May
17
Game 38: How about some runs?
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Brett Lawrie dropped his appeal and will not play tonight. (Abelimages/Getty Images)
The Yankees have had some trouble scoring runs these last few days and really for the last two weeks or so, and I think we all need an offensive explosion for sanity’s sake. The Blue Jays are running rookie right-hander Drew Hutchinson out there, a mostly two-pitch guy with good command. Please hit him hard. Here’s the starting nine…
SS Derek Jeter
CF Curtis Granderson
2B Robinson Cano
1B Mark Teixeira
LF Raul Ibanez
DH Nick Swisher
3B Eric Chavez
RF Andruw Jones
C Russell Martin
RHP Phil Hughes
Tonight’s game starts a little after 7pm ET and can be seen on YES locally and MLB Network nationally. Try to enjoy.
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Hughes is the only one putting up quality starts of late so I feel good about this game. Teixera shouldn’t be hitting anywhere near 4th though.
He has good command? Why does that make me think they’ll just hack instead of at least attempting to work the count?
A win would be nice tonight.
ROY PHUCKING HUGHLLADAY!
Drew Ponsonitchison!!!
“Reggie C. says:
May 17, 2012 at 2:43 pm
Both you and Robinson need to hug it out.
Its getting funny for the rest of the board.”
C’mere, Jimmy.
*smoooooooooooch*
The Yanks and Montero have been depressing me for several days now.
Snap out of it boys!
Montero has only been depressing you for several days?
They haven’t gone on major losing streaks. Let’s hope that keeps up.
Really? Shit if I only went on some comments made on this site I’d think the Yankees are currently 0-the season.
I shudder to think what this forum would look like during a six-game losing streak…..and you know one will eventually come.
I think a majority of ledge jumpers will jump at that point and it’ll be nice and quiet for a while.
That would be a nice silver lining.
Anyone else getting YES in non-HD?
Yeah this is weird, half of my HD channels are coming in SD. Grumble grumble.
HD here, Axisa. Time Warner NYC in Brooklyn.
And it just went SD. Your fault
I’m in HD here, watching on YES with Comcast in Jersey.
I’m all good, but I’m watching on DirecTv MLB Extra Innings
Moved from NY’d
You guys have HD and SD, I have 4D.
Please keep me interested and upbeat until at least the fifth inning, Phil
Bold predictions for tonight:
Pitches will be thrown
Hits will be had
Runs will be scored
There will be a winning pitcher
There will be a losing pitcher
really Derek? Really? That’s what you do? First Pitch? Really?
Here, kid. Have an out. No charge.
Hutchison First time through the line up ~.181 second time through <.300
>.300*
A first inning lead!!!
I really missed this Cano guy.
Robbie Cano dontcha know. There’s some good news.
yeahhh Robbie!! Maybe he’ll smile in the dugout after this and piss off a couple of people who think baseball is so serious.
For those that missed it:
http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....nt-4271567
yay a run!
Moar runz pleeze.
Considering Jeter has been around for forever and has had a great career and has, what, 500 or so doubles (and same with Arod), makes me see Cano at 300 doubles already as very impressive.
I heart extra base hits.
Honestly if he continues on his current career path, one has to believe his career ends with a plaque in upstate NY.
I would like that very much, plus it would make me feel smart for choosing Robbie as the one jersey I would splurge the $170 for 4 years ago.
I picked Joba.
Ouch. I can’t blame you, I certainly considered Joba. I didn’t want a jersey for a guy that was older, I wanted to pick a guy who was home grown and would be with the team for awhile. So Joba was definitely part of my thought process.
Ultimately I went with Robbie because A., he’s awesome, and B., even when he’s not on the Yankees, I feel like #24 is usually occupied by a good player. So after he’s gone, hopefully the next guy to wear 24 is a star, and then I can pretend its his jersey too haha.
I did the same exact thing with the same exact results…I’m just hoping they’ll retire 24 when he’s done
Don’t give up. Everyone hearts Joba.
Yeah, but I thought he was going to be a starter at the time.
He could still end up being the closer. I love me some D-Rob, but you never know.
Thank God. I thought this weird new strike-throwing Hughes was re-emerging.
Hughes getting squeeze…
This ump zone is some bullshit.
Phil Hughes ladies and gentlemen.
This isn’t the Mariners lineup…. could be a long night.
Nice Hughesy!
Phil Hughes Ks Jose Bautista. Whattaya know.
ok Hughes– we need some length from our starters. More strikes please.
Wow, Hughes’ fastball looks good tonight.
2 K’s…ah, that could happen to anyone.
HUGHES!!! YAAAAAAAAAH!!
Phil! I like when he just blows people away instead of trying to get too cute with the cutter.
Impressed with Hughes there. Refound his control. I am pleased, at least until next inning when my irrational reactionism will return.
way to settle in Phil
now just do that with fewer pitches
Good sign right there. Heart of the lineup with two men on and no outs, the three straight outs, 2 by strikeouts.
(gruff voice)
Forget about the cutter Hughesy… give ‘em the heater.
Nice recovery. Overpowered three righthanded power hitters in a row. I like 94/95 Phil better than 88 Phil last year.
Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuges!
Hughes came back phucking huge that inning. Probably coast him ~30 pitches though =/
27 up, 27 down. Baseball immortality for David Wells! I can’t believe some people thought Boomer didn’t deserve his own Yankeeography.
still don’t.
btw formally “The Plouffenator,” who brought up what a terrible idea it is.
formerly****
This is a note for Erica that your man is still here. He didn’t run away after posting a solid 2012 FIP.
Haha, I could try to post a better one…but I feel like it would be in vein.
*vain.
Sorry, I had to.
You know, I had vain. Then changed it to vane, then thought no, it’s vein. I should’ve googled it but didn’t
This is why I love Macs. I have a dashboard app that serves as a dictionary/thesaurus. Comes in handy quite often and is quicker than google.
As a Google Chrome user…how dare you say anything is better/faster than Google!!
