Open Thread: Lil’ CC gets it done
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So that was kinda cool today, eh? Gotta give it up to Colin Curtis not just for hitting his first career homer, but for how he did it. Brett Gardner got tossed in the middle of an at-bat, Curtis assumed an 0-2 count, takes three pitches off the plate before crushing a fastball to right. He hasn’t played much, but when he has, Lil’ CC has put together some real quality at-bats. He’s been a pleasant surprise.
If you want to watch the game again, the encore is on YES at 7pm ET. Otherwise you could watch Stephen Strasburg face the Reds on ESPN (also 7pm ET), though I have to say I’m kinda sick of the kid given how much the MSM has smothered him with attention. I guess this is how non-Yankee fans felt about Joba back in the day. Anyway, here’s the open thread, go to town.
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So, is there any way to make FBB more interesting when you are running away with your league? Handicap FA signings, etc?
Play against tougher competition next year?
Not playing FBB. Try reading.
So is Boston going to make a comeback when they get back some regulars? They’re digging themselves quite a hole, if they don’t improve as the calendar turns to August it could turn into a 2 team race real fast.
Not that I’d complain.
Yeah, I think they could.
I can’t see them winning the division, but I can see them hanging with whoever straggles behind out of us and Tampa Bay.
I think the division is won with around 100 wins. Boston would need to go 47-20 to get to 100.
Boston would need to go 47-20 to get to 100.
And 37 of those 67 games are on the road. They’re not going to go 47-20 with only 30 home games, no chance.
Well apparently Theo thinks it can be done. He said when the Sox are back at full strength they will ‘look like the’27 Yankees’ I nearly died laughing when I saw that yesterday
http://www.boston.com/sports/b.....n_red_sox/
He quipped that the Sox will “look like the ’27 Yankees’’ when all the injured players return
So, they’ll play like decayed, rotted corpses?
With half of the season left we cannot count anyone out. The Yankees are in the best position but only by a handfull of games. I don’t like the trends we are seeing with the pitching. Hughes and Burnett are not producing. Javy is Javy, CC is CC, and Andy is hurt. Joba stunk again today and no one in the pen seems to be clicking other than the old man. I keep waiting for Granderson to turn around but it is feeling like a bad trade. Jeter is off and has been for months. Frankly, other than Gardner and Swisher, everyone seems to be having an off year. And, yet, first place. Remarkable
If Boston didn’t have so many road games, I’d buy them as a comeback candidate.
But the Sox are a far more pedestrian team away from their bullshit clown ballpark. Color me doubtful.
“Montario” love on the front of milb.com.
Heh
Can someone explain to me why the Yanks MUST trade for help? It seems to me that between Curtis, Miranda, Albie, Sanchez, Nunez, Russo, Nova, Phelps, and even Montero they have the depth to fill the gaps. Just swap and switch as players get hot and cold. I certainly don’t think anyone that’s available will be definitely better than any of those prospects.
Agreed, but if this turns into a tight race, there is some intangible value in having a veteran back up. All those guys you listed are young and not MLB-tested.
It seems to me that between Curtis, Miranda, Albie, Sanchez, Nunez, Russo, Nova, Phelps, and even Montero they have the depth to fill the gaps.
Curtis, Miranda, Albie, Sanchez, Russo, Nova: all fringy guys who have just as much big league failure as big league success and aren’t solid bets to fill our gaps competently (TWSS)
Nunez, Phelps, Montero: Utterly untested
There’s a lot of guys there, but none of them are really solid bench options. They all have serious warts.
They all have serious warts.
TWSS again.
They have creams for that.
How many people realize l’il CC is a cancer survivor?
I said this to someone earlier.
Not that I didn’t realize it, no one ever told me.
So what does the fact that Jon Miller is winning a broadcasting award say about the state of baseball broadcasting?
He should get a humanitarian award for sharing the booth with Joe Morgan for so many years.
Please, they’re just as bad as each other.
