Game One: Opening Day
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This offseason seemed to be a little longer than usual, perhaps because the Yankees got knocked out of the playoffs a little earlier than expected. Or maybe it’s because they didn’t get down to any serious hot stove business until the middle of January. Either way, it’s all in the past now. Baseball’s back.
The Yankees open the 2012 regular season at their home away from home today: Tampa, Florida. They didn’t even have to travel after Spring Training ended two days ago. The lineup is relatively unchanged but the pitching staff certainly is, we’re just not going to get to see it this afternoon. CC Sabathia is on the bump for his seventh consecutive Opening Day start and fourth as a Yankee. Here is your lineup…
SS Derek Jeter
CF Curtis Granderson
2B Robinson Cano
3B Alex Rodriguez
1B Mark Teixeira
RF Nick Swisher
DH Raul Ibanez
C Russell Martin
LF Brett Gardner
LHP CC Sabathia
Today’s game starts at 3:10pm ET and can be seen on YES locally or MLB Network nationally. We’re going to chat for the first few innings, so join in the fun after the jump.
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Its…its baseball….
*cries*
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....#038;h=315
“Have you seen my baseball!?!”
(oh…nevermind….here it is, finally!!)
LOL at Jeff Keppinger batting cleanup
Gonna start the chat in a minute.
YAY
F*ck Cashman and all of you that liked the Montero deal.
Happy opening day everyone. Go Yanks!
Seems to be two disparate sentiments there.
GO yankeesssss
Jeter line drive up the middle. Everything else this season is just gravy now.
Love this lineup
who is in the booth? I do not like that guys voice at ALL
It is Kay, Cone and Piniella
Piniella is brutal.. I don’t know if I can handle this all season..
YES online isn’t working for me. Anyone else having an issue?
Hmmm, a shift against grandy. The Teixeira shift first started against the Rays and other teams began to deploy it. Just saying.
Granderson, please meet the shift … Teix will console you in the corner now.
No team shifts more against opposing players than the Rays. It’ll be interesting to see if other teams start shifting against Granderson. As I mentioned above, the Rays were the first team to really start an extreme shift off Teixiera, and then other teams followed. I was very concerned when I saw it since I figured they had discovered something about Teixiera, something that turned out to be true.
Yet not all teams follow the Rays shifts against all players, so remains to be seen if we’ll start seeing more shifts against Grandy.
Lou sounds like Buck Martinez, bummer…
My guess is he’ll do any games when the Yankees are in Tampa and maybe for a few select series.. I don’t think he’s going to be used too much this year. It didn’t sound like it when they announced he joined the team.
Is anyone else having issues with the PS3 MLB.tv app? The score/time bar at the bottom won’t go away.
Granderson had no idea about anything that Shields was throwing unless it was inside.
That’s why he has bad numbers against Shields
God. Listening to these TB announcers is about as bad as it gets.
Not a great omen for the season if you buy into the symbolism of first abs.
The Captain disagrees.
Pena destroys the Yankees. I’m hoping the Sabathia effect overrides that.
Low numbers against CC though.
Yeah, I know, but Pena turns into George Brett against the Yankees. He did again.
I really wonder if Giradi would have made that same move in mid-season. It seemed like extreme overmanaging, even for him.
is this a playoff game?
so that strategy worked well
Holy bombs!
Wow that was deep!
Fire Girardi
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u9qh.....herman.jpg
And that’s why…you don’t intentionally walk the bases loaded in the first inning.
Joe Girardi – Intentional walks are stupid. Kthxbai.
God, I hate the intentional walk.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
OK, someone told me thaat the Rays had no offense… awesome
Joe Girardi folks.
Walks (IBBs included) are never good.
And boom.
Terrible move by girardi. He’s to blame for that one IMO
ummm, I think CC deserves the lion’s share of the blame for that one
I meant unholy grand slamming bombs! Duck!
That was one of the worst calls and it is only game 1. Seriously an intentional walk. Giardiasis you got what you deserve for making a boneheaded call. Awesome.
Didn’t take long to remember how bad Joe Girardi is at in-game management. He has no business going tit for tat with Joe Maddon, a manager totally out of his league.
