Sep
04
Open Thread: Do I hear eight?
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Yes, yes I do hear eight. Eight wins in a row is a new season high, and all it took was a little Marcus Thames elbow grease to make it happen. The Yanks are now a whopping 36 games over .500 with a +187 run differential, both representing the best marks in the game. I approve.
Here’s tonight’s open thread. Depending on where you live, you’ll get either the White Sox-Red Sox or Braves-Marlins on MLB Network, plus there’s more college football than I care to recap on as well. With a little help from the ChiSox, the magic number will creep down to 17 tonight. That would be a productive Saturday. You guys know what to do, so have at it.
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An 8 game winning streak with no Alex and no Andy.
Beastmode.
Go Orioles!
No but seriously..
Thames is unreal. What A-Rod should have been doing had he not been injured.
Guthrie Vs Shield, a fighting chance for the Os tonight. you tell those fools that the buck stops here!
Let’s Go Texas A&M Aggies and Baltimore Orioles!
18 for a playoff spot, but (and I know this is a silly question with a 1.5 game lead) whats the number for the division?
26, would drop to 25 if Baltimore wins tonight.
(as I type this, Rays lead off the game with a home run…)
26 is the number for the division.
If the Rays lose, 25; If the Rays win, 26, I think.
My power is still out
time to go hang at the bar for the rest of the night!
How did you get inside Nick Johnson’s phone?
Maybe it’s one of those cell phones from the 80s?
http://www.markdroberts.com/im.....-big-4.jpg
Is anyone else hoping Colorado somehow finds a way to the playoffs?
I think snowed out playoff games at Coors Field is one of my favorite baseball pastimes nowadays.
Nope. I’ve been rooting for San Francisco the whole season. I have to stick to that prediction.
I had Colorado pegged at 94 wins before the season, best in the NL, but falling in six to Philly in the NLCS. Needless to say, they haven’t been living up to that, hell, they’d have to go 24-4 from here on out to do that.
BUT, San Diego’s playing like shit, San Francisco is playing like shit, so even though Colorado continues to screw up every opportunity they get (see: Thursday night), they’re still alive. It truly is amazing how a team that sucks on the road is on the verge of improving to 6-2 at the worst offensive park in baseball. How the HELL does that happen?
Well, you know Suzyn…
#ycpb
The NL West, NL Central, and AL West should just give up
Same, SF Giants FTW.
Definitely, they are my ~Sekrit NL Teem~
Yeah. I like Troy Tulowitzki. Wish Yorvit Torrealba were still with them, though.
YORVIT!!!
Am I the only one who doesn’t like the Giants? I dunno, I like Zito and Cain and all, but I just… meh.
I don’t like the Giants much due to Chris Russo. Cuz he’s an idiot.
And Barry Bonds.
Holy crap is anyone watching the Ole Miss Jacksonville St game? Sheer ridiculousness
i will admit that i am an unabashedly huge Manny Ramirez fan. I wonder if any of RABers here would consider him as a possible DH option in 2011.
I would say no. His attitude isn’t something I would like on my favorite team, on top of that, he’s probably an expensive DH option (I could be wrong), when we could just have Posada or keep Thames around to fill in the spot. I say his personality plays a bigger factor than money does. Again, I could be wrong, but that’s just my personal opinion. Ramirez is a great hitter, but that’s pretty much all there is.
Far more relevant than him being a jackass is that he’ll be 39. Pass.
That too.
Yep. And he’s frequently injured. I imagine he’d be less so as a DH, but it’s not worth it.
This.
I like him but he’s probably too expensive.
i can’t argue the he definitely has a lousy attitude and is apt to quit on his team if he doesn’t get his way.
my think is , if you get him on a one year incentive laden deal, say ( base on PA or postseason awards) , you pull the trigger on it.
attitude, health and other issues aside, I simply marvel his bat control in how easy he took Buchholz’s plus plus fastball up in the quadrant and lined it with authority down the RF. such a beautiful thing to see, and when i think of it, only a handful batter are capable do aptly such on a consistent basis. he is simply a beautiful thing to behold in a batter’s box.
There’s too many other decent options that a team like the Yanks can bite. Manny’s a big name, but he ain’t gettin’ any younger… or wiser.
This should be the picture when it gets to 14.
http://d.yimg.com/fu/p/100716/.....ay_ray.jpg
Ahahah when in the world is that from?
That was the first game after the Boss died. Swish had that walk-off single and everybody went nuts.
July 16 vs. Tampa.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play......id=9964923
Undeniably, my favorite game of the season.
I could see an argument in favor of the May 17 game (Thames walkoff), but when you consider the Yankees were in position to lose a game they led 5-0 at home, and needed ARod and Thames to bail them out, compared to the circumstances going into the Tampa game (both on the field and off the field) and the resiliency the Yankees put on display that night…
Awesome.