Also, August 1st. You know what week it is.
Miller sucks. He sucks worse than Morgan.
Uh… disagree. Big time disagree.
Most do, oh well. Morgan is definitely more of an idiot but he rarely speaks. Miller’s voice makes my ears bleed everywhere. I’m still traumatized from his cries of “THE SPLITTER!!!!!” whenever Schilling would pitch against the Yankees on ESPN.
I take it as “how good are they at what they’re paid to do?”. Miller is at least tolerable when he’s paying attention, and he’s descriptive enough for my taste. He sets up the situation well enough.
Joe and his analysis, however, are just an unmitigated disaster. His dismissal of any and all statistics and the qualities that made Joe himself a great player is hilarious. His attitude is extremely arrogant, as evidenced by the “no one can tell me anything about baseball unless they played it” comments he makes. Also, he has a clear bias against the Yankees because people compared the 1998 team to the Big Red Machine. He routinely said that only Jeter would have started on his team.
He obviously has a lot more transgressions, but needless to say I think he’s far worse at his job than Miller is at his.
His attitude is extremely arrogant, as evidenced by the “no one can tell me anything about baseball unless they played it” comments he makes. Also, he has a clear bias against the Yankees because people compared the 1998 team to the Big Red Machine. He routinely said that only Jeter would have started on his team.
That. Also, his inability to actually make a prediction when asked to predict something or show actual analysis when asked to analyze something is pathetic.
Tommie, I’d love to do it, but I just can’t make a prediction on how Joe Morgan will predict during his next game because it hasn’t happened yet.
Joe Morgan and Tim McCarver are cursed with ‘whatever they say is proven wrong during the very next play’ syndrome.
No love for Miller?
Not at all. He’s a rambling, senile old man. He adds nothing to the game; he’s akin, IMO, to Chris Berman.
Melky + IPK for Strasburg or Ca$h is an idiot.
Haven’t seen this in a while…
Too bad it’s not as amusing as before.
I don’t understand why the media hasn’t said anything about Curtis being a cancer survivor, they made such a big deal about Jon Lester’s treatments. I thought it was one of the great moments of the year seeing him getting the curtain call at Yankee Stadium.
Lester was/is a major bigtime prospect. Curtis is as far as I know not.
Yeah, this is pretty much why there isn’t a big deal made out of it.
Also, Colin Curtis had cancer when he was 15, Lester had cancer when he was a Major leaguer (if my memory serves me correctly.)
RBI double for The Jesus.
You said it mang
Our lord and savior, Jesus Chr-Montero, is 2 for 2.
You have no idea how much I’m loving this.
The consequences of the Lee deal that wasn’t.
I love looking forward to Montero’s future in pinstripes, but I woulda loved to see Lee on the team too. It was really a win-win. Oh hey, we’re getting one of the best pitchers in baseball. Or not, we’re keeping one of the best hitting prospects we’ve seen in a long time. That’s my positive way of looking at it, anyway.
We’re gonna end up with them both by the start of free agency anyway. I do think it’s curious that a team in BANKRUPTCY run by MLB is able to take on payroll to block the Yankees from getting one of the best pitchers in the league, but we’ll end up with Lee anyway.
And they Yankees will probably get Lee in the off-season!
Win-Win
That’s my positive way of looking at it, anyway.
Why look at it any other way?
The Yankees and their pathetic offense in which everyone is having a down year were the first team to 500 runs today. Yup.
(passes out bayonets)
Pfft, only 500? Way too inconsistent. Runs scored and run differential is a joke! Show me more wins!!!1111
/doomandgloom’d
That shows how far down run scoring is across Baseball.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/t...../year/2009
The Yanks have regularly scored around 900 and above in the past 10 years. 1st place at 500 at a few games away from the 2/3 mark of the season means that they’ll lead the League (and most likely Baseball) with less than 800 Runs this year. Wow.
Check your math. It’s more like 870 at the pace they’re on.
