Game 118: Jorge’s Return
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It’s been exactly a week since Jorge Posada last played a game for the Yankees, but he’s back in there today at his usual position, the one that doesn’t require him to take the field. Hip hip.Here’s the rest of the lineup…
Brett Gardner, LF
Derek Jeter, SS
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Nick Swisher, RF
Eric Chavez, 3B
Jorge Posada, DH
Russell Martin, C
Phil Hughes, SP
There’s a special pregame ceremony on the field for Jeter’s 3,000th career hit at 3:45pm ET, and you’ll be able to watch live on MLB.com. I don’t think it’ll be on YES since there’s no pregame show today, and Mo knows FOX won’t show it. The game itself will start a little after 4pm ET and can be seen on (yep) FOX. Enjoy.
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I haven’t lost faith in you Hughes, show em why you should be in the rotation!
Not that they’ll listen or anything =/
“It’s been exactly a week since Jorge Posada last played a game for the Yankees, but he’s back in there today at his usual position, the one where he sports a .672 career OPS.”
Fixed.
They should put him behind the plate, I hear it stops aging.
It gave him an .854 OPS last year!
Here’s what I don’t get about this argument. When Jorge caught in the past, he was healthy. Most of the time when he was a DH, chances are he was a little banged up. Maybe that’s why he OPSed lower as a DH in the past. As a healthy DH, I don’t buy for a second that a professional baseball player can’t handle it.
So you’re saying he was healthy when he caught 100 – 120 games a year?
As a healthy DH, I don’t buy for a second that a professional baseball player can’t handle it.
I certainly think there’s an adjustment period that we’re probably underestimating, but these guys should be able to figure it out eventually.
Like after a full season of at-bats? Today marks Jorge’s 163rd game as a DH. The preceding 162?:
621 PA, 539 AB, 17 HR, 59 RBI, .221/.317/.354 = .672
Something you failed to consider:
He’s 39 years old.
Something you can’t consider:
Last year he was 38 years old.
And yesterday was Friday.
Seeing as how more than half of those 621 PAs at DH have come this year, I’d say that Tom Zig’s “He’s 39 years old” factoid is a bit more important than your “He was 38 years old last year” factoid is.
Half of those 621 PA came this year, the other half was spread over the previous 13 years.
All the reasons you give is why he is still on the roster getting spot starts. He may be able to play better you think, but Chavez also has a chance to stay really well, as does Nunez, and Montero who will be up soon as well. Having Jorge in that mix is fine. But giving him the start every time over them has rightfully ended.
*He may be able to play better like you think, but Chavez also has a chance to play really well …
(not that anyone has holding their breath for my edit)
or he could try having Grandy or Cano pee on his hands instead of doing it himself. it’s obvious his pee is no good anymore.
Why isn’t Montero on this team again?
http://bleacherreport.com/arti.....tero-fraud
a bleacher report link? really? no thanks, I can’t in good conscience click that link.
Dude, it’s written by Larry Barnes. That guy has zero credibility.
Saying that Larry Barnes has zero credibility is an insult to the number zero.
I have a feeling that no matter what, Hughes is out of the rotation. I dont even think a shutout can save him. Seems there intent on running a pitcher out there that hasnt shown he deserves to be there since Game 2 of the 09 WS.
Based on Cashman’s overly defensive comments on AJ, I agree.
Ken Rosenthal and Chris Rose is a better booth than Buck/McCarver.
I don’t get to watch this game because we get the fucking Brewers/Pirates game on Fox. I’m now going to stomp around and yell like my three year old nephew does when he doesn’t get what he wants… And then just watch the Brewers and Pirates play baseball anyway…
Mo knows fox won’t show it indeed
And Fox is out in my area, wtf
looks like McCarver’s barber was not in town, he had to shave on his own
No Joe Buck!
http://t.co/rFw3VrY
Do I want to know why McCarver has those two bandaids? I don’t think I want to know. It’ll either be something stupid and embarrassing that will make me want to ridicule and old man, or it’ll be something serious and sad that will make me feel bad about ridiculing an old man.
I’ve decided that making fun of the elderly will not make you feel bad about yourself.
dude i work in a nursing home. we do it all the time. how else do you stay sane?
Only 92? terrible. concerning.
/Kay’d
fucking Nunez. oh wait…
Nunez could of done that .
that was lame,
Not a bad inning there by Hughes.
wow that pbp guy is even worse than Joe Buck.
Was that his dad or Nomar?
I really don’t want Hellickson’s dad to have a bad 50th birthday, but screw it. Let’s knock him out!
He made it to 50. That should be a sufficient reason to celebrate.
wow, Chirinos is 2/23 in throwing out runners, Gardy needs to be moving.
hahah, great find with that picture, Mike.
Holy crap is Hellickson getting squeezed.
Does Gardner really need to be protected by the batter?
He only needs to be protected from himself.
what the fuck?
looked safe to me.
Facepalm, Brett. Facepalm.
Yikes Gardner.
fucking SAFE
he was safe, but yanks playing lousy baseball
Wow, McCarver, when the replay shows he was safe, he was safe you dumb fuck.
Bah.
Time to mute Timmy Mccarver…
How this ass hat Tim McCarver still has a job is beyond me.
He knows where the bodies are buried.
I forgot the commentor who I was talking about this with, but Joe Madden is definitely evily annoying. He has a shift for when Granderson is down 0-2?
If a single Ray gets on base, I want Hughes to throw over 20 times in a row.
Consecutively.
20 times.
They are going to show the kid’s dad about a billion times.
I like how Granderson has his shin protector on the inside of his lead foot instead of the outside. I guess he’s learned that he’s more prone to fouling the ball off his own leg than getting hit with the pitch directly.
I can’t remember anyone else who has worn protective equipment to protect themselves from themselves as opposed to from the pitcher. Can anyone else?
I think almost every player with shin guards are using it to protect against foul balls and not HBP.
Those shin guards almost invariably are front-facing, though, IIRC. Grandy’s the first one I remember seeing that’s facing inwards, perpendicular to his seams.
I’ve seen some others that way, I think players place it based on their stride and where they normally get hit with foul balls.
I hate Rays games. The broadcasting always sucks regardless of who is covering and the unluckiest things always happen to the Yankees. Argh!
