Game 83: All Star vs. All Star
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Are they serious with those unis? (Photo Credit: Ben Margot, AP)
So we’ve got ourselves an intriguing little pitching matchup tonight. Everyone knows about CC Sabathia and his ridiculous levels of awesomeness, but what about Trevor Cahill? The 22-year-old got rocked in his first start of the season (eight runs in five innings against the Blue Jays), but since then he’s pitched to a 2.22 ERA and held opponents to a .201/.269/.294 batting line in 77 IP. He’s got a Kevin Brown-esque turbosinker that has generated ground balls 54.3% of the time this season, but if the Yankees are patient, Cahill will work himself into trouble (just 43.6% of his pitches have been in the zone).
Here’s the lineup that will face Oakland’s lone All Star representative…
Gardner, LF
Jeter, SS
Teixiera, 1B
A-Rod, 3B
Cano, 2B
Swisher, DH – third time he’s DH’ing in the last four games, could he be nursing something?
Posada, C
Granderson, CF
Curtis, RF
And on the mound, CC Sabathia.
Another late one, with first pitch scheduled for 10:05pm ET and can be seen on YES.
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Maybe the Yankees are showcasing Curtis to trade him?!
/totally untrue
/irresponsible rumor mongering
Curtis doesn’t want to be in NY anyway…wants to play with Lebron, Wade and Bosh in Miami.
Also…pretty sure he hates the fact Donnie Walsh is rolling around in a wheel chair.
/Woj’d
Bottom 6th: Rays 2, Red Sox 1
Youkilis left the game with right ankle pain, the Sox announced. That’s the extent of our information.
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....tra_bases/
Hope that’s vague enough for everyone.
My question is, did he cry and whine about how the sand/dirt was too slippery?
Do the Angels let Weaver play in the ASG or not?
I predict CC will dominate this time. I think he’ll throw another CG, but this time he exits with a victory.
Can’t the Yankees tell Cano not to participate.
This
Can’t the Yankees just wrap Cano in bubble wrap? We can’t afford to take any chances with him!
I’m not saying I agree, just that they shouldn’t complain about it if they can stop it.
Be healthy, Mo =(
I hope Mo doesn’t miss more than three games with the knee inflammation.
Holy crap. I just heard a fan fell over 50 feet from the 2nd railing at the Rangers/Indians game. All players were taken off the field. omg. That’s sounds f-ing scary. Please be all right, person. Please.
Oh my God that’s terrible. You have to hope for this person to make it.
Wow, that’s terrifying.
please be okay…
I’m hearing that it was only(better lower than 50) about 25 feet and that the fan was conscious when taken out on a stretcher. Good to hear.
I thought Cust was DFA’d.
He accepted the assignment to AAA and was called up sometime later.
Holy shit, Bay.
And Davis makes up for it with a nice play. One more for the CGSO!
What’d Bay do?
Also Johan Santana is a badass, I’ll say it again.
Made an error on a really easy catch that would’ve been out number two.
He pulled a Luis Castillo.
I want Cano to win the MVP, but Curry’s reasoning there was really weak.
What was it?
Cano’s ben similar to JM, but Cano has picked up the Yankee offense.
I can’t watch YES…what was his reasoning?
What TD said above: Cano’s carried the Yankee offense at times and what not. Morneau’s done exactly the same thing.
If we’re using silly sportswriter logic, Morneau has one MVP he doesn’t deserve, so he’s gonna have to make Albert Pujols look like Babe Dahlgren to win one now.
Curry is such an idiot on everything. Cano get’s teh edge because he plays second, not because he has a “weak” offense. Johnson should be the Cy Young right now. Lee has 1/10th the bb’s of Price. Also, is Heyward really teh best NL rookie? He’s been sucky.
Heyward: .251/.366/.821, 122 OPS+. And that’s including a HUGE slump because he was playing hurt. Totally not sucky at all.
Yes’s stats made him look bad, sorry.
Even with the edge in position, Moreanu (4.8) is besting Cano in WAR (4.4) right now.
Yea, but Morneau already won an undeserved MVP, so it only makes sense that he won’t win when he does deserve it.
Which WAR?
As I believe Steve H pointed out in his blog, WAR is not the best indicator of a player’s value because we have alternate and sometimes confliting WARs being calculated.
I used FG WAR.
On B-Ref, it’s 5.1 for JM and 4.5 for Cano.
Doesn’t matter how you slice it–Morneau is ahead 5.1-4.5 in b-ref WAR, and Morneau is ahead 4.8-4.2 in Fangraphs WAR.
One shows a discrepancy that may or may not be made up for in UZR margin of error. The other, I have no idea.
Isn’t Cano at 4.5?
/nitpicked
And isn’t 4 runs within the UZR margin of error?
Heyward hasn’t been sucky (122 OPS+), but Jaime Garcia has been ridiculous.
