Aug
21
Game 125: A-Rod’s Back
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Oh Alex, how I’ve missed you. With all due to respect to Eduardo Nunez and Eric Chavez (and even Brandon Laird), it’s oh so great to see Alex Rodriguez‘s name back in the lineup. The third baseman and cleanup hitter was activated off the disabled list this afternoon, and returns to the lineup in the series finale against the Twins. Here’s the glorious, glorious lineup…
Derek Jeter, DH
Curtis Granderson, CF
Mark Teixeira, 1B
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Robinson Cano, 2B
Nick Swisher, RF
Russell Martin, C
Brett Gardner, LF
Eduardo Nunez, SS
Ivan Nova, SP
Today’s game starts a little after 2pm ET and can be seen on YES locally and TBS nationally. Enjoy.
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Just browsing through stats and realized two things about the AL Central:
1. The Rays would be leading that division if they were in it
2. Not one team as of the beginning of today has a positive run differential
But the Tigers have Verlander, and they’ll beat the Yankees in a 5-game series, just because of that.
Yeah just forget the fact that we have CC.
In a best of 5, they look at it as only needing one of the middle games between his starts.
So he’s undefeated this year?
No, just that’s the feeling a team has going into the series. I’m not saying its written in stone, just the likely outcome.
I don’t get why this whole Verlander means the Tigers win the series if he pitches twice thing. CC matches up against him, it’s the Yankees’ lineup, and even though they’re both great pitchers, either one can blow up and it can be a slugfest (which is always a term I thought was funny because I imagine swarms of slugs overrunning a baseball stadium), thus rendering the fact that Verlander pitched that game virtually pointless. I might have worded it terribly, but what I’m trying to say is Verlander does not guarantee the Tigers anything, and in general nothing is guaranteed in the postseason (duh).
Every single year, it’s “We don’t want to face Team X in a five-game series because they have Pitcher Y and that spells big time trouble”.
And pretty much every year, the Yankees win the ALDS.
Crisis: overstated.
The Yanks were heavily favored for the ALDS against the Indians in 07 and the Tigers in 06.
YCPB, Suzyn.
Remember how good Cliff Lee was last year and how everyone was afraid of facing him in the ALCS and you and everyone else made fun of people claiming they were overreacting? Yeah, the naysayers were right then. Justin Verlander is BETTER than Cliff Lee was last year. Hell, he may be better than Roy Halladay. I don’t think the Crisis is overstated. Although, anytime you say “Team X is going to beat team Y” there’s a bit of hyperbole there, but stop acting like it’d be some unthinkable shocker if Verlander leads a team with Miguel Cabrera over the Yankees in a five game set.
It worked the other way, too. Remember how good CC Sabathia was last year? And then the ALCS happened, and he wasn’t as good.
Or Cliff Lee in the World Series.
Time to make the donuts….
Nevermind the fact that the Yankees own Verlander this year…
That doesn’t matter though. With lesser pitchers, sure you can say a team owns him. A guy like Verlander? He can shut any team down at any time, regardless of how they performed against him in the past.
I don’t think the Yankees “own” Verlander, in two starts this year he’s gone 6 innings and allowed 3 earned and one of those games was on Opening Day and the other was like a month later in the year too SSS. I wouldn’ be surprised if he pitched a gem against the Yankees in the postseason.
And the Red Sox owned CC, Burnett, Hughes, and to some extent Garcia. Your point is?
And Gardner goes back to being permanently hidden in the 8/9 spots.
I don’t like it either, but get used to it. At least Derek is producing now, though he still doesn’t bring what Gardner does to the leadoff spot.
I thought you had Derek Jeter moving down in the order?
I feel like he’s the secret weapon in those spots. Not ideal to have him down there, but as long as it’s going to be that way, he can be all sorts of hidden awesomeness.
And I wonder if there may be some lineup shuffling in the near future, but not right now with the AJ thing yesterday, the Posada thing a couple weeks ago, etc etc.
No player in the lineup is hidden. Gardner’s an example of why, as noted in another article here on RAB, that the 2011 Yankees field one of the best offenses of the expansion era.
Be happy about it; not sad.
Who wants to wager whether alex can go on an absolute tear and get to 30/100 before end of season. The odds are def Against him I’m wondering what he would have to produce on avg per game to get there
What are the odds he’ll be injured again this season? Life without ‘roids is a bitch.
He’s at 13 HR 52 RBI with 6 weeks (37 games) to play.
There’s no way he’s getting to 30/100 this year.
Not the RBI but 17 hr in 37 days I’d like to see him try
Find me a month where he’s hit 10 in the past 4 years (since hip surgery). It doesn’t exist. Most he had was 9 in September of last year.
Put another way he’s hit 13 all year, now he’s supposed to do it again in (roughly) one month?
http://www.actionfigureunivers.....AP440a.jpg
Anyone else think of this scene every time they hear Ivan’s last name?
Against righties just move Derek and Grandy down 1 spot, A-Rod cleanup, Teixera and Cano 5-6. Swisher 7th, DH and C 8th and 9th. It just doesn’t make any sense to bat one of our best players 8th or 9th.
Girardi wants to keep Grandy in the two hole if he can.
Give the AL MVP more ABs.
Why are you taking ABs away from Tex and Cano in favor of Gardner and Jeter? To me, that’s worse. Just pick one and live w/him.
Gardner’s our best lead off hitter, but the Yanks aren’t going to devalue one of their biggest stars. It’s tough to have your #7 hitter give speeches to close the old facility, or do anything similar. Sometimes it’s not just about baseball.
Gardy is also our best defensive CF, are you happy with his replacement?
Playing baseball growing up, where I was hitting in the order had a definite effect on me. Yea, you suck it up no matter what, but it still has a tangible effect.
Sometimes as a fan, and I’m guilty of it all the time, it is easier to just change the lineup at the drop of hat, thinking of no other factors.
He’s the face of the franchise. Gardner’s the baseball choice, Jeter’s the business choice. There’s not such a huge difference anymore between the two that it will cost you much on the W/L. You live with it.
Aren’t we confusing “best player” with “best hitter”?
I love Gardner, but what is the argument for Gardner taking AB’s from Granderson, Cano, Teixeira, Swisher, A-Rod, etc?
I honestly have no idea what Jeter’s current true talent is, and the argument hinges on that, but isn’t there an argument that Gardner really is the Yankees’ 7th or 8th best HITTER?
Gotta count baserunning too.
Obviously, defensive value should have nothing to do with the batting order.
As long as Jeter is hitting like this, problem solved really.
If you count base running, why not give the guy with the higher OBP (Gardy) more ABs, and therefore be on base and running more often?
I’m with you 100%. Gardner is the video game setting the lineup choice, and Jeter is probably rightfully the real world choice.