Ugh…it pisses me off that his is likely Hughes’ last start as a Yankee. The Yankee brass has next year to worry about too…the guy won’t even touch 75 IP, and all of the sudden they expect him to last a full season in the rotation? Do they not remember 2009-2010 where he went a full season after spending the year before in the bullpen and was then fucked the year after? The guy needs a chance to be able to pitch in the rotation, he clearly still has potential but also needs to do some developing in the majors too. He can’t do that development out of the bullpen and needs a chance to start. This is Joba all over again, sure Joba may have not been able to physically hold up in the rotation, but he was never given a full chance to let his body get used to the role as a starting pitcher, so he was destined to fail regardless. This organization is completely lost when it comes to pitching.
Phil Hughes – Perfect Game. Needs. To. Happen. Only way they pull AJ from the rotation.
i mean no-hitter*
they still wouldn’t pull AJ, and the perfect game is already gone with Jeter’s error anyways
And the 0-2 meatball ends the no hitter.
If Hughes could command his fastball like advertised coming up through the system, all would be well. Easier said than done, I know.
Cashman already said that AJ is not being pulled from the rotation. It seems like Hughes is almost guaranteed to be the odd man out when/if the Yanks pull back to a five man rotation.
That’s just so fucking stupid. I mean, I’m not saying that Hughes and Nova are serious upgrades over AJ, I do think they are slightly better. AJ’s clearly not better than Garcia or Bartolo, and Nova and Hughes still need to build stamina in the rotation, develop at the ML level, and prepare themselves for a career as a major league starter. Hughes has been in the majors for five seasons and barely has 400 career IP, he needs to build up his stamina now or he’ll be a reliever for good. Nova’s young and looks like he has a chance to be better than his projections. AJ is what he is, a guy that will have two three good-ish starts, two bad ones, and one awful one every six starts or so. Maybe the trip to the pen would do him good? It clearly can’t help at this point.
I’m with you. Cashman is seemingly not with us though as of right now. Granted, he can say whatever he wants, but we will see what he does when push comes to shove.
I mean in his defense, we are clamoring for a guy with a six-ish ERA in 40 IP…if Hughes has a good start tonight I don’t see how Cash can justify sending a guy that they are heavily invested in for the future to the bullpen.
If Gardner isn’t running, Granderson probably hits a three run jack right there.
#mccarver
How hard is Hughes’ fastball thus far? I’m listening to it on the radio, i get the douche bag Rangers.
Not bad, honestly. It’s still Hughes and he obviously needs to regain his arm strength and work on his two strike counts, but better than you’d expect.
4 groundbals nice
8 ER for Weaver…everyone is regressing
Cy Young my ass
wonder how much was due to the suspension. he did not look sharp at all.
Or Toronto stealing signs?
Slightly OT, but did anyone see the number that the Jays’ sign-stealing did on Jered Weaver earlier today?
That was an 85 mph meatball-changuep
Hughes sitting at 92-93 on the fastball. Nice.
There goes the no-hitter, there goes the rotation spot.
That was a great pitch there on 0-2.
Do you really want to lump Zambrano with Weaver and CC??? Really????
0-2 fastball why?
Kotchman’s batting face is hideous. Makes me want to vomit.
Are we really picking nits on whether or not B.J. Upton had to slide into second vs. go in standing up, Tim?
Really?
You know Tim McCarver will get on anyone who doesn’t play the game the right way.
He’s an asswipe, has always been the worst booth man on national TV
Wow! Tim McCarver is making some really ASTUTE comments.
“It’s in my view, that David Cone looks like Buster Keaton.”
Thanks for telling us something THAT’S SO FUCKING OBVIOUS.
…
I continue to admire your persistence
He apparently does this on other sites as well.
http://www.pinstripeheroes.com.....ment-36200
That’s an impostor Karel Capek(tm). Aceept no substitutions.
(I remember posting that phrase but never on that site)
A slider from Hughes. Nice.
Another slider from Hughes. That’s not a curveball grip.
Hughes getting squeezed
this zone has been terrible for both sides
Ha
Hey Tim, know who Freddy Garcia is?
No
I’m hearing all sorts of crazy shit being said on TV now.
NOVA HAS WON TEH ELEVEN GAMEZ!!
only took 26 minutes.
AJ wasn’t even a #3 during last year’s postseason. Why is it even an issue now?
He’s an idiot
The guy wouldn’t have even started if we had a better option than Vasquez and Mitre. This year we’ve got 4 better options, Burnett to the pen.
Exhale
Was that Cano or D-Wade with the Hops.
Wow. Is it me or do the Rays draw 90% of their walks as a team in games against the Yankees.
How often do you think Cashman has skimmed RAB and the comments section. It is not that far fetched to think Cashman might check in to see fan reactions every now and then. He is curious like everyone I am sure, and it is a direct way to the fans, rather than through the media?
Twice a year?
Gonna have to guess never.
Probably, ha.
If he’s spending time checking in here then he should be fired.
He watches games on YES all the time I’m assuming, and YES has the RAB commercial. It is likely he has at least checked out the site once I would think.
And talking to the media and fans and understanding fan perceptions is definitely part of what makes a good GM in NY. In my opinion.
I don’t think so. He can’t worry about fan perception. Win, and we’ll like you.
Well he is the guy who said if you start thinking like fans, you’ll find yourself sitting with the fans.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he checks blogs reguarly, or if he NEVER checked blogs.
Agreed. But, knowing what fans think and thinking like fans are obviously two different things.
Cashman just recently made a comment to judge AJ on his pitching in the AL East, not his contract. He said to blame himself for the contract. That quote shows he clearly understands and hears fans complaints.
Yes, although it goes beyond blogs. This the theme that’s playing out in all forms of media, from blogs, twitter, NY tabloids, sports talk shows.
He is quite aware of what’s being said in the media. The Yankees have always paid attention to that going back to GMS. Maybe they are not as driven by the headlines as they were in the past, but they have a Communications staff that follows what’s being said. How it’s fed to Cashman is unknown, but he’s aware of what’s being said.
I’m guessing the smart GM would get it fed to them right from the source, fan blogs and fan comments right at their fingertips. Cutting out the middle men like the media and people that work for them that might have other motives as well.
Obviously, Cashman may never check these at all. Just thinking it is possible at the least.
He probably has an unpaid intern who has an unpaid intern that’s not-paid to kinda check on some of those sites every once and a while and maybe file a report or something or whatever.
Cano can probably play good post defense in basketball.
Shut up idiot
lol they were trolling the fuck out of the sabr crowd
“AND THERE IT GOES TO DEEP RIGHT! ah it looks as though it’ll go foul”
Thanks a lot Sterling….
nice hit teix
Going back to the pen, just what Hughes needs. Let’s screw with a young pitchers arm yet again so there’s room for AJ in the rotation.