You’re right, they’ve only played 93 games. The 2/3 mark doesn’t match the calendar.
You’d think for their payroll it’d be more.
Manny B with 10k’s in 5 innings.
Yeah…somebody spoiled this earlier in the game thread.
I will be a very angry person once DotF comes around.
Haha, sorry dude. It’s too awesome not to pass on.
Pat, you should give Angelo one of your roofies so he can pass out and forget everything he read today, and then DotF will be like brand new to him tonight at 10pm EDT.
and then DotF will be like brand new to him tonight at
10pm EDT.10am EDT on Monday.I think you underestimate Pat’s roofies.
You mean 10am EDT. On Monday. Don’t underestimate the shit Pat’s packin’.
Dammit.
emBARRASSINGGGGGGGG
Dirty Pena with the Double Post!!
Ah it’s cool. I don’t really mind that much.
But DotF is probably my second favorite thing about RAB.
/I’mObsessedWithProspects’d
There’s a chance that he gets some K’s taken away by the official scorer, though. You’ll have to tune in tonight to see what happens.
/manufacturedintrigue’d
Haha, ietc.
So Pedro has said he won’t pitch this year, but will pitch next year. I really doubt that, it has to be hard to skip a year and suddenly get back in it. Have we seen the end of Pedro?
Pedro likes to talk, I hope he gets into broadcasting. He’d be a fun listen.
So USC is wiping away all references to either Reggie Bush or O.J. Mayo on campus.
There’s a Tim McCarver Nazi joke in there somewhere.
Nope. No Nazi joke.
http://i32.tinypic.com/ipmk3b.jpg
Basil Exposition: The Cold War is over, Austin.
Austin Powers: Finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh, comrades?
Basil Exposition: Austin, we won.
Austin Powers: Oh, hooray, smashing. Yay, capitalism!
Orel doesn’t know why we come up with 140-160 innings? Does he think these numbers are arbitrary and not based on previous totals?
Just watching the AAA game cast, remember when Jordan Schafer was the next Willie Mays? Maybe the roids did help.
Bexy! What did you do with http://dumbshitireadonnyyfans.tumblr.com/
It no longer exists?!?!
for some reason I changed the address. Took out the I in shit, heh.
whhhhhhhhhyyyyyyy
I have no idea, a gut thing I guess.
Last night was an update bonanza over there BTW, the Hughes thread was fantastic.
And the Jesus blesses Scrantonians worldwide with another hard hit single.
Hell yeah! It’s all over twitter.
He has a 1.264 OPS in the last 50 AB.
9 for his last 10 as well.
He has a 1.264 OPS in the last 50 AB.
Meulensesque.
Woah woah woah. Let’s not go overboard. He’s been good, but he is no Hensley Meulens.
True. He’s barely even Colin Curtis.
Meulensesque.Navaesquehttp://sports.espn.go.com/dall.....id=5397434
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
They should cast Jerry Jones for Survivor: Somalia.
He’s decided this is the best way to bring the good news of “all-natural male enhancement” to those areas of the world without access to late-night television.
Montario is crushing it
This is sticking I see. Haha.
flipping channels and stopped on “Loud Mouths” on SNY.
according to the guy on this show, the Yankees “have to get Soria” and “if it takes the catching prospect, Montero, you do it”.
ok.
Is it a fat bald guy? That guy is dumb.
Chris Carlin is his name apparently. not the bald one, the one with the most obnoxious voice on earth.
He used to do a morning show from 5-6 AM on WFAN that I would catch once in a while. The guy does absolutely zero homework.
He’s also confused. He’d love to poke fun at himself, being the big jolly fat guy. Then someone would call up and refer to him being fat and he’d get all insulted.
Yeah. He’s also bald, no? And horrible.
ok, i have the wrong guy. you guys are right, Chris Carlin is the fat bald guy.
the guy blathering about trading Montero for a reliever is Adam Schein:
http://blog.cleveland.com/50_y.....Schein.jpg
Your first mistake:
Stopping on SNY.
