I like Jill Arrington, too. EA just isn’t the same after the peeping tom stuff.
her face is pretty busted tho
The Cano discussion above is getting too crowded, so to answer Tommie/JMK:
I agree w/Tommie that Cano will eventually learn PD and start flashing some OBP skills. I think that as his BA skills decline, he’ll start focus on hitting for more power. As he does that, pitchers will start pitching around him and he’ll start walking more.
Fun Fact:
Ichiro has had 10 years in the league. In half of them, he’s had a OBP below .380.
(Yes, for some reason, Ichiro is my mental Cano comp. A little less pure hit skill (but still way better than most of the league), a little more power. You don’t like it? Sue me.)
Hmm…maybe went a bit too much. I don’t really like many of the cats anyway, so whatevs.
I don’t expect him to flash lasting OBP skills for a while, if ever, though I suppose there’s a decent shot he hits .380 later in his career.
Suck it Braden. Little girl.
Dallas Braden dicked my ERA tonight. Douche.
good to see dallas braden gettin his ass kicked by the rays tonight
Not really.
Rays losing >>> Braden getting his ass kicked.
eh, it’s april, let the rays have their fun before their schedule gets a little tougher
Never like looking up at anybody.
Patience, young padawan.
You don’t know the POWER of the Dark Side!
/Vader’d
Miracle Max: I’ll call the brute squad!
Fezzik: I’m *on* the brute squad!
Miracle Max: You*ARE* the brute squad!
I am Inigo Montoya. You kill my father. Prepare to die!
true dat
I’d rather see Braden get his ass kicked then the Rays losing with him pitching. The Rays will be tough to beat so I understand what you’re saying.
I would like Braden to get his ass kicked and then have the Rays bullpen implode. That’s really ideal.
all the sudden swisher has wheels…lol…i love it
wow cano got an out
That’s it, he’s a cocksucker.
I MISS THE OLD STEINBRENNER HE WOULDA CUT THAT BUM ON THE SPOT!!!
Sincerely,
Idiot Yankee Fans
my fantasy team hopes mike gonzalez can turn it around
I think he’s on the DL for like a month so… that won’t happen for a while?
yeah that’s what makes me sad
I really want Curtis to go deep here. The run would be meaningless but for some reason, I enjoy it a lot when Cla gets pounded.
yay granderson!
I’m a little bummed there has been no retribution for Jorgie getting hit. If it doesn’t happen tonight I’d bet that AJ will have something to say about it tomorrow.
Who to hit tough? If Huff was still there I’d advocate him to get drilled. But there’s no one that’s worth hitting on that team. They suffer too much already.
Maybe a brushback pitch or two.
But Jorge and Burnett have their difficulties.
/2009 MSM’d
Haha, IETC.
Didn’t appear intentional to me.
He was already down 2, why do you want to put more guys on base?
I dunno, Granderson is slumping and Jorge is killing, first pitch hbp. Even if it wasn’t on purpose, Guthrie needs to be careful. It seems like we’ve gotten hit in every game. Plus, I’m just a spiteful ass.
Well, at least you’re honest.
I don’t mind retribution either, so long as it’s justified. Mainly because I don’t want to hear whining about the Yankees being a “dirty” team, or other such nonsense.
I wish I could watch this game, the Capital’s are on the verge of elimination so I can’t look away.
http://www.instantcrickets.com
The who?
Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon.
Notable songs: My Generation, Baba O’Riley, Pinball Wizard, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Who Are You
Notable albums: A Quick One, Tommy, Who’s Next, Quadrophenia
Oh I see what you did there.
In other news, the Canadiens are now up 2-0. Which will mean something like the top 3 teams in the NHL eastern conference will have lost their series.
Which would mean something if anyone actually cared about hockey.
/rimshot’d
Darnell McDonald, remember you’re Darnell McDonald
He’s literally their second best hitter right now. I’s funny.
When Eiland, Girardi, and Pena all stand in a row like that, they look very intimidating.
Is that Spike Lee in the Turkey Hill commercial?
I laughed.
They all look a like to you, eh Tommie?
/irony’d
CC has to be good for 115-120 tonight.
Also, “CC likes the DP.”