If that happens, it’s nothing more than Cashman saving his own ass from embarrassment.
I think sending his signature homegrown young pitcher to the pen is a bigger embarrassment, but what do I know?
And Tex’s OBP will stay above Casey Kotchman’s AVG for at least one more AB
Hellickson’s got some balls throwing a 2-0 changeup to Cano.
thanks for the great inside info, Tim.
What is he talking about????
More great fucking analysis by McCarver
Nice body language Hellickson. You gave up a hit, its not the end of the world, you big baby.
“Some of the lamest things are said there.”
Pot, meet kettle.
…and he said it was such disgust, almost as if he felt how many of us feel about his comments.
speaking of lame comments
I smell a 3 run laser
And now an equally useless conversation about conversations at first.
Coincidentally, I don’t give a shit about what Tim McCarver is saying.
And now it’s time for Tim McCarver’s daily Bob Gibson story.
Bob Gibson lives in my hometown, he’s a nicer guy now than he was then.
It’s tough to be a badass at 70.
I bet if you dug into the batter’s box against him and tried to take him deep you’d be on your ass. : -)
Sound like McCarver has some personel issues with talking at 1st.
Sounds
Please don’t let Hellickson get out of this without scoring at least once Yankees.
Make him pay Donnie
nice job lets go eric!
2 good ab’s by Cano and Swish.
“Yankee Stadium has given up more home runs than any other stadium since 2009.”
(makes no mention of the Yankees spending upwards of 120M annually to compose a lineup full of excellent home run hitters)
Or that the other teams in the division also have excellent homerun hitters as well.
That too.
Joey Bats: MVP
Narrative >>>>> facts, TSJC. Duh.
what’s S
What’s Stirling’s call for Chavez?
that 1-0 pitch was a gift.
Gift call.
Ugh, worst possible thing you could have done there
Please don’t DP Jorge…
And the 1-0 bullshit call bones us
great here comes posada, thanks chavez
idiot
Oh god. Jorge’s first AB in a week and it’s in a perfect DP situation.
Nice to hear Posada getting a nice ovation.
A-Rod on a torn knee could of done that Chavez.
No DP please.
Jorge-don’t bat me 9th-8th is where I belong!
Hip hip!
Hip hip motherfuckers.
Wasn’t expecting that.
Jorge’s not done yet! He still has a little magic left in that bat.
See? Jorge’s still good in moderation.
hip hip and all that
Today, we spell redemption “J-O-R-G-E”.
WOOHOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Hip, Hip Old Man (oops I meant Posada)
Posada’s ground ball through the right side will now be used as a reason to keep playing him
It’s not not a reason
Jackass
Hooray for blind Squirrels!
If only he could still catch…
I wonder if Joe will play Jorge on his birthday?
The Yankees have signed Scott Proctor to a minor-league deal. He will report to Triple-A Scranton on Monday or Tuesday.
http://twitter.com/#!/Blogging.....6739217408
I can only laugh.
Next up, Sidney Ponson.
and then Ron Villone
Is Tanyon Sturtze still alive?
Well now that The Experience is gone
Maybe he thinks Torre is still manager and he’s trying to get close so he can take him down for ruining his career.
The least we could do after Joe Torre destroyed his baseball career.
Bob Gibson once threw a fastball to the ribs of a vendor for selling hotdogs while he pitched.
#mccarver
Jopo!!!
nasty changeup right there
Martin’s AB often suck.
Well at least Martin defense is stellar.
This will be no surprise to -anyone-, but Tim McCarver = full of shit.
Bob Gibson hit Ron Fairly once. Ever. In 1971, not 1975. In 1975, Ron Fairly was on the Cardinals, so that anecdote could NOT have occurred. In the game in which Bob Gibson hit Fairly, Bob Gibson did not reach 1st base. Joe Torre was also not the Cardinals’ catcher.
McCarver is horrible but at least we don’t have to listen to that little worm Joe Buck.
All hail Jorge, for making the inning less than a total bust.
Pointlessly beating a dead horse but….
We’ve signed Proctor but had no room Acceves, I mean really???
That’s not beating a dead horse.
That’s confusing two completely dissimilar situations.
Can someone else observe Hughes’ offspeed offering that looks to me like a slider? Obviously the cutter/slider grip is similar, but the release isn’t. He seems to be releasing it as a slider. Can anyone confirm this?
Man I know Jeter made that catch but geez does Gardner gets to balls he has no business getting too.
he’s a UZR padder
LOL nice…
Can someone explain the Nasty Factor thing to me?
Break/Horizontal Movement/Velocity lumped into some weird algorithm.
Something that MLB.com invented that has absolutely no significance or meaning.
See also: strike zone
Tom Hallion’s strike 3 calls are the best thing an umpire has come up with yet.
Change up!!!!
Wow, Hughes starting to look gooooooood
Nice, Hughes.
I don’t think that was a changeup.
Hughes pitching a good ballgame but if Cashman says AJ ain’t going nowhere and Girardi says Nova ain’t going nowhere it’s irrelevant, Hughes is going to be sent to the pen even if he puts up all 0s.
Phil trying to prove he should be in the rotation. But Phil, it doesn’t matter, because AJ makes more money than you.
Do we really need to hear this much about Jeremy Hellickson’s dad?
better insight than McCarver.
MUCH better than Schilling.
I’ve actually met his dad somewhere.
Now they’re interviewing the guy? FOX is the worst.
It’s critical that they interview Hellickson’s father since he is a Yankee fan who now must root against the Yankees. That’s gold to FOX!
Mr. Hellickson, Jeter has made a career of lucky hits like that, yet you’re forgiven.
Holy crap, this is rediculous. Again with the father?!?!?!?!?!?!? SMH!
He’s becoming Fox’s Christian Lopez
I want to ask him how many beers deep he is.
I want to ask him how many
beershits of crystal meth deep he is.Fixed.
Come on, tell me that guy doesn’t look like a meth addict. I swear I’ve seen him on Breaking Bad.
I love his dad, yeah stop talking to me so I can watch my kid get fucked by the umps
Yea, dad gave a great interview there.
Chris Rose is a tool
The guy with the 23rd most hits ever gets a “lucky” hit?
Oh, screw you.
I hope Grandy parks one while they’re talking to your snaggle-toothed ass.
his dad looks like he’s a semi-proffesional stock car driver and amatuer tatoo artist.