You’ve obviously never seen Bobby Ojeda after games where the Mets lose. SNY is totally watchable then.
Number of non-baseball-game programming hours I watch on YES or SNY: 0
I watch SNY just to see which toupee Ojeda is wearing.
dude. have you met Bexy?
(and by met I meant read any of her comments about random for-funsies excursions into the various Mordors of yankee-related internet)
Hey, even I don’t watch Loud Mouths for more than like ten minutes at a time. At least on the internet it’s silent.
How do these guys get their jobs again? I’m pretty sure more than half the posters on this site can do a better job than that.
Nah, we wouldn’t draw viewers.
Calm evenhanded insight and perspective is boring. Bombast and idiocy is television gold, though.
THE YANKEES HAVE TO DO NOTHING!!! MAYBE ADD A RELIEVER OR BENCH PLAYER!!! THEY ARE GOOD! BRING ME SABATHIA’S LAST 5 STAHHHTS!!
See? Exciting and logical.
Brilliant!
The fans will never know!
Maybe if they allowed us to curse. Then it would work. People would turn in to watch our haughty cruelty.
Caller: We should Montero trade for Joakim Soria.
Tommie: You’re the dumbest fucking piece of shit I’ve heard digitally to since Rod Blagojevich. How you managed to dial 10 digits on your rotary phone without accidentally killing yourself is amazing. Have a nice night at the halfway house, assmunch.
IETCVM
I broke down laughing.
Caller: Frankie Cervelli needs more playing tim–
TOMMIE: He’s a backup. A backup. A FUCKING BACKUP A. FUCKING. BACK. UP.
B-FUCKING-A-FUCKING-C-FUCKING-K-FUCKING-U-FUCKING-P. YOU DUMB FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT.
People, callers, writers whoever uses this kind of language lose all credibility.
Its not even worth reading these posts as it shows a total disregard for decent norms of human behavior.
Cervelli and for that matter anybody deserves to be referred to with this kind of language.
Seriously? He’s joking around. Relax.
I hope this is sarcasm. Cuz otherwise it’s fucking stupid.
I think you might actually be on to something. A full-profanity, no-nonsense talk show where people who say stupid shit are verbally ripped to shreds all day. Play it on XM radio. I think that’d be sweet.
I’d say “Why would anyone call in?” but then, why does anyone call in to Francesca?
You don’t rip everyone apart. Only the idiots. So basically you swear at 90% of the callers and have a good normal conversation with the rest.
I call the ‘Bill Simmons is a vagina’ variety hour show.
Also, a TV network or radio station requires interns. pat and interns wouldn’t be a good combo.
It’d be like Joe Scarborough all over again.
/wrong’d
You were just banned from MSNBC.
True story: @JoeMSNBC blocked me on Twitter.
Good grief, he’s so sensitive.
i’ve flipped it on a few times. all they talk about is Joba.
Ralph Houk died…
Damn these threes!
(I hadn’t even realized he was still alive!)
Former Yankee manager Ralph Houk died today.
He managed the famous 1961 Yankees.
RIP
They mentioned him to day when discussing Lou Pinella. The two of them are the only non HoF managers (besides Torre, LaRussa, and Cox, who are probables) in the top 20 in career wins.
Really? Whatsup with all these Yankees dropping like flies?
/Conspiracy’d!
Final Destination.
They missed Yogi so they took Ralph instead.
/ultra morbid’d
Somehow ESPN manages to make it seem like he did equal or more with the Red Sox than he did with the Yankees. “Former Red Sox, Yankees manager” my ass. Why not mention the Tigers then too?
Fun fact: Roger Maris’ BABIP in 1961 was .209. 209!! All those homers and he apparently couldn’t buy a conventional hit. Found that fascinating.
HRs bring BABIP down due to the way it is calculated. He hit 61 so it came way down. Bonds had a .266 BABIP the year he hit 73 homers.