I have Mac AND Google Chrome. So I guess I win.
Haha, you should look into rockmelt then, according to my friend it’s “google chrome on crack” The only reason I’m not trying it is this is my work computer, and I felt bad enough downloading Chrome…but I just wasn’t using IE.
Hmm I’ll check that out.
FIP! MY FIP! You’re now sort of Raul Ibanez? I cannot keep up with you and your sneaky ways.
I didn’t realize there was a bar for Yankeeographies! It’s not the HOF. To have one, a player should have contributed to the Yankees and be interesting. Boomer certainly qualifies on both fronts.
One of these things is not like the other
Goose Gossage
Ron Guidry
Andy Pettitte
David Wells
Meh, Yankeeographies are just a way for YES to fill space. They can’t keep it too restricted. Wells pitched a perfect game and had an interesting persona, so why not? I don’t want a Wells plaque in Monument Park or anything, but I’m cool with a Yankeeography.
Alex Rodriguez should get a Yankeeography before David Wells.
True, but I also don’t like Yankeeographies for players who aren’t done yet. Just seems dumb, since they’ll have to redo them in a couple of years.
You mean like Jeet’s and his 3 or 4?
Yes, and I agree that they should have chilled out on the Jeter Yankeeographies.
I know one of the producers for Yankeeographies, usually meet up with him a couple times a year. I’ll express your displeasure. : -)
Um. No. Yankeeographies are basically for Yankees royalty. As much as I like Wells I don’t feel like he is deserving of one. Next thing you know Jon Sterling and Michael Kay will get a Yankeeography!
As much as The Dude irritates me, he’s absolutely right.
Sorry I annoy you. I will try to tone down my prissiness and pessimism.
Wow, thanks dude(pun absolutely intended) I just feel like everybody would have more fun watching the game if we wanted/expected positives.
You can’t predict Yankeeographies
I don’t mind a Yankeeography, just don’t retire his number. The Yanks already retire too many numbers.
Exactly. A Yankeeography is basically a video produced in conjunction with YES and MLB Productions about interesting or noteworthy Yankees. Being an all-time great like Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle will guarantee a video. Other than that, being a more recent Yankees with lots of video to build the piece is key. Heck, Hideki Matsui has one, but Roy White doesn’t. Eventually they are going to have to move down a level or two on these if the series is to continue, which it will.
“Hey Coney, why don’t you have a Yankeeography?”
+1
Umm. Umpire is giving Hutchinson everything and Phil Hughes nothing. This ends only one way. Blue Jays will hit many homeruns and Yankees will not draw any walks.
wtp again
So it’s going to be one of these kinda nights where Yankees hit balls right at people and miss homeruns by a foot. Awesome.
I’m not sure if I prefer that to the nights where the Yankees strike out 7 times and hit 20 groundballs to the shortstop.
0-2 then stops attacking. Why. Just go after him like you were to begin with Hugheselberry.
Hugheselberry? I thought we were going for Hughlladay or something that make him a better pitcher, not an injured center fielder.
Lol, I dunno, I like Hugheselberry. Oft injured, enigmatic youngsters with 1 good big-market-seasons to their names. Granted, The Berry’s season was vastly superior, but hey.
You’re still one of my favorite cheeses.
As a brazilian, I wish the Yankees win 6-1 and Gomes hits a HR..
Are you here in the US now?
Nope, Rio.
Well, that’s totally cool, watching the Yankee game with someone in Brazil.
where are you at?
New York. Actually, about 80 miles north of the Stadium.
Jeter with his best Nunez impression.
defense has been rather shitty lately
Derek Nunez
More bad defense extending innings
Phil really needs to be more ePHicient
At this rate he’ll be out by the Phiphth or sixth inning.
I phope he phlasts until the phevenpth.
heh, I think you’re doing it wrong
The spit on my monitor says otherwise.
Dere6 Jete6
one more error tonight and Jeter is on a bus to triple A tomorrow
2 scoreless, but Hughes is on pace to go 5 innings… Going to need to throw something other than a fastball (he’s thrown I think 5 non-fastballs out of 42 pitches)
Lol at Sterling/Waldman having a love fest for the Reds, who we aren’t even playing yet.
Favorite PR guy: on the Reds
Favorite manager: Dusty Baker
Favorite player: Miguel Cairo
Speaking of the Reds, I saw the greatest T-shirt ever today on someone. It had the Rick Ross lyric, “Everyday I’m hustlin….” with a pic of Pete Rose. I need that shirt.
I want it.
http://lookatmeshirts.com/look.....shirt.html
That shirt will be mine.
….and mine.
Ooh, they also have it in black.
I know the days when A-Rod was our best hitter are gone, and in reality he’s probably like our 4th best hitter or something along those lines, but I still just feel like this lineup is entirely different without him.
ARod is having a poor year so far, but OPS wise, he is 11th of 26 of 3Bman with 100 PA.
Strike 3 to Derek was a strike, but hasn’t been called one all game until that pitch.
Looked a tad low to me. Borderline, but the reply seemed to show it juuust slightly below the knee cap.
I’m going By Gameday and according to that it was in the rectangle that represents the low outside corner
Can’t argue with that I suppose, but I still thought it was just a tad low. I’m not blaming the ump, it is too close for that.
did I just witness a Yankee exploit the shift?
Shhh!!! it’s like a baby deer, we don’t want to startle them, just act natural!!!
Well that’s gotta be the weakest double I’ve seen in awhile. I’ll take it though.
Didn’t Melky once hit a double literally off Farnsworth? I think I remember a comebacker hitter Farnsworth in the foot and flying into the stands for a ground-rule double.
Can you find video of that? It sounds too funny and I don’t remember it.
I love how Jeter NEVER argues with the HP Ump…. simply has an intellectual conversation about the nature of the pitch.
Because Jeter is classy.
I’m looking at your, Lawrie.