It’s a Yankees Classic for sure. I think I like the epic comeback against the Dodgers even more than the one against the Red Sox… though I honestly do love beating up on Papelbon.
What’s the Yankees record on Yankees Classics?
I’d imagine it’s pretty good.
I’m with you on that,Bex.As much as I LOVED the Pabelbon game,there was just something about that Dodger comeback game that was just….more…to me.
Tex makes some of the strangest faces. Love the picture.
Yankees are 34-16 in day games, good for a .680 win percentage. They’ve won seven straight day games.
These day games are only bad because of the schedule conflicts that occur due to them.
Nicky Markakis <3333
I really thought he was going to have an insane breakout year this season. The Orioles have a glut of underperforming young talents. That’s a player development problem.
I thought Matusz was going to be friggin’ awesome. :/ Agreed with everything else you said, though. There’s a ton of talent there and I’m hoping they all don’t figure it out at once. Last thing we need is for the AL East to be even more difficult.
They should have left some of their young guys in the farm for another year or so. But then they’d have no team.
I don’t think so. Too old, too many DL-stints, too expensive, too many games played for the Roid Sox
So it appears I was busting ass through an area minutes (seconds?) before a shooting occurred.
That’s nice to know.
Good thing you were busting ass and not taking a leisurely stroll.
Just caught the Seinfeld episode “The Dealership” on TV. At the end, after Jerry won’t high-five Puddy and, thus, does not get a discount on the Saab he wanted to buy, Elaine asks him why he didn’t just do the high-five. Jerry’s response:
“And where does it end? Then everyone’s doing it. It’s like the wave at ballgames, air quotes, the phrase ‘don’t go there.’ Someone’s gotta take a stand.”
Counsel for the anti-wave-ites rests its case.
LOL @ the one person with the “We Love You Manny” sign in Boston
Manny Ramirez is the second most hated man in Boston. Right between A-Rod and Johnny Damon.
See, I don’t understand why the hell Red Sox fans are booing Manny. He brought them two titles after nearly a century of not winning anything at all.
…they’re Red Sox fans.
But he GAVE UP in July 2008!!! He GAVE UP!!!!
Nah, the guy was a pain in the butt. I wouldn’t boo if I was a Red Sox fan, though. Like you said, he was a major part of them winning it all after nearly a century of winning pretty much nothing.
Agreed.
They’re mostly ungrateful. They booed Damon (which to them is totally logical because he left for their NEMESIS THE YANKEES, *insert all of Boston hissing here*), who they simply loved and adored in 2004 for being one of their HEROES.
Class: they don’t have it.
I can understand them booing Damon a lot more than I can understand them booing Manny. I mean, at least Damon went to the Yankees.
Plus the “TRADER” sign was hilarious
*laughing*
Education: Don’t have that either.
I think it’s a play on words, as in he purposely got himself traded, making him a traitor, thus “TRADER”
When did he purposely get himself traded? Am I missing something?
He essentially staged a sit-in before going to LA and, by all accounts, faked an injury. I believe that was the year of the “knee injury”…unfortunately, Manny never seemed to know which knee it was.
Oh, but we were talking about a sign meant for Damon, so I was confused. Manny was traded, but the sign we were discussing was just someone misspelling the word “Traitor”.
I’m talking about the sign that Red Sox fans put up when Damon went back after signing with the Yankees, not Manny.
I lived up there – the local press and the bandwagon fans are impossible to take.
In 2004, Keith Foulke was indispensible – no Foulke, no championship. A year later, the guy was despised. I’m reminded of an Ed Harris line from Glengarry Glenross – “you’ve got the memory of a f***ing fly”
Really? I remember Foulke got a pretty nice reception when he came back to Fenway. I don’t remember it being a Manny/Damon situation. Though generally, I agree.
Bex – his Wiki has a summary (I guess it is encyclopedic):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Foulke
Once the press smelled blood in the water (after his Johnny from Burger King remark), that was that. Didn’t helped that he suddenly sucked
OHHHH – yes now that I reread that I do remember it. I forgot he was the “Johnny from Burger King” guy. Thank you.
HAHAHA, I had never heard that Burger King line before. I wish he had substituted the name Sully for Johnny, then it would have been perfect.
Amen, I’d boo him too. I have the image of Mo throwing 3 straight pitches down the middle and Manny being Manny didn’t bother to remove his bat from his shoulder. He did give up, IMO. I’m glad he did, he feasted on pinstripe pitching now I hope he demolishes the other Sox. Go Manny!
Manny Ramirez played 22 games in July 2008 and hit .347/.473/.578/1.060. I remember that at-bat against Mo too, and who knows what was going on there, but I don’t think he gave up.