His job at leadoff isn’t just to hit, it’s to get on base. Despite Derek’s hot streak Brett’s still slightly ahead of him in that department. Once he’s there, his speed blows away that of Jeter. If you peel away the name and look at the skill sets and this year’s numbers, Gardner’s the choice.
I agree that it depends on which jeter you think you have going forward. But I think jeter has earned the benefit of the doubt over the last 6 weeks. We all love gardner, but he’s no “vintage” jeter. The million dollar question is if vintage jeter is back, If it’s a dead cat bounce, or if it’s somewhere in between
Things I really don’t give much of a shit about anymore:
What order the lineup is in.
How many weeks/total games has ARod missed due to injury these last few years? His salary per ab is getting more ridiculous every year.
I don’t really care honestly. Sure, I’d like to see him healthy, but all I care about is him being healthy for the postseason, and being able to hit in clutch spots.
Yea, but another part is salary vs piece of merchandise sold. And salary vs still possibly #1 attraction in baseball.
So Nunez ends up playing even with ARod back. I get why they did that, but it’s still pretty funny.
The defense on the left side of the infield could get very interesting.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_.....-extension
They basically bought out his arb years, but why bother locking him in at all? He’s been league average at his position this year, and wouldn’t have been arb eligible for 2 more years. Unless you think there’s enormous upside and that he’ll be the biggest bargain in baseball in 2-3 years, I don’t see why you’d want to guarantee all those years. The Yanks waited for his power to show up and it never did.
Sales on No. 34 Yankee shirts have taken a serious plunge from yesterday.
Some fans are using No. 34 shirts to wax their cars and check the fluid levels in their cars.
Were there many before yesterday?
Can you imagine if Cashman had traded the farm for Ubaldo? crisis averted.
at least he lasted longer than AJ…
AJ only cost money though, I’d be kicking Cashman’s dog if he gave up Montero, Betances, Nova plus others for that chump.
Yeah really, what idiot thought that was a good idea?
whistles
Underestimated the NL to AL factor. Happens to everybody.
It’s not just that. There’s something bigger wrong there.
The whole Ubaldo situation was sketchy, mostly with the decreased velocity. Good call by Cashman. This is why we are not GMs.
most of us were right there with you
Hey Mike, is that the theme to Andy Griffith you got going there?
whistles in harmony
Derek Suzuki.
Nuni at short today = 2 errors
So besides Agon and Pedroia, the other hitters in the Sox lineup are Scutaro, McDonald, Lowrie, Lavarnway, Crawford, Varitek, and Reddick. I’ll be shocked if they score 4+ runs.
YCPB
Don’t worry, it’ll happen. Scutaro alone will go 3-4 with a homer and 3 RBIs.
So besides Agon and Pedroia, the other hitters in the Sox lineup are Scutaro, McDonald, Lowrie, Lavarnway, Crawford, Varitek, and Reddick. I’ll be shocked if they score 4+ runs.So besides Mauer and Thome, the other hitters in the Twins lineup are Revere, Plouffe, Kubel, Valencia, Tosoni, Tolbert, and Butera. I’ll be shocked if they score a run.
Fixed.
I don’t see any possible way that this doesn’t wind up with A-Rod hitting a grand slam.
Except that way.
Okay, that one’s on me.
this is Bruce Chen 2.0, Teix is supposed to own Blackburn and he GIDPs
It’s the first inning, and the inning is not even over yet. COME ON
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1NwW3GCn7k (safe)
alright A Rod….lets bring Jete home
Let’s go CentWAR
Kinda wish I posted this before the game started, but I wasnt able to.
Nunez has 16 errors split between short and 3rd this season. That is more than Jeter in the last 2 years and more than Alex in the last 2 years. What is even sadder is Nunez has 16 in 84 games this year. Alex has 4 in 80 games this year.
He has been improving though. A lot of those errors were toward the beginning of his getting playing time.
teix your pathetic against righthanders,way to ruin the inning. thanks giradri
How is that Girardi’s fault?
who batting him 3rd against a right hande pitcher, with far better options
Like what? Give me a good suggestion.
Mickey Mantle corpse.
cano,granderson,arod
You want to move Grandy out of the two hole?
ugh….
Arg, score some damn runs.
He is a sinkerball pitcher so that what’s your gonna get. Even Jeter’s hit was a ground ball that was placed well.
Way to jump out in front Yankees. Argh. Against Blackburn too.
Blackburn’s done pretty well against the Yanks for his (albeit short) career.
2-1 with a 4.73 against the Yankees in six starts.
He has a winning record so he’s good
/Kay’d
4.26 ERA according to ESPN. That’s not bad facing this lineup.
BTW-Your number doesn’t include his postseason start, which was good.
I forgot about that postseason start. I believe that was game two of the ’09 ALDS. If my memory serves me right I believe he went 6 or 7 and allowed 1 run against a great lineup.
Farking Pathetic.
Is Nova and Hughes battling for the 4th starter spot at this point? With AJ as a long, long shot, no matter how much Girardi yells at reporters that nothing is wrong.
As long as Jeter hits, the lineup is no big deal.
Ideally I’d like Gardy leading off though.
Love Mauer’s walkup song.
Home runs aside, Tex is pathetic this year.
But counting homeruns, he has been pretty damn good.
If you take away all the good stuff he does, he’s terrible.
and RBIs
Wins aside, the Yankees have been pathetic this year.
Yeah aside from being top 5 in hr’s and rbi’s in the entire sport, and playing Gold glove defense, he’s really a terrible player.
Get off my boy Mauer man. Please.
Nova’s stuff doesn’t look good.
yes Nuni….
I’ll try this again since it got spam block the first time:
Um, Eduardo Nunez’s middle name is Michelle? What?
Yeah, isn’t Michelle basically the feminine version of Michael? Isn’t that why they’re different, one for boys and one for girls? Except for unisex names, of course.
Maybe there is some French somewhere in his lineage?
If Kirby Puckett wins the text poll, I’m gonna hurl.
Even for Kay, this is weird
Q: Who is the greatest Twin of all time?
A: Reneé Tenison.
i had to look her up
very glad i did
Greatest Twin has to be killebrew right. I mean after all he’s MLB version of Jerry West since he’s on the MLB Logo.
Popular myth, but that’s not him on the MLB logo. The logo designer specifically said he didn’t use any player as a blueprint for the logo.
http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/.....logo-myths
Another groundball. He’s got that sinker working.
Blackburn’s asking for it, just give it to him already.
This Tigers-Indians game is officially bananas.
Send them on 3-2, pls.
Serious? Gardy can’t be doubled anyway and Swish/Martin is an easy strike out/throw out dp. glad we didn’t get to see any of that.
Gardner’s very unlikely to strikeout though, and Blackburn had been getting nothing but ground balls.