*you
Here comes Tex to Kill the Rally!
thankfully we still have Teix getting plenty of RBI chances…
GODDAMNIT TEX.
Here’s an eye-rolling gem from my dad before, commenting on that kid Gomes, “We should have someone like that in the organization — OH WAIT, WE DON’T.”
/trollingaboutMontero’d
Hey dad, Gary Sanchez says hi.
Tell him about Mason Williams Erica! A Yankee center fielder with the last name Williams? What’s not to like?
That takes so much effort!
I know, it’s hard. The casual (and by casual, I mean non-internet Yankee blog whore) fan doesn’t hear about prospects until they’re much further along. You might just have to suck it up until Mason makes it to AA!
Yes! I keep referring him to RAB and then nothing. Go Mason, GO! PLEASE make it to AA because reasons!
who are you calling a whore!!! I’m a one Yankee blog man!
You proposed internet marriage, ya trollop.
yeah…and to quote the Dropkick Murphy’s “I’m a monogamous man, no more one night stands.”
Womp womp
If this is an Archer reference….you just win at life, congrats.
No no, though Archer is pretty funny. Just sounds. Just making noises. It’s better than booing at the TV.
If it’s not Montero, they don’t exist.
I feel like a lot of the fans who “follow the farm” have the same mindset as your dad.
If it’s not Scottish, it’s CRAP!
/fatbastard’d
Trolololo!
So does DBJ, Mason, Austin.
I keep telling him to read RAB and he doesn’t listen.
You gotta at least get him some Dotf’s!
Boggles. The. Mind.
I just don’t know of an all around great hitter who devolved in a matter of three seasons when age wasnt involved.
If anybody knows any examples, let me know
Derek Jeter, April 2010 – July 2011?
Pretty sure that would have fallen into the age-related category. Sure, he’s surged since, but middle infielders drop off pretty quick, and at the time age was the blame.
Agreed, at the time it was, but more recent performance suggest otherwise.
Right. But I think the question was more like “what 30-32 year olds have dropped off like Tex has”. Jeter was older than that at the time, so I don’t know if he counts.
OK,then how bout Mauer? Not that he’s completely “devolved”, but he certainly is a shadow of what he was three-five years ago. Although I suppose the park factor is the main culprit.
Bret Boone?
Oh wait….
David Ortiz 2009-mid 2010?
If the trend continues maybe Albert Pujols
wouldn’t everything be age-related?
Could be PED related
Adam Lind.
BOOM.
Possibly but the only problem was that he was inconsistent before his crash. He only hit .300 once and that was the year before the crash. Tex consistently put up .300+ averages.
Bit of a stretch, but Ben Grieve, all around “great” might be a stretch, but fell off a cliff going into his prime
Injuries according to his wiki page. I use wikipedia for things that can’t really be lied about.
The next close call that goes against the Yanks, Girardi is going to get himself run. Just have that feeling.
He was peeved about a bunch of calls last night, and it’s the last game of the series so you don’t have to worry about the ump holding a grudge the next game…so I could see it.
Surprised they just didn’t intentionally walk Cano there. (Though a 2-1 change and 3-2 change is one of those… let’s see if he chases or we can fool him)
Why is Tex hitting 4th (even with ARod out)…. I’m assuming Girardi wants to break up the switch hitters, but why not hit Swisher 4th and Tex 6th.
Why is that second pitch a ball? ugh.
Too many balls. Almost a 1-1 ratio. He’ll be lucky to get through 5. Hopefully he can at least keep the runs to a minimum.
AL East is so tough this year. I feel like all the teams in the division are just beating each other up.
Damn it.
Bautista is good at hitting the baseball. Goddamn.
WTF, not there, Phil!
Yeah keep throwing those cutters…
Could’ve left it to the Yankees to turn Bautista’s season around.
Yup. Yanks can’t let the guy beat them. And also a fly ball pitcher and the AL East is not a good combo. Sigh. Poor Hughsie, can’t get a ground ball to save his life.
Talk about a meat ball…86mph high and centered. Shit I could hit that.
For the record: still think we win this game. But that was a baaaad pitch.
Yeah Hughes. You give up that lead.
By one run… one run lead. One. Run.
Absolutely no confidence right now. None.
You should probably see a doctor about that.
I left the North
I travelled South
I found a tiny house
And I can’t help the way I feel
Oh yes, you can kick me
And you can punch me
And you can break my face
But you won’t change the way I feel
‘Cause I love you
Oh…
And is it really so strange?
Oh, is it really so strange?
Oh, is it really so, really so strange?
I say NO, you say YES
(and you will change your mind)
Hah, this is great because I love The Smiths.
You’re just egging me on.
I’m just saying The Boy With A Thorn in His Side is one of my favorite songs of all time.
The first half of “Louder than Bombs” is still some of the best shit ever.
Hair metal songs, please?
Just for you, and because this is both still my favorite song of the era and you probably don’t know it…
My love, our love is stranger than paradise
I’ve had enough, I can’t put up with this sacrifise
Cause I’m a street hero, a street star, oh, and I’m a rebel at heart
It’s not you, it ain’t me, it’s our love baby, can’t you see
Why did you take me to the top
Oh no, oh no, our love is stranger than paradise
Oh no, oh no, stranger than paradise
My love, I don’t wanna keep you hanging on
I’m gonna tell you right now – right now
I’m gonna tell you what it’s all about
All my love for you, it made me do things I would never do
I can’t go on, I gotta let go
Oh no, oh no, our love is stranger then paradise
Oh no, oh no, stranger than paradise
Oh, oh no
Sleez Beez? I just looked this up. They look like Skid Row! This is fantastic.
One-song band. A great song, though.
and, exhale….
Just give us a quality start.
So we can lose 3-2.
FWIW, I still think you could go far worse with a Yankeeography than David Wells.
You could do Stump Merrill.
I will they did one on the lost faces of that era. I miss you, Chuck Cary.
Andy Stankiewicz.
Stankie the Fucking Yankee.
Matt DeSalvo?