Right, now I remember him. He should be the winner as of now.
The club already has several impact players on the disabled list, including Dustin Pedroia, Victor Martinez, Jason Varitek, Josh Beckett and Jacoby Ellsbury.
One of these things is not like the others.
Victor Martinez?
Minorities in Boston? Who Knew?
touche.
Jason Varitek.
BUT THE MANAGING OF THE PITCHING STAFF!!
Lebron to have a press conference on Thursday at 9 on ESPN in a one hour special. Anyone else excited?
We have to wait all the way until Thursday?
Awwwwww,
/Takes out burrito, wipes down microwave
That meme has really been making a comeback recently.
Me. For it all to be over.
I’m going to miss it.
It will be interesting to see what the ratings will be for that.
It’s gonna be *hilarious* isn’t it
9am or 9pm?
It has to be 9pm right? I’m sure ESPN wants this to dominate Primetime.
I would think so…
But ESPN is Lebron’s b%#*!, so he makes the rules.
PM
So Posada’s back in and Swisher is still batting sixth while Gardner leads off? Not sure if I’m thrilled about this.
Posada hasn’t been hitting since his DL stint and it drops Granderson lower. What’s wrong with putting the better players higher?
Well, Posada has a .267/.373/.483 line.
.203/.337/.351 in June.
.231/.375/.308 in July.
.227/.354/.409 in last 28 days.
And the one I actually just noticed, unrelated to his injury:
.198/.324/.384 on the road.
Also worse vs. righties than lefties.
Eh, I won’t pay too much attention to July numbers, but his numbers in the past month are pretty awful. Pretty bad road stats as well.
I’m sure he’ll bounce back. I wouldn’t start worrying just yet.
He’ll turn 39 this summer. I’d be worried big time. He hasn’t been able to stay on the field for more than a few weeks at a time since 2008.
He was healthy enough to play in 111 games last season. Can’t really ask for much more than that from an aging catcher. And he played very well at that.
And I wouldn’t start worrying just yet. “Just yet” being the keywords. He’s been a productive player for a long time now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he went on to have a good second half. No, he’s not an everyday catcher at this point it seems, but he can still help this team.
Every player has had a bad month before, so I won’t chalk it up to him being a zombie. Let’s wait some more time before freaking out.
swisher = better player, no?
Yes, that’s why I’m saying bat him ahead of Posada. Batting second is ok, but at 6th he’s behind guys who get on base at a better clip to help drive guys in.
Of course, the move we all know will never happen would be dropping Jeter a bunch and putting Swish 2nd.
Let’s show this guy what a good lineup does to a decent pitcher.
Well, Gardner worked him at least, so that means Jeter will swing at the first pitch.
ha wrong
Hehe. Jeter is doing good too.
62 degrees… can I please go to Oakland right now?
Reverse lock tonight? Yanks facing a pitcher they haven’t seen before and CC facing a team he’s struggled against.
The Yankees are going to win 1-0 on a Brett Gardner Homerun. Joba will also pitch 4 shut out innings (8th-12th inning.)
18 pitches thru .1 innings. Me likey.
OK 19 thru .2
Jeter didn’t look very comfortable in that AB.
Jeter’s days as a Yankee are numbered!
The end is near Matt!!
/pointless comment’d
Teix’s OBP is now average. That was fast.
Wasn’t that pitch in the exact same spot as the pitch before it?
I have the worst feeling Suzuki will hit another Sabathia homer…
Revenge!
Sort of.
CCs looking sharp early. It remains to be seen whether the A’s or the ump will make him work harder.
Stupid Oakland
Cute story, my ex-girlfriend from SF during a trip back to SF with me would point in the general direction of Oakland and say “stupid Oakland” followed with a string of obscenities. Wait…is that story cute?
But yeah, Oakland sucks and the frigging stadium makes me want to throw up.
Alright Alex. Time to stomp all over these As.
Damn. He’s making the weakest contact.
Obviously he scores anyway, but I’d love to see just one game where Yanks catchers don’t have an ‘easy’ pitch go off their glove to the backstop.
And what’s with not even bothering to throw with Crisp stealing? The A’s broadcast didn’t show the jump, but this is getting pretty ugly.
Rays made that a little too exciting.
Maybe the homerun derby will actually get Cano’s swing fixed since he hasn’t hit for a couple weeks now. Hope for the best!!!
OMG the game is over. This team can’t hit!1!1
I literally saw someone say “a perfect game through 2 is unacceptable.” AAHHHHHHH
Sarcasm aside, this 1 run lead seems a lot bigger when you consider how the offense has been hitting lately and who they are facing.
Not like they scored 11 runs in one inning mostly against one of the best pitchers in the league three days ago.
the only problem was that the other 7 innings they fell asleep
Oh noes. Eh, it’s still way too early to think of that stuff, but I get what you’re saying.