Girardi isn’t qualified to wash Madden’s jock. Sorry Yankees win inspire of Girardi not because. He never learns from his mistakes .
I beg to differ. Girardi has five rings.
4
Um girardi has one as a manager and as I said, IN SPITE of his presence… And getting one as a player, Charlie Hays has one, Ramero Pena has one…difference? Exactly, luck of being there only.
If we miss the playoffs by one run I swear…..
Hey Joe….Carlos Pena > Sean Rodriguez
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
not against LHP (not that that should matter in the first inning)
Cocka inning
right Rod!
Yay A-Rod!
Don’t IBB anyone when your ace is on the mound
Carlos Pena > Raul Ibanez
That was a choice this season. The reason they didn’t? Because Ibanez can “play” LF? Silliness.
I’m glad that Ibanez spit in the eye of this argument an inning later. People need to breathe.
We loads ‘em one way, they another, oops.
Did Girardi actually IBB the bases loaded in the first inning of the first game? Someone tell me that didn’t happen. Please.
You see CC a bit unstable and you decide to walk the limp hitting Rodriguez to load the bases for a dude who, admittedly, has a low avg vs CC but his hits have all been bombs. What part of that did Joe G. miss?
I waited a long, cold (okay, not so cold) Winter to watch Sabathia give up a grand slam in the first inning? I’m pretty sure Sabathia has never given up a grand slam as a Yankee…until now.
And I hate Carlos Pena. He’s a .220 hitter who hits .330 against the Yankees. Okay, I made up those numbers. I don’t know what he hits against the Yankees, but he has hurt them too much for the level of hitter he is.
what do you want, bad competition? I like good competition, including thos who rise to our occasion. As long as we’re good enough to fight back, ah 4 – 2. Brett’s on. Good on!
I love good competition. I hate Carlos Pena! There is a wee bit of humor here I hope you’re not missing.
Are the Rays employing the shift against everybody today?
Yankees = pull hitters who don’t learn about going the other way.
The Rays shift against all teams, far more than any other team.
You are correct. So why should the Yankees adjust, right.
I’ll let you answer your own question. Why do you think the answer might be?
*What*
I’ve always wondered…what if we could play a season where the manager makes no moves whatsoever (other than the necessary evil of pitching changes)?
No bunts, no hit and runs, no IBBs, no pinch runners, no pinch hitters, etc. Would the team do better or worse?
Obviously, there are sometimes when each of this moves would be helpful. But I think we have a wealth of information showing that, for the most part, most of these “hero” manager moves end up reducing a team’s chance of winning a game.
Of course, because Tony Larussa has managed to win 3 World Series titles and 6 pennants making more of the “hero” manager moves than anyone else, we’re not likely to see a manager brave enough to try this out over the course of a full season…
Swish was one tick early on getting three.
QUIET EVERYBODY, HERE’S RAUL
Okay, we’ll take that.
Mighty generous of you.
Not sure who deserves a bean ball very time they are at bat, Upton or Pena.
Ibanez on pace to break all-time Yankee RBI record.
ok who had ibanez in the first rbi pool
FIRST you can’t predict baseball, Susan of the year!!!!!!!!!
LOL
YCPBB Watch… Everyone drink!
Games not over folks. Even after retarted IBBs
and there’s the first “Well Suzyn, You can’t predict baseball” of the year.
he choked!!
Granderson is up there sitting fastball and he rarely gets one.
Jeez man. It’s change up down and it. Or Slider.
ah, shit! shields sure has a nice changeup. They got time to react, but not to catch up with that divy bastard.
So Pena, who can’t hit Sabathia comes up with the bases loaded, hits a grand slam; Granderson, who can’t hit Shields, comes up with the bases loaded and strikes out.
Have I mentioned yet that I hate Pena?
Shields came through with a huge curve on strike 1.
Tip your cap. If that pitch misses the strike zone – entirely different AB
I’m enjoying the fact that Joe West has to preside over this.
Love Grandy but like Tex cannot hit the change. Will chase it all day. You just knew short of seeing a fastball that was going end just like it did.
Feels like the same at bat with him and Shields every time. I would try to hit one of those get me over slide/curves.
Shields could throw that changeup all day to Granderson and get the same result. Players have limits… and that’s one of Granderson’s. He’d swing through that pitch all day.
