Jul
20
Game 93: Back on Track
By
(Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
The Yankees lost their first game in Oakland since 2010 last night, but that’s alright. It wasn’t going to last forever. Ivan Nova‘s on the bump tonight looking to get his club back into the win column. Here’s the lineup…
SS Derek Jeter
CF Curtis Granderson
1B Mark Teixeira
3B Alex Rodriguez
DH Robinson Cano
RF Nick Swisher
LF Andruw Jones
2B Jayson Nix
C Russell Martin
RHP Ivan Nova
Tonight’s game starts a little after 10pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
Google+
598 Comments»
RAB Info
The Founders
Mike Axisa, Ben Kabak, Joe Pawlikowski
Editor-In-Chief
Mike Axisa Archives | Email
Managing Editors
Ben Kabak Archives | E-mail
Joe Pawlikowski Archives | E-mail
Contributing Editor
Matthew Warden (Archives)
Technical Manager
Jay Gordon
Beloved Alumni
Larry Koestler (Archives)
Moshe Mandel (Archives)
Eric Schultz (Archives)
Subscribe to RAB by RSS
Follow @RiverAveBlues
Search RAB
Loading
Yankees News from YESNetwork.com
- Yankees win behind seven strong from Sabathia
- Sizemore earns redemption in Yankees' doubleheader sweep of Cubs
- Yankees Clubhouse Notebook: Bombers play two, win two with sweep of Cubbies
- Yankees sweep Cubs doubleheader with shutouts
- Yankees Postgame Notebook: Tanaka plays the 'hiro in Game 1
- Tanaka silences Cubs in 3-0 Yankees win
- Murphy ready for extended stint in the Bronx
- Roberts still day-to-day, unlikely to play at all Wednesday
- Kelley enters games to beat of his own drum
- Yankee great Rivera's son on New Hampshire team
Countdown to the Home Opener
Just 0 days 'til the home opener!The Eric Jagielo Watch
Banner Design By
Who else is as sick and tired of the Dwight Howard situation as me? Apparently he’s now going to test the free agent market after next season regardless of whether he’s traded or not and won’t be signing any extensions. Makes business sense. But why the fuck did he opt into the final year of his current contract? He was never going to stay in Orlando and he could’ve gotten this out of the way this offseason. Was he under pressure by the Magic front office to opt in or is he just a total blockhead?
Probably something for the off-topic thread.
I’m just sad he’s probably not coming to Brooklyn. My job does a lot of business with the Nets, and I probably would have gotten to meet him rather quickly.
Open thread, sorry.
Game threads are open threads. You’re not the boss of him!
If you start breaking into a They Might Be Giants TV theme song, this will not be off to a good start.
Funny you mention it, as I’ve been binging on Malcolm in the Middle episodes lately.
That’s a TV show now? I remember when it was only an iTunes podcast a few years ago.
He’s a drama queen loser.
Which bullshit-throwing young pitcher are we facing tonight?
Karl Malone
Good. He must be pushing 50 and is nothing without John Stockton.
This made me lol.
Damn, Jordany Valdespin. 4 pinch hit home runs.
Of course, why else would they start the worse-hitting-than-Russell-Martin Jason Bay? You have to keep Valdespin available just in case you’re able to stay close and need one AB late, earlier AB’s be damned!
Keep the streak alive! Go Yanks!
Milone’s home ERA is 1.03 in 52 innings. His xFIP is 4.12. Time for a correction.
Let’s fucking kick their fucking asses.
That’s the fucking spirit!
So do this Milone kid throw a 90 MPH fastball, but a 30 MPH changeup or something? Fucking A’s and their pitchers that disintegrate once they leave Oakland.
Jeter, patient as ever…
Dammit. This guy throws a change-up. Things might not go too well for Teixeira.
At the game. The ballpark is ugly but there’s usually a good crowd here in the bleachers. And Yankee fans are representing well.
Please spare us the Maxwell Smart impression.
Im on a bus to dc tonight, not happy that I’m forced to listen to sterling. Seems like this dude may give us trouble tonight
At least you’re on a bus to a cool city!
No city is cooler than the mean streets of NYC.
I grew up in a NYC suburb. Was never a fan of The City. Maybe it’s just my small town roots, I don’t like skyscrapers.
Damn straight.
I live in NYC, dc is ok, but NYC is the best
Disagree.
kind of odd watching them play in daylight, while it’s 10:21 at home.
hello all, how is everybody this evening?
Weary. Staying up this late to watch baseball sucks, but I couldn’t watch the game yesterday and I want to get a good look at Yoenis Cespedes.
I live for west coast trips lol. I’m an insomniac and I work till 9 so the only time I get to watch full games is these west coast games.