A-Rod looks pathetic offensively.
Real pathetic!
Let’s just go ahead and pretend those “Send Swish” commercials never happened.
At least Kay isn’t here to cackle at them.
lol, the A’s announcers talking like they’re going to make the playoffs.
That’s so cute…
They don’t realize it’s that time of the year, every year, when Billy Beane sorts out which third of his roster to trade away for those prospects he hasn’t been able to draft and develop since the beginning of the past decade.
I don’t know why, but I hate> Rosales.
He tried to bunt to break up Hughes’ no-hit bid last time we were in Oakland, no?
Did he? I think it’s the whole sprinting home runs thing. That annoys me.
Speaking of the sprinting home runs, why isn’t he celebrated for his grit?
I’m pretty sure he did get celebrated the two times I know he did it.
The A’s broadcast just did a mailbag with a guy who said he loves Rosales and the announcers went on for a few minutes discussing how nice a guy he is and how great it is to have him on the team.
They would not be happy with you right now…
Hey, sport: what has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap?
Bob Kelso. Nice to meet you.
/Scrubs’d
And I’m sure he’s a nice guy but there’s just something about him that bothers me.
That dude looks like an uglier Nomaaaahhh
I thought the same thing! I was wondering if it was just me.
Excluding the uglier part. For a second I thought that was Nomar.
That’s not even possible.
Posada should be batting higher in the lineup!!!
I’m getting bummed about Curtis.
He can’t handle New York! Worst trade ever!
http://www.hovied.com/entertai.....76543.html (SAFE)
Doc Brown has this date in his car in Back to the Future!
That 2-0 pitch looked high, no?
I like it when umps aren’t afraid of calling high strikes.
I was just thinking about how his strike zone seems a little high, nothing wrong with it though.
Do I hear vuvuzelas?!
soooo lucky I’m stuck with Gameday right now (too lazy to go to roof).
If there was EVER a time for Jeter to break that RBI-less streak, this has to be it.
Come on Jeter!!!
Yankees haven’t hit a single ball in the air the whole game. Odds of sac fly–low
here’s hoping for a hit
Triple steal. They’ll never see it coming.
Haha ietc.d
Erase the “.d,” don’t know where that came from.
Year of the GS?
Bah.
Rod has a chance now.
Hell, I’ll take it.
Jeter almost GIDP
Geez, just barely beat it. That would’ve figured…
Oh, Derek.
thankfully it wasn’t a DP. Now we need to get a hit with runners in scoring position.
Oh no…
CHARGE THE MOUND!!!!!
DAMN. IT.
be okay Teix.
Oh God. TEX BE OKAY BABY.
Well, they didn’t need that.
Fuck me.
Ouch for TEIX.
That looked like it hurt a lot.
It must have hit a good spot because it didn’t seem too hard.
HAHA TEX
Cmon AROD!!!
That is a serious kidney punch
That doesn’t feel good.
Oof. Definitely knocked the wind out him, but old boy’s gonna be fine it looks like.
I can’t believe they’re wearing jackets over there … how i hate California’s good weather.
Ok A-Rod. Put a good swing on it. Make him pay!!!!!
Tex hits a homerun later in the game.
Book it.
Out of.
A-Rod needs to pretend Teix was INT walked…
And so he does!
They are making him work a ton.
Bases loaded walk or a Grand Slam! LETS GO!!!!
Year of the GS!!!
It’s an A-Bomb!
Oh HELL YEAH.
WWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s how you punish a team for hitting the guy in front of you.
You kinda saw that coming…
Year of the Grandslam!
Number 9!
Year of the Grand Slam!!!!!!!
An A bomb from Arod
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-955155
Boom.
OOO SEXY TIMEEE
AROD STOMP!
So, A-Rod: still good at baseball.
I LOVE ALEX RODRIGUEZ!!! I’M STRAIGHT BUT I LOVE ME SOME A-ROD!!!
Agreed
+1
What’s that, 3rd of the year. Fucking Beast.
ARODDDDDDDD!
The year of the grand slam – I approve.
A-Rod just looks so bad in these at-bats!!!!
A-Rod is pretty good at hitting baseballs. Could make a fine career out of it.
Year of the Grand Slam.
LOL, the second he hit it, A’s announcer: “And that baby’s gone.”
Haha Flash’s call was pretty funny.
John Sterling he is not.
I guess that’s to be expected if you throw an 89 mph fastball middle in.
FUCKING RIDICULOUS. 9 GSes on the yeat.
the year of the GS continues.
Chances Alex breaks the GS record this season?
Cahill’s FB is the kid’s WORST pitch. shoulda thrown him a change.
3-1 bases loaded? When he couldn’t get it over 3 pitches in a row?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com.....bdd04c.jpg
(safe)
I love no-doubters.