Christian Parker.
Ooh that’s a good one.
Scott Proctor.
He will forever be remembered for giving up Longoria’s walkoff homer in game 162.
YES, and that alone deserves a Yankeeography.
Yankeeography: The Greatest Loss in Yankee History
I wonder… is there a docu made yet about game 162 from last year? With all the games? I’d watch that.
As would I. That was honestly the most exciting night of baseball I remember since the 2003 ALCS game 7
Heh, probably. I think Tino and even Clemens should get one first though
they already have
http://www.tvguide.com/detail/.....id=3506552
Wow, I missed both on Wiki.
MLB had a “Greatest Games” series where you got the radio broadcast of classic games on CD. I bought my mother-in-law the Wells perfect game for Christmas once.
It was special enough a moment. Really.
Just my opinion.
What a great gift and what a bad-ass MIL!
They still haven’t done one on Bill Dickey, which boggles my mind.
Carl Pavano, Kevin Brown or Javy Vazquez.
Why is every team we play dramatically shifting against all of our lefty hitters, and why aren’t they all bunting all the time until it stops? Also, James Mcdonald perfect through 4 against the Nats with 9 strikeouts, he has a nasty curveball
1. The fielders are shifting because it’s been working.
2. The batters aren’t bunting (or hitting the other way, at least) because they’re either stubborn or just don’t know how.
Wow, 9Ks through 4? that’s impressive.
I can’t think of any Blue Jays Hall of Famers. I’m drawing a blank.
Winfield, Rickey, Niekro.
All had very brief tenures with the Jays, but Winfield and Rickey got rings out of them.
I thought of Rickey but couldn’t place him as a Blue Jay. Padres I remember.
He was on the ’93 World Series team, I believe.
Roberto Alomar
Paul Molitor
Alomar is the only player in the Hall of Fame with a blue jays hat. Molitor went in as a Brewer.
Roberto Alomar?
Dave Stieb might belong in there. He was awesome.
His career was too injury plagued so he had a shorter peak.
He was Mr. Fucking Blue Jay, though.
Roberto Alomar.
I get Hutchinson’s strategy: I’ll just walk everyone until I get to Teixeira again.
Since the Yankees will have scored 5 runs by then, I fully approve of that!
Just like MLB is going to eliminate the Jeff Nelson first to third move, they should also eliminate defensive shifts.
They should eliminate the “it scraped the jersey, that’s a HBP” rule first.
They should expand instant replay first.
Robot umps!!
First thing I would do if I were King of Baseball would be to stop catchers blocking the plate.
So…
Robot Umps
No catchers blocking the plate
No defensive shifts
Did I get everything?
for fuck’s sake
this team might set a record for GIDPs
Swisher should have pulled an Albert Belle and ran him over
All this team can do right now is shoot itself in the foot.
Swish needs to run Johnson over there
DP every single time, might as well just bunt now.
Nice going Eric Texeiria
I’ll come out and say it on here: It’s my birthday tomorrow.
Sappy Birthday!
How old?
lol “sappy” Birthday
Old enough that my first musical memory was the late Donna Summer, but not old enough to feel bad about myself over it.
Sad about Donna Summer. Especially since the Grammys are so far away so she won’t get as good a tribute as Whitney Houston did.
Ha-ha, I’m right in that sweet spot myself. Happy birthday.
Birthday, yeah!! The Yanks need to win tomorrow!
Happy B-Day dude. Yanks are gonna win one for ya.
Argh. I hate double fucking plays. When will the ball ever find a hole? Dammit!
please Andruw, do something here!
…that’s not what i meant. I should have been more specific.
Man, what happened to Andruw Jones? I thought that guy was a sure-fire Hall of Famer. At one point. Now he looks like Marcus Thames against righties.
Well at least they are consistent.
Happy Hour has begun!
Happy hour? Oh that is right, I comment and jackass responses begin. That was a good one. I am still laughing…
Yes, we’re the jackasses…riiiiight.
Time for another inning of high fastballs / hoping Phil doesn’t hang one of his secondary pitches.
That’s funny that Leiter didn’t know Winfield and Rickey because he was on the ’92 and ’93 teams that those guys were on.
He probably remembers his ring in Florida better since he was always hurt in Toronto
Honestly at this point, Joe’s jackass stubbornness refusing to try a new line up is as much to blame as this ineffective offense.
This constant belief that this will turn around anytime soon is of no comfort because the at bats are not getting better, just the same night after night.
please Athenian, grace our small minds with an optimal line up shake -up that will get this team magically rolling again.
I don’t think there is one. They’re just going to continue playing like crap until they stop playing like crap. Waiting for that to happen is frustrating, but there aren’t any easy answers.
I wonder if Athenian is Duh Innings. I want to hear this lineup…
Who is Duh Innings?
Another poster, who isn’t only in favor of a line-up shake-up, but an outright fire sale.
I’m convinced he’s been banned.
Which actually makes me sad.
Someone else will step up and carry out his ideas and his legacy will live on. Just you wait and see. It’ll happen.
Yea, but I developed an emotional investment in him. I was never treated/accused of doing things I didn’t do by anyone else quite like him.
I’ve seen his lineup shakeup idea weeks ago, and I didn’t want him banned then. But his responses the other night were unacceptable, and I will shed no tears if he was banned. RAB is better than what he was bringing to the table the other night.
Fire sale is stupid. That solves nothing.
Tell Duh Innings that.
Apparently he is banned.
Well good.
Wow nice response. Keep hammering that round peg into a square hole.
Ok, that was an immature response to a comment that was meant to inflame and anger the general commenting group. We were both wrong. However, you have presented an argument, that being the members of the line up could react favorably to a shake up in said line up. Defend your argument, preferably using the new line up you would suggest using.
Which comment was meant to inflame and anger? Mine was not. I don’t like Girardi. I don’t think he is a good in game manager. I think he has less faith in players than Torre did. I personally think he needs to go, but Joe Maddon is not available. And in 2009 the Yankees won despite Girardi’s managing, not because of it.