He is a headcase, the whole translator fiasco to getting tossed on strike one (on a horrible call). A great hitter, all time great, but he has some issues. He bashed the organization and demanded a trade when the team was in contention. Not trying to defend BoSox fans but I can empathize with them here.
In the words of Michael Kay, he is an “enigma…”
Even Vin Scully came up with eloquent ways of saying that he was an egotistical, arrogant headcase, come on Kay!
Manny got an awful call on that, as you said. I obviously dunno what exactly he said to the ump, but it looked like he was barely arguing. It wasn’t like Posada a few nights ago, when he went friggin’ berserk.
I do think Manny’s a jerk but I think people use on-the-field stuff to justify it when there’s pretty much nothing on the field that justifies it.
All this talk about the Red Sox is pissing me off. Can someone please inform me what the hell a ‘Red Sox’ is? I don’t know of any ‘fans,’ or anything of the like.
‘The Red Sox’ is a time honor tradition that has been observed since the dawn of time by New Englanders (by that, i mean Mayflower and plymouth rock time). It is well known that since time immemorial , that New Englanders drench their firstborn sons in a blood stained sox in hopes that he will one day become stalwart in One Yawkey’s way.
To Prospero’s Way he does not know, the Lonely red sox travels alone and alone only.
Love the 18 pic, that’s the 2 bag steal, right? Hard to tell exactly but that left me hoarse at the time. Here and now, winning streak is amazing, fan confidence poll def a solid 10! Let’s go O’s!
All I’m seein’ is the box, but damn, it looks like the O’s are hammering Shields.
I just checked the score. 5-1 O’s is awesome. Go O’s. Oh hey, I can cheer for an AL East team that’s not the Yankees without feeling physically ill. Progress.
i have developed a very unhealthy hatred , well, really loathing for the Tampa Rays this season. Without divulging any details in it, I wish they get crushed (literally) by their oppositions every night. I despite their team, FO and that joke of cowbell stadium!
I just don’t see how you can hate the Rays that much, dude. I dunno. Maybe I have to save the hate so I can have an appropriate amount for the Red Sox and then the Angels and Diamondbacks.
it’s not healthy Bex! but i can’t help it… i think it all starts with John Maddon, he just gets on my nerves and the peskiness! uuuuggghhhhh…
I do hate the angels and red sox, but they are kinda of none story at this point. I think the fact the Rays got off an unreal start re-channel my reservoir of hate on them, since then, i haven’t relent it.
i meant Joe Maddon! sorry the hate clouded my ability to spell his name correctly.
Hah. I don’t like Maddon either, I think he’s arrogant and the way the Rays played that last series last year was annoying, but I dunno, I like most of the players.
But now we can all laugh at the dumb “2010 Rays = 1998 Yankees” articles! I just can’t hate them. It’s not their fault Mr. Heard This got misty in his nether regions over them.
…that was rather NSFW-ish of me.
I don’t understand why you despise them. Is it because they’re tough competition, with good pitching and a decent bullpen? Their offense can be slowed down by good pitching from the opposing team (see: all the times they’ve been no-hit), but other than that, hating the Rays is giving them more recognition than they deserve.
i think it’s instinctual kit, for lack of better comparison. It’s like a lioness who just took down a big ass water buffalo and ready to sit down enjoy her meal, Bang ! the Hyenas are lurking ! kinda of how i think about his divisional race, it should be over. But no no, the Hyenas are circling our hard fought prize!
Calm down! I personally like the Rays – they play well (very well) and they haven’t won a world series. It’s cute. Being a fan of the New York Yankees super-mega-ultra-franchise, it’s fun to watch something different once in a while. It’s being a senior in high school and seeing all of the freshman be so excited. It’s adorable.
But FUCK THEM if they ever actually beat the Yankees.
Each Tampa win diminishes me,
For I am involved in pursuit of the championship.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the cowbell tolls,
It tolls for Tampa.
this is awesome
Hemingway is pretty ‘awesome’ IMO, so is John Dunn.
Agreed! And I hate those cowbells . . .
But it’s Donne.
/pedant’d
I like Hemingway’s short story collections as well.
‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber’is one of my favorite story of all time.
yeah, Donne, i have made that mistake more than a few time.
his prose in it’s brevity delivers such life insights for me personally.
Also like the short stories, much better than the novels.
Although I’m a Clean, Well-Lighted Place girl myself.
Baseball? It’s brevity also offers life insights.
without waxing too much poetic, baseball embodies summer,leisure contemplations, moments of anticipation. a comfortable repetitiveness that assures certainty in the ever changing swirls of life and the world.