He wouldn’t have chased strike 2 that time if Shields didn’t hit with the first curveball of the game on strike 1. If Shields missed Brandy would have seen a fastball at some point with a 1-0 count and the bases loaded.
bad luck
Anyone else having trouble watching the game on MLB.com? I have the MLB subscription..
give me your password and I’ll double check for you
Thank you Arod
hah, thanks, Conie. Cerrone, sponge boy, used to say “Sit me or trade me.”
I think moving up in the box against Shields and his junk would be a decent strategy for Grandy//Swish etc.
which team, in ST,had a blonde in red hot pants as the ball boy in left? Major Leagues! Major Leagues!
Tampa, with the bullpens where they are, she probably wouldn’t make it to September. (away on medical leave)
Wow cat like
Cano-here we go.
A-God baby!
Alex locked in.
A rod with the hot stick
Man. AROD looks good doesn’t he?
Yup. He looked good from Spring Training through mid-June last year until the knee issue.
Pray for a healthy year.
he must be seeing Kate Hudson, again.
Wow, new knees FTW!!!!!
AROD MVP !
Tex is still garbage.
Hmmm, a pop up from Tex. Haven’t seen that in a while. ; -)
How retro of tex
Tex right back to the pop up
Tex got caught in between. He was thinking bout going the other way then gave up on the swing mid dtride
Come on swish
Nice slide.
Why thank you Pena.
Wow. I was starting to have RISPiratory failure before that play.
sweet! Lou, you’re right. Godd aggressive running, Robbie!
kinda looked like Molina swiped him, on the replay.
RBI MACHINE!!!
Best signing of the off-season!
BAUL IRANYEZ!!!!
What a horrible signing. RAULLLL!!!!!!!
Ibanez just became a true Yankee
So wait, we want to cut Ibanez, right?
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Mr. April!!!
Rauuuuuuuuuul.
Release this bum. He has no business getting MLB AB’s this season.
Ibanez: True Yankee
This game isn’t too bad after all
He was saving it for the regular season.. I get it.. Sorry Raul.. I thought you were just washed up
Not bad, old man!
Just came inside my home and wat do I see, a 3 run homer from Ibanez….nice!!!!
What was Sterling’s call for Raul???
I-bomb-nez? Just my guess.
Apparently it was “Raul’s So Cool”
What a Lame-O call
RAUL BE SEEING YOU!
“Raul’ll be seeing ya!”
Is that his call?
rays suck
I’m sorry I ever doubted you Raul.
Going going Gandhi! Sterling?
lol shields is mad
Way to trash the momentum Raul!
#H8er
Sterlings call?
Looks like Raul was reading RAB comments and decided to give the haters an FU
Still got some bad speed bitches
He is too old and STILL blocking all those young bats in AAA.
RAUL IBANEZ!!!
Steal early tardy!
Ha! Autocorrect made that oxymoron. GARDY not tardy
lol how pissed was Shields when Martin tried avoiding the tag
They had to give Gardner a hit on that; He is neck and neck with A-Rod for the batting title
Guarantee it had more to do with Longos GG candidacy
Where is Mr Pistol Pete?
Because the dinosaurs just woke up.
Zobrist was in anything’s good for a strike mode. CC saw that.
they shoulda walked him.
oh, Longo saw too much air on that one.
Don’t understand the pitch in.
CC already looks exhausted
So CC’s not quite there yet.
CC looks like dogshit today.
If we win this game= 1st place to start the season. Gravy= New episode of Yankees Classics
The rest of MLB is playing baseball 1968 style; the Yankees and Rays are playing 1998.
They shoulda let CC opt-out.
Definitely. I can’t believe they’ve let CC play so poorly for the past five months; they should just release him.
So how long do we keep CC in there if he just keeps giving it back?
Does anyone else wanna mute the game right now? Pinella has to be the shittiest analyst I’ve ever heard on Yes
Almonte, right?
The shift has taken 2 away from Grandy
Gj sitting on something other than a fastball this time Grandy.
Pinella and Kay shutting out the others…not a good thing
Let’s go pop up
Molina talked him into calling that
way to bunt, Swish!