Heh, lucky you I guess. Why can’t they just start their baseball games at 4:00 p.m. in Oakland? It’s not like anyone there cares about baseball anyway. They should be more concerned about the lack of law enforcement in that city.
Excellent. Yourself?
Adjusting to life after The Dark Knight Rises. I will never be as excited for a movie as I was for this. And it delivered on every single level I expected.
I’m looking forward to seeing it myself. Loved the first two.
Dude…just omg…so so good. I’m so sad that there will never be another superhero movie this great.
God do I want to watch that. I’ll probably get to see it in theaters sometime this week or next.
Go asap. Btw, love your handle. Are you new or somebody with a new handle?
I used to post as “I’m Sexy and I Cano It” and thought I’d go with “Kempire Strikes Back” for now. (Both are names of a buddy of mines fantasy baseball teams which I thought were pretty hilarious).
My opinion is that it wasn’t as good as The Dark Knight, but that it was a satisfying conclusion. My dad referred to TDK as The Empire Strikes Back and TDKR as Return of the Jedi, in that regard.
I had to leave the theater in the first half of the movie because my stomach betrayed me. I’m planning to go see it again in a week or so.
Obviously I’m sorry for those people in Colorado. Just a complete and total tragedy.
Idk, Cause in my mind Empire was worlds better than Jedi, and I might give TDK a small edge over Rises. It just came out yesterday, so I don’t want to spoil anything but I can say that I thought there were no weaknesses and it was about as perfect as it could have been minus one thing.
And as to the tragedy in Colorado I feel awful for everybody involved. Even Nolan to an extent, don’t get me wrong I feel MUCH worse for the people who were directly involved and people who lost loved ones, but I feel like this movie is going to be stained with their blood because of one crazy person who deserves much worse than whatever he gets.
Can you say what the one thing is that bothered you or is it a spoiler?
It didn’t even bother me that much it was just that it was so obvious that it was going to happen to anybody who knows anything about Nolan or just watched the first two movies. Also it was incredibly lacking in Bat-nipples on the suit and cheesy one liners about freezing people.
I guess you’re referring to the ending.
Take that, Joel Schumacher. Though to be fair, the more I’ve heard after the fact, seems like the studio didn’t let him do what he wanted to do.
They almost messed this up too. I read a story that when The Dark Knight first debuted, WB went to Nolan like, “The next movie is going to feature The Riddler, and we want DiCaprio.” Which wouldn’t have been bad, per se, but that they thought they had the control. Then TDK grosses went boom and Nolan had the power. Especially then after Inception hit it big.
Nolan was also slightly on board with the DiCaprio Riddler idea, but he didn’t do it 9and din’t want to) because Riddler and Joker are similar villians.
Also, I agree with your first point because Nolan explicitly said he wasn’t going to do anything after the first film. I love Nolan as a director, but if I had to give it one minus point from a direction POV, the pacing was a little slow in my opinion but it worked.
Will always have a soft spot for “Jedi.” The fucking Ewoks.
And Luke has a hard on for his sister. Classic.
/Kentucky Wars’d
That was in Empire!
Was it? I thought Luke didn’t find out who his sister was until they were on Endor? It’s been awhile since I saw those movies though.
No, Leia doesn’t find out till Endor when Luke tells her. I’m pretty sure he finds out at the end of Empire.
Luke finds out in Jedi right after Yoda’s death. He guesses it and Obi-Wan’s ghost confirms.
In Empire, Leia just planted a kiss on Luke when they were on Hoth. It was just to get at Han who was being a douche.
Still, at some point bro and sis have a hard on for each other!
And the fuzzy little Ewoks can be extras in the film.
people are dying to see this movie
Wow. I want to say “fuck you,” but I don’t want to get banned.
Oops, guess I just said it.
yeah, I wasn’t sure if he was going there, but if he is that’s just fucked up.
Vodka. Muddled strawberries. Simple syrup. And you?
Glenlivet 12 year, rocks.
Just for you, next one’s a scotch.
Adult beverage, The Show, Yankees game, and cheery wife and baby. All early enough to still get up well for work in the morning. How much better could you be doing (other than not getting up for work, but you gotta give some to take some)?
At the game. The ballpark is ugly but there’s usually a good crowd here in the bleachers. And Yankee fans are representing well tonight.
A bit off topic… but you have to love the ESPN BBTN guys saying 9-2 lead how is Strasburg in the game?!?!? He’s gotz inningz limitz – be smart save an inning here or there.
It’s now 9-8 in the 8th inning.
Well that’s the Nats bullpen’s fault. Not Davey Johnson’s
A) No one was suggesting it was Johnson’s fault
B) You realize Strasburg was KEPT in the game and actually gave up some of those runs?
Ah. I was not informed of that. My bad.