I’d try this for one night.
Jeter
Martin – make him bunt a few times NL style
ARod/Cano/grandy
Cano/ARod
Ibanez/Swisher
Swisher/ibanez/jones
Tex/jones
Chavez
Jones
Completely unorthodox but removes Tex from a serious run producing spot which might help. Use Cano to provide protection to ARod or Grandy.
I don’t know if I’d let Martin hit 2nd right now. He looks as lost as Teix. Maybe he’d see better pitches hitting between Jeter and whoever, though.
That’s actually not a bad idea. Now how hard was that?
You know, honestly besides Martin batting 2 that isn’t that balls out crazy. I’d personally do
Jeter
Arod
Granderson
Cano
Swish
Ibanez
Tex
Jones/Chavez
Martin
I would sign on for that lineup. I like it.
Yanks can always move things back if different players get hot, but this groups all the better (so far) hitters together.
Of the everyday players who have batted second, Martin holds the lower strikeout percentage. Higher walk percentage and knowing his ground ball tendency should be a clue to put Jeter in motion.
True, but A-Rod has the OBP, but not the power, which makes him a better candidate for a 2-spot than the 3-4 he’s currently been occupying.
This is why I did what I did.
I just feel like that Martin is just as lost at the pate as Tex, so batting him second is about as useful as leaving Tex in the middle of the lineup.
Completely agree. Girardi seems like he’s managing in 1990 instead of 2012.
That’s cool, I didn’t realize Jeter was in the Majors in 1990!
High school aged Jeter > Alvaro Espinosa.
Heh.
What does that even mean?
What is that even supposed to mean?
Is this directed toward me?
No. It’s a total setup for Will the Thrill to tell me 1990 was the Dark Ages or something.
OH. Will, go for it…
waiting…
still waiting for this line up that will save the day…I even asked like a non-jerk up there…
Jeter
Granderson
Rodriguez
Cano
Athenian
Swisher
Jones
Gardner
Martin
I laughed.
Sigh.
Why would u throw him a curve? He can’t hit your heat…..AT ALL
Well Phil held em off as long as he could. You can only throw 95 for so long and then you start hanging your other pitches. I don’t see this offense breaking through.
Hutchinson’s gotten lucky quite a few times thus far. I disagree.
Cano should have dropped that ball and turned two.
There were no force plays.
So?
Runs, please.
Smoke and mirrors, fellas. Smoke and mirrors. Keep it up.
Hughes had a good curve his last time out. Did he leave it in NY? Fastball heavy tonight.
Man, this offense is down right offensive. I would have liked to say that Tex is off to a slow start but he hasn’t looked right in a long time. Martin is stinking up the joint and Cano/Grandy aren’t hitting consistently so…blah.
Man if Bautista misses that ball … inside the parker potential.
Inside the park HRs are my favorite play in baseball, I think. Oh well. It definitely would have been a triple.
Depends on how Bautista recovers. If he pops right up and runs it down, it’s a triple. If he puts his head down and jogs on over, maybe Jeter gets around.
Yeah, right. Bautista’s “skills” as a 3B’man caused that play. Poorly played.
a decent line up and hughes is back to being 80 pitches in 4 innings.
This team is old and kinda sucks… if we dont make it this year i wish we come in last so that there are some decent picks.
Come on Robbie, drive in some runs here.
Tie the score or suffer my wrath!!
What shalleth be your wrath?
I didn’t really think it through that far.
Lead Researcher for “Yankeeography: Athenian.”
How ’bout now?
I’ll give them another inning or two.
didn’t work this time
Tex fears no wrath
Three run HR for Tex here…. he’s due.
Here comes Tex to Kill the Rally! Again!
nerdo, do you post at anyother time than directly before a Tex at bat, and directly after a Tex failed at bat?
Yes. Occasionally.
Just trying the reverse jinx in a futile attempt to get him going. Silly, I know.
haha. Intentional error methinks.
Robinson Canope
That Bautista luckbox feels huge right now. Can’t catch a break.
Oh my effin GOD
Surprise.
3-40. Has anyone ever seen a stretch like this?
Teixera has probably left close to 1,000 men on base this season.
I feel like Hamilton would have 100RBI already if he had all the chances with men on base that Tex has had.
101 including 5 today, worst on the Yankees
Cano is a close second at 100 LOB
This is when Duh should show up.
I think we need him.
Like we need genital warts.
NO!
Jokes! Jokes. BREATHE.
*breathes*
Sorry, I forgot.
Tex couldn’t get the job done.
Shocking!!
Sky is blue, water is wet and Tex pops up.
Tex pops up right into the narrative.
I don’t think they win in 2009 without Teixeira. I’d still make that deal, every time.
With that said… UGH. Enough, already.
Yeah, pretty much. I’m hoping that he’s just not feeling well, and that he’ll start producing as soon as he feels fine.
But it’s starting to feel more like grasping at straws.
Something that has always worried me was the possibility that they made all those moves prior to the ’09 season and they’d only get 1 title out of it. Like the Celtics when they brought in Allen and Garnett.
But, still 1 > 0.
You could say the same thing with A-Rod. We only got one title out of him.
Well I suppose you could lump his new contract in with all of that.
tex is a dog
Oh, plouffe!
Realistically, can Tex be benched? Or is there something in his contract that says he can’t? He is plain pitiful to watch.
Care to take Adam Lind off our hands?
Would I be the first lady GM? Say it ain’t so!
I will shank you before that happens.
Love,
Kim Ng
HA
Straight up? Hell yeah.
I suppose he deserves it, but in favor of who? Anyone else would be a defensive downgrade, and it’s not like the Yanks have someone on the bench pounding the ball and waiting for playing time.
I don’t know. Pure irrational thinking.
The best irrational thinking is the purest.
I see what you did there.
I’d take anyone with an OBP above .300 until he gets his act together.
that curve was filthy.