Anyone know if Hughes can be sent to AAA or would he have to clear waivers? If he does lose his spot in the rotation, I’d much rather he continue to start in AAA in case of injury, or Cashman drinking the reality potion.
Pretty sure he has one option left.
Kevin Long rightfully gets credit for helping Granderson and others, but in the HBO 3K thing, they showed Jeter working with Gary Dembo while in Tampa rehabbing, trying to stay back and attacking the ball, and it seems have helped.
I wouldn’t mind trading for Hellickson…Proctor for JH straight up?
Him and Joba can talk about their dads.
The premise of that new FOX show Terra Nova, according to Wiki, emphasis mine:
Why in (insert deity of your choice)’s name would you send time travelers 85 MILLIONS YEARS back into time, BEFORE HUMANITY EXISTED, to save humanity? Why not a distance not so far back?
Really, FOX? Humanity evolves to the level where we’re smart enough to send people back into time, but dumb enough to send them to the least hospitable period in time with which to attempt to restart the human story?
Put liquid nitrogen in the icecaps.
Cuz we can take all that technology back with us and kill those pesky dinos?
The fact that we’re wearing leather breeches and have tent villages leads me to believe we somehow conveniently declined to bring said dino-killing technologies with us.
Then I’m sure the show will last about 6 weeks.
I’d blame Mccarver.
Maybe they want to meet the sleestak.
So to save humanity, they send humans so far back in time where their very actions will almost assuredly lead to the extinction of the humans that sent them back in time? Paradox alert.
AAAAAAAAAAH!
ump should be fired
Would anyone like to explain that Granderson at bat?
The defense was giving him a bunt down the third base side to get on. He tried to take it…which he should have.
Thanks — didn’t have the sound on (McCarver-phobe), so I was unaware of the situation. Without knowing that, a 32-homer guy bunting appeared pure insanity.
Well he’s extremely fast…players that fast should bunt every so often no matter how much power they have, they need to keep infields honest.
Nothing would make me laugh more than if the umpire strained his forearm giving an out call.
Who’s the girl next to Posada? It’s not his daughter, right?
Where? In the photo up above? That was from HOPE Week last year, if I remember correctly.
BABIP FAIL.
If I hear the Eagles referred to as a Dream Team one more time, I’m going to murder someone.
What the fuck exactly makes them a “Dream Team?”
As an Eagles fan, I just want a dream season thats all.
they are one of the few teams still dreaming of actually winning a superbowl
I’ll go with that.
Nice.
Vick will never last the season anyway.
They have the most dynamic force in the game, two incredible wide receivers, the best defensive player in the game, one great running back and a pretty solid guy backing him up, not only do they have the best best defender in the game in their secondary they have two pro-bowl caliber cornerbacks and a very young and talented free safety, and they also do a pretty good job controlling the line of scrimmage. They’re kinda like the 2011 Boston Red Sox with the 2011 Phillies rotation…they’re fucking stacked on paper.
If Vick gets hurt, they are so fucked.
Also, calling Jackson and Maclin “incredible” is quite hyperbolic, and that pinheaded fuck McCoy is not a great running back yet. Let’s see him make it through a whole season first.
That’s being a punt returner, not a wide receiver.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/statist.....rReception
But seriously, Jackson’s got insane speed and is a sick deep threat, now that he’s got someone with as strong of an arm as Mike Vick to get him the ball he’s filthy. Jeremy Maclin is one of the best in the game too…he was 8th in DVOA for WRs last year. Please, cut the haterade. As to Lesean McCoy? It’s a two back league, there’s only one guy that can be a featured running back in the NFL and that’s AP, other than that there’s not much. As far as “doing for a full season” McCoy was 6th in DYAR last year and 5th in DVOA last season…yeah, can’t do it for a whole season. He’s easily the best RB in the division.
If Vick gets hurt, they are so fucked.
This is one of the stupidest things you can possibly say, for several reasons:
A.) If any team’s starting QB gets hurt they’re pretty fucked. Imagine if someone on ESPN said that if CC goes down for the year the Yankees are so fucked…you’d shout at them because if ANY team looses a player that good for the year they’re fucked.
B.) Vince Young is better than you think, he’s compiled a 30-17 record as a starter and is good enough to be an effective game manager, there’s not really a whole lot of back ups better than he is.
U mad, brah?
I’m not even an Eagles fan…I hate the fucking Eagles, but they’re the best team in the NFC East and probably the best in the NFC.
Vince Young’s record as a starter is about as reliable a stat as pitcher W-L record.
I know Jackson is a good player capable of doing great things, but he’s a cocky fuck and I immediately hate guys like that, especially Eagles players. That goes back to Randall Cunningham.
Yea, I’m a Giants fan, and I’m so stoked by how they’ve done little to nothing so far, but that’s why they play the games.
Well a 30-17 record as a starter is about a three season sample size, he’s not a great quarterback but he’s capable of being an effective game manager on a good team, which is exactly what he’ll be asked to do if Vick goes down. They can survive a game or two if Vick goes down. The Eagles’ real weakness is that fat fuck on the sidelines…he’s probably the best coach at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory there is. The Eagles made a lot of signings and have a fucking sick team…however it’s the NFL and there’s two WC spots. The playoffs are one game samples so if someone on the Eagles has a bad game they can be beat, especially with Reid’s incompetence. That being said, they are still INCREDIBLE on paper…that matters.
A.) If any team’s starting QB gets hurt they’re pretty fucked. Imagine if someone on ESPN said that if CC goes down for the year the Yankees are so fucked…you’d shout at them because if ANY team looses a player that good for the year they’re fucked.
While I agree with every word you say, Vick is a bit more prone to getting hurt than some other QBs, since he runs more and is smaller.
If the Aaron Rodgers gets hurt, the Packers are fucked, but I’d be a bit more surprised about Aaron Rodgers getting hurt than I would by Mike Vick getting hurt. Mike Vick is like his Hampton Roads boy Allen Iverson; his fearlessness and freakish athleticism can be both an benefit and a hindrance.
Yeah, I’d agree with that.
Nnamdi Asomugha ≠ “the best defensive player in the game”
He gets thrown at less than once a game…he’s the best defender in the league. I know you’re a Jets fan and got a vacation suite on Revis Island, but Revis can actually be thrown on, it’s hard, but it can be done. Asomugha…not really.
Revis actually covers the other team’s best wideout, though, almost every single snap (more than 80%). They move him all over the field.
Aso always lines up on the left side and covers the other team’s #2 or #3 more than 60% of the time.