Than why comment and just basically guess at what you think happened?
*Then
Sorry.
/grammar police’d
Doh!
(for some reason I always mess up then/than there/their)
It’s cool, I don’t mean to be a dick. I just hate bad grammar. I have an ex-girlfriend who had written on the top of her mirror “Your beautiful”.
Always bothered me, probably more than it should have haha.
I would’ve ripped it down and replaced it with the proper You’re. Like that would have driven me crazy if it wasn’t fixed.
Part of the reason we broke up. I couldn’t have sex in her room, her stupidity was always staring at me from the mirror
Wow, Cespedis looks like a linebacker and runs like a wide out.
And can jump over a box like a friggin gazelle.
He’s 5’8. Maybe a speedy fullback.
I told you guys, we weren’t going to roll over them like last time.
Quiet, Greg.
See…..I’m the only guy, other than Greg, who looked at those pitching matchups and said “these little fuckers could give us fits all weekend.”
I’m counting on lots of young pitcher mistakes but, yeah, I am a bit concerned if these guys are as on as Mr. 60 MPH curve was last night.
Let’s go for a drive, Greg. I’ll buy ice cream.
Its not just the pitching matchups. Their offense is greatly improved from when we saw them last.
Thanks but don’t worry about it.
You’re turning down ice cream? My god.
I know. I go with air popped popcorn at night.
Also, unintentionally, you made me miss my mother for a bit with your statement. Dont worry about it though.
That’s perfect. Greg drives, Riddle rides the bus, and Erica changes her adult dieper. That’s the trifecta for a Yankee win.
but I got off my bus a half hour ago and it doesn’t run again until the morrow.
Steal a school bus. I don’t give a shit. The Yankees must win!
Nova not pitching with confidence.
Nova’s all over the damn place. Not good.
God, Comcast Sports Net -Bay Area coverage is so pathetic. They cut away after every strike thrown by an A’s pitcher or every out by a Yankee or every good miniscule game element for the A’s to:
this one particular section of fans in the mezzanine level where the fans are packed in so it looks like the seats are full. They do closeups and pan arounds these fans right in their faces. It’s so obvious also because the fans have this blank look on their faces and then on cue from the cameraman they start cheering and mugging for the camera.
It’s akin to a studio audience “applause” prompt.
Well. Just be happy that we were born Yankee fans and not Oakland Athletics or Houston Astros fans.
I know. They do the same thing at the Trop. But in Oakland it’s almost as if they were plucked off the street to star as an audience member for tonight’s telecast.
Jesus Ivan, pitch yourself into and out of trouble, dodge the bullet, now just settle down baby.
Whew. A lot of pitches for Nova though. Hopefully he settles down.
Ivan’s gotta continue taking advantage of this gigantic strike zone he has while he still has it.
Tommy Milone is the exactly the kind of pitcher that gives the Yankees trouble, a crafty lefty.
The 2010 Brett Cecil model. Medium tossing lefty with a good changeup
Boy am I glad that the Blue Jays ruined him. 2010 Brett Cecil was annoyingly good at getting the Yankees to ground into at least three double plays a game.
Did I mention how much I like Inge? I like him a lot. I think the Yankees should be interested in Inge.
/Fatcesa’d
Brandon Inge is a baseball player.
/Sterling’d
Nice comeback inning.
Sogard is one intimidating-looking MoFo.
Great inning by Nova. Gets him almost even with Milone through two innings.
If Martin played 81 games in this park, he might hit under .100.
You’re too generous. I doubt he could crack .100
If Nix was Chris Stewart, that would have been a triple.
Inside the parker.
Tommy Milone looks a lot like Fred Armisen. Tell me you guys see it!
He needs glasses.
“Mi scusi”
And the Nationals have blown a 9-0 lead. 10-9 Braves
The Curse of David Wright?
almost even? The score is 0-0.
I meant in terms of pitch count.
you must be listening to Michael Kay ;-).
Andrew McCutchen his hitting .459 against lefties??!! Good Mo.
This stadium needs to be torched.
Most A’s fans agree with you.
Hooray…let’s see if Oakland can RISPFAIL like the Yankees of May.
guess not.
I hate Coco Crisp.
I hate him too. Always seems to get those HUGE hits against the Yankees. Like that go ahead homerun last year against Soriano. But I wouldn’t mind the Yankees trading for him in the wake of Gardner’s surgery.
He’s a former Red Sock so he can pretty much go fuck himself.
Precisely.
I really hope the Yanks keep expanding on their division lead and don’t let anyone make up too much ground. We’re going to see a lot of the Red Sox, Rays, Orioles and Blue Jays in the remaining part of the season. It would be nice to have a cushion to fall on just in case we drop too many games against division opponents.