Dont u dare, I repeat, dont u dare load the bases for my Yankees
Offense seems to be putting together a lot better at bats since that 11 run inning.
A-Rod must have read me post
There goes A-Rod showing his 24-1 mentality. He just killed the rally by hitting that grandslam. That guy only thinks about himself I swear.
I’m joking of course. I’m sure someone will think I’m serious..
Nah, it’s deeply ingrained in the meme-cabulary.
This is funny because I was just telling the kids on my team tonight about the homerun killing the rallies and how I would rather string the hits together. We just have to deal with A-Rod’s selfishness though.
So whaddya think guys? His power’s gone, amirite? Sucka ain’t got no juice?
He looks like a first baseman.
Still gotta get that SLG up to .500, but he’s getting there.
Ricky Henderson right behind home plate 3 rows back?
grand slam is really our thing this season.. I like it!
2009 – The Year of the Walkoff
2010 – The Year of the Grand Slam
2011 – The Year of the No-Hitter (wait that’s this season)/2009 and 2010 combined!
2009 – The Year of the Walkoff
2010 – The Year of the Grand Slam
2011 – The Year of the Walkoff Grand Slam
Tsk Tsk Tsk…you know you can’t do what you’re trying to do.
?
You, sir, were engaged in the impossible act of predicting baseball.
2009 – The Year of the Walkoff
2010 – The Year of the Grand Slam
2011 – The Year of the Jesus (Montero)
2012 – The End of Days
Ok CC, mow through them now…
Sorry I’m late… I had a thing.
This just in: Trevor Cahill done fucked up.
He shouldn’t have stepped on Braden’s mound.
He got Centaured in half.
That thing? Or the other thing?
No excuses. Chat like a champion.
/John Ryan’d
Year of the Grand Slam is better for the Pythag than the year of the Walk-Off.
Great DP by CC
CC ate that shit up, as CC is wont to do.
Nice CC. That’s big.
Are the Yankees just trying to create a solid utility bench player? Seems like every career infielder prospect is being thrown into the outfield.
Smart tactic if it works out I guess.
Maybe preparing in case they need 3 catchers in the future again?
In the quest for an ultra utility man under control for the better part of a decade. Better than giving up a prospect of any sorts for a rental player on a 1 year deal.
Then CC shows his speed covering the base better than anyone I have ever seen.
5 runs on 3 hits. I love it!
Johnny Damon bringing back memories walk off jack in the bottom of the
11th
How about Alex eh? Shades of his opening day blast from ’06.
I just got back from the SWB game. Shook Montero’s hand. Dude is a beast for a 20 yr old. Not that any of you don’t know what already. Of course, tonight was his day off. Now I’m forced to go back tomorrow. Nova struggled early, then coasted through 6.2 innings. Albie looked solid again, banging out a 5 out save. Eduardo played 3B again. Jorge Vaz hit a bomb to CF (410 ft) off a lefty. Miranda hit a nice 2B to the opposite field gap. 3-2 win over Rochester.
/MybestimpressionofAxisa’d
Not enough seething hatred for Nunez.
Nunez actually almost blew the game by not taking away the 3B line with 2 outs on the bottom of the 9th. A ball was hit hard down the line with a runner on first and was foul by maybe one half an inch. It rolled all the way to the wall. The rest of the AB, (ended with a K) he was positioned almost on the line.
Probably the coaching staff’s mistake as well. But it’s clearly a no doubles defense situation. esp with a righty up.
BUST
Franco, Wagner. Who is the last one?
Wetteland? I’m drawing a blank.
Lee Smith?
Im just throwing it out there, but maybe Eckersley. How close is Rivera to 10 saves for Girardi.
I meant 100 of course.
He has 102. I guess he is an answer
What was the question?
3 pitchers with over 100 saves with two different managers.
Thanks, what was the answer?
Franco, Mo, and Mesa.
Wow, Jose Mesa. Never would’ve gotten that one.
I know, he was tough. He played for 8 teams. I would’ve never guessed he got 100 with 2 different managers.
Yup, looks like he barely made it with both.
What 3 guys have 100 saves for 2 different managers I believe was the question.
Shit, I forgot about Willie Randolph. I failed, 1 out of 3.
You’ll get him next time Swish!!
CC looking good!
That’s how we do it in the 2-oh-9.
/Braden’d
53 pitches. 6 ks.
A’s announcer: “Just don’t want Sabathia to find a groove”
Me (after watching him school Kouzmanoff and Ellis): “HA, too late!”
holy shit i just saw the a-rod grand slam. wow that was a MASH
That’s so gay commercial wth?
Please stop with the homophobic slurs. Gay is not a synonym for bad. We’ve matured beyond that as a society.
Did you just see that commercial?
I didn’t see it but was it the one with Wanda Sykes?
Yeah. WTH is that? Is it a new campaign?