And I’m not even sure either one of them is the best defensive player in football. There’s guys like Haloti Ngata or Patrick Willis or Ed Reed or DeMarcus Ware have an argument as well.
Free safeties are always overrated. Ed Reed’s awesome but he’s rarely the first line of defense. Patrick Willis is pretty fucking awesome, he’s pretty much Ray Lewis-lite, which is a hall of famer, he’s a pretty good choice that I wouldn’t argue with. D-Ware’s sick, don’t get me wrong he’s probably the best pass rusher in the league, but he’s merely above average against the run. I think he’s about as good as Tuck or Cole, maybe a smidge better. Ngata’s a good candidate too.
I think one year he had 15 attempts at him all year. The only WR I can remember eating Asomugha’s lunch is Miles Austin. Revis can be thrown on, Rivers did it a few times, Brady’s done it, and so have a few other guys. You have to be pretty fucking good to throw on Revis, but it can be done. He’s also had a much better pass rush than Asomugha ever had, the other equation in shutting down an aerial attack. I’d still take Asomugha all day and night. Also Trent Cole is pretty good too, he’s every bit as good of a pass rusher as any DE in the NFL and he’s elite against the run too.
He’s also had a much better pass rush than Asomugha ever had, the other equation in shutting down an aerial attack.
You must not watch Raiders or Jets games very much. Oakland’s pass rush has generated more consistent pressure, hurries, and sacks for each of the last two years.
The last good passrusher the Jets had was Hugh Douglas.
Calvin Pace isn’t bad…I find that hard to believe (not saying it isn’t true) but I can’t for the life of me remember the last good pass rusher the Raiders have. I know they had Richard Seymour, but I figured he was just toiling in obscurity.
Matt Shaughnessy and Lamaar Houston are both nice young passrushers.
They’re nice players too…I always thought they were an elite pass rusher away from being the best team in the NFL despite my hatred for Mark Sanchez, but.. that doesn’t seem to be in the cards for them anytime soon. Not saying Shaughnessy and Houston can’t be that, just that it’d take them some time.
Eagles are trash. They are one Vick injury from being a has been. And since they are slurping on one another, and stupid Vince Young proclaimed them that stupid nickname, every time is going to play up to them. I can’t wait until they go ANOTHER year without a Super Bowl.
Are Andy Reid’s 2 heroin addict sons still in jail?
That organization is all class.
Yeah, they’re extremely easy to hate. The owner’s a prick to his players, prior to signing Vick at least, and Andy Reid is Rex Ryan with Chris Christie’s charisma. The team’s still fucking sick.
Actually looking forward to next offseason when they have to decide between signing Vick and signing Jackson.
Hopefully they have to make that decision, I mean.
Cano’s plate coverage is incredible.
damm mark teix smoke that ball
Sanchez done for the year.
What happened?
Hand injury.
Sanchez who?
Its not Mark Sanchez, so it has to be Gary Sanchez.
The good one.
Mark Sanchez?
Swisher looked like a fool. That doesn’t happen very often.
Man that Change up was filthy.
Key at-bat that inning. A 30+ HR man wasting strikes bunting.
not a bad play once in awhile and he walked, but the ump hosed him
i wish hughes had that changeup, can’t blame swisher there
Swish was hitting .083/.323/.208 with 2 outs and RISP – 65 PA. He’s been frustrating at times this year. Two nice plays in RF today – I’m a bit conflicted as to how I feel about him this year.
If Hughes continues to pitch lights out, is there really no rotation spot for him?
Its going to be very very hard for them to justify it if he continues.
Boy I do not know WTF Hollywood be thinking these days releasing movies such as Shark Night 3D and now Apollo 18…yikes.
Apollo 18 looks like The Blair Witch Project on the moon.
They’re making Ghost Rider 2.
No, I did not make that up.
They’re also making Green Lantern 2, but I’m in full favor of that.
Disney did cancel The Lone Ranger, however.
Ghost Rider made about $230 million worldwide before PPV, rentals etc.
No, I did not make that up…sadly.
Why people pay money to watch Nicholas Cage “act” still escapes me.
I wonder if he’d be #1 on the “Won an Oscar and then never cared about what project he took afterward” list.
It’s neck and neck between him and Cuba Gooding Jr., I think.
Is Nic Cage worse because his Oscar was Best Actor and not (just) Best Supporting Actor?
I say yes.
Well, Nic Cage has done a few decent things post-Oscar win (Face/Off, Adaptation, Matchstick Men, and I still enjoy Con Air, The Rock, and the National Treasure movies to a certain extent.)
Cuba? Hmm, let’s see…………………………
“Face/Off, Adaptation, Matchstick Men, and I still enjoy Con Air, The Rock, and the National Treasure movies to a certain extent.”
I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of me vomiting. What did you say?
That sounds more like you just hate Nic Cage, really.
The critical consensus, FWIW, was pretty solid for the first three things I mentioned.
Just flipped back to this thread. I apologize for encouraging a Nic Cage discussion.
Seriously, I don’t know what to make of Cage as an actor. Right now he’ll pretty much take any movie if offered money to pay off his tax obligations. Reminds me of a joke from years ago (can’t remember the comic) about Michael Caine, who seemed to be in every other movie released. The comic said something like: I got married last month and just looked at the home movies from it, and I’ll be damned, but Michael Caine was in those too.
The last several years of box office receipts have proved to me that the average movie-goer is a fucking idiot.
But I did spend money to go see Transformers 3 after absolutely hating Transformers 2, so I’ve got little credibility.
You didnt like Cowboy’s and Aliens?….lmaooo
I found it entertaining.
At least Harrison Ford looked like he was trying.
Its ok. The Arrested Development movie is a go.
where was cano on that grounder
Nice catch Swisher.
Swish wit da glove
Im surprise Gardner didnt catch that.
Where was that pitch?
Where was that pitch?
this home ump is awful
Where are these pitches missing? And who cares about players’ dads? It’s not Father’s Day. Focus on the game and the players who are on the field.
Ump refuses to give the low strike.
In this case I have to side with FOX. Its a nice story.
If Vin Scully talked about that, would you consider it less?
How exactly is that a nice story? Its a man’s birthday.
This.
Casey Kotchman was at the plate and they talked about his father.
I bet Vin Scully would do the same thing. Becuause that’s what Vin Scully does. He tella stories while the players are batting.
Tex!
Mark continues to spit on UZR (except UZR has been a bit nicer to Mark this year).
wow Tex, great play
Yanks flashing the leather
that was a sick play
Range…
Tex to UZR: Suck My Dick!!!!!