I think 9 games is a very good cushion. If they lose today it will be 8 games which is still a very good cushion.
Statistically it is. But people will begin to whisper. And by people I think you know who I mean.
The media? Fuck them.
Popcorn eaters?
I laughed
I think Cano makes that play, but you know Nix is a baseball player
He does something EVERY GAME to help them win.
Nova has been either AJ Burnett or Mike Mussina this year. Frustratingly inconsistent.
So really, he’s just been AJ Burnett.
“frustratingly inconsistent” sounds like a pitcher in his sophomore year in the AL East lol.
F. Inconsistent is actually a minor league RHP for the Red Sox, and he’s going to be the best pitcher EVER.
Hard to beleive he leads AL (by wide margin) in extra base hits allowed.
His fastball isn’t exactly overpowering. Plus his change up is pretty weak. That probably explains all the XBH allowed.
Nova=Swag
2nd time thru the order, time to do something.
I don’t think Ma and Pa care for Moneyball.
“care for” = “understand”
They do understand that every team now employees money ball techniques these days whether they are big or small market right?
What am I saying it’s John Sterling and Suzyn Walman they understand Operas and slightly understand the concept of these new talkies in theatres.
But what about ordering pizza on teh interwebs???!
OBP? Sabermetrics? Whatever happened to wins and RBIs, dammit!!
I know Cespedes hasn’t been a superstar as advertised but he’s been solid. Still would’ve loved for the Yanks to sign him or Soler. Our outfield options beyond 2013 are bleak if we choose to let Swisher and Grandy go.
$36 million was a lot for an unknown commodity.
I would have loved Soler, but on a 9 year contract? Jeez.
Ship = sailed.
Dammit Nova. It worked, and I know it’s just a reflex, but I hate it when they do that.
Who was the guy a couple months ago I argued with about that? I believe the crux of his defense was “I see cars passing in the street and I don’t stick my hand out in front of them.” Probably R$IP/Dumbestguyintheworld Playing with balls, who whatever his handle is these days.
I have a gigantic scar on my palm to prove your point still lol. At least it’s no longer a disgusting opening in my skin anymore.
The sound of that vuvuzella in the background is beginning to convince me that there’s some sort of fly in my room.
The inventor of the vuvuzella should be given the death penalty.
Wouldn’t mean anything. The monster has already been unleashed.
It might scare the next person who invents an incredibly annoying and efficient noise maker to keep it in his basement or destroy it.
like stuart’s mom?
Well she lets him have internet connection, so she’s not being to responsible with her mistake.
Tex with the Chris Stewartian hit.
WHy Tex. Why.
Wow..why? Why would you try for third Tex?
…..but I thought I coulda made it ta third….
That was dumb. Not a good sign
Terrible baserunning.
Dammit Teix.
Right now this just has the feeling of a series where the breaks aren’t going their way. Plenty of time to change that. Wake up, guys!
In the replay it looked like Robbie Thompson was waving him to come, or am I imagining things? My first impulse was to blame Tex, but I wonder if Robbie deserves blame.
That was such an obvious mistake.
Wow. Yankees need to go to baserunning school.
What the hell was Tex thinking? He would have been out even if he didn’t hesitate.
He would have been out had he driven to third.
Why do slow Yankee runners keep getting thrown out on bases?
Because they’re idiots.
Stupid.
Damn it Tex.
Why?
Fudge, not one of THESE games again.
I know what you mean – yesterday’s loss was their first loss in a while where you couldn’t point to horrible base running or defense or bad starting/relief pitching – was a “normal” loss. This one might be one of the bad ones again.
Just following online – was that Tex or 3rd base coach Jack Kervorkian?
I wouldn’t even suggest Jeter, the “quickest” Yankee right now given Gardner being out, to try that against Reddick’s arm. Bad decision, Tex.
Reddick is a former Red Sox player, can he go fuck himself too?
All night.
I give him the green light.
One day the Yankees will have a scouting reports on outfielder’s arms and use that information to make base running decisions.
Nova adds to his extra base hit lead.
Bad luck or bad pitches?
Nova has been getting fricken’ hammered out there.
Give up another XBH why don’t ya
Batting practice is running late today.
Brandon Inge? really? Fucking A man, step up.
It’s early, yes…but this is starting to feel like one of those series where the Yankees just can’t do anything.
It’s part of the game but when the A’s (!) are beating you, that makes it painful.
See?
A’s are hot an Dyaks left their bats an ditching at home. Tale of two teams, with Oakland
This game’s annoying. It feels like it’s the Hunger Games out there.
WTF?!?##?
WTF Nova??
Wow, Nova.
Cue yakkady sax.
Nice of April Nova to show up again.