CC likes DP???
wow kay…
Kind of surprised that carried that far.
Kay just said CC likes DP.
Interpret that as you wish.
markakis killed that one
Great opposite field power there; nice display by Markakis.
Boooo. Get the next guy, CC.
Good job.
Who comes in for the low leverage 8th? Mitre?
My money is on CC.
I’d prefer he didn’t. He’s given up 9 hits and they’ve been hitting him a bit harder of late. Just because he can throw a lot of pitches doesn’t mean he should all the time. This is a perfect game in which to save his arm.
But, it looks like he’ll at least start the 8th.
Eh, I can’t remember a particularly high stress inning. 110 pitches isn’t really “a lot” of pitches when we’re talking about Carsten Charles.
Fair enough, but this isn’t exactly a situation in which we need CC to “extend” himself. If it was a one-three run game, I’d want CC out there; but in a five run game, let the mop up guys get it.
ZZ
The people in the Hoyt Livery ad are some of the ugliest people on television.
did NJ just ground out on the first pitch? Ruh-roh!
looks like tex is going to erupt very soon
it sucks cuz i am playing against him this week in both fantasy leagues…
oyvey
ughh why would you bring CC back for the 8th? I know he’s pitched well but there’s no need to use his arm for another inning for this situation. come on girardi
Is one more inning going to effect him negatively?
its possible. and innings add up, the less you pitch him in the regular season the better in this kind of situation
I disagree, in a low stress game I don’t see 10 more pitches having any real effect on him. 99 pitches for Hughes isn’t the same as 99 pitches for CC.
that may be true, but either way the pros of leaving cc in dont seem to be able to outweigh the cons. give those innings to a near-useless arm like mitre
man, 2003 a rod gets a single off that
I am more of a reader than a poster but seriously the fantasy league comments seem a bit out of control this year.
I’m gonna guess that it’s only because there are like 75 fantasy leagues through RAB this year.
Well considering there is 7 RAB leagues I’d say it comes with the territory.
I thought they would have their own discussion threads. It just seems like a lot this year during game threads.
Totally agree.
apparently theres another a.j. burnett in the majors. Hes not actually called aj, but still
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/.....erId=30410
i saw him in a box score a lil while ago and thought my eyes were deceiving me
why not put in mitre instead of joba
however, if CC gets through this in less than 108 pitches, i’d send him out to the ninth
no way. plus he isnt going to but no to that either way
Nice thought by Swish.
Ha CC mad.
man ZZ looks pizzed
i love having an ace
Have I complained about BABIP yet? Yes? Okay.
Good job, CC. He didn’t have great stuff but he was still CC.
Utto, Rich Harden is trying to do me dirty. Hold on Texas!
Is 110 pitches the new limit for everyone, regardless of situation? Who couldn’t see CC getting pulled after he completed the at-bat in which he threw his 110th pitch?
It seems like it doesn’t matter if it’s 110 pitches in 5 innings, 6 innings, 7 innings or 8 innings, you’re coming out at the point regardless. It seems ridiculously stringent this year.
uh not really. and 110 pitches is plenty. theres nothing wrong with taking a pitcher out after that
That’s not my point. My point is that it’s 110 regardless of the situation. 110 in 5 or 6 innings is a lot more stressful than over 8 innings. It seems that without fail, Girardi is pulling a pitcher right after the at-bat with the 110 pitch. It also seems to be regardless of the lead that the Yanks hold too, e.g. Pettitte finishing the 8th with 114 pitches in a blowout. It seems that Girardi wants them to throw 110 pitches and then get them out of there. I know that’s simplifying it a bit, but I’m afraid it’s a little too accurate.
oh alright. yeah i guess i could see that
man if this was any other team CC would have let up 8 runs. lol
meh, I don’t really think he was getting hit that hard, honestly.
get ‘em Joba!
fist pump plz
lol we’re up by 5, no need for fistpump
dude theres no situation that doesnt need a fistpump when jobbers pitchin
Well that was anti-climactic.
Cano is crushing everything.
Nice rip, Frankie. Good game for him.
Cerve’d!
So what happened to Jorge?
HBP – kneecap. He hobbled to first, slowly made it to second on asingle, clearly hurt. Scored on the Swisher triple and that was all she wrote.