Not brand new but relatively new. I saw it once or twice last year. Doesn’t play very often tho.
Thanks.
I saw several commercials, none of which were “gay”, whatever that is supposed to mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWS0GVOQPs0
You’re not understanding what I’m typing. Watch the video.
Ah, okay. Rock on, then, Wanda!
I didn’t see that one, no.
IIRC it features a bunch of whippersnappers in a diner or something and they’re calling stuff gay and Wanda Sykes basically says what you just said.
Linda McMahon running for senate? WOW. Vince must be proud!
Everytime I see that commercial I hope that no little kids are watching when she says that wrestling is fake. Of course I guess a little kid wouldn’t be listening to what Linda McMahon has to say in the first place.
WHAT!?! WRESTLING IS FAKE?!?!?
I hate to break this to you, BadaBling, but… Jesus dies at the end of The Passion of the Christ.
But like Tex when got plucked by that pitch, he did rise again! We can’t say the same about Mel Gibson’s career!
Ha, that made me laugh. I’m surprised that not everyone figures it out when Rey Mysterio beats 7ft tall people regularly. He is the Brett Gardner of WWE, that gritty SOB.
Until he lost his mask, then he just became a smaller, slightly better looking, tanner version of Shawn Michaels.
C’mon CC strike this fool out!!
On the real though, the McMahon family has certainly shown they know what it takes to run a successful business. If I lived in CT, she’d get my vote!
I am actually thinking about voting for her, for the same reason, but the problem for her is that the person sheis running against is pretty popular in CT, so she is screwed.
Her “McMahon Jobs Plan” makes me laugh. I added the quotes so that I could say it with a straight face.
Step 1: obtain massive amounts of steroids
Step 2:
Step 3: PROFIT!
Step 2a. Make sure all your wrestlers are signed to contracts as independent contractors so you don’t have to pay any sort of health or retirement benefits.
CC seems a little pissed. He is on now.
Angry teddy bear rawr.
man i hate cheap hits
CC, c’mon.
holy crap what a great catch!
Looks like the back feels fine.
Nice catch Tex!!! His back must feel fine, good to see!
Nice play!!!
Was that Pete Abe next to Rickey? It had to be his clone.
Lot of birds flying around. Hitchcock in the house.
Come on CC, end this inning.
Plz not a live by the die by the moment.
C’mon CC strike this fool out!!!
Damon hit a walkoff. Stupid Cashman, if he was on this team we would be 70-12, with the 12 losses coming from Matsui’s non-presence.
Last time I checked, Austin Jackson was hitting .400/.500/.600.
/thatoneguy’d
I said c’mon CC
Lets go CC.
HELL yeah.
NICE!!!!
THAT WAS GREAT! CC is the MAN!!!
Something tells me Barton didn’t like that call.
what an epic bat smash
Oh snap. Goodbye.
Apparently the A’s as a team need their mouths collectively washed out with soap.
Ump to the A’s: GET OFF MY PLATE
Anyone have quick access to Brooks on that pitch?
the best part? it was a strike
Just what I wanted to see. Thank you.
I’m surprised the ump didn’t throw him out for slamming the bat. Good restraint.
He did throw him out
Ok I’m stupid, he did, I missed the ejection, I assumed the coach came out to save Barton.
I think he did. Oh, Ken just said it.
Huh? He did throw him out.
CC with the bases loaded: “Lemme throw this pitch on the outside corner and see if the ump will give me a close call.”
Cahill with the bases loaded: “Lemme throw the ball right down the middle of the plate to the active home run leader with 20+ career grand slams and see what happens.
CC >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Cahill
Dying of the lulz.
I would second this, but I’ve already died.
Looked like a strike to me.
Even if it was a mile off the plate, you don’t slam your bat on the plate. Getting yourself tossed isn’t gonna help your team come back.
I suppose Barton’s been taking lessons from the Dallas Braden school of etiquette.
THAT’S HOW WE ROLL IN THE TWO-OH-NIZZINE, YOU BIZZNITCH
Give it a few days before Barton’s grandmother pops up talking trash…
ZZ FUCKING AWESOME!!!
Cranky As update:
- Duscherer… that’s spelled wrong
- Dallas Braden
- Daric Barton
- Rosales? I feel like he had a shitfit in the last series?
yesterday i decided to go to see the mets play the reds with my sister and shes a mets fan so i said yea its baseball and the Yankees weren’t in town but the point is wow what a amazin stadium its is. it was my first time in citi field and i walk around the whole ballpark its a billion times better then shea lol.
I agree, Citi is awesome and Shea sucked.
Please mix in some punctuation, though. Makes the writing much more tolerable. Thanks in advance.
Sorry i was in my fone.
On*
No problemo.
A-Rod. Beast.
http://store.buffalorising.com.....Full_M.jpg (safe)
AROD ON FIRE!!!