Sometimes I think the notion of Ivan Nova being a good pitcher has been fueled by his propensity to receive great run support and pitch out of jams. I don’t know what to make of him. Sometimes I think he’s one of the best pitchers in the rotation and sometimes I think he needs serious work.
Dear Suzyn Waldman, you idiot:
ALL PITCHERS ARE TRYING TO HIT SPOTS. ALL OF THEM.
Sorry, “spawts.”
Let me guess…something along the lines of “He’s trying to hard to hit spots instead of just throwing the ball.”? am I right?
Even better.
He’s pitching. Possibly because he’s a baseball player who knows how to play baseball. NOT MONEYBALL.
She makes me want to labotomize myself in hopes of enjoying the broadcast more.
What’s happening, homesies?
Nova hasn’t been too sharp, Yank’s have yet to crack this kid, The Dark Knight Rises was incredible, Suzyn and John are annoying, and my work with mango’s, chicken, habenaro peppers, and grilling is working out excellently. How about you?
Oh and jjyank has a thing for girls who can’t read good, and want to learn to do other stuff good too.
Mangos, chicken, habaneros sounds awesome! I am just trying to stay awake. I hate these west coast games.
Hey man, they can do other stuff good
I’m sure she had excellent oral skills.
I’m talking about public speaking you dirty minded people. Gawd.
Yes, she did. And I am not talking about public speaking.
It’s Friday night, I’ve been drinking. I can be frank. Even the dumb ones have their pros.
Haha, this is slightly misogynistic. But absolutely true.
Very nice. I am enjoying a scotch in your name.
I thank you, sir. As you know I enjoy a good scotch more than just about anything.
Does anyone think we should score some runs here?
We should but if we keep running into outs and striking out I’d have to say no.
I’m impressed he kept them to only one run in that inning.
Admittedly, 2 runs over 4 innings isn’t oh-my-god-terrible, and it would seem better if the offense was more alive.
Tommy Milone is perpetuating the “Yankees can’t beat lefty, soft-tossing rookies that they’ve never seen before” narrative. Ditto whoever the fuck was pitching for the A’s yesterday.
Yes.
Great decision by the 3rd base coach last inning. You’ve got the hottest hitter on the planet coming up with nowhere to put him and you take a chance with Tex who can’t run going to third and being thrown out by ten feet. Absurd.
It was Thompson, yes? I was originally screaming at Tex, but on the replay it looked as if Robbie was rotating his arm to say “Keep coming”. No one else here seems to have noticed it.
I want to stay up for this game but I feel like it won’t be worth it.
I feel the same way.
Quintin Berry needs to calm down. He hasn’t earned the right to celebrate that much and be that cocky.
Dude’s thrown 14 of 16 first pitch strikes. No wonder we’re struggling offensively. Kinda hard when you’re behind the count all the damn time.
This fuck doesn’t strike anyone out before today.
This is turning into a Cliff Lee 2010 ALCS impression. It’s amazing watching the differences between nova and milone
It’s only a two-run game. That’s nothing.
14′s over last two games. Not good
Wow, just wow, K’d the side. How frustrating is the offense tonight?
Anyone know when the Yankees flight lands in Oakland? I’m wondering if I can drive from Vegas and still see them at the airport.
8 strikeouts for Milone through 5. Not to mention he’s on a complete game pace. At least it’s still a close game. Nova’s bent but he hasn’t broken so far.
So a guy who’s striking out just under 6/9IP has 8K’s in 5 innings and has struck out nearly 50% of the batters he’s faced (8 of 17)
Three straight innings where Nova has surrendered an extra base hit to start the inning.
Seems like every A’s inning starts with a hit. Geez.
Not just a hit, an xtra base hit.
Fuck Nova.
Geez, I know he didn’t go to the University of Maryland but…..
Tall Dominicans are your type, eh?
In all seriousness, two runs in five innings. Won’t win any style points tonight, but he’s not the problem.
Nova trying to clinch the “Most XBHs given up in the season” crown in July.
Jayson Nix:
BASEBALL PLAYER.
AB’s have 3 less doubles than the number K’s than the Yanks. And yet only down 2-0.
Whatever you’re typing on tonight, it ain’t working so well for ya.
Auto correct of an iPad. Meant to say the A’s.
They’re so much better to use for this than a damn phone, though. Love how this site looks on my IPad.
It’s only the end of the fifth, plenty of time for Yanks bats to come alive. And Nova is holding tough.
Honestly, we wouldn’t be bitching about Nova if our offense had shown up tonight. That being said, I’m outta here. Hopefully we pull off the win.
Seems like the Yankees are a bit flat after getting the double digit lead in the east and long road trip out west. Cant be suprised.