If AJ were pitching for the Twins we’d have like 6 runs now.
great at by the gritty gardner
Brett Gardner-professional at bat.
Hope he’s okay, but darn, couldn’t we have scored a dozen or so runs before they discovered he was injured.
Is this good or bad?
Oh my goodness, they need to destroy the bullpen. Everyone other than Perkins and kinda sorta Nathan sucks.
Blackburn didn’t give up any runs, so his start qualifies as a success.
/last night’s postgame thread
Clearly something’s wrong with Blackburn.
Nothing’s wrong with that beard though.
My mind just goes back to 2005 whe Bartolo Colon got injured i game 5 of the ALDS and Ervin Santana shut us down.
You just have a bright-side way of looking at life, don’t you?
Just prepping for the worst, that’s all.
Don’t bother checking out that mole on your back. It’s too late. You’re already cooked!
Not surprising. It seems your mind is incapable of recalling positive events.
Well wouldya look at that…
I’m pretty sure I’m hearing Lady Gaga in the background. When has that been acceptable ballpark music?
Is that your poker face, or were you born this way?
None, I just happen to be on the edge of glory.
swarzak!!!!
/in voice of aflac duck’d
Man Acebaldo’s been even worse than AJ was.
Anthony Sleestak. I remember his relatives from Land of the Lost.
christ Nunie.
wow nunez thats pathetic
lol, Nuni….real hard to catch up to a 90 MPH fastball down THE MIDDLE OF THE PLATE
Yeah, I’m naive (I prefer “not jaded”) but are the urinals always in front of an open door, as YES just showed in the Twins dugout?
Yanks love to give confidence to young unproven pitchers…lol
See what I mean?
No, never.
These are the Yankees I know!
Would that be the Yankees that lead all of MLB in runs scored?
Nope. I don’t know those Yankees. I know the ones that leave a lot of guys on base.
That’s because to lead the league in runs scored, a team has to put a shitload of runners on base.
Inevitably, some of those runners will be left on base.
no runs? ugh.
Holy LOB
Well, that was a helluva RISPfail.
Kay got awfully excited on that liner…
Wasting opportunities like this doesn’t bode well for us in the playoffs when timely hitting is what wins ballgames.
It’s a game in August.
You know what wins ballgames? Scoring runs. The Yankees lead all of MLB in doing that.
Wasting opportunities is a part of baseball (as well as life).
Everybody does it.
since girardi asked “who can say he won’t hit .320 the rest of the way?” jeter has hit like .350
Farking Pathetic x 2
jeter hit it hard damm
unbelievable.
Holy crap. Swarzak was suspended for fifty games for failing a drug test — for marijuana!
So being busted for driving a car under the influence gets a player no suspension, but failing a test for marijuana gets a 50-game suspension. Amazing.
Hey im all for players being suspended for drug use whether PED’s or weed, but when the same league sits on its hands and does nothing with players like Cabrera and Lowe who could of killed themselves and others for DUI, then it becomes absurd.
and still no test for HGH? lol, this is why players like Bautista go from 16 to 54
No it isn’t.
oh sorry, and guys in seats telling hitters what pitch is coming
and yes it is
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Cool. But you have no proof Bautista is on anything. Hence my “No it isn’t” comment.
so Bautista after years in the league just “found his stroke” and has hit more home runs in the last two years than his career combined?
What happened to Curtis Granderson? Their situations aren’t all that different.
Indeed. Grandy has the second-most homers in MLB since he adjusted his swing last season. Must be the HGH.
Source: the internet
Just circled back to this. My questioning of MLB’s uneven policy and enforcement regarding drug use and drunk driving seems to have morphed into a discussion of Jose Bautista.
Actually, if you want to know the truth about HGH, the evidence on it is quite clear. It does little, if anything, to enhance performance. It can increase lean body tissue, but the muscle mass is not normal or mature, which is why studies have shown even if HGH increases muscle mass, it does not increase strength. It has a greater effect on muscle definition than muscle strength, which is why players using anabolic steroids will couple it with HGH, in essence to try and hide the the physical changes brought about by the use of steroids.
MLB should allow blood testing if for no other reason to remove all doubt among fans (as we see in this thread), lawmakers and players, especially players who want to believe they’re competing for a limited number of jobs on a level player field. Most of all, they should do it for the health of their players. HGH is very dangerous and its continued and improper use can lead to condition known as acromegaly, an increase in the size of bones and organs, leading to disfigurement and even death. If I was going for performance enhancement, I’d be looking at steroids. I wouldn’t go anywhere near HGH because it won’t help and it’s side-effects are nasty.
I’m not going to convince anyone who has already made his or her mind up about HGH. Yet as mentioned that’s another reason for blood testing. To remove the doubt.
Mike Jacobs was suspended for HGH
only in the minors…they dont have it in the majors
Minor leaguer. Major league players not yet subject to blood test for HGH.
They will be eventually, that still won’t be enough for some people. The great thing about PEDs is that you can always make the “undetectable PED” argument with zero evidence and still not be proven wrong.
Guilty until proven innocent, which is impossible to do.
But isnt it just as bad if not worse when players drive drunk and could potentially kill other people and themselves.
As a fan of baseball that is probably more ridiculous than the HGH situation because it tells me that MLB can care less about players getting DUI’s.
The average baseball fan is really quite stupid. You’re not helping.
We don’t know that.
My comment isn’t about morality; it’s about the inconsistency of enforcement and the message being sent.
totally agree, just like Vick was in prison for 2 years, lost millions of dollars for killing dogs….Stallworth, Driving drunk, Kills a HUMAN BEING, 2 months in prison…no league suspension
A.) Donte Stallworth was suspended for the entirety of the 2009 season, while Mike Vick was only suspended for as long as his jail sentence lasted, so your indignation with the league office seems a bit misplaced.
B.) The victim in Stallworth’s DUI contributed to the cause of his own death (by hopping a traffic barrier running across four lanes of a busy esplanade not at a stoplight). The fact that there was another proximate cause other than Stallworth’s impairment is why his sentence was lighter than Vick’s.
Brosius and son but no kids for Kay. The neuroses stop here!
Is Nova’s slider back? Oh happy day.
yanks will blow this game open…just a matter of time. Nova is Pitching good and quick and great play by NUNI
Noony!!!
nice play by nunez, good job nova
very nice Nunie
That play by Nunez makes up for his bases-loaded strikeout…Oh, wait, no it doesn’t.
this lineup looks so flat right now…
I blame it on A-Rod.
/RAB readered
good job teix keep pulling everything and make a ton of outs, 340 obp from your 22 million dollar guy, he pathetic
You’re just mad because they never let you win the Presidents Race.
yea i know,i been hosed
http://blog.letteddywin.com/
my effort been manny like
Argh. I hate this game already. Too much RISP fail.