It’s my favorable sport…
as for ‘well lighted place’ goes , i think a few dark patches are good for life, as long as one can gaze upward and see light as well.
Wow, I can’t ‘this’ two comments?
This.
Good, here’s to hoping Guthrie is wildly effective and keeps them off balance!
Baltimore up 5-1?
fuck yeah
And …a RBI double, Joyce. Fuck! Buckle down Guthrie!
Then a passed ball…
It would be reeeeealy sweet if Mike Simms-Walker has a breakout year.
I just finished my one of my fantasy football league drafts (I’m in four leagues this year, with the RAB league tomorrow.)
This league only had 10 teams in it. The league commissioner is a Redskins fan; he asked me in as a favor to round out the league. I know only him and one other guy in the league. The Redskins fan commisioner didn’t even show up for his own draft and was on autopick (and his team is full of Giants, Eagles, and Cowboys).
Three other teams were also autopicking. One of those autopick teams had the #6 pick overall. He took… wait for it…
Byron Leftwich.
No, I shit you not.
Byron. Leftwich. 6th. Overall.
AutopickFAIL.
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In the 4th round, the first kicker was selected (also autopick). In the 4th round.
It was Sebastian Janikowski.
I’ve got a feeling this league is gonna be very interesting.
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P.S. In the 15th round, I was going to take a kicker… until I realized that Clinton Portis was still on the board. I’ll take that freebie trade bait, thank you.
Byron “Backup” Leftwich number 6, he’s may not see more than 10 snaps all year, LOL! You may go 18-0 in that league.
I have never in life played fantasy football before. Is it that good really?
If you like NFL football, I bet you’d like fantasy football.
my all time favorite player is Mark Bavaro. Free Agency make it hard for me to root for the same players, cuz they move all the time. but i still love the Giants.
It’s pretty addictive if you like football
If you like game theory, it’s even more addictive
Yeah, it takes less time than fantasy baseball…makes paying attention to the season more fun too.
Like taking candy from a baby
I’m in a 14-team league (1QB, 3 WR, 2RB, 1 Flex) and we’re all scouring the waiver wire for anything with a pulse. I was just happy about scooping up Kareem Huggins off waivers
I just put on Sox/Sox – as much as Orsillo is hard to take, Hawk is brutal.
hahahaha byron leftwich with the 6th overall pick? How is that even possible???
he wasnt even drafted in my league…
he wasn’t drafted in any league because he is
a) injured
b) a backup
Let’s go Orioles!
#mannyapology >>> #adrianbeltrefacts
(The best thing about #adrianbeltrefacts was that the beat writers busted out all their awful jokes in a game where Beltre went 0-for-5 and Papelbon spectacularly blew a save, so it basically got spammed by obnoxious Yankee fans. Awesome.)
I’ve watched this a billion times and i still crack up every time.
a yankees classic?
I’m personally a fan of the video where the Mets fan is celebrating too early and screaming “WE’RE IN THE BRONX, WE’RE IN THE BRONX!” and then the ball drops and everyone around him erupts into cheers and he’s visibly embarassed.
I heard wrong, he says “Put it in the books.”
/embarassed
I know they play this game on Yankees Classics but it’s so not a Yankees Classic. The starting pitching and the bullpen are atrocious. Mo blows it. There’s all this doom-and-glooming during the broadcast because the Yankees were coming off getting swept at Boston. Etc. It’s like the Damon six-hit game, only that’s worse because Andy started that game and gave up a grand slam to Jose fucking Guillen. Seriously.
But the ending… they could just play that on loop FOREVER and it wouldn’t get old.
That game was terrible. I had to walk away from it at least twice since I was watching it with my Mets fans grandparents and mother. It just ended so…strangely. Luck was really on our side that night, and that was what made it great at the end.
I remember when Alex popped that ball up, I stood up from the sofa, planning to go storm into my room and yell things and then… ~Mystique & Aura~
I also still love A-Rod’s interview from after that game. “You just have to thank God. Or Castillo.” And after Kim mentioned K-Rod hadn’t blown a save yet in 2009, “Yeah, well, he still hasn’t.”
Haha…I loved Alex’s interview. I personally thanked Castillo and God. It was amazing.
white sox up 1-0 on the red sox early
Tied – Floyd just lost the strike zone, and the RS have runners on the corners.
On the RBI single, the ball was hit pretty much AT Beckham at 2nd, but he was covering 2nd, and couldn’t field the grounder.
RS had first and third, none out, and couldn’t score again. Nice job, Gavin Floyd!
As we inch closer to the playoffs, I’m beginning to get anxious about who the Yanks might face. Who would the RAB commentary prefer? Is a 5-game series with Cliff Lee still as scary considering recent performances? Would a home series with the Gardenhire-era “win once at Yankees Stadium every two years” Twins more inviting? Or would a surging White Sox that spoiled in the AL Central be easier to stomach? Right now, I’m leaning towards either of the AL Central teams, but I’m not asking so I can hear myself.