If your OBP is >.300 you shouldn’t be getting out of the way of inside pitches. just let them clip you and try to take first base.
Even more so if your OBP is <.300
damnit wrong alligator.
As shaky as Nova has looked, you gotta give him credit for not completely imploding and keeping us in the game.
If we were winning he’d be getting credit for pitching just well enough to win, but right now he’s pitching just well enough to lose.
Yup.
He’s only allowed two runs in five innings. That’s a pretty damn good ERA in the AL.
He’s had a lot of hard hit balls though…he hasn’t been very good tonight.
It is very physiologically difficult to travel three time zones, so that is clearly a factor.
Granderson needs to sit on a curve here.
Wrong part of the bat there Grandy.
Granderson has cooled off.
One 0-for-4 … he’s cooled off!
Axisa in the house!
Mike, you’re the one who pointed out Curtis’s power outage two days ago, and implored him to heat up again.
Oof. Curtis almost had that.
We’ve (or at least I’ve) been so spoiled by their play over a month or two that even these last two games where they haven’t been down by more than two have felt like they’ve been down by 7 or 8. It’s amazing how the perspective changes sometimes.
Granted the A’s have been hot but they’re still the A’s. Aside from Reddick and Cespedes, they aren’t scary.
Replace the A’s with virtually any other team and I’m not too upset about yesterday and the first 5 innings.
OPPORTUNITY!
I think arod has like 3 rbi’s this month, only so much one man can do in a month.
Is it too much to ask for an A-Bomb here?
I hate having A-Rod bat in front of Cano. Travesty.
The wonders of 5.1 surround: A vuvuzulla in the rear left speaker.
A-Rod won’t see another fastball.
Garbage.
None of those two-strike pitches were strikes.
Stuart a to enter in 3…2…1…..
We might get stealth stuart at the end of the thread. Always my favorite.
…He’ll be here, I’m sure…
He’ll show up 30 minutes after the game is over, expecting everyone to have closed their browser and gone to sleep.
Which is exactly what we want him to think.
Time to drop him in the order already. Enough is enough.
it really is time. He’s not A-ROD anymore. As much as Joe wants it to happen it’s not going to happen. Cano hitting 5th is pathetic.
Cano sucks against lefties now.
Ha, they’ve gotten to this point with Girardi doing it this way, no change in hell that he’s suddenly going to change things.
Good news, the kid is at 90 pitches, any idea on how far he’s able to go before he gets pulled?
Wow, they really seem to be chasing that changeup; not a very disciplined approach tonight
5 more years!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better than Pujols.
Is it though? Pujols is not in a serious decline stage.
Unless you think Pujols is going to be in serious decline for the last 6 years of his contract, is it really worse? Sure the contract is longer but Pujols has I think a better than decent shoy at being productive for the next 5-6 years (meaning his celince stage will potentially be shorter)
*shot*
and *decline*
And it’s time for me to stop drinking apparently!
If you’re still awake and coherent enough to correct your mistakes, you’re good.
What? Pujols is already declining, and it’s year #1 of that contract. He’s still very good, but he is not the easy #1 fantasy draft pick he was a couple years ago. A-Rod was still a beast for the first couple of years of his contract and Pujols has shown signs of decline in his first. His contract will be worse by my own (admittedly amateur) opinion.
NOt sure about that. Puljos knows how to use roids better than Alex, hes never been caught. He can keep on using, Alex cant.
Oh please. You spent half of yesterday flat-out insulting Greg for being negative. We’re all keenly aware of Alex’s contract.
Greg deserves every bit of crap given to him. I’m actually sad he isn’t posting. Oh right, the Red Sox lost.
Greg’s actually been around all night, If you had been here for the entire game, and not only shown up once we were down and it was late you’d know this.
+1
I have no problem with Greg. He can be pessimistic at times, but he’s not irrational. You, Widget, very well might be just that.
Greg is totally irrational.
He has spouts of irrationality, sure, but overall he’s just a pessimistic dude. There’s nothing wrong with that per say.
I appreciate the fact that he’s a sports geek. I haven’t been that in years. I like having people around who can pull random names out of a hat during discussion, but also not make you feel like they’re trying to outsmart you.
I know you hate each other, but that’s just not true.
Remember when Greg defended Chris Stewart for trying to steal second because Jeter told him to do it…yeah that.
WHEN DEREK JETER TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING YOU FUCKING DO IT!!!!!!1!!11!1!1!1!!
Greg may be a neurotic commenter, but he’s OUR neurotic commenter.
I somehow think you’re taking this more seriously than Greg is. Once upon a time, I didn’t think that was possible.