HOLY SHIT
Alex the Great conquers again!
SUCKA GOT NO JUICE
A-Rod is not a home run hitter.
Umm…he’s ba-a-a-ack.
Does he get to 600 before the break?
I say he gets it tonight.
5 HRs in one game? Most likely never going to happen. You will be HBP in any AB after the 4th.
Arod better pee in a cup after this game.
Ouch!
Gonna say A-Rod sucks every game thread from now on.
On fire tonight folks.
A-Rod still looks so bad in these at-bats!
YES!!! My man crush on A-Rod continues. Dead center! NICE!
Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Crisp would’ve needed a rocket up his ass to catch that one!
/Doyle’d
Who’s the guy who said he should’ve thrown him a change-up last time instead of the fastball? Guess what that was?
Against Alex, even when you win, you lose.
Gotta love that centaur.
600 in Seattle
Now that would be ironic. Take note, Alanis Morrisette.
I always thought that about the song, but wouldn’t a song called “Ironic” full of things that aren’t actually irony be ironic?
… but wouldn’t a song called “Ironic” full of things that aren’t actually irony be ironic?
I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.
/Shatner’d
Almost got him Swish, nice swing!
DAMN, i thought swisher had that shit gone
Swisher just doesn’t want the All-Star game bad enough…
Fuckin piece of crap Sterling just sterling’d himself.
That ball is high, it is far, it iiiiiiisssss…… caught behind the plate in foul territory.
Take that (Braden)!!!!!
Teix never would have looked good in red. +10, for Brian Cashman.
Nobody looks good in red. Ever.
The games where everything clicks are just wonderful.
Teix or Tino on one???
Big Tex with the slick glove, that was just plain out pretty.
Tex seems faster when he’s playing defense than when he’s running the bases. Amazing…
Agreed!
That’ll teach you to have room in foul territory.
That’ll teach you to play in a decrepit football stadium from 1968.
Teix with the beautiful foul territory plays.
So who does CC drill for payback? Or did A-Rod already handle that…
The Yankees are showing the A’s how they roll in tha 9-1-4 and 2-0-1 tonight, beyatches!
I’m not quite sure I understand this seeing as how that’s Westchester County and Jersey…shouldn’t it be the 718 or 646?
Heh, I was thinking 212 and 718.
Because most of the players live in either Westchester or Jersey (while there are some in Manhattan, of course, I doubt there are any in any 718 areas). And because it is just as pathetic as Braden’s notion of the 2-0-1.
Ah…okay. I was just confused as hell there.
Is this the fourth oldest ballpark still in use (Wrigley, Fenway, Dodger…Oakland?)
No, Anaheim is older, but has been heavily renovated.
Yay, River Ave Blues in-game ad!!!!
Ladies and gentleman, children of all ages…welcome to the A-Rod and CC Show!
the kurt suzuki dick slobbering has got to stop
HE SHOULDA GONE TO THE ALL STAR GAME!!!!
Oh, he’s only hitting .252/.307/.420 (.322 wOBA/101 wRC+)? Nevermind, then.
he’s not that great, but JF has a giant crush on him
I can’t hear what they’re talking about. But I can just imagine the BS that Flaherty is spewing about yet another blah catcher.
Still can’t hit teh lefties.
Only a single… he is worthless.
Nice hitting Grandy. I would love to see him do that more.
Singleton reading fangraphs?
Should every MLB team be represented at the All-Star game? Hell no. That’s like saying because your a specific sex or race you should get a job. IMO, the best players should go, even if they’re all on the same damn team. An All-Star is an All-Star is an All-Star.
I have liked it, but I’m now of the opinion that it has run its course. When there were only 8 teams, even when only 12 teams in each league, it was ok. Now there’s just too many teams in both leagues.
I hear what you’re saying, but it’s all about the loot. Papa Bud wants every TV market to have a reason to tune in.
So Pittsburgh will tune in because of Evan Meek? Oakland because of Trevor Cahill? Baltimore because of Ty Wigginton?
Well maybe not the reliever so much as Wigginton or Cahill. If I were an Athletics fan I’d watch just to see by boy pitch. granted I might be a little more into it than the average baseball fan, but it’s more of a draw than not having someone from my own team on it.
I just don’t think that the fans of the teams that are having miserable or mediocre years are going to care about a non-star player being their All-Star. Of course, you won’t be able to prove this in terms of television ratings until it’s actually changed.
I understand the reasoning but I vehemently disagree with it. It illustrates, to me, whats wrong with our country. The best players should earn the right to be called an All-Star for the rest of their career, not because the A’s or O’s needed a representative for the game. Not to say Cahill doesn’t deserve to be an All-Star but Wigginton, no thanks.
I really don’t think that having each team represented at an exhibition game is representative of societal problems. Unless you consider capitalism a problem. Like I said below, the inclusion of a player from every team guarantees fan interest in every market.