Baseball is a game of failure.
If Mark Sanchez only completed 30% of his passes, he would be the ex-QB of the Jets.
yeesh
Soooooo…what happen Tex?
Great day so far.
I know, I’m so depressed that we’re already losing 15-0.
Sac bunting in the 3rd inning? Sure, why not.
#Twinning
ok Kay and Flash, we get it. AJ and Joe’s story is obviously bullshit
You know what? GJ by Jack Curry. If Kim Jones was here, I bet we don’t get as interesting of a story.
C’mon Kay say hell or high water. This is cable.
Nova is awesome.
He is when he throws strikes and follows AJ in the rotation.
I think its Tom Seaver.
Great guess.
vote, using the word “hence” in a sentence to prove a point makes you a douche bag.
So far my 2005 ALCS comparison has been spot on
So far nothing you ever say is spot on.
The sky is blue. AJ burnett is a so-so pitcher.
If we want to get scientific, then the sky really isn’t blue. And AJ Burnett is not a so-so pitcher.
ALDS, my mistake
Be lucky you’re not an Astros fan.
Santana gave up three runs in 5.1 IP that game.
WHo pitched game 5 for us? Was it Mussina?
My mistake, it was Wang, it think.
I remember Wang piching game two. I don’t remember who pitched game 5, but all I remember from that series is Randy Johnson blowing up in game three and the defense fucking over the yankees the entire series.
wonder what the teams triple slash is in day games after night games vs. all other games. Offense always seems off on these days.
Despite the fact that the team has an absolutely amazing record in day games this year….
20-5 with 144 runs scored and 90 runs allowed in day games following night games in 2011.
day: 281/360/467
night: 263/342/441
Not sure to find specifically day games after night, but I would guess virtually all day games come after night games.
holy crap.
Why did they DH Jeter, put Nunez at short and sit Jones’ hot bat?
blackburns a righty
Jones is terrible vs. righties.
Rest? Our playoff spot is secure, we’re not going “all-out” every game.
cano you wanna try a bit
I dont think he would have gotten to that. That hole was huge.
i agree, he just stood there,maybe he was more up the middle
Any douche sportswriter who doesn’t vote an obvious HOF player in on the 1st ballot, “just because”, should lose their privilege to vote.
This is directed mostly at Mike A., but I’d like to hear from anyone on this.
Between the Delmon Young/Garza and Johan Santana disaster, it would seem Bill Smith hasn’t distinguished himself as a GM in making trades. You could even argue about Matt Capps for Ramos with what’s been going on with Mauer this year.
Any good trades by Bill Smith? I can’t think of any.
BTW-Just to clarify, Ramos seemed expendable at the time, but trading a highly touted Catcher for a Closer seemed like an overpay to me at the time. You can always find bullpen arms and piece things together.
If the Yanks traded Montero for a closer like Capps, I’d be pretty pissed.
Don’t forget JJ Hardy.
The Santana trade was not a disaster. What they did AFTER the Santana trade was a disaster.
Phil Humber and Carlos Gomez are both good players the Twins gave up on. Kevin Mulvey is nothing special now, but was flipped for J.J. Hardy, who the Twins also gave up on.
Whoops, my bad, Mulvey was flipped for Rauch, who the Twins gave up on.
It’s hard to keep it all straight.
The Santana trade doesn’t look so bad since Johan’s shoulder went Hiroshima on us.
He was still worth 11 WAR over the past three years.
You know what’s the worst indictment for any GM? If the team would have been better off had he done nothing.
Garza for Young-Much better off not doing it.
Ramos for Capps-Much better off not doing it. They could get Mauer out from behind the plate, take some stress off his back and he might actually be able to drive the ball again.
Santana-Don’t trade him, compete in 08 and take the draft picks. Better off.
If you left the GMs position empty and just had your VP of amateur scouting make draft picks, the Twins would be a much better team right now.
Yeah, Smith’s been mostly a disaster. Here’s a list of his trades…
http://transactions.mlbtraderu.....38;lang=41
Getting Rauch and Pavano for nothing worked well, and even getting Hardy for Gomez would have been great if he actually kept him for more than a year.
I had guessed at the time there may have been pressure from upstairs on Santana, because he couldn’t have been that stupid to overplay his hand with effectively one bidder. But in hindsight, now I’m thinking he’s just a bad GM.
JJ Hardy for Carlos Gomez was good.
Oops. Should’ve hit refresh.
Nova’s on cruise control
Fuck your base hit Joe Mauer.
Ivan Nova: Mark Buerhle. Eh?
Man, I would laugh so hard if the White Sox won the AL Central.
It’s all about winning games, and Nova is 13-4 in his career!
/MichaelKay’d
what!
Seems like Gardner is always getting shit strike calls against him.
Nunie Juice!
Sunday day games after Saturday night games make for slog-fests not slug-fests. More Red Bull please.
This could EASILY end up becoming a wholly pathetic loss/game. I know it’s early and I’m not distressing/complaining but they HAVE TO dismantle the Twins bullpen. The first two innings aside, it’s time to forget that brief misery and murder these lesser arms. Sorry, there’s not much that I despise more than watching the Yankees flail their superior bats at feeble arms. It irritates me.
“Flail their superior bats at feeble arms” is such an awesome choice of words, yet they are being used on such a poor point.
It’s not a poor point. It’s a bullpen (pre set-up and closer). And, as Senor Axisa pointed out, the Twins BP is 90% suck. Simply put, this lineup should be feasting on a cornucopia of lame fastballs and flat breakers. I demand crooked numbers! Commence bullpen sodomization.
They don’t HAVE TO do anything. They’re the NYY, they could go five-hundred from here on out and still almost assuredly make the playoffs.
What a silly thing to say. Who wants to limp into the playoffs? Is the “S” for “Stupid”? Ohhhhh. Burrrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnn.
You’re ad hominem attacks clearly represent a superior argument.
Keep in mind, you’re arguing with a fifteen year old who just put together a more cogent argument than you.
Keep in mind that I am indeed 11 years old and entirely incapable of caring. And, with all due respect, I presented no argument. Also, instead of studying Roget’s finer volumes and attacking poor, defenseless children (such as myself), I would suggest grabbing a bat and mitt and partaking in life’s finer recreations. . . . And . . . I may only be in fifth grade, but I believe you meant “Your” and not “You’re”.
This explains EVERYTHING.
I could psychoanalyze your snarky sarcasm, but I believe it’s quite apparent that your words provide all the necessary evaluation. Anyhow, seeing as how your 4 years my senior, I will be promptly retreating to the couch where I will commence in sucking my thumb and watching Pokemon. You, Jerome, are a heartless bully with zero social awareness and an eerie awkwardness that will haunt you for the rest of your sorry existence. On second thought, my diaper needs-a-changin’ and I’m feelin’ sleepy. Time for a nap!