If anyone is drinking for each YCPBB, I wish your liver well.
Glad Swish didn’t pull a groin.
Rauooool-take Shields to school.
Raul hit that hard, but they had him guessed right. Lot of that today.
Still 6 -5, but we shoulda scored.
John Sterling “You Cant Predict Baseball ” Update: 5 times in the first 3 and a half innings of the season……Im starting to be able to predict when he’s gonna say it…eeeeary
ZZ looks a little off today, as if i’m not already pointing out the obvious
walk molina to clog up the bases. what a genius.
C’mon cc it’s effing Molina!!!
Is anyone watching the game on the MLB channel? I have the Yes broadcast but Spanish announcers.
I’m stuck with the douche Tampa broadcast
David Phelps anyone?
Joe west is awful
Not sure why they’d add an older guy to the booth. Pinella sounds like a granny (woman that became a man – not the reverse).
Tranny dammit
Swisher with the extreme range!
SWISHA
Swish showing off his Field tool
Swish turned on the afterburnes!
How do you walk Molina?
Ibanez hitting, Swish on D. I’m ready for Jeter’s range up the middle!
I want fat CC back. Now.
SUN Sports is so, so bad. They’re getting somewhat more bearable as the game progresses though.
You people can complain about Sweet Lou all you want, but I’ll call you spoiled when you do.
2 bloop hits man.
Yeah, that last one was dug out with a Sand Wedge.
Story of the game: A Rod’s defense.
Crisis averted
good reaction, A-rod. Whew, CC can retire honorably. Nice slider to get Pena.
Is it time for: LoSoRoMO?
I’m a little slow on Lo. I’d start off with So.
I’m glad they’re warming Wade up. He looked great in ST. Wait…what?
Gardy!!!!!
I guess these two women being interviewed is our reward for dealing with the SunSports broadcast?
There are certainly worse rewards.
That was nice.
Lou is showing the years, not very good synch, but he has had some good comments. Mainly Coney is getting plenty airtime, to balance him out.
Wow, great play by Gardner and Cano, what a tag! Balancing out CC.
oops, again. Thanks, 2cd base ump.
Shame on Jennings for thinking no left fielder could get to that in time.
i love baseball, you guys.
(cough) Gardner should have won a gold glove award last year (cough)
I just love it when the Yankees take advantage of the Rays’ overly aggressive nature on the bases, and it seems to happen just about every game
Maddon’s a good manager, but he gets a free pass that other managers don’t.
but Jennings was right that time. That was fantastic coverage and throwing, and tagging.
He was safe, but he was out. Close plays have to be factored into the equation because on the bang-bang play, the call can go against you.
My point has more to do with Maddon’s management style. The opinion is whatever he does is great, and it’s not. He runs his teams into outs, and a team only gets 27 of them.
yeah, I knew you were speaking more macro. But bad example, since (against a lesser fielder, but even test Gardy) and three times out of four, he’d have been in there easy. But the whol premise of aggresive on the basepaths is a gamble between shake-up success and depressing flop. Seems to usually play their way, like earlier to stay out of double play, men on 1st and 2cd, tailor made, but Jeter to first. The bunt , men on 1sr and 3rd: didn’t work, not well done, but didn’t hurt rally toomuch, coulda scored the tying run.
Brett Gardner: “fuck UZR”
TWSS
maddon is wearing out his staff on the first day.
What a pathetic at bat by Swish
wow, Maddon figures to play seriously from the start. Another pitcher? Is it the 6th?
Maddon picking up the slack for LaRussa.
huge AB for gardy.
i don’t feel comfy with a run lead for the SO portion of the SoRoMO connection
stupid to have a best player text poll now, the gam’e still at issue. oes YES get a cut on the text message rates?
the bases loaded for Jeter. Ooh, Maddon managed a bad split.
damn! McGee handled him well. Maddon gets a pass, good lefty there.
did you hear Bob Lorenz on the O’s – Twins, fly to right centerfield wall, where Do – mit missed it!
He did that in a ST game against the Twins too.
he was hoping yo weren’t listening thattime, like I wasn’t.
on the other hand, maybe Doumit is that kind of rightfielder. I heard he was an offensive catcher. Can only hope the Twins’ announcer doesn’t catch the habit, or the pitching staff.