I’d rather face the Rangers because I think it will be impossible to have home-field against the Twins. They will finish with a better record than the Rangers.
Cliff Lee had similar issues last year where his pitching faltered a bit in August, and by October, he was owning, so he is still really scary. I don’t remember if the problem last year was with his back though, so that might be a factor. I’d personally prefer the easiest route possible, which will be the Twins (if they hang on). Let the Rays handle Texas in the ALDS.
Face who we face. I’m pretty sure Cliff Lee will round into form in/by the playoffs, and Lee/Wilson/Lewis is a pretty nasty front three. Twins are really good, without Morneau to boot. I think the White Sox are worse than those two but they have really good pitching and, if everyone’s healthy, an awesome bullpen, plus look how crazy white-hot they got right before the ASB.
wait a second. with the twins, i can pitch around mauer to get to thome if you have ZZ or andy on the mound. i will take my chances with the twins
That’s a good point, lefties shut the Twins down pretty well. I still think both teams are quite good, but have their weaknesses.
that
What happened to Morneau? Last I heard he had a concussion and was on the 15-day DL, but that was months ago, if I’m remembering correctly.
He has a concussion and has been on the DL since early July. I haven’t heard anything about him coming back at all. I feel like it’s a very big deal that absolutely no one is talking about. :/
I just thought that I hadn’t heard anything and he got another injury, but if its the same injury and he’s been gone since July then it can’t just be a concussion, unless something went horribly wrong. Now I’m all suspicious.
I want to say something here but it’s wrong and gross and no one would appreciate it/think it’s funny except me. It involves Mauer. Fill in the blanks.
Haha…don’t give me that freedom.
Does it involve an animal?
Is it vegetable, or am I ignoring mineral?
I suppose it’s animal
http://baseball.about.com/b/20.....o-away.htm
Thank you.
The White Sox with Danks, Floyd, and Buehrle probably match up worse against the Yankees than the Twins with Liriano, Hot Carl, and Baker.
I take either Central team.
i’d much rather face the twins/white sox over the rangers in the first round. Cliff Lee owns us in the post season and the AL central teams are just overall easier. We have a better chance to either sweep or win decisively against the AL central teams and give the players an extra few days of rest. Also if we play the AL Central, that means the rays and rangers play eachother and hopefully that means a slugfest where both teams are worn down by the end of the series.
In a vacuum, as in, if we go home field and could choose any opponent, me want Twins in ALDS.
All I can say is that unlike last year, I don’t care too much about this issue this time around. In 2009, there was the Verlander factor in a 5 game series if Detroit made it, whereas Minnesota had nothing close to that. I’d go as far as to say one matchup would’ve been a tough one where pressure would be on the Yankees to win in no more than four games, whereas the other was about as much of a guarantee as you could get in baseball (that said, Minny was formidable in the series, so I’ll give them that).
This year, both the Twins and Rangers are much better than the Twins or Tigers of ’09 were. Texas has Lee. Minny has Liriano. So there’s no difference there. Both teams have good lineups. Both teams have good rotational depth. And both teams have good ‘pen’s (and no Nathan to beat up in this time around). Regarding Chicago, they also have really good SP and Manny is going to help them instrumentally. They still have a good chance in that division, despite what I thought just a few weeks ago.
The AL all around is tougher this year than last. In ’09, there was a clear road to the ALCS. This year, there isn’t. It’ll be fun to see how this turns out.
But one things for certain – the Yankees are better than any of those three teams, so I’ll trust their ability to beat any of them, especially if they win the division, and thus have C.C. starting Game 1 in the Bronx, considering the guy doesn’t lose home games.
Totally totally agreed all around. Well said. Plus, I’ve learned never to root for facing one team, just because of Detroit in ’06 and Cleveland in ’07 (then again, I wanted to face Minnesota last year, and that turned out okay
).
And I’m surprised at how many people seem to automatically give the ALC crown to the Twins right now. I know they’re really good, but when the White Sox get hot, they get hot. They’re only ~4 games back. They’re a lot more likely to make the playoffs at this point than the Red Sox, and national analysts would rather die than say the RS’ season is over.
Orioles are pitching Tillman tomorrow and pushing back Matusz to face the Yankees. I’m annoyed.
Wonder if Showalter is Bucking with us here.
Loving the O’s tonight though
that 95 series broke my heart, i still have nightmares of Griffey coming around bases… my first playoff experience.
well good. we get to pound matusz as a nice labor day present and 10th win in a row
[yea, i called it…
Matusz is 0-3 against the Yankees this year, so meh.