For every hardcore baseball fan I know, there are many more people that just follow the local team. MLB is just guaranteeing that each team has someone to celebrate in the media for the game and that fans have a (local) reason to tune in.
So Pittsburgh will tune in because of Evan Meek? Oakland because of Trevor Cahill? Baltimore because of Ty Wigginton?
Shit, if I was a fan of Pittsburgh, Oakland, or Baltimore and you told me there’d be a nationally televised exhibition game guaranteed not to have any Pirates, A’s, or Orioles in it, that would be a big incentive to watch. That’s actually a good thing.
The less Evan Meek I’m forced to watch, the better.
That is the basic idea. It gives the local beat guys and columnists a local guy to write about and it gives fans something to look forward to (outside of seeing all of the talent from other teams).
Should every MLB team be represented at the All-Star game? Hell no. That’s like saying because your a specific sex or race you should get a job.
I don’t know about you, but I’m very happy that strip clubs only hire women dancers.
LOL, I guess there are exceptions. Well played TSJC, well played!
Yes, good point.
I think every team should be represented. Despite all the “it counts!” garbage, the All-Star game is still about the fans. Let everyone have a player from their team there.
I’m telling you, fans of shitty teams don’t want to see their shitty players in the All Star Game. They want to see good players.
There’s a reason attendance at Royals games doubles when the Yankees/Red Sox are in town: the fans get to see players they actually like.
Yea, supposedly the attendance here tripled?
OMG @ that guy running to first. Ahahahaha.
WOO HOO!!
A-Rod is doing everything
So I hear A-Rod hit two homers?
Heck of a game for Alex
OK, I’ll do it because Kay isn’t here to:
OH WHAT A PLAY BY ALEX!!!
A-Rod: Fuck you and your t-shirts, Oakland.
Dallas Braden: (whining like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars) But I didn’t ask for those shirts to be printed!
Alex Rodriguez is good at baseball.
He can do it all!
6 straight balls, eh?
A second hip surgery? HA! The Centaur is like Wolverine, he heals himself! Amazing play!
Obviously this pitcher is in the majors so he has done something right, but he seems to be very lazy. He is not following through and is straight up and down.
I was just gonna say, he looks like he’s all upper-body, hardly any leg in his delivery.
Watching Ross pitch makes my elbow hurt…I know its been brought up in the past but man that form is all arm.
Exactly… and the funny thing is he is still throwing 98 MPH without any body behind it.
Tommy John surgery is in his future.
TJ surgery being one of the many surgeries he’ll probably go through. He is going to suffer a plethora of arm problems….
hitting 90s driving with legs/arms/body slowly is strenuous to the arm, imagine how much strain is on the arm with 90% arm and 10% legs…
I wince when I imagine myself pitching like that. I’ve been taught to drive with the whole body using the legs and all, Ross’ mechanics is the exact opposite of all that.
This guy has the worst mechanics I have ever seen… How do his elbow ligaments not snap with every pitch?
What the hell kind of delivery is that?
One that requires a whole lot of arm and a tiny bit of legs…
This Alex Rodriguez guy has a promising future. I can just feel it.
He’s washed up and can’t possibly return to form. Best days are hopelessly behind him.
/Bret’d
Double clutched and still got him. So lazy
cano, the guy can’t throw three straight strikes…..
ugh
That’s the smartest thing an A’s pitchers done all night, walk A-Rod. He’s locked in. Double steal time!!
…or a weak ground out to second for a double play.
Man Cano needs a day off.
Let him play through it, he has had some hard hit balls hit right at guys the past couple of games. He’s gonna have a break out game tomorrow!
I enjoy how we are all complaining about this guys delivery. We should teach him a lesson or two.
My friend’s little brother has better mechanics than him…its painful to watch Ross pitch.
If you’re gonna be all arm action, you should at least stride towards the plate. Yeah, he’s in the majors and I didn’t pitch past high school. But it doesn’t take Dave Eiland to see that his arm gets put under tremendous stress and his control suffers from throwing like that.
That delivery almost defies physics.
Wow at the Rockies
The Home Run Derby has already screwed up Cano’s swing… what the hell.
Wow, I just listened to the words in that WB Mason commercial. It’s kind of insulting, really.
What did it say?
Talking about how in this tough economy, it’s important to save money, and that’s why the Yankees use WB Mason for all the stuff that WB Mason provides.
It reminds me of when Big Stein threatened to cut common employee’s dental plans when they introduced the luxury tax.
But Hank’s wasting away. He’s down to a C cup.
That’s a good thing. Both for those who have to look at him and for his own health.
Cano’s 0-for-4, he’s obviously been affected by his participation in the home run derby!
Haha, great minds.
Yea, count me thrilled that he’s participating.