Douche Guthrie hit him straight in the knee.
“Jon Lieber. He was hilarious. He was out there, just weird. I’d come out to the mound and if he had given up a home run, he’d say, ‘That was your fault.’ He was pretty good.”
So apparently Jorge has been calling for the old HR pitch long before Burnett arrived.
Ugh, I really hope no one goes down. I have absolutely zero faith in Mitre if he has to re-join the rotation. It really, really, REALLY sucks that Joba won’t be stretched out if that happens. Sigh…
But teh eighth inning guy is more important!
I love me some Mitre.
I don’t!
/beating a dead horse
hey thats what the yankees decided to do they feel mitre would be a better bet to go with if someone in the rotation went down. Which makes sense. I mean why give a chance to a young pitcher that you tried to develop for the past 2 1/2 yrs.
Anyone think Nova would be better than Mitre as the 6th starter.
goodness, mitre still can’t field the ball
Anyone got the feeling Girardi knew something about Mitre we didn’t?
I’m on the record as probably the only one that has faith in Mitre. His stuff is nasty.
Re Girardi: Until he hurt his elbow, probably in July or August of that year, he was flat out killing for Girardi down in Miami.
eh he’s looked good but let’s not get too excited. he’s pitched like 5 innings
last year i was all on mitre’s jock, saying he would turn it around
he will turn it around this season
I like Meat Tray and think he will pitch well this year. He could be our new Mendoza.
I love that 30% of the people who were commenting here last night during the loss aren’t here tonight in the solid win. Shocking, really.
Dante is conspicuously absent.
The Yankees suck and are embarrassing. They aren’t trying.
(Please don’t say this is a strawman argument. It’s not. I saw people saying this on Twitter and LoHud.)
lol, last night they didn’t come out till the 6th inning. It was like clockwork.
this. I don’t mind venting. Lord knows I bitch and whine enough. But when people only show up when the Yankees are losing to talk about how bad the team looks, how Girardi’s an idiot, how they’re not trying and they have no heart/guts/other intangible, how (whatever player) sucks, it really pisses me off.
Great game. The Yankees ace was the stopper he is supposed to be.
yaaaay Yankees
You know what,
Damn, the Rays are Red Hot!
Baltimore, New York (lost 2 of 3), Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Toronto, Oakland (current series), KC, Seattle, Oakland.
Call back when they start playing real teams
Wow, good point.
a lot of those were on the road though. Sweeping four at Fenway? They’re really good. Probably not as good as they seem right now, but good.
I have to think that was rock bottom for the Sox. They aren’t that bad. Granted it was the Blue Jays but I think we saw Lester wake up tonight. Beckett and Lackey will get their shit together soon enough
Tampa still scares me much much much more than the Sox do (David Price and BJ Upton were their two big question marks and both look pretty darn good so far), but they aren’t quite as good as their 16-5 mark makes them out to be.
I agree with all of this, though I also think Tampa has an appalling bullpen. Doesn’t really matter if they’re murdering teams, though.
I wasn’t here last night but I am tonight. Just scheduling issues.
I was watching the game on MLB.com in a hotel in the Boston area with a wired 100mbps connection. I still had many streaming problems. I picked up a few tricks on how to minimize it. Anyone know of methods to keep the streaming going?
So if Sports Illustrated didn’t lose enough credibility by having Jon Heyman continue to write for them, there’s this. The CHB wrote an article explaining why he thinks the Celtics will beat the Cavs. Ok, he can have his opinion, which of course is always to go against the grain. Sports Illustrated then emails this column to a Cleveland blog to let them know and try to stir up the pot (and readers I guess). Seriously, Sports effing Illustrated has resorted to that?
At least they don’t charge Insider fees like ESPN does to give you the same drivel that you get for free from SI.com. That counts for something.
Fun fact: Darnell McDonald has more RBIs than Victor Martinez
Was at the game tonight. Amazing how sad Camden Yards is these days. Beautiful stadium, terrible team.
Otherwise though, an immensely enjoyable game. Very little stress. Definitely an easy Zen Baseball game.
I was there too. Looks like they upgraded the jumbo screens. What a wwaste of a great ballpark