Keith Hernandez says Hi, Tim.
Wasn’t he a left handed first baseman?
Yes, but McCarver makes shit up constantly and says things that are wrong, so we can do the same to him!
But you are correct. I missed the first part of his statement and I thought he was saying Tex had the greatest range of any 1B’man.
Cahil with a no no through 5 and Fox says nothing…
Maybe they don’t want to jinx it.
I’m sick of these full counts. Come on.
TWSS
Hughes is a monster today. 4 IP 2H 1BB 3Ks.
Can we get some predictions on what it would take for them to stick with him in the rotation?
I’ll go: 7IP 3H 1BB 6ks
Nothing Hughes does today can change things. Cashman doesn’t want to admit his mistake with Burnett and Girardi will stick with him because AJ is their guy. They’ll make something up about how Phil has bullpen experience and it’ll be yet another mismanagement of our young arms.
Everyone has their breaking point. If Hughes pitches a complete game shutout no one can justify putting him in the pen.
If they do, they will get major flack.
they already are, which lead to Cashman’s impassioned defense of AJ, which means todays start will likely make no difference
And his defense of AJ was so ridiculous that he’s getting even more flack. When I heard his statement, I wanted Cashman gone because it was so ludicrous.
I agree, but I think Cashman’s statement is proof AJ stays in the rotation, and since CC, Colon, Garcia, and Nova have all outperformed AJ this year, and Girardi said Nova isn’t pitching for his spot, that leaves only Hughes as the odd man out, regardless of merit
Now to be fair to Brian Cashman, the Yankees are not the only team that does this.
I look at Adam Dunn, Jason Bay and Dan Uggla, before he got hot
2 of them are out of the pennant race. The Yankees have 5 better pitchers and are in a pennant race.
White Sox are technically still in range.
The Twins and Indians are way better IMO and they can’t beat the AL Central teams to save their life. Hell, Bruce Chen is 3-0 against them.
*Tigers not Twins
Could also include Vernon Wells
AJ was bad last year also though (horrible overall really)
For Dunn and Uggla, the struggles are just this year and both are adjusting to new teams
Bay, while certainly disappointing, has been above average (at least in wRC+) both years with the Mets, and I’m not sure the Mets have a definitely better alternative
Yankees have 5 potentially better alternatives, and AJ has been below average for over 1.5 years now
just though of one other difference
Yankees can afford to eat AJ contract or pay him $16.5M to sit in the bullpen. The others really have to hope their guys turn things around.
Right. They are making the decision tomorrow or Monday, though. So fresh off of any sort of shutout I don’t think they can make that call. They’d catch even more flack.
If he pitches a CGSHO, I have this sneaking suspicion that Nova will be sent down. All of this is to make room for a shit pitcher.
With the number of pitches he’s thrown so far, a CGSHO would be very unlikely.
The really sad thing about this is, Phil was initially put into the rotation at the expense of Joba, who had in the eyes of many established himself as a major league starter (with allowances for hitting an innings pitched limit at the end of ’09). So, if they give up on Hughes as a starter, they’ll have effectively burned two major league starters through poor decision making.
I’ll go 45 IP, O ER, 72K
Nothing. Cashman cemented that yesterday when praising AJ. I like Cashman, but he really made a major blunder yesterday. How do you come to his defense? He really should not be in the rotation, IMO.
I like GB Hughes.
Why do I want Posada to fail so badly? It has to be my irrational longing for Jesus to be up here yesterday.
Man they’re acting like this is 2009 YS3
Jorge’s lack of speed helped him there. He couldn’t get far enough off the bag to be caught.
FOX I just want to watch some effin’ baseball.
The Rays are a very likeable team
really likeable
Eh.
Their manager is a fairly unlikeable prick, really. He’s a lot like Scioscia.
I don’t hate any of their players, like I do with Boston. I dislike Upton, but that’s mostly because I think he’s a lazy douchebag.
I like how his choice in eyeglasses keeps slowly getting more and more bizarre. I think he’s going to start buying hand-me-down outfits from Clinton Portis soon.
http://images.google.com/searc.....5l4.7l11l0
I don’t mind Maddon as much as most people. I get that he can be a little annoying, but hes still better than the Jim Leyland/Charle Manuels of the world.
can the Rays pitchers just call the game? get McCarver and Albert out of here.
I’m quite sure David Price regrets picking up the headset to talk to these guys.
Thank you Hellickson for making us endure this torture.
every line is getting caught for both teams
Stunned silence from the FOX Broadcast team, which flips frantically through game notes wondering who Niemann is.
where was that
I want to be that kid.
Phil finally gets a call from this awful ump.
King PHILTHY is saying **** AJ
Hughes is not impressing me. I think he needs to be demoted to the AA bullpen.
/sarcasm (adding just in case).
Huuuuuuuuuuuuughes
Vintage Hughes
straight Philthy
Phil’s changeup lives!! and his curve and fb are good today as well.
The plot thickens.
Hughes maintaining his velocity through 5. Very good sign.
shades of the Phrancise moniker?
I can’t wait for Hughes’ stuff to play up in the bullpen next week.
The Yankee Bullpen: The most important thing in the history of all things. All organizational resources must constantly be poured into this area of the team at all times to ensure that all 7 spots are filled with studs.
Put everything else on hold until this bullpen is checked and rechecked for double-accuracy.
If this poor kid is sent down to the pen after a start like this then I’ve given up on hoping that management has improved its ability to handle young pitchers. Joba and Hughes have been so mismanaged, it’s time for Cashman to admit he made a mistake and banish AJ to the pen.
should be entertaining to see how they spin putting Phil in the pen and AJ in the rotation
AJ’s our guy. Phil has experience in the pen.
Why can’t they make up an injury and put AJ on the 600-day DL, they did it to Marte and Igawa and every other overpaid Yankee that has come through. They can see he has been diagnosed with a case of bitch-assness. How is Posada gonna take it that they bench him for lack of performance but continue to let softee AJ pitch despite him not winning a game since JUNE and not winning in August since becoming a Yankee. Its hypocritical and lends to the theory that Cashman and Girardi just do not like Posada.
Disagree on Marte. Bullpen MVP of the 09 Series
Contagion: Because we’re betting that you would have liked Outbreak better if it starred Matt Damon instead of Dustin Hoffman.
In theaters and IMAX September 8th.
I would…I mean lets be honest, Dustin Hoffman is kinda out of his prime now.
It’s all been downhill since Star Wars.
Walk the Dog was a long time ago Dustin.