I love Granderson but why is he batting 2nd and Cano 5th vs a lefty. We just had a real scoring opportunity at the top of the order and our best hitter doesn’t bat, absurd. How about Swisher 2nd Cano 3rd Tex 4th and Arod 5th or are we too afraid of hurting ARod’s feelings. Our best hitter absolutely can not hit 5th. I wonder how many other teams have their best hitter hitting 5th.
I personally think that ARod should be 2nd.
Jeter
ARod
Grandy
Cano
Tex
Swisher
Jones
Wise/Nix/Chavez
Martin/Stewart
Swap Grandy and Cano and I agree. Cano’s a better hitter, but Grandy hits more homeruns.
Jeter
Stuart
Grandy
Cano
Tex
Swisher
Jones
Wise/Nix/Chavez
Martin/Stewart
I fixed it for you.
“I love Granderson but why is he batting 2nd and Cano 5th vs a lefty.”
Probably because Granderson has been much better than Cano against lefties this year. For that matter, so has everyone else in today’s Yankee lineup.
Why not Grandy 6th vs leftys, he’s power guy and would fit better there vs leftys. Gotta get Cano up there where he hits in the 1st inning and hits where there’s more protection and have it more difficult to pitch around him. Now we get him leading off the next inning, great.
I;m not watching the game right now to avoid frustration. But it looks like Milone has us confused.
We’re winning 10-2. You should watch.
Now that’s just not nice lol.
This game is totally winnable. I am optimistic.
I agree.
I think it’s going to take a long ball or two though.
Best part about this game is we’re the old bloop and a blast from getting back in this.
Oh god, I’ve been listening to too much Sterling. I used the term “old bloop and a blast” non-ironically.
There’s your old bloop, you old bloop.
The bloop’s out of the way. Now for the blast…
Suzyn just made her 5th crack about the A’s playing well because they’ve abandoned the Moneyball approach. Apparently this has happened because Billy Beane has let Bawb Melvin play the game the “old school” way.
Because you’ll remember how those Moneyball pitchers never hit their spawts when they pitched.
Apparently she doesn’t realize that the Yankees front office makes use of advanced metrics. Idiot.
Dude…please…I’m getting a rare night off from them.
I understand. I’ll stop.
That’s just an incredibly stupid thing for her to say.
there’s one streak. now we just need 3 runs.
Cayes…
Robbie!!!!
Robbie’s streak lives…
C’mon Swish!
Hopefully this kid’s like pedro, nasty for the first 100 pitches then falls to shit…
3-1 change…. take the damn pitch!
Dude, it looks like a fastball out of the pitchers hand, you usually don’t realize it’s a change up till you’ve committed to swinging. By then it’s too late and you hope you can slow your bat down enough to make contact.
He’s thrown enough of them in hitter counts just take the damn pitch.
You don’t need to be committed on 3-1. You are allowed to take a strike even if it’s a fastball. And since he’s shown a penchant to throw it behind in the count, maybe if you see iniitally see fastball at the bottom of the zone you just take it, in case it ends up a changeup below the zone.
Just commit to swinging if the pitch is UP… that’s why you get into hitter counts.
That all would imply hitters think much. They don’t.
I’ll take that out.
But why was Swish hobbling?????
wonderful, now we may be down 2 outfielders.
Swish pulled up lame…possible hammy, looks like he’s holding his quad.
That’s not good.
The asking price for OF’s just went up.
Noooo we can’t lose anymore outfielders!
T-riffic.
Oh boy. It may be Fukudome time.
If/When he gets here, the wordplay is going to be legendary.
I hope he goes yard in the Trop.
or any ‘domed’ stadium for that matter
If/when he gets here, the wordplay is going to be legendary…
“Duplicate comment detected”
You lied, then you were telling the truth. I shed tears at your feet, WordPress.
wow…take the walk man.
That may have been just a bit high, Andruw.
The Yankees are making this guy look like a lefty Greg Maddux with all the swings and misses.
Just tonight. The next three meetings with this pitcher they will make him looke like Cory Wade or Sweaty Freddie.
In their defense, Milone is a pretty damn good pitcher. He’s had some pretty bad outings this year, but when he’s on, he’s on.
He’s good at home, bad on the road.
Is Swish made of glass or something? I feel like that dude gets hurt all the damn time.
Except he doesn’t?
Some people look for any reason to hate Nick Swisher.
that info must be in the internet somewhere, right? I can’t seem to find it on baseballreference.com
Eric Chavez cut off a lock of his hair and placed it in Swish’s drink.
Only 12 outfielders have played in more games since Swisher joined the Yankees. Hasn’t been on the DL in six years.
That has to be going back to his Oakland days…He hasn’t been a Yankee for that long has he?
Year 4. Time flies.
Actually it’s ten outfielders because Carlos Lee has been playing first base for the last year and Zobrist splits time between the OF and 2B.