Stop throwing the damn slider
great great double play
*breathes a sigh of relief*
Pretty good game, huh?
This is why the AL East is awesome.
is this new meredith girl hot? i haven’t seen her
http://www.mademan.com/chickip.....arakovits/
Does this answer your question?
Clear upgrade over Kim. Hopefully she can read and write, but if not, I won’t be too broken up about it.
She’s pretty much the only reason I’m checking out the post game show.
Had I not had plans, I’d be right there as well.
ahooow! Foul, fie!
Ugh, foul home runs suck.
Just horrible man. Did the same thing in the ALDS against the tigers.
ouch, Swish. He out-patiented you. That was high.
Not to complain too much on a day the team’s poised to win, but…they’re truly in mid-season LOB form, aren’t they?
New season; same story. Swisher stinks.
Please be being sarcastic.
I’m worried about Robertson to Pena. We’ll see what happens.
Wow, Robertson just missed the corner twice.
DRob getting squeezed
Bullshit right down the middle.
How does Joe West still have a job? The Rays have had a shit-ton of calls go against them as well today.
Shift backfires, awesome.
man, Pena’s was right where Jete usually plays, but we had the semi-shift on. Out-guessing Maddon is maddoning.
great strikeout. I think Houdini lives.
Wow, Maddon is ballsy as hell.
WTF, Maddon? I don’t understand that at all.
2 dumb Joes in one game.
This is amazing.
umm Genius?
Molina just messed up Maddon’s strategy.
Thanks for the laughs, Maddon.
hahaha epic
Wow that was stupid.
lmao
Can you guys imagine what this thread would look like if Girardi pulled those two twisted ideas?
D-Rob chea!!!
Wahoo, Robertson!
There you go, D-Rob. That’s why you’re on my fantasy team.
Harry F’ing Houdini
Grown effin man!
Houdini lives with a little help from his assistance Mr. Maddon.
Not a bad day for the old man.
Haters…….shhhhhh
Haters
Spotted a 3-0 count and he just stands there. We need Gardner to be productive.
Reckon Mo’s got butterflies?
Joe West is pretty much a dirtbag
lol @ that little kid
Turning this shit off.
Good. You say stupid shit anyway.
Mariano might not have it this year. What a way to lose.
It’s the first game of the year. Christ almighty. We haven’t lost, by the way, however likely it seems.
Just can’t take this seriously at all.
ok that sucked
well…early start for WWWMW
Waste of a good game.
sheiss! The Yankees’ first big test: will they fight back?
Fail
yep. Shoulda scored in the 5th(?) with the bases loaded. Helluva game. Pena gets the best player prize.
they had the bases loaded 3 times and couldn’t score. LOB fail game
Mariano is appealing to the home crowd.
All the LOB and Drob lettiing the lineup turn over inn the 8th led to this
Here’s Girardi over managing again. Cost us in the 1st inning and wouldn’t be surprised if this blows up as well.
If this division comes down to a game…
Being this frustrated on Opening Day just feels so, so wrong…
you. can’t. predict. baseball.
Sadly, you can predict RAB threads when we’re not up 15-0.
Am I to late to join the panic?
thats it, season over.
oh well
Pena’s first career hit off of Mo.
Fuck this game.
FUCK!
who do the Rays play next in the playoffs?
Well it wont be the Marlins, I can tell you that.. They were mathematically eliminated 2 games into the season…
We’re in trouble
Damn you thin CC. Where has fat CC gone?
well that just sucks
well thats baseball for ya..un-freaking-believable
Can I haz do-over, plz?
Same thing that happened last year. Yankees failing to add tack on runs. Now I cant watch sports the rest of the day.
ahhhhh!!! Rivera is done! I want Robertson closing!
Waited 5 months for baseball, and first game like this. Seriously sucks
Before everyone goes incontinent, may I remind you all there are still 161 games left in the season. Besides, this kind of stuff is going to happen from time to time – it’s baseball, there is no such thing as perfection. And there’s nothing to suggest the end is near.
Now, please continue your mouth-shitting.
I don’t care if there are 161 games left. We have to live through all of them.
Oh, Greg. Greg, Greg, Greg.