THE GRANDYMAN!
still not a home run hitter though.
Bomb.
ohhhh curtis youre something sorta MPVish
Granderson is a Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That one dedicated to the “lovely wife”
Grandy!
Curtis Granderson=beast.
Damn, it looked like he hit that off the handle.
Interesting. A 30 HR guy swinging works out better than a 30 HR guy bunting. Odd.
Longoria was like a mile back…
didn’t McCarver almost just say “this ties Jose Canseco?”
He almost said Jose Castillo, because you know Bautista is latino, and they sound the same…
thats exactly who i thought he started to say
AL MVP Curtis Granderson
AL MVP Runner-Up Curtis Granderson
AL MVP Jose Canseco.
/McCarver
Kirk Gibson 1988.
/Greg’d
Flashback!
It was an RAB Instant Classic. You should be proud.
AL coMVPs Gonzales, Pedroia, Ellsbury, Ortiz
/ESPN
You left out Josh Reddick and Jose Iglesias.
Dice-K and Lackey and Wakefield and Miller and Beckett and Lester as co CYA winners.
Runs Scored and RBI padding.
Is it that these network guys think the audience finds baseball GAMES themselves boring? and for that reason have these human interest interviews with guys like the pitcher’s father or those Rays’ players, interviews that come up while the Yankees are at bat and cause a kind of visual distraction? I had to turn them off.
History has continually shown that what fans wants and what fox *thinks* fans want is very different.
At least there is no blury thing over the ball to help us see it.
and the baseball broadcast has less robotic animations.
almost got lazy dominican’d
Hopefully since Hal is in the house for this one, he’ll override Cashman on this. Hughes has been very good his last 2 starts. AJ has been very shitty his last 2 starts and below average before them. Last season, AJ was very shitty and Hughes was very good.
Hugh was very good in the first half…He was as bad as AJ in the second half
No, he wasn’t very good, but he wasn’t AJ-bad. He had a great start against the Red Sox and also won the clinching ALDS game.
It amazes me how people have blotted those two games out. The RS game was quite important — it avoided a sweep that would have let Boston get unnervingly close in the last week or so. And he was stellar against the Twins.
Even his last game against Texas looks worse as a line than it might have — Girardi had him intentionally walk Hamilton with two outs. Hughes then, to his discredit gave up a double, but DRob came in and gave up a home run, so it looked like one big clusterfuck. But Phil himself could only be really faulted for two of the four base runners.
Hugh was very good in the first half … He wasn’t nearly as good in the second half, but still much better than AJ.
Fixed
Hughes ERA by half 2010 3.65 first/ 4.90 second
AJ – 4.75 first/ 5.95 second
But AJ was better than Hughes in April this year, so healthy AJ>>>>injured Hughes
Isn’t whomever gets demoted still going to just return to the rotation two weeks from now for the Orioles doubleheader?
Aren’t we all jumping the gun a bit on the angst that A.J. Burnett hasn’t been dragged out behind the barn and shot like a dog yet? The 6 man rotation will be back soon, at least for a turn minimum; possibly more.
Let’s see what happens.
Right, the 6 man rotation will stay for now
“Dragged behind the bard and shot”.
I like it.
the runs don’t show, but yanks rocked rocked jeremy
MLB Gameday: Brandon Gomes replaces Jeremy Hellickson. Brandon Gomes replaces Brandon Gomes.
Wow, MLB, wow.
Before anyone asks, I have Gameday on to check velocities, and # of pitches since Fox doesnt know how to show number of pitches.
Yes, and that’s exactly what happened. It’s part of an amazing marketing promotion for FOX’s new time-traveling series Terra Nova.
this broadcast has basically become the Fox baseball variety hour.
Fox should just stick to right wing rhetoric that’s the only thing they’re good at.
FREEDOM WATCH
they’re aces at phone hacking…
As bad as their baseball broadcasts are, I find them marginally easier to endure than those of ESPN, especially when the lugubrious, monotone voice of whatizname is in the booth.
Maddon changed his glasses mid-game.
What, was that the top-half-of-the-game pair, and this is the bottom-half pair?
Vintage Yankees today. Long at-bats, no easy innings.
Georgie JUICED one
/kidding
HOLY SHIT! HE’S ALIVE!
posada!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HILARIOUS
OMFG POSADA!!!
HIP FUCKING HIP
HIP HIP
Who here saw that coming.
Awesome.
I did
Whoa.
Georgie juiced one!!! Ahhhh
HAHAHA Glad to see jorge back
and that could be Jorge’s last HR in pinstripes…wow.
Turn Back the Clock Day™ for Jorge…
Who is this man an what has he done with Jorge Posada?
Curtain call baby
Do I smell a Yankees Classic.
Oh yes I do…Oh yes I do.
what a beautiful game baseball can be.
Jorge says fuck you Girardi! He’s not done yet!!!!!!!!!!
Boom.
Posada is performing like a pissed off old player who want to prove to everybody he isnt done yet (even though he is)
Jorge let’s his bat do all the talking. Bench that!
Jorge to the rotation!!!!1!!!
If only he could catch for like a month or two.
I could not be happier for that man. One for ol’ time’s sake, Jorge!
Just needed a bit of a push
I have a feeling Montero ain’t coming up til September now.
So be it.
I still want to see if he can mash and get a chance for the PS roster.
Colin Curtis’s injury means he already has a chance for the PS roster.
I want to taste the fucking burrito already!
Patience, young padawan.
And somewhere down in AAA, a tear forms at the eye of Jesus Montero.
Still need a RH DH.
I know. It makes no difference, although there are some here who do think Jorge is holding down Montero. He’s not, beyond the fact he takes up a roster spot.
Jones is doing just fine at that
vs. LHP .870 OPS/ .380 wOBA/ 140 wRC+
Is Jones worth giving Montero a shot to start adjusting to the ML? I don’t think so.
just saying RH DH really isn’t a need right now, and will be even less of a need when ARod comes back
August: .400 .538 .500 1.038
Yeah, if he keeps that up, but they really need to start looking at the big picture, which is also why Hughes has to stay in the rotation.
I agree, but Montero is only 21, if it doesn’t happen until september call ups, no big deal, unless they think he has a legit to take over for Martin as catcher this year, which doesn’t seem to be the case.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgQoKRONWM4
SFW
Jorgie juiced one!
Wow I called it
Why is noone happier than Derek, Kenny Albert?
/dumbassnarrativ’d
Positively fucking Ruthian
they’re really hanging Gomes out there.