Yup, I said “your”. We’ve yet to cover Grammar and Spelling in our English class.
Get help.
I’m 11. Stop harassing me, you ugly tyrant. You just made an innocent little boy cry! You animal!
Make stuff happen, Nooney.
I’d like Johnny Damon back on this team.
Lefty DH, can still run some. Hit em 7 or 8.
DFA Jorge
This doesn’t make sense.
It’s not worth it. Move on.
Fuck Damon, give me Montero.
I’d like Warren Buffett to give me a billion dollars.
The odds of that happening are similar to the Yanks DFAing Jorge.
Ubaldo- 3.1ip 9h 3bb 4k 8er.
That’s #2 material for sure.
7.29 ERA with the Indians so far. Cashman looks like a bloody genius.
3 fastballs inside.
And not strikes either.
Austin Jackson has struck out 2 times fewer than Granderson? I’m glad we traded him.
30-40 Hrs. as opposed to a guy who’ll fight to get 10, yet they strike out the same.
He’s struck out two fewer times in 43 fewer plate appearances. Jackson strikes out way more than Grandy. Do that trade over no doubt about it, doesn’t matter how good Kennedy’s become.
Give us what we all want to see A-Rod
Not exactly what I had in mind
Be more specific next time.
Do your thing CentWAR
I’m excited for this at bat!
It’s stat paddin time.
Kay jinxed that AB
Ugh RISP fail again
Wooo
Kay jinxed Alex.
Kay IS a jinx.
Oh this is frustrating.
He just walked a guy on four pitches not particularly close. Clearly, the best thing to do is swing at the first pitch.
Why did he swing at the first pitch? This is looking ehh.
this is beyond painful.
calm down all of you
Give our history with Gardenhire’s Twins, splitting a 4 game set with them is unacceptable. We’ll see what happens.
i wonder if nyy can get thome
What?
Fuck this game.
Yeah, a tie game in the 5th inning sucks.
faceplam
Been gone for a few innings. That zero under the Yankee score? Does that mean they’ve scored a hundred runs and it has recycled to zero?
Jim Thome is going to put the 600th HR in a saddlebag and ride his big blue Ox to Cooperstown.
If the Yanks lose this game they will have only the offense to blame because Nova is pitching his ass off. 0-6 with RISP is unacceptable especially in the manner in which the Yanks failed to capitilize. We could’ve been up by at least 5 by now.
Oh give me a fucking break
Sigh.
wtf
…
Great day so far huh!
Sad Trombone
Ruh-roh. Not this outfield’s finest moment there.
Bah.
Oh for fucks sake.
Seriously? Cereally? Serially?
unacceptable
Woooooow…..That’s inexcusable. Not to mention that is on Granderson if he didnt call off Swisher.
he was calling off swisher the entire time
Then that is Swisher fault then.
That’s the CF’s ball.
Lovely.
hahahah … Swisher’s little leg/karate kick was hilarious.
Unfortunate error, but funny as hell.
That’s not a ‘team error’, Kay, that should be an error on Nick Swisher.
That’s on the center fielder.
Granderson was clearly yelling for the ball, and the ball went right next to Nick Swisher’s leg. There’s no way Granderson catches that without an injury occurring.
It’s a franchise error. Brian Cashman is partly to blame. The batboys too.
I blame Wee Willie Keeler.
lol really a double?
And now that other team has taken the lead.
Please stop talking about the Red Sox. No one cares about them.
(checks score)
Nope, Twins-Yankees is still 0-0.
as if the RISP fail wasnt enough. what is with this team .
At least with Thome on 3rd the only way he scores is with a HR.
If Nova can get out of this just giving up 2 runs, I’ll sign up for that right now.
thome looked like an 18 wheeler coming around second
Nova is turning it up to eleven
Wow, super Nova right here.
2 down, 1 to go. C’mon Nova!
Wow Nova….incredible…still not out of the woods yet.
Who the hell is this guy striking people out with men at second and third? Surely not Ivan Nova.
Nova is strictly back of the rotation due to his low K rate
Two nice strikeouts right there.
Finish it, Ivan.
(fistpumps)
Unreal. Give that man a prize.
fuck yesssssssssssssss
SuperNova
The Anti AJ
And YOU get a slider and YOU get a slider!! Do your thang Ivan.
EVERYBODY GETS A SLIDER!!!!!
This game is all the lulz.
Gotta give Nova some credit there, that inning was ace like.
#winning
Now the Twins have some RISPfail on their hands
that was fucking awesome.
Ivan Nova is a numbah two stahrtah!
hell yeah Ivan, who says you can’t miss bats?
Grandy/Swish owe you one big ol’ steak dinner
Nova has some big marbles.
http://worldsoforos.com/second.....rbles3.jpg
AJ Burnett would have blown up for 3 runs there and cursed Girardi at the same time. Ivan Nova calmly works around it and strikes people out. That’s the difference between these guys, Joe.
What a job by Nova. Just incredible….Granderson and Swisher owe Nova a steak dinner each.
Ivan-no meltdown-Nova! Great save by Martin-something you won’t see in the boxscore.
Jorge should still be the everyday catcher………so we can watch ball after ball get away from him.
Legacy baby!
Wow, that’s awesome. Before he was sent to AAA, that was 2 runs. That slider is all sorts of awesome.
Clutch. Picking up your teamates. It’s called pitching.
Some other “high ceiling, ace-type” guys who everyone raves about would’ve imploded right there.
Not calling any names……
The average baseball fan is pretty stupid. You’re not helping.
AJ Burnett throws hard and his curveball moves a lot. I don’t think he has ‘great stuff’ because he doesn’t have good command or control.
I think it’s the same fool who thinks Nova >>> Hughes.
I’m simply saying that sometimes the pitcher has to pick up his teamates when they F up, because there are many times the pitcher F’s up and his team saves his bacon.
THis is the inning where the yanks make it happen… 3 spot right here
Isn’t it funny how in the first 90 years of baseball, there were only 3 players to ever achieve 600 homeruns? Yet in the last 10 years, we have seen 5 more players to achieve it. Can we really assume that any of those 5 players weren’t on steroids? Out of the 5 players, we know 2 of them were on steroids(Bonds + Arod). The remaining three? Griffey, Thome, and Sosa. I’ve heard rumors that Sosa was roiding. But what about Griffey and Thome? Griffey seems to have a free pass from everyone that he wasn’t, however look at his career. Knee problems, tons of injuries. That can be pretty typical with steroid use. What about Thome?
Sosa was definitely on steroids, and I’m pretty sure that Griffey and Thome weren’t. But really, who cares? It’s not an “asterisk”. It’s the game.