Yeah, that seems extremely low though. One of the lowest BABIPs recorded over a full season. Obviously the homers bring it down, though its weird he’d have success hitting so many homers while being unlucky when the ball didn’t clear the fence.
Yeah it is. I didn’t mean trivialize how low it is. It is insane.
That’s nuts!
Fun Fact: Roger Maris’s 1961 SLG of .620 didn’t lead the league. His .581 SLG the year before did.
The actual leader in Slug% in 61 was his teammate who didn’t recieve as much attention, name Mickey Mantle.
Who?
Who cares, he never hit 61 HR.
I enjoyed this and the prior two posts very much.
Fire Joe Morgan is going to do another guest-spot on Deadspin. I miss that site.
Randy Wolf tonight: 5.2 IP, 13 R/ER
Eeek
That’s good, right?
Mark Attanasio: money well spent, my friend.
against the PIRATES mind you
Didn’t the Pirates throw up a 10 spot in yesterday’s game too?
WHY CAN’T THE YANKEES OFFENSE BE LIKE THAT
Holy #ycpb batman
/Tabata’d
he’s finally ops’ing at 700
That is bad managing. A pitcher should never be in a situation where he is responsible for that many runs. Even if inherited runners score.
/Kazmir’d
http://sports.espn.go.com/new-.....id=5397585
We get to put up names of our greats permanently on the stadium?
SECOND CLASS CITIZENS NO MORE, BABY!!!!!
Everyone will still call it Giants Stadium.
I bet not.
:shrug:
That was half-sarcastic and Giants-centric.
I get ya.
Just remember that half of this money for the new stadium is from the Jets, and they demanded equal footing for EVERYTHING as a condition. Woody Johnson’s cash won’t allow any “you’re just tenants here” moments anymore.
Yeah, I hear ya.
/it’s way too early for football
Training camps open in 11 days.
Meh. Football season doesn’t officially start for me until the WS is over.
What are you a Giant fan?
Yessir.
I wore my Shaun O’Hara jersey in DC today.
People are going to wonder why former Giants punter Brad Maynard got enshrined into their Ring of Honor.
I’m genuinely curious as to how that happens. Do the Jets get one ring and the Giants another? Or do they each have half of a ring?
Logistics: I want ‘em.
‘Ring of Honor’ has a nice sound to it. Apparently they stole my idea and improved upon it. I had suggested ‘Circle of Jerks’.
When will NY get a team (besides the Bills)?
What percentage of NFL teams actually play in the city of their name?
Like, 25%? The Meadowlands is closer to downtown NYC than most NFL stadiums.
At least play in the same state. Jersey Giants and Jersey Jets.
How does this manage to come up every time Giants/Jets comes up here? The Redskins play in Maryland.
Dont know if anyone mentioned this tonight but a good piece on milb.com about CoJo (Corban Joseph)
Link?
http://tinyurl.com/2whs7n5
Thanks!
That’s a good article. Whoever hasn’t read it, should read it.
Im watching the encore right now and I was at the game last night. I dont blame Girardi or Gardner at all. Emmel is a freaking retard.
Ran into a radar gun at a carnival tonight. I sit 67-70 with little warmup.
/non-prospect
Awesome! That’s what I did pitching, then I did a little crow hop and bumped it all the way up to 73. HELL YEAH!
My eephus is ridiculous.
IT’S INSANE, THIS GUY’S TAINT!!!
I used to be able to throw a nasty knuckle ball…
in Wiffle ball
I’m able to throw 95 on the YES gun, but only 63 on other radar guns.
Lol, I was in Scranton on Saturday. The one day t3h Jesus DOESN’T hit. Lol.
Stop going to Scranton games!
Since I live in Scranton, I can go to a few, but I went last Thursday and Jesus hit a HR. It was one of those blind man home runs. His swing was just great.
Ah, alright. Well then, you are allowed to go Scranton games as long as Montero hits a homerun every other time you attend a game.