Though, he does have decent numbers against us. 2.41 ERA, but also a lot of baserunners. He doesn’t really scare me.
Yankees are 21-3 without Arod.
/youcantpredictbaseball’d
but you can thank your Marcus sweet Thames for that…well, part of it.
Haven’t seen anyone mention it yet…
I wonder if there’s any chance Kerry Wood ever tries to start again. I haven’t been following his injuries too closely the last couple of years, but it would be interesting to see him try to use his cutter as a starter.
Just throwing it out there.
Marcus Thames = Boss
my prediction has been right on the money so far. muahahaha
Adam Wainwright gave up a homer to the PITCHER today? Yeah Cards are probably done.
Also the Cards have scored 8 runs over their past 6 games
That’s not good.
But they can hang their hat on heckling the shit out of Brandon Phillips, proud member of the playoff-bound Cincinnati Reds.
to be fair, he did call the Cards “little bitches,” if someone said that about the Yankees I’d heckle the shit out of him too.
i don’t normally watch the Cards to observe any theatrics from that team.
though Tony Larussa struck me ‘a little bitch’ , kinda of whiny , maybe it’s because he makes so many mound visits.
as for player, i would slap that phrase on “Pedro Martinez’ who admitted who his daddy was… or “jose reyes’ cuz he is too jiving for me.
Pedro could at least back it up by being one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball. Brandon Philips merely pretty good.
*is
Was gonna say something about “wonder if the Cards regret dealing Ludwick”
Then I looked up his stats – .658 OPS with the Padres… yeesh
They probably do, he was decidedly the best guy in that lineup other than Poo Holes and Holliday. They’d probably rather have Ludwick than Westbrook.
he killed my fantasy team today
Rays losing. Sux losing. Life is good.
And in Scranton, Mr Phelps has a most arousing line:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.....a_swbaaa_1
I’m sure we’ll hear more in the DoTF post.
WS just pulled ahead 3-1 top of 7
A couple of things:
- Lackey looked pretty good tonight, but his stuff has diminished as the game wore on
- On consecutive plays, Kalish and Drew made terrible throws that led to run #3
that’s a tough lineup to navigate with addition of Manny, he just makes them that much deeper.
Congrats to Trenton Thunder, clinched the division today. Kiddies be ballin’.
That means Pettitte starts Game 1 for them at home. I’m sure the Thunder front office is jazzed and a half
omfg i’m going to Trenton
tix go on sale tomorrow, according to mashmore’s blog
I think their playoff rotation is something like Pettitte, ManBan, Brackman, Warren, Betances, ManBan….
……
……and I’m spent.
the few times i have seen Felix Pie batted,he really struck me as good hitter. He has tons of tools , maybe it will finally come to fruition.
Hugo Weaving was really good as Agent Smith.
“You hear that, Mr Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability…”
During that whole clip, Neo said the word “whoa” zero times. No points for you.
That scene is about to start on TBS.
Texas a&m winning 41-7 against SFA
Beat the hell outta SFA!
Sox losing, rays losing Aggies winning!
Great effing day
i am gonna assume you have money riding on this.
haha just a tad
and the fact that i just graduated from texas a&m in may
So are you going into Agriculture or Mining?
Chris Sale’s picture on MLB Gameday is hilarious.
Jenks just bailed Sale out – going for the 4-out save after a 1-inning save in game 1
Cards cut Leinhart. Nuts.
OMG Uehara just gave up 2 homeruns back to back with 2 outs in the top of the 9th. Dear God Orioles, just end it.
Your wish is their command.
Woohoo!
haha, awesome
We’re channeling each other again. =)
Yeah well did you include a cheerleader smiley? No you did not! ;P
Failure on my part. I’M NOT WORTHY! *sobs*
We are now two up on Tampa.
2.5, I think…
Yup, you’re right. I apologize for my error.
Your wish is their command
\o/
Bex, just out of curiosity, what does that symbol mean? Because it looks like something to me, I’m sure it looks like something else to you.
It’s a cheerleader. The \ and / are the arms and the O is the face. You pervert. ;P
Riiiight, a cheerleader.
Magic number at 17 now?
If the Red Sox lose, I think?
yes, which they will, I think?
No jinxing!
Not until Boston loses I think.
If Bobby Jenks manages not to implode.
“he gone” – Lowrie K’s
What does it say about Bobby Jenks that Guillen already has people warming up? Jeez, that’s crazy.
2 out…
Huzzah, 17!
Jenks looks like your typical drunken frat boy at a DMB concert. That flava-sava is ugly
Bobby Jenks is hideous. He needs to shave that pubic bush off his chin.
This game is OVA!