We know that but you really have to say “the fuck was going on girardi’s head”
Would I have issued intentional walks? No, definitely not. But what would you have suggested for the 9th? Not sending Mo out there? You had a lead runner on 3rd with no outs; loading the bases and increasing the chances of making more outs per play was really the only call.
Mo wasn’t sharp, obviously. That happens. He blew five saves last year. He’ll probably do that again this year – maybe more, maybe less. Just because it happened on the first game doesn’t mean it’s a trend.
Basically, shit happens – panicking after a single (!) game is just foolish.
Go out, drink some beer, forget about it. There are tons more opportunities for you to celebrate beautiful plays, and depending on your fan vantage, just as many to be hopelessly incensed for no good reason.
Bravo.
If you let Carlos Pena beat you, you should be embarrassed… Traditional Yankee style today. LOB FAIL.
+1. Can’t leave the bases loaded 3 times. It just can’t happen.
On the bright side, MEREDITH MARAKOVITS POST GAME!!!!
If there was a “Like” button connected to this comment, I would click it.
Last year I didn’t start getting upset about losses until August. It was so much better. I highly advise that for anyone who is pissed about today.
Again, if this division comes down to a game…
That’s the difference year. We have to win the division.
If the division comes down to one game, it’ll be just as easy to point to any one of the 60+ losses that are still to come this season, Greg. Holy shit.
Technically true, but this is one that should have been in the win column. WE need to steal game that we shouldn’t win to even it out.
And its not just that we lost. It’s that we looked like the same team from last year. We didn’t have a hit past the fifth inning? No tack on runs.
its baseball lol. 6 runs isn’t good enough? doesnt matter when the runs come. 6 runs should be more than enough to win.
You’re right, Greg. That seems a weakness. They did big work, but then the fire went out.
exactly..thats what I always do..its a long season no need to get worked up over every game until it truly matters
Every game matters, you just don’t realize they matter until august.
yea no kidding…but august is when they matter most..those are the absolute “must win” games, those are I the ones I get worked up over
Retiring one year too late…
Pena must be so stoked to be back in the Al east he has no career if he can’t face the yankees 19 times
Just 4 thinks to say about todays game. 1. Girardi sucks. 2. CC is our ace? 3. Granderson and Texeira can you please bunt sometimes just to avoid the shift? 4. Mariano looks like 42 years old today.
Tex is to hitting what Giambi was to defense.
Hard to say. He manages with it up his ass 90% of the time. Maybe the next game he will start the game off with an IBB. Jackass move, that was.
Fuck the Rays.
There’s just no excuse for Girardi demanding that his ace intentionally walk Sean Rodriguez in the 1st inning just to set up a lefty lefty matchup. We need to dump that clown and his binder. Hire David Cone as manager.
No way. Best manager in baseball was on the other team today.
Please tell me you don’t mean the guy that put on the bunt/suicide squeeze?
Zobrist is now 3-3 with 1 double and 2 triples against Mo. What the hell?
I can finally catch the game! What’d I miss?
Well that was the most absurd game I’ve ever seen. I’m not even mad. Just confused.
let me hit behind arod
off a T
thank you, sir
Looks like the Yanks begin the season just like they ended last year’s with terrible situational hitting.
Still dumbfounded how they could trade a young hitting talent like Montero when their lineup has Captain Groundout and Private Popup up to their ol’ ways again.
Let’s bring out the “It’s only a loss in April” trolls. New season, new rules. Yanks can’t afford to “throw” the division in hopes of a weaker opponent anymore.
Sounds cold but as putrid as the offense was..Mo was given a lead to protect..and failed to do so.
It’s pretty incredible how annoyed i get over one of these games. Especially since the actual players are already over it i’m sure.
Mo is the fourth closer to blow a lead and the game so far this opening day weekend.
I blame global warming.
This loss ruined my day.
I finished all my work early just so I could watch the game. And for it to end that way. My god, I’m so depressed.
I don’t think I should watch baseball anymore if it makes me feel like this.
The game of life is hard to play
I’m gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I’ll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
After watching the Sawks lose their opener, the thought had occurred, well nothing that bad could happen to us. Watching Mo lose is never easy, maybe more shocking.