Lol. I think I posted the other day that there were 6 scouts there, and they all picked their radar guns up for…
Royce Ring and Zach Segovia.
Montero 3-3 1 rbi 1 walk 0 k’s.
Erica in NY July 21st, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Gardner getting ejected today and Curtis hitting a home run reminds me of a game last season-
Damon got ejected in the first and Gardner replaced him. Gardner went 3 for 3 with an inside the park homerun.
Odd symmetry to that
http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com…..p;c_id=nyy
I was also at the game 2 weeks ago when GGBG hit the grandslam. I must bring Gardner luck lol
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I was at that game
hey totally did not mean to paste this comment here. Whoops.
Lohud? lol
yeah i have too many thinks open, RAB, lohud, twitter….ooops fail. lol
and by thinks i mean THINGS. I think its time for me to go to bed….
I think so too. Haha.
Nice username.
gotta start campaigning early.
Let’s wait til the season ends first. I wanna see a) how he bounces back from injury and b) how he finishes the season. I’d rather let Andy go a year early than a year late.
stop it with your logic that while true makes me terribly sad, Imbrogno.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.co.....downer.jpg
Or, if you prefer:
http://rlv.zcache.com/buzz_kil.....mb_400.jpg
anyone listen to the new rick ross album?
thoughts?
I like that BMF track. Rozay goes hard on that, and I think he’s getting better.
What the fuck did Gardner say to the dumbass ump that got him tossed?
I’m guilty of this too , but i’ve gotta ask the RAB guys to consider instituting a MORATORIUM going forward on discussions re: in-game minor league game performances that go on in the open thread.
Why must we need to comment on Man-Ban’s 10 K game or a Gary Sanchez homer before Mike gets a chance to write-up DotF? Lets talk about it on DotF! It doesn’t get posted too late…
I know things get slow on non-game nights, but I think we’d all appreciate DotF alittle more if we were able to save our gushing/slamming of prospects for the nightly Dotf thread.
We’re obsessive yankee fans. I’m fairly sure we can gush/slam in both threads.
I’m guessing you meant to post this under what I wrote earlier. I understand the “appreciating DotF” thing, but if people want to post things, they should be allowed to do so. That’s what the Open/Game Thread is for.
Don’t get me wrong, DotF is my S#*T
I think perhaps today’s volume of minor league performance updates beginning sometime in the EARLY afternoon threw me for a loop. Again, tonight isn’t a game night, so i’m personally better with seeing a Montero line update.
However, on game nights i’d much rather have that stuff reserved for Dotf.
Yeah, i did see your earlier post, and I wrote this up as my thoughts, and though your post triggered my suggestion, i’ve been thinking about it for most of the day.
Yeah, I completely understand.
Flip side is not everyone has the opportunity to be around to comment at the time that DotF goes up on avg each night, and when most of the commenting happens, so for those folks it’s nice to be able to write in the open thread.
I can only speak for myself, but knowing a thing or two that happens in the minors that night only increases my desire to read Mike’s breakdown/take on it.
These are hilaaaarious. Phillies-related, though, but easy enough to understand.
http://www.thefightins.com/chr.....ss-debate/
http://www.thefightins.com/chr.....le-hamels/
http://www.thefightins.com/chr.....son-werth/
“I don’t care if he punches babies in his time off from baseball as long as he produces on the field”
Pedro Alvarez.
BEAST.
It makes for better baseball in Pittsburgh and Cincy to add players like Alvarez and Votto.
I loved halosheaven when Gardner got ejected. They were mocking him, then you could tell when the CC HR happened. It went from mocking Gardner, to “…” and “shit…”
Halos Heaven called the Yanks the New Jersey LOBsters. The Yanks left seven runners on base. The Angels left 10.
Whoops, Bobby Jenks blew another game. I know not every closer is like Mo, but god, Jenks has been especially bad this year. Though the question is, has he ever been that good after his initial debut?