Robert Manuel? Who the hell are these people on the Red Sox? I can’t even hate them properly!!!
Seriously. I don’t know who the hell these people are.
(PS: Kalish looks attractive from afar, is he?)
I think he is. And I’m a guy. BTW, the Red Sox have to lead the league in strange names:
Papelbon, Kalish, Nava, Youklis, Pedroia, the list goes on.
Nothing wrong with one guy noticing another guy’s attractiveness.
Oh I know. Just pointing out that’s how attractive he is
Haha…I appreciate your help in confirming that. I think you’re awesome for those comments, by the way.
looking at his minor league stats, i do believe he has the capacity to drill deep as well.
That…disturbs me. But okay. Good job, Kalish? =/
lol, i was hoping it would
, sorry for thinly veiled innuendos, it’s funny to me 
Yeah, Kalish is hella hot. I hate to say that.
It’s just so rare for attractive people to exist on the Red Sox, so I wanted to confirm that my eyes weren’t deceiving me.
Fun fact: If we maintain our winning percentage at .632, we will be one game worse than the 2009 team.
But…but….I thought we weren’t as good as the 2009 team?
even though it’s a rhetorical question, i guess we won’t be able to answer that til they win number 28.
With a better run differential.
Red Sox lose. Yay!
Yankees win, Rays lose, Red Sox get swpet in a DH – A PERFECT BASEBALL DAY!!!
I definitely declare this day a success.
Oh yeah. Couldn’t have written a better day.
BTW, just saw this movie called “Get Low.” Had Bill Murray and Robert Duvall in it…it was so good, I recommend you guys see it.
After hearing 1 hour of Hawk, I’ll tune in Vin Scully to cleanse my ears
You are a brave person enduring that. They were using Boston’s feed on MLB network here.
I had Orsillo and Remy on first – they’re much better, but listening to Hawk root against the RS had a certain appeal
You know, Orsillo is good…but man, Remy’s voice just irritates me.
I listened to Hawk because I figured it would be super painful and therefore I would acquire karma and Boston would lose.
Something is wrong with you people.
Listening to the Hawk is something definitely worth doing. I prefer unabashed homerism and candidness (mostly candidness) over those who act like robots in the booth.
Serious question: when was the last time the Yankees had a lead of 10 or more games on the Red Sox?
Don’t think too hard…
Didn’t we have 10 game lead on them last year by the end?
We had one for a bit, but it was “only” an 8 game lead by the last game of the season
Yep. On 9/29, the Yankees beat the Royals, and the Jays beat the Sox, pushing the divsional lead up to 10.5 games.
Both teams lost the next night, Sox won on Thursday while the Yankees were off, then won both Friday and Saturday while the Yankees lost. Both teams won on the final Sunday, putting the final at 8.
Anyone remember Eduardo Perez saying the Sox would win the AL East by double digits in 2009? I enjoyed laughing at that one once the opposite was close to coming true.
Nooooo. Do you have a link to the Perez comments? BBTN was all over the Sox’s jock prior to 2009 and basically throughout the entire season, it was fucking ridiculous. It was way worse than it was in 2007 (when they friggin’ won the whole shebang) and 2008, even, I think.
Was? They still are all over them. I bet they still think they have a shot.
Dude. They do. Because of the FIVE ACES.
I don’t have a link, but I remember some making a big deal out of it, and once the Yankees started to run away with the division, it was pretty much a running joke to reference.
If memory serves, he was then asked why they would, and his response was “Brad Penny will pitch great”.
Yeah, and it’s not as if his failures of ’09 stopped Eddie from saying the same thing coming into this year, where he again picked Boston to win the division because of John Lackey.
5 ACES
YEAH!
/excited about other people helping Bex build the brand’d
It’s a lovely meme, glad to pad it.
You know what else is awesome? #competedammit
PASS IT ON!
#blamejeter
yeah but people start using #blamejeter unironically….
John Smoltz and Brad Penny will easily win more games than CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett.
Yeah.
Please tell me he didn’t say that. Please.
That wasn’t anyone on ESPN, it was Jeff Pearlman on his blog.
Wow. That’s just crazy.
The fact that they were both released after getting their asses handed to them by the Yankees makes me smile. Guess who was wrong, Jeff? That’s right! You were!
Still. funny.
Padres lose their…9th straight? Jeez.
That is some serious imploding they’re doing. I actually thought they were going to continue to rake, but apparently not.
does the friars still have david eckstein on their team? if so, i can’t be rooting for them. i equal him to Angels of the past, and excruciating defeats….
He struck out with the bases loaded when it was still a 3-2 game.
I pity the Padres. I would probably start crying if my team had lost so may that I couldn’t remember the last win. I don’t remember the last time the Yankees had a losing streak that bad, but I imagine that it wasn’t too long ago.