I didn’t mean this as a post to diminish their accomplishments. I truly believe Arod and Bonds would have reached 600 regardless. Especially given the fact that Arod wasn’t on muscle growth steroids, but on cutting steroids.
This was meant just as an observation at how it took 90 years to get 3 players to do it, and in the past 10 we have seen it done by almost twice as many players.
I don’t believe it was steroids alone that can be attributed to this. What other factors could be in play here?
when the Berlin Wall came down in the lat 80′s substances previously not available in the western world became easily obtainable. I thought everyone knew that.
Expansion, smaller ballparks, tighter-wound baseballs, ever-increasing specialization leading to more pitchers in the league (and hence a lower total average pitching quality), and the move away from hitters choking up and trying to put the ball in play and towards more three-true-outcomes hitting technique
Also, better athletic training and nutrition, year-round training, better video, more detailed advanced scouting, more technical scouting, larger organizational payrolls for support staff, the general upward trend of the athletic gene pool generation-by-generation, etc.
inside the park homeruns by fast skinny guys
Well played, Mauer.
backyard batting cages for tall clumsy suburban kids who are taught to switch hit at a young age
Many factors.
The year McGwire his his then-record-breaking HR was an expansion year, just as it was when Maris did.
Body arm allowing hitters to have less fear and to stand closer to the plate.
Smaller parks.
Thinner handled bats to whip throught he strikezone.
Tighter strikezone leading to more hitters’ counts.
An acceptance that it’s okay for a batter to strikeout, leading to more aggressive swings by batters with two strikes.
The acceptance of weight training.
Better lighting in stadiums for night games.
Those are just a few I can rattle off the top of my head. Overall, though, conditions in the game called for an increase in hitting and HRs. We might be trending back now to some degree, but I certainly don’t expect a return to 1960s and 1970s baseball.
Willie Mays used amphetamines.
Who. Gives. A. Shit?
Hank Aaron admitted to trying them once.
And Babe Ruth played in an 8 team league with no west coast travel and no interleague play and no black or latino pitchers in the first ballpark ever specifically built to hit homers.
Yes, if they used steroids, they cheated, but it’s not like ballplayers before 1980 had no advantages whatsoever that made it easier for them to hit homers compared to modern players.
plus there were no black and latino outfielders to rob them of homeruns.
Nova, Hughes, or Noesi going forward?
All 3
Obviously lol…but injuries aside, who do you think will have the better career…all things being equal (things are never all equal)
Hughes > Nova > Noesi
agreed
I think that Nova and Hughes are very close, but Hughes has a slightly higher ceiling.
I also suspect that Nova will be a Yankee for longer than Hughes, however.
great insight that makes so much sense. If Hughes has a higher ceiling does that mean Nova has a lower floor.
I’ll tell you now, it won’t be AJ.
Nova was 12-3 at SWB last year. 24-7 overall last 2 years. Nice.
So Hughes and Nova pitch brilliantly yet one of their jobs could be in question. On the other hand, AJ who had his shortest outing against the same offense but has his job safe for the next 2 years. And I’m the one that needs to smoke the objectivity pipe, Cash?
Neither of their jobs will be in question. It will either be COlon or Garcia.
Jesus, those guys carried AJ’s ass for the entire year and this is their reward? After 2 or 3 bad starts, jettison them to the bullpen?
Woosah.
Heh I wasn’t at terroist panic level.
leadoff double, score some runs already.
great job cano, get him in please
That’s how you hit .300+ Robbie.
Lets score some runs for the kid.
Ribbinson you’re a bad bad man
Swisher.can’t.bunt.
What a lazy tag up
i thought that was gone off the bat
Cano advancing to third?
What, did we bring Larry Bowa back during the commercial break?
More like common sense baserunning.
just missed swisher, good baserunning by cano
Good baserunning.
That was a Robbie Run.
Smallball at its best.
Woo hoo!
Russ Martin and Robbie Cano are good at baseball
good job by martin, still 0fer with risp
Finally some situational hitting. That should be all Nova and the pen needs against this lineup.
Nova is 10 years younger than Burnett and has 10 times more maturity and pitching smarts.
Or maybe it has nothing to do with smarts and more to do with ability.
Gardner must’ve slept with the homeplate umps wife or somethin…..
Wow, that throw got to home on like 5 hops.
Once again my comprehension of the English language is at a crossroads…The Sac Fly was “hammered”
It was kind of. It was more of a line drive than a high fly.
Well you can crush a ball that turns into an out. Happens all the time.
Nova’s got a wicked slidea!!!
If that remains a swing and miss pitch after a few times through the league, we have found our Number 2 Starter.
question answered
He’s still got it
Geez Kay, every ball in the air is not “hammered”
There’s that swing by Plouffe that he homered against Phil Hughes
SUPERNOVA
First pitch to Mauer looked like a strike.
LOL New York and Minnesota are different!!!! What a funny comparison Kay! LOLOLOL !!!111
oh boy
where was that
Ivan just lost his no-walker.
I wonder if they keep track of no-walkers, and how many pitchers have thrown one.
I bet Cliff Lee does. I bet he takes photos of himself during his no-walkers, keeps them in his wallet, and shows them off to people while strolling around town running errands.
Slider!
nasty pitch by nova, runs please
nova is back to impressing
And to think we could have given him up for Ubaldo
*shudder*
jimenez 3.1 ip 9h 8er 3bb 4so
Imagine AJ and ubaldo in the same staff.
I’d rather not.
along with our 3 best prospects in the minor leagues
IVAN THE THE NOT TERRIBLE
Jim Thome:
“Slider, You stink!”
He doesn’t get fazed. SoRoMo?
I’d let him face the bottom of the order.
He’s thrown 79 pitches. Leave him in, he’s on a CG pace.
Is Nova impressing any of you yet, considering what you saw yesterday?
Kid is really dealing. 6 innings, only 79 pitches, no runs allowed, 4 hits allowed, 1 BB, 5 Ks.
I’m only impressed by perfect games. So, no.
He’s impressed the hell out of everybody all season. He has gotten out of situations in which Burnett would have melted down and put the game out of reach. Nova is a starting pitcher. Hughes is a starting pitcher.
CC/Nova/Hughes/banuelos/Betances/noesi/warren
/future looking good
wonder if Dereks’s spill the other night will have any effect
yanks are god awful hacks today
what a difference 2 minutes make
!!!!!!!!!!!
Grandy man!!!!!
Grandy!!!!!
fuck yea grandy man
GRANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy shit, CURTIS!!!
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
hell yeah Grandyman
YEA CURTISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
GRANDYYYYY
BOOM.
hahahaha NICE!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CURTIS GRANDERSON AL MVP!!!!!! DO THAT BAUTISTA!!!!
The Grandy man!
Go Grandy go!