If Hughes can throw that curve all the time, he’d be our number 2
Who would have thought that the dimensions of a stadium could bring down such a great hitter?
The rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, the rain falls hard on a humdrum town
This town has dragged you down
Oh, no and everybody’s got to live their life
And God knows I’ve got to live mine
God knows I’ve got to live mine
Did I mention any “woe is me” stuff?
I just said that the lure of the short porch in Yankee Stadium has destroyed Tex as an offensive player.
I love that song.
I actually agree with you. Improper use of meme foul.
The Mets say hi. Wait…
They don’t have great hitters outside of Wright and even then CitiField only screwed him for a year.
Yankees have too many #7 hitters & #4 starters on their team.
Oh god, Feinsand and Susyn talking about Joe “sending messages” to his players.
He won’t drop Tex to the six spot, and you think he’ll bench someone for a week?
At least it’s more interesting than Suzyn and John rhapsodizing about reconnecting with Miguel Cairo when the Reds are in town.
This really happened.
Wax poetic
Really? Oh, how we must all long for the days of John and Suzyn figuring out how to place an online order for pizza.
that was the most infuriating conversation to listen to. I’d rather them regal me with stories about Miguel Ciaro the rest of the season then talk about that again.
…I’m glad I missed that.
Yea, they also told me how Hughes was just blowing the ball by every hitter. Then I get home just as Joey Bats goes deep.
But it seems that other than the high pitch count, Hughes has been OK.
+1 it did it was awful
That would absolutely happen.
Still waiting on that guaranteed rise in his BABIP.
Wingardium Leviosa!
I think the Yankees ought to start wearing camouflage so that the hitters will think no one is on base.
What’s more shocking? That they are 3-40 with RISP over the last 5 games or that they’ve had 40 RIPS AB’s in the last 5 games??
It’s pitiful. It really is. There’ve been enough good licks to give Hughes a nice lead.
You can’t be rationally negative on a Game Thread, though. Save that for the daytime threads.
What? Waiting for a 3 run homer isn’t fun as heck?
Earl Weaver always thought so.
Chavy bomb coming
We’ll take it……..I guess…..
Just wanted to get that rispfail on the board.
Hamilton in 2013 please.
Nah.
if it was ONLY 2013, hell yes.
long term deal = disaster waiting to happen
Bryan Mitchell with 5IP 5K 0BB 0ER 6GO-2FO so far tonight.
Wow. I just realized that all of our good/interesting prospects are at least 4 years away from the majors. Depressing. This is life post-Montero.
Well, according to someone, Mason Williams should be the LF next year.
well if Bryce Harper can do it …
I meant to ask if he honestly thought Mason = Harper.
Yeah so Bryan Mitchell just struck out the side in the sixth. 6IP 8K now. Only 74 pitches.
Beautiful. I know Mike is a huge fan, hopefully his prospect love is well-placed. I’m hopeful.
ZombieChav!<3
now chavez doubles, is a little late
FOR THE LOVE
Andruw seems to have been pretty worthless lately.
Fucking Puh-thetic
3-41. .073
I’m ready for some football!
Not if you’re a Jets fan.
I actually think the Jets will do well this year. Easy schedule and nobody is expecting them to do anything.
Tebow!!!!!
Starting!!!!!!!!
Tebow’s not gonna start unless he beats Sanchez in training camp or Sanchez completely fails.
Call into Francesa and tell him that. He’s already convinced that Tebow will start based upon what the Jets say publicly.
Sorry Greg, but if Tebow starts…the Jets are doing a whole lot of nothing this year. I still thin Sanchez can be at least average, if not slightly above. And I’m a Giants fan.
I’m perfectly fine with Sanchez if he has the right supporting cast. I also still have no clue why Tebow is here.
Why don’t they take all the quarterbacks who can’t throw….AND PUT THEM ON THE JETS!!!
Something has to change. I’d start by sending a message and moving Teixera down to 7th tomorrow.
Does it really matter where anyone bats at this point?
Yes it does. Swisher and Ibanez have been better than Teix. Not saying much but at least those two have shown signs of life at times.
Jack Curry?@JackCurryYES
Before Hutchison’s six solid innings, rookies were 3-0 with 1.67 ERA in 4 starts vs Yanks in 2012. Starts by Chen (2), Darvish & Smyly.
This, of course, is just an urban legend.
Same thing happened a couple of years ago.
Yanks with RISP 3-41.
Gomes 1-1.
In other words, the worst-hitting NL pitcher has as good of a chance to get a hit with RISP.
That seems impossible.
Yeah so Bryan Mitchell just struck out the side in the sixth. 6IP 8K now. Only 74 pitches
FYI: if this team could hit a lick, Joe would’ve let Hughes finish the 6th.
great play by Cory Wade.
Haha. Singleton with the Freudian slip: ” this call to the book….er bullpen is sponsored by..”
World’s Shittiest Squeeze
That wasn’t a very safe safety squeeze.
thanks for the free out
Wholly shit, they pulled a Yankees
Maybe the tables have now turned.
Or not…
thanks God he threw home -Cano was not at first.
We’ve got 3 innings to run into a HR. Ibanez and Swish have been close so my bet is on them. If we’re lucky someone will draw a walk before that HR.
So how much would it take to sign Shaun Marcum after the season?
I like Shawn Marcum.
Nevermind, he just allowed a home run.
Do not want.
69 million over 6 years
I would DL Teixiera…for multiple reasons. He needs to get over his flu-like symptoms and clear his head of his hitting issues. Maybe some perspective would help him make some real adjustments. Or maybe not. But, he’s not going to be a hero playing thru this.
ok, so, Swisher @ 1st? Then who’s in RF? Ibanez? Wise? Or Chavez at 1st… then what happens when he shatters?
It’s 15 days, LOL. It’s only May 17th. Remember last season when Jeter went on the DL and came back like a house on fire? 2 weeks off the field might make a big difference for Tex.