They can still pull this thing off. But they really need to turn this thing around soon. Giants are knocking on the door. Hell, even the Rockies are knocking.
I want to see the Padres lose a playoff spot all together, just for the novelty value. Won’t it be great when the Mets can finally say that they aren’t the biggest collapsers ever?
Great? I’d say that would be tragic.
One pastime all Yankees’ fans share is laughing at the Mets. Why let SD take the spotlight off the Mets in any form?
…touche.
And yet, they’re still in first. Wow.
once again, AL East >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all other divisions. Way better.
Jerry Hairston, eh?
Interesting choice, but it’s never a bad idea to honor anyone from that title team of 2009…
Plus its a pretty sweet pic IMO
Seeing the Angels fumble the ball twice like they did in that sequence.
At least we know that play confirms that the media narrative about the Angels is a load of bullshit.
Besides the Game 6 clincher, that was my favorite game of the whole playoffs. Andf I have a huge spot of JHJ. He seems like a pretty awesome dude.
Just like Billy Zane.
/blue steel.
*soft spot for. Me no type good.
did you notice the Padres’ collapse started when he went on the DL, coincidence I THINK NOT
(It’s a coincidence.)
I was hoping for Oscar Gamble with the big ‘fro.
http://www.baseballtoddsdugout.....Gamble.jpg
The shot has to have the back of the jersey in it
Cain vs Lilly in LA – nice matchup
The LA lineup is full of veteran-ness – Podsednik, Blake, Gibbons, Barajas. Still trying to figure out why a team with a real shot at a playoff spot would dump Manny. Then I remember the McCourt divorce
I don’t think they have a chance for the playoffs. Yeah, the Padres are imploding, but the Giants and Rockies have a better chance at catching them. NL wild card is probably going to be Phils or Braves, IMO.
pssst they don’t have a real shot at a playoff spot
This. They’re not close enough to their own division title, and there are just too many teams between them and the wildcard.
Yep. They’d have to count on the Padres continuing to collapse and the Giants and Rockies continuing to not play particularly well, while they went on a bit of a tear themselves. Frankly, I don’t think the Dodgers are very good at all, especially now that they don’t have Manny…
Giants @ Dodgers. Now. A wing and a prayer…
Nothing like knocking 3 games off the magic number in one day
Now we just need Hughes to have a good day and keep the streak going! I think we can do it.
Bahstin is now double digits behind.
/trying not to gloat’d
Damn Oregon, was it really necessary to win 72-0?
OH MY GOD!
Against the University of New Mexico no less. I can understand whooping on USC, UCLA or Cal to try and prove something, maybe help those BCS rankings. Slapping around the Lobos really doesn’t accomplish anything except embarrassing them.
and what an embarrassment it is. Stupid Lobos.
Lobos estupidos!
What do you bet that the day ARod comes back is the day the Yanks lose?
with the pitching match up, if you give me 2/1 odds on the jays, i will take that action.
You know, I’ve seen that BP commercial like a million times so far on MLBN…and it gets more pathetic with every viewing.
I don’t get MLBN – what commercial is this?
The magic number for the division is now 25. If there were a division magic number thingy in the sidebar, I would use this pic: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RVLf.....ixeira.jpg
Walk-off shot in Game 3 of the ALDS.
Good game, I loved Sterlings call.
My second favorite call ever. The only one that beats it?
“And he is, Mr. November!”
it would be better if they won it all.
Great pic. I have to say that some of my favorite things about pictures like that is definitely the crowd reaction in the background, probably because I had my arms up like that as well.
I was stuck on a bus to DC during that game, and the internet access they had promised was missing. I had two friends texting me play by play. It was awesome.
Noel Devine is still in college?!?! WTF?
who dat?
RB on WVU, played with Slaton back in the day.
Ever see his highlight video from high school? Unbelievable.
Apologies if this has alrady been discussed, but how the fuck did Gardner not fucken go in the bottom of the eighth? Two outs, and Jeter’s at bat, and fuck, by the time it was two strikes, just go man!!
Because we were winning and Mo was warming. No need to hurt anything on a dive, or risk the out; the game was over when they selected “Enter Sandman” on the playlist.
Apologies if you’ve been asked this before Mike, but have you tried decaf? F-in’ A, were the f-bombs needed there?
Yankees have won 8 straight
Wow. The Padres lose another and the Giants still can’t win. (Bottom 4, Dodgers up by four).
Who the eff is TJ Yates??????
He played QB at UNC. Is he still around? My sister had a class with him one year.
He just threw for 400 and 3TDs on LSU
Damn, not bad. Not bad at all. I’m guessing UNC won that game.
San Francisco leads the Dodgers 5-4. WAHOO