M-V-P!!!!
M-V-P!!!!
M-V-P!!!!
The Grandy Man did it!!!! Inside the parker!!!
Holy shit! Granderson!
He can do it all. Love this guy
clinic in hustling out of the batter’s box. way to go Grandy!
ok Tex, you can jog
Belly to belly!
back to back!
Anything you can do, I can do better
daaaaang.
Teix! back to back!
I always knew we could count on Mijares.
Man, outside of homers, this Tex guy really sucks, amirite?
i don’t like the way he goes to his left on defense on 4 hoppers
I hate how he only hits regular homers and never mixes in inside-the-park homers. What a fat-ass scrub of a bust.
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Texicuted
Back-to-back!!!
Like Mantle and Maris…almost
Back to back, and-a BELLUY TO BELLUY!
teix is like this is how real men do it
nice teix, he killing from right side
Ivan’s reward for gutting out that 2nd & 3rd.
Funny thing is that Mijares also gave up Gardy’s inside the parker in 09
And also the walk off Homer to Tex in game 2 of the ALDS.
Also gave up the walk-off homer to Tex in the 2009 ALDS, looked eerily similar to that one.
Woo Teix. Too bad he sucks.
We should get Johnny Damon back, play him at 1B, and cut Tex’s sucky ass.
An inside the parker-something Bautista and Tex could not do. Hustling out of the box was key.
man there is something wrong with the size of gardners head
Without having to look up his splits . . . What are Tex’s stats from both the right and left side of the plate?
I’m not sure, maybe you should look up his splits and we’ll find out.
Ah yes. Hello Snark, nice to meet you. The name’s Lazy.
Unless you’re on a phone (and you can do this on a phone too), then aren’t you being lazy too?
http://tinyurl.com/3w2ofwh
I use a combination of IP Relay, 1-800-MAIDS, and electro-telepathy (patent pending). But mostly, I just switch between Golden Girls and the Skinemax to utilize the internet. Big keys are a must.
What just happened here?
righty 298/382/570
lefty 230/334/489
Wow. Damn. Thank you.
ever been inside the park, then reg home run back to back?
The main question I have for you guys is, has there ever been a back to back inside the park home runs before?
I’m still waiting for the definitive reggae version of the national anthem
As a guy with a jamaican background that would be kinda something.
are you suggesting mijares should throw his junk with his junk?
I guess putting pictures in comments is something only officials can do, eh?
Yes. I don’t trust you animals.
If pat had embedding powers, Internic, the FCC, and Interpol would be forced to shut RAB down.
Why won’t the FCC just let me be me?
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multi.....45121a.jpg
you need to add the intersecting venn diagram for Pat Venditte
Lol. Crawford goes chasing waterfalls.
He still is a scrub.
Lorenz with the ill TLC reference.
But we all know what Crawford is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJYL4odVu3s (safe, barely)
Should stick to seven digit numbers he’s used to.
Apparently he didn’t order the Red Light Special.
I don’t know why, but I really like Larry Rothschild.
It’s the jowls.
Have you ever seen him naked?
Have there been any fly balls that have not been “hammered” clubbed” or driven”?
I’m not sure, but I think a few were fisted.
some of them were definitely “lifted”
and that one was just “skied”
but none of them were “scooped”
So does Nova get the 8th?
don’t think they push him with an off day tomorrow and DRob, Soriano and Mo having yesterday off.
No. But he will be getting a nicer car and house soon.
Girardi’s decision and don’t you dare question him after the game or else.
Nova did his job. Go to D-Rob.
Nice outing for Nova. He’s either No. 2 or No. 3.
Any questions ?
Yes, I have a question:
Why are we worried about who the #2 or #3 is on August 21st?
I NEED TO KNOW NOW! WHAT DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND??!
(unwraps burrito, wipes down microwave)
And Nova’s returns to sub 4 ERA status after 7 strong shutout innings.
Kid looks good, regularly popping the glove at 95 with a snapping curve, mixed in with a change-up.
Super Nova!
I said this last year and repeat again, why don’t the Yankees eat the financial loss and release Burnett? He is worthless, will never earn his money in NY, and should have been gone a long time ago. Pay him to go the hell away.
On a brighter note, Nova is looking good today and he is the one that deserves the patience as he continues to improve, much unlike this waste product, Burnett.
Get ready to say it again next year.
Cutting a guy with 2 years and 33M left is totally and completely unprecedented, not just for the Yankees – for anyone.
I don’t think cutting him is the answer, this is the team that’s paid 35M for a non-Mo reliever and 8M for a LOOGY for basically one season. So if they have a 16.5M long man, I don’t think that’s too big of a leap.
Is it possible to trade AJ Burnett, for Alex Burnett?
Is his middle name John?
Nova-his poise is electric…
Is that even possible?
Boogie-woogie-woogie.
And he gets ground balls
Here there and everywheeeerree.
a Burnett that gets outs!!!
FISTED.
FISTED was traded. Oh, wait that was Fister. Fister for Furbush.
Fister for Furbush.
… nah, too easy.
The GMs clearly got drunk and made the trade just based on the names.
Dombrowski probably did it just so that he could trademark the name and then sue for damages when it’s the name of a porn flick a year from now.
Okay, Nova and Hughes have earned their spots in the rotation. While AJ still hasn’t earned his, at the very least it’s impossible to justify demoting Nova or Hughes to the pen.
I like how we’ve all been bitching for three weeks now how wrong it is that Phil or Ivan will be demoted when neither of them have actually been demoted yet.
No, wait, I meant to say that I hate that, not that I like it.
Two or three weeks ago, Cashman said that CC wants it cut to a five man rotation, and that they were leading towards doing that anyways. This would mean that someone would need to get demoted, at the time they were leaning Hughes, because they’re idiots, or Nova, because he has options left. It wasn’t going to be the most deserving candidate of a demotion, it would have been one of those two. Or at least that’s the way it was looking earlier this month. Both of them were making starts to save their jobs, and at the end of their good starts, Hughes in particular, they’d say that he earned another turn through the rotation. AJ was staying and one of those two were going, the AJ staying thing hasn’t changed, so most fans have assumed that the Nova/Hughes thing hasn’t either.
Nice try to yell at fans, though.
But again, we’re mad at something happening in theory that has yet to happen in reality. The 6-man rotation was supposedly going to end two weeks ago; yet here it still is thanks to a freak Garcia injury.
I’m just saying, don’t waste your breath complaining now about potential miscarriages of justice when A.) they may not happen at all and B.) there’s plenty of time to complain later if they do actually happen.
They were leaning Hughes? Assumptions were made by fans and media that it was going to be Hughes.