Mitchell up to 10K and 0BB in 7 innings.
Wow. That’s just awesome.
Yankees minor league pitchers have been rolling lately.
scout: the Yankees can’t hit a lick right now. It really does not matter what the pitcher throws.
make him pay, Curtis, make him pay
not exactly what I had in mind
Grandy, make use of this reprieve.
E2, Brutae.
This is pretty awesome.
If Martin has dropped that it would have ignited a7 run rally
Whatever
So…umm…Greg, Athenian…where is this ledge that you guys hang out on?
In my mind. Emotional fragility, Self Confidence
I’m about to reply to my own comments with Smiths and Cure lyrics.
And late-era Queen lyrics, too.
Try Innuendo. Fantastic heavy power ballad
YES
I fucking love that album.
E-2.
Has there ever been a Catcher with the last name “Brutus” ?
http://www.baseball-reference......utus001bar
E tu, Brutus?
Kevin Long should be on the hot seat
Thankfully, the people who make decisions about his job security understand baseball.
Not that I think Long needs to go but are you saying Mike Sciosia doesn’t understand baseball?
http://individual.utoronto.ca/.....alLeap.jpg
Scioscia didn’t fire his buddy, the GM did. Or Pujols, if you believe Jon Heyman..
I don’t see how it’s his fault. Everyone can see what the hitters are doing wrong. They have to correct their own mistakes.
This. K-Long has done an admirable job for the most part, 6 weeks of an underachieving offense does not put him on the hot seat.
6 weeks? Every season guys go not these absurd collective slumps. Situational hiting has been atrocious for years now. The lineup consistently makes pitchers they’ve never sen before look like Cy Young candidates.
And yet they’ve somehow won 5 WS since ’96.
They’ve somehow only won 1 since 2000.
That’s still pretty good. Not many teams win more than 1 WS in a decade. That’s a bad bar to set.
The playoffs are a crapshoot. If you run into a hot goalie… wait. Wrong sport.
Still, short series are a bitch.
Witness two weak Cardinals teams winning two WS in as many tries.
And yet they make the playoffs just about every year. And the playoffs are a crap shoot and having nothing to do with Kevin Long.
So…stop overreacting. Please?
I still don’t want to go to Saturday’s game.
Por que?
Meh.
You know what’s the great thing about a slump?
There’s a hot streak right around the corner. And if you get too down on them, you’ll miss it.
IIIIIII know
There’s some ice cream in the fridge.
Bronx Bombers Sundae???
Enough to make your brain freeze.
Nah I ate it all.
Votto. You have to.
Go… Reds?
Painful.
..Votto is on my fantasy team?
Go Votto?
Just satin it’s be a shame to miss the chance to see an elite LHB who will forever play in the NL. It may be 2017 before the Reds come back
I’ll go in your place
GO TO THE GAME.
UGH BUT
But what? Erica, it’s Yankee Stadium. Even when they lose, something good comes out of it. YOU. MUST. GO.
It’s also the Saturday of MY birthday weekend.
Fiiiiiiine, I’ll go and celebrate your birthday!
nice start from hughes today. not great, but serviceable. good job
He kept them in the game but with this offense, unless you throw a CGSO you’re screwed.
Other than length, nothing wrong with the start.
Anyone else ever notice the random smiley face at the bottom of the page below the comment box?
Yup! It’s so cheerful.
Goodbye
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
wtf
Ugh.
game over
The Yankees have turned Arrencibia into Mike Piazza.
And that’s the ballgame. A good outing by Hughes wasted. Hopefully not a whole season wasted.
That’s one way to make up for an error.
I dislike this JP guy alot.
That’s too bad, he always speaks so highly of you.
With how this team has been hitting that will about put things out of reach
i really wish we had gardy back. theres no excitement. it would have been exciting to watch montero grow this year. this team is boring right now
At some point the pendulum’s gotta swing back, right? For maybe more than 5 or 6 games, I mean?
Nah, they’re going to bat .087 with RISP as a team for the rest of the season. Maybe until the world comes to an end.
You know, my dog thinks like that. When the last treat comes out of the bag he thinks they’re gone forever, never to return. Humans are supposed to be more evolved than that. Unless they root for the Yankees.
Haha I enjoyed that, thanks.
WOOF!
This team is cooked. Me thinks a visit by Cashman is right around the corner . . . And why the f**k can they not win in Toronto? Damn this AL East. Damn it all to hell!
Right…the team that makes the playoffs every year (minus 2008) needs to be fired. What a chump.
Uhh . . . what? Looks like someone is a wee bit confused. Chump . . . Hahahaha, how old are you?
No team is “cooked” by May.
I keep trying to explain to y’all why they can’t win in Toronto. THEY GET ALL EXCITED UP HERE at the chance to beat the NEW YORK YANKEES. It’s a Canada vs. America thing, no matter how many Jays are Americans-born. For them it’s an I’ll-teach-that-country-that-didn’t-hire-me opportunity. And Torontonians never got over an early 70s delirium that led them to believe they would pass NY as the top city on the continent. So victory over NY washes everything away. The stadium is all excited, happy, FULFILLED. It’s contagious and passes to the players.
I compared it to Purdue’s famous victories over Leahy and Parseghian teams years ago (when ND was the Yankees of Football — ANY football).
time to watch “the searchers” for the first time. its gotta be better than this
It is. It’s so hyped up though that the first time I saw it I was a bit underwhelmed, plus I hate white guys playing Indians. But it’s really good.
hahah ok so i should drink some more whiskey before i put it on. i fell asleep on it last night after getting too drunk watching the game which was painful
Again, why was I called an alcoholic a couple of weeks ago? Just saying. Where is Plank and handitus now?
must not have been on the boards that night. nothing wrong with some sour mash whiskey
I agree, I’m not saying you have a problem. But after a comment about having a beer to keep me sane during writing my last final paper of my academic career, I was called an alcoholic. Yet other people discuss whiskey and tequila on a regular basis, yet, I have the problem. Again, not saying you do at all, but Plank and handitus made that wonderful logical leap for me, and I still don’t understand why.