So the Rays give up DJ3K and what could be Jorge’s last HR in pinstripes.
Or: Maybe that’s not Jorge’s last HR in pinstripes. Maybe there’s that, too.
that’s why “could be” was in there.
He’s retiring or something?
Mid-game, Zambrano-style.
Go out with a bang.
Is Hellickson curled up in his ‘binkie?’ WTF?!
Maybe the Yankees should piss off Jorge every week!
That was a long half inning. Hopefully Hughes can keep it going.
It looks like this is another game that Girardi will go with Ayala over Noesi.
That’s it, send Hughes to the pen!
Phuck. that half inning was too long.
Ugh, he really hung that one
Meh…finish seven strong Phil.
There goes his chance at the rotation.
desmond jenning good at baseball.
shutdown inning
So does the fact that Hughes gave up a run mean he’s lost his rotation spot?
no, but the 2nd run cinched it
Ugh…Hughes is starting to lose it here…he still needs to build up his stamina, WHICH CAN’T BE DONE FROM THE FUCKING BULLPEN
Swisher-esque dive ill advised…
focus Phil.
David Robertson did well, I’m impressed
Gardy Missed that ball by 10 feet.WTF.
drobs wife is SMOKING hot
…Want to touch the heinie OwwwwOOOOOOOOOOOO…
If she really wants to raise some money I can think of a better way.
Nice job, D-Rob. Nice job.
Damn D-Rob that’s how you’re doing it man?
He’s a major league all star and was a baseball star at a southern university. If only we could all be so lucky
E-Rob ftw
Get Hector up
Mrs. Robertson is hot. Good voice too.
Tim McCarver is about to pull a Joe Namath in the booth.
Erin, are you attracted to old men with bandages on their faces?
haha
stop showing Phil and D-Rob, more E-Rob.
lol highsocksforhope.com just crashed
I love a good RAB Negative-Nancy-narrative-busting game like this.
How many swinging strikes for Phil?
Okay, way to settle after those hiccups. I’ll take it.
if gardner stops that ball rather than diving for it the 2nd run never scores
96 pitches through 6 innings.
I think Hughes can go one more inning I say.
Erin, did I mention that I know Bob Gibson? Also we’re sponsored by Viagra.
/Tim McCarvered
Tex you stat-padder
Anudder run scored for Grandy.
Anudder hit for Tex even though he sucks.
So is the consensus-non-MVP, CFer Curtis Granderson now leading the league in runs scored, RBIs and HRs?
Anyone notice that all the Yankee wives are smoking hot? Anyone ever seen an ugly baseball wife?
why do you think cliff lees wife didnt want him becoming a yankee?
dammit you beat me!
That explains why we didn’t get Cliff Lee!
Grandy didn’t look too good rounding 3rd base there. I think he needs to consult with Bobby Valentine.
Did McCarver just suggest that Nunez is a better defender than A-Rod? Lol?
If Arod’s leg is still gimpy, it might be better to play him at DH to avoid further injury.
1 legged A-Rod>Nunez defensively
Nunez has been much better of late.
yes, he has improved from horrible to mediocre
Weak Hughes getting taken out…
He was at 96 pitches and he seemed to begin to tire a bit.
that and CC’s weak performance last night seems like it warrants the 6 man rotation to go at least another round
I think CC might say his command might have been off last night because of the extra rest
extra rest? He pitched on Saturday and on Friday. That’s a five day difference?
one extra day
I know its not a lot. I’m just saying I don’t think his problems lately are an indication that he needs or would benefit performance-wise from more rest
Cory now? just put in Noesi
Hughes 2 runs or less in 5 of 6 starts since coming off DL
Clearly more useful as The Sixth Inning Guy
AJ meanwhile hasn’t help an opponent to 2 runs or less since June 29
You pitched great kid, now get down to that bullpen to waste away. Please dust off Noesi while you’re at it, we may need him next week.
In Hughes’ last inning, he had the same velocity he did all game. He was sitting 91-93. His first pitch in the 6th was 89. That was his lowest. But after that, he was 91-92.
looks like novas headed for AAA
You havent been paying attention recently. Girardi said Nova pitched his way off the bubble. Hughes has also, and it would have looked even harder to take him out if not for that rain in Chicago. AJ Burnett has in everyones mind pitched his way on to the bubble and out of the rotation, but the only mind that matters gave him praise yesterday.
AJ isnt going anywhere cashman made that clear
its nova or hughes
and based on their last games its going to be nova going to AAA
Girardi said Nova is not going anywhere. And Nova was pretty good his last outing besides the last inning.
If he was, he’d be back up in three weeks. Not a huge deal. I think they won’t screw around this time. I actually think AJ is sent to work his issues out in the bullpen.
lol david price argyle onesie like a bause
I like how FOX has apparently assembled a team of hundreds of researchers to unearth every possible biographical factoid about all 33 members of the Rays active roster and coaching staff.
Have they said anything non-game-related at all about the Yankees today? Anything?
Uhh. David Robertson’s wife?
nope they totally havnt
especially nothing about drobs charity where they had his wife in th ebooth
Full disclosure: I wasn’t listening to what she was saying. Sue me.
True. But it still counts.
Sorry for seeming a bit smarmy.
You know what else, Tim? Not only is Zambrano a world-class jerk and a selfish asshole who quits on his team and throws temper tantrums and is a general shit, I hear he has conversations with the opposing first baseman when he gets on base.
Conversations of substance.
Hector Noesi is rotting
This really is unbelievable. Why couldn’t Noesi soak up these last three innings?
Not in the circle of trust.
does it really matter? he’ll probably pitch the 9th
Ayala in the 9th mark my words…
Sorry
Well I had no reason to believe otherwise…
Didn’t Noesi warm up yesterday? That counts according to some people on this board.
Tim, wouldn’t you rather be ahead of Babe Ruth? That might carry more weight?
kenny albert has been a pleasant change from buck
Voice inflection-an amazing attribute for a play by play announcer.
I thought he’d be tolerable. Most certainly a much better option than hoarse-voiced Buck, and with the familiarity from the NFL on FOX, Rangers hockey on 1050 ESPN, and as backup to Mike Breen for the Knicks on MSG.
I’m really praying that either Hughes is in the rotation or starting in AAA. I’m sick of him in the bullpen. just fucking stupid. 3 straight quality starts and he’ll probably get demoted. Fuck you A.J Burnett, fuck you.
flash in the pan
He’s in
Oh so Noesi is alive after all….
Nice if Burnett could have a Zambrano outburst, punch a wall and SEE YA !