TSJC’s point is don’t get angry about something that hasn’t happened. Girardi is allowing the pitchers to decide. The decision will be made in about a week, unless one of the other five decides to break out their Ginsu knife set. It’s similar to the Cy Young voting the last two years in the AL. Everyone was so damn sure King Felix wouldn’t win it, or Zack Greinke wouldn’t win it because of their low win totals, yet they were wrong. Lots of worry, lots of words, all for nothing. The right men won. Just as the right man is about to lose his job in the rotation.
I agree but I think Bart is going to the bullpen, not AJ (when Freddy comes back).
I thing Bart will get “injured” because it seems like the Yankees are trying to save him for the playoffs.
I could see that. Bart gets injured petting David Cone’s Mom’s dog…
Yeah, that’s what I think they should do too. He needs time off, not a trip to the bullpen. This is the first time he’s pitched in August since he won the CYA in 2005. He’s been uncharted waters all year, now it’s like he’s in an uncharted planet. When he’s right he’s an awesome two starter and definitely a great option for the playoffs.
Is it good or bad that AJ is by far the worst SP on the team?
If you told me that in the beginning of the season I would be ecstatic.
Damn lucky infield sinlge
Can Robertson be more efficient or is it the way he rolls and get used to it?
Yes, to both.
Agreed. Part of what makes Robertson great is that when he hits the corner, you basically can’t hit him hard. So I don’t want to see him start leaving the ball over the middle.
That said, of course he can be more efficient. What pitcher can’t?
I’m thinking the latter, but what the hell do I know?
Very cheap hits for the Twins.
Could have 1-2-3. All infield fumbles.
where the defense
Ain’t necessary wif KRoBB pitching.
those Twinkies are lucky bitches
Hilarious.
why does Kubel make me nervous
-_-
Right by him!
Hope A-Rod didn’t hurt his hand.
Ah-we can win without him.
or with him.
Drob changeup would make Thome look silly.
throw a curve in the dirt…
Wow I thought that pitch was a strike regardless.
Martin does not call enough curves
Me too. Looked dead middle.
Don’t fuck this up David.
To the bat phone Robin. No-not that phone Joe!
Awesome.
the streak lives!
D-Rob is a fucking beast
Need a Houdini act
The anti-cigarette commercials are always terrible to sit through.
Yeah they make me never ever want to touch a single cigarette in my life
Great job Houdini
Harry Robertson?
Love it!
His name is really Erik Weisz but he made it disappear.
Too Jewish.
Jeter hit another HR this year? I’ll say one more to rf in YS.
Yes. Actually, I believe he’ll hit four more…all in the World Series.
All in series-clinching Game 4.
I was kind of seeing one in four-consecutive games, each the game winner, with the last two being walk-offs at Yankee Stadium, yet I’ll take all four in the series-clinching Game 4.
That’s what you get for putting a natural rightfielder at first base. Stupid Twins.
Heh.
YES MO. HOW MANY TO 602 NOW?!
Reply fail.
Every time I see a play like that it reminds me of Sheffield breaking his wrist, and I have a minor heart attack.
You should see a doctor, maybe get some prescriptions.
Brian Fantana: Sounds like you’ve got mental problems, man.
Brick Tamland: Yeah, you’ve got mental problems, man.
Sorry for sounding ignorant, but does reaching on an error count for your OBP?
Nope.
OBP= (H+BB+HBP)/(AB+BB+HBP+SF)
thanks.
No, because the player didn’t “earn” his way on base. It’s not a repeatable skill. Only hits, walks, and HBP count for OBP.
I’ve always thought you should subtract GIDP from the numerator in that calculation. After all, you’ve actually reduced the number of men on base when you hit into a DP.
and you didn’t sound even remotely ignorant
6 Mo
Fuck your reputation as a defense first catcher Drew Butera.
I’m sure this has been asked before, but why is Mauer not playing catcher this series?
He caught yesterday, no?
They should play Mauer at third base. Keeps Morneau and Cuddyer in the lineup and Valencia sucks anyway.
Arod has ended 5 innings today.
We should have left this no-talent bum on the DL.
where’s Cody Ransom when you need him?
Starting at 3B for the Diamondbacks.
No, seriously.
Cody Ransom is a great player. Didn’t you see he hit a HR off Clayton Kershaw?
The Diamondbacks are in first place, aren’t they? Just like the Yankees in 2009.
Cody Ransom must lead the league in Shortstop Wins.
And he jumped that box!
Look at that! That squirrel can waterski!
/O’Connor’d
Hopefully this is his getting-his-feet-wet game.
Remember that first-pitch home run?Wow, that NY-Presbyterian ad was the most effective commercial I’ve seen in a while.
After Mo gets this save, the team should present him with a commemorative plaque for his 255 career saves against the Twins.
I laughed.
posting while Mariano is pitching is a sure sign of brain damage
I’m worried about Mo, you guyz
clearly he’s done
Barney: Hey Homer, I’m worried about the beer supply. After this case, and the other case, there’s only one case left!
[pretending to be the other people in the room] Yeah, yeah! Uh, Barney’s right. Yeah, let’s drink some more beer. Yeah! Hey, what about some beer? Yeah, Barney’s right.
Homer: All right, guys, pipe down. I got some more in the garage.
Well it did take him 10 pitches against this team today.
But I thought Mo was broken?
Yankees Win Bitches!!!!!!!
NoRoMo ftw.
this isn’t fair
Ole Mo is back. Yanks win!!!
Remember when Mo was done a week ago? That was funny. Hasn’t allowed a ball out of the infield since.
So this time wasn’t the time that meant Mo was done, but I bet next time will be the time. Just watch.
Just watch.
ya but, isn’t it kinda telling that it was against the better competition that he was struggling? I mean, sure he still eats up the Twins and Royals, but were talking Angels and redsox that the struggles came against… Either way, i’m happy hes back at it, just trying to show both sides of it…
I just hope that this team can get it done against the better competition and isn’t a REG SEASON type team again, where we get the quick exit come playoff time.. I want a long sustained playoff run..
I remember WWWMW
What a disgrace. 3 of 4 from the Twins? The series was a must sweep. They could have buried the Sox.
please tell me /sarcasm was on
Yea, I noticed someone’s absence today, too.
They could have buried the Sox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGbSNf-Nfc (NSFW – profanity)
Nice win. Might have been a sweep if not for “Gutless” Burnett.
Nova at 13-4
Wins tell the whole story, obviously.
Heard Waldman say on the radio today that Nova said he’s going to get paid based on wins, not ERA.
The sad thing is he’s kind of right.
Former 18 game winner and All Star Phil Hughes sees no problem with that. NO. PROBLEM.
Call it what you want, says Sportscenter, but the Yankees have been statistically better without A-Rod this season.
Yeah, that isn’t biased reporting.
More a function of guys coming out of funks, but, yea, let them have their way.
And the easiest part of the schedule of the season.