You’re only an alcoholic if you go to meetings or drink before noo….11am on a regular basis.
I’m on antibiotics right now. If not, this was definitely a top shelf bourbon kind of night.
agreed. i only start in night time and if I had top shelf it would be that kind of night. its just boring too watch the yanks right now. they need some energy
definitely pouring myself a glass of Johnny Walker Black when I get home.
I never knew you were one of my elderly uncles. They love that stuff.
I don’t think it’s bad, but I’d love to have a shot of someone else’s bottle of Blue.
Can I say that I’ve been drinking tonight without being called out on it? Because I have. Girlfriend broke up with my yesterday, still waiting on job offers, and the Yanks have been losing. Soooo Captain Morgan sounds like a solid companion.
Fuck Captain Morgan. Upgrade to Matusalen. You won’t regret it on a night like this.
Do you not remember the part where I am an unemployed recent graduate? I gots no monies.
If you drink between midnight and, say, 5 am, are you OK?
The ending always makes me cry.
But unless you go to IMDB and spoil yourself, you won’t know why.
hopefully its not as sad as this team right now. but i will prepare myself. thanks
Axisa asked for runs. I guess these stiffs weren’t listening.
This sucks. I guess I’ll come back later to read DoTF.
Suzyn just informed me that Darren Oliver knows how to pitch.
garcia = game is lost
He’s actually done well in relief though.
what a frustrating stretch. frustrating to watch. coming into the seasn i did not think we would have problems offensively.nothing is going right
Well, you turned the Caps Lock off. That’s something going right.
Baby steps.
Tonight’s question – “How about some runs?”
Nah, try again.
(And make that nine times being held to one run through 38 games. This offense is fucking abysmal.)
And they’re on their way to falling to 0-9 when not hitting a home run. Awesome!
9 times with one run or fewer ties them with the vaunted Seattle Mariners and Minnesota Twins offenses
it feels like the alds series against the tigers mind fkd them and its carried on to this season
How so? Didn’t the Yankees start 20-20 last season?
They started fairly well, and it was a six game losing streak in mid-May that put them at 20-19.
This team has consistently won three/lost three and never actually progressed any significant distance away from .500.
i didn’t say the 2011 season, i said the alds
So what was your excuse when they were 20-19 thru nearly a quarter of last season? Did the Rangers series mind fuck them?
…..with the Miracle Stick, of course.
WHAT? I would never…
Another lost series up in Toronto.
7-13 there since 2010 began.
Fucking brutal.
And oh you should have heard them at the hot dog counter, laughing and sneering at how the mighty had fallen and would never be mighty again. It reminded me of the early 1990s, during their glory days, when they expected the Yanks to kiss their ring (which they kept in their back pocket). It’s going to be hard dealing with them on a daily basis if–as they plan–they finish ahead of the Yankees this season.
ugh fan on field
I always love it when even the most progressive baseball announcer turns into a death penalty advocate when someone runs out onto the field.
well this sucks
It doesn’t matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
Going home time
A story on the radio
Something small falls out of your mouth
And we laugh
A prayer for something better
A prayer
For something better
Please love me
Meet my mother
But the fear takes hold
Creeping up the stairs in the dark
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow
100 Years!
“Game 38: How about some runs?”
Well, they got one, but that’s only a run, not runs.
I don’t think the Blue Jays’ pitcher pitched all that well. This one is on the Yankees offense.
Back tomorrow.
I really hate losing.
I’m glad we’re starting interleague play early (it is earlier than usual, right?) because the Yanks seem to play really well against NL teams, and I could use a great run starting tomorrow.
(Would be nice to look back at this stretch in July and say, remember how bummed we all were in May?)
These are awful stretches when they happen. Just awful to sit through.
They’re never as bad as these slumps seem.
The “x is never as bad as it looks when y” has become a meaningless sports cliche.
These slumps are bad, every bit as bad as they seem. “Seems, Madame? I know not seems.” The slumps are what they are. They don’t hide a prince beneath that froggie costume.
Well that’s three in a row and 4 of thelast 5. Pretty much negates the success over Seattle and Tampa. This is not a good team right now. In my opinion they lack some leadership or something. Whatever it is, the wash rinse repeat philosophy and hat tipping cliches are no longer exceptable.
Too much talent to continue performing like the cast of Jersey Shore trying to speak in complete sentences.
When all else fails: Leadership.
Then Houston, we have a problem.
Houston has their own problems.
Athens is mine.
If by “leadership” you mean hitting and pitching, then yes, leadership is lacking.
THis team just looks flat out awful right now…3-60 is flat out unacceptable.
At this point though,I’ve accepted the fact we aren’t going to make it this year. Maybe we’ll start to give youth a chance again after this year instead of older players.
Too bad none of the impact youth is anywhere near major league-ready.
There are so many terrible things about Sterling and Waldman, but I think the most infuriating is how they seem contractually forbidden from saying anything negative about Jeter.
So where the rest of the world might be thinking “man, it’s a real bummer that he’s lost 50 points off his batting average in the past 2 weeks, especially when no one else on the team is hitting,” all you hear from the Loews broadcasting booth is “CAN YOU BELIEVE JETER’S PHENOMENAL SEASON??”
It’s my own fault for listening to those cretins, I know.
Are you, perhaps, young?
Younger than whom? Younger than John Sterling, to be sure. Older than Derek Jeter.
Mike: “How about some runs?”
Yanks: “How about no.”
Nope, not gonna score any runs off of…let me look this up…Drew Hutchison!
TIP YOUR CAP
LMFAO!!!!!!
Yankees look lethargic, old, disinterested, and tired. Saddled with long term contracts totaling over $50m/yr for 5 more years at 1b and 3b leaves little room for improvement as long as Cashman is hamstrung to a reduced budget. I have no idea how to fix this team but it needs fixing.