Holy shit. Rockies score SIX in the bottom of the ninth to tie it up. O_O
CC it’s Coco Crisp. Just throw it down the pipe.
I wonder how much longer they let CC go.
He should really be out now.
How a stadium this gigantic doesn’t have actual bullpens is beyond me. Seeing relievers warming up in the middle of foul territory just seems weird now.
Tres 80s.
We can only hope for the bullpen cart as well. Especially one shaped like a baseball.
I want our Yankee bullpen cart shaped like a WS trophy, plated in solid gold and encrusted in diamonds.
Sounds like something just to piss off the fans of every other team.
I like it!
Perhaps we can throw some ropes on it and get it pulled by dirty destitute Boston street urchins.
This isn’t good enough?
http://cache.jalopnik.com/asse.....en_Car.jpg
That must have set ‘em back a couple of hundred bucks…
Why keep making CC work with a 5 run lead? Turn it over to the pen.
Wow, pointed out on the LH blog:
“Only 4 percent of Alex Rodriguez’s at-bats have come with the bases loaded, but he has 36 percent of his RBI with the bases loaded.”
Grade A-Clutch-Rod!
I mean, there are by definition two runners in scoring position every PA with the bases loaded. Those situations should always account for a disproportionate number of a player’s RBIs
9 runs for the rockies to win the game wow
Oh, to be in the St. Louis clubhouse.
Does anyone know if Jim Tracy had another one of his very awkward celebratory fist pumps?
I know CC’s a beast, but I might take him out now before one more AB against Suzuki.
I like when I’m wrong like that.
10 k’s for CC
Stat padder.
I wish I could be in Oakland, because CC deserves a standing ovation.
He got one anyway.
Gotta let the big bear eat.
Rockies down 9-3 going into the bottom of the ninth, win 12-9.
That’s uh, crazy.
You can’t predict baseball!
10Ks, nice! Out RUNS Giradi before he tries to hurry back to the mound to make it 11.
Percentage on how many of the fans there are pro-Yankee? The standing O after CC was taken out seemed to show 90% Yankee fans, haha. All the Oakland fans have left by now anyway.
Oakland…fans. I’m not sure I know what this is.
The Oakland fans won’t be released from prison until September when the NFL season starts again.
Nice cheap shot, Tommie.
CC is a Raiders fan
I give because I love.
Speaking of giving because people love (purple drank), does Russell get a roster spot this year (specifically in the NFL)?
Maybe in the CFL, AFL or NFL Europe.
No. His foolish sizzurp arrest has closed the door on his fat, out of shape NFL career hopes.
Welcome to the UFL, Jamarcus.
I was at a blue jays oakland game in oakland a couple years back, payed attendance was just over 9,000. Games there are beyond painful.
wow robertson just threw 94
Uh, wow:
http://www.fangraphs.com/lgrap....._lbig_.png
Also go Yankees.
I like how near the very end there is a little bump up towards the Rockies, and then the graph said, oh wait they still have no chance, I’ll go back down.
Talk about being brought back from the dead…
The Giambino!!!
If the WE was 100% does that mean a 9 run 9th inning comeback has never happened before?
Bah, that was the final WE, not the beginning of the 9th.
Great job Franklin–has anyone ever had a worse WPA from one game?
I wonder what game had the most vertical line ever. FG only goes back to 1974, but apparently on May 23, 1901 the Cleveland Blues scored 9 runs with two outs in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Washington Senators 14-13.
PREDATORS looks so damn good. I’m ready for a an actual good action movie this summer.
wow Tex
Way to be Tex.
This game has just been all kinds of awesome.
If I was the Athletics I wouldn’t even come out for the last out in the 9th. After that catch, and the rest of Teix’s it is just not their night.
The Tex Show continues, nice grab!
Great Job CC A-Rod D-Rob
A-Rod only had 5 of the 6 RBI’s… bum.
Ballgame over! Yankees win!
Excellent win
Great game!
Great game! Nice pitching, great D and two A-BOMBS from A-ROD!!
Yup, reverse lock.
http://riveraveblues.com/2010/.....ent-955059
A-Rod called CC a horse, it takes one to know one.
They love playing the Phillies, if you catch my drift.
Zing!!
They both love smoking weed!
/didn’t catch drift.
//passed it to Pawlikowski.
Now they just need to not have a repeat of the last series in Oakland where they didn’t seem to show up for the last game.
Funny story: Our two biggest players of the game are making more than the entire Oakland payroll.
Athletics:$50,839,900
Arod: $33,000,000
Sabathia: $24,285,714
Lulz.
great effing win
Just got home from a shit day at work to the glory of A-Rod and CC. The Yankees sure do know how to make me feel better about, well, everything. That’s 7 straight Wins for the big guy. And Boston lost (but at the cost of a Rays win), but still, I like it when Boston loses.