I can’t remember him being hurt for anything longer than a few days, if any.
Guys play 100+ games and are bound to get a little banged up but Swish doesn’t seem to get banged up too bad/at all.
some contact would be nice…
Well, now the lead might be going down to 8 games. Other fans have a sense of hope.
You think other fans have a sense of hope. Other fans are thinking wildcard.
Remember the ’96 World Series, when the Yankees won with a clutch bit of fan hope by Sal from Piscataway?
Hmmmm…I thought it was because I was wearing my lucky boxers.
Sal?
If they’re realistic, they don’t.
Nix is starting to remember he’s Lance Nix.
Jones that he’s Andruw Jones
I’m guessing Wise will remember that he’s DeWayne Wise as well.
Voodoo magic for all the pre-game comments that rang of “we don’t need Gardner.”
Hah. Jayson, that is.
Nix must be drunk if he’s remembering he’s Lance Nix.
Raul Ibanez literally just gave you the finger right there.
Of course he sets a career high in strike outs. This team…..
Yankees farm system gonna get wrecked.
It IS Friday night. Who isn’t getting wrecked?
hah. It’s saturday morning for me. And I’m about to get wrecked.
Attaboy.
Cuando estè en España, haga como los españoles.
*lowers hand*
Ibanez makes that play cause he hustles Jones only dreams of getting to it.
Jones is too busy smiling to dive for baseballs.
He’s thinking about a better catch he made in ’02.
Jones probably takes two steps to catch that because he actually knows where to position himself.
Haha I know, I’m still beating the dead horse of a joke that Ibanez is a better fielder than Jones because he hustles. Seriously it sounds like an argument John or Suzyn would make.
Ok, Nova did right the ship, and wound up having a good game, but this a good move by Girardi going to get him now.
Agreed.
Please tell me Qualls has been sent down.
Qualls probably ran out of options in the middle part of last decade.
Once upon a time, a night to myself meant calling everyone else I knew and going drinking. Now it means keeping quiet and not waking the baby. Have a good night, everyone. I expect the Yankees to bring the tying run to the plate and for that run to SCORE.
Catch you on the flip side, RT.
Dude, you can’t go to sleep yet. The Yanks have this game.
You’re leaving a game early?! not a good lesson to teach the baby Tilapia
Why aren’t my comments working?
Atta Boone.
He’s the new D Rob.
seriously, though. Anyone know where to dig up DL-stint history? it must be on B-ref somewhere, right?
According to Axisa he (Swisher) hasn’t been on the DL in six seasons. http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....nt-4577637
yeah, I saw that, I’m trying to verify on my own. I have this nagging feeling that he had a hammy injury once that kept him out for a while…
And then I took that nagging feeling and turned it into “Swisher is made of glass”. Typical internet commenter.
It’s actually seven years, he missed three weeks with a separated shoulder in 2005.
OK. Agreed. He never hits the DL. But look at all those DTD injuries to his legs over the past 2 years. 19 DTD injuries since 2010. Compare to Jeter (10 in the same period) and Cano (5). Even freakin Tex (13). Though A-Rod gives Swish a run for his money (19).
So correct- Swish doesn’t miss a ton of games. BUT, he does have lots of little injuries. My nagging feeling wasn’t totally off…
He didn’t even miss a game in ten of those 19 DTDs.
ALLRIGHT. I learned my lesson.
Don’t meddle in the affairs of dragons, because I am crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
I recall him being Day-to-Day a few times though.
Baseball Prospectus has it on their player cards.
this commercial for the NY lottery is just so off-putting…the large heads…and the whistling, and the stalking…
The Lexus commercial with the dog is unbearable. And that David Pankin guy makes me want to murder him.
Let’s win this fucker!!!!!!!!
Russell!!!
Doing something useful!!!!
IT BEGINS
Russel. Showing Mussel. We have to win this now.
By the way good move by Girardi with Logan over Rapada there. Seems like he realized Smith would be pinch hit for and at least Logan had a shot at getting him out.
If he goes to Rapada, it probably would have been an intentional walk and putting all your eggs into one basket (hitter).
Ahhh Russell hit it right where I was sitting yesterday (LF BBQ terrace).
Come on Yankees!
YEAH!
2 more runs. Let’s do this.
THE TYING RUN HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO THE PLATE PEOPLE
Oh thank God!
Damn. I guess Coco hadn’t been drinking prior to this inning.
Augghh!
damn…I thought that was dropping.
Jack one Teix!
Crisp has more range coming in than Curtis. Going back, Grandy’s o.k.
that looked the opposite of fun for a lot of people.
I reiterate: Coco Crisp can go fuck himself.
Nice time for Alex to hit one.
For a guy hitting under 200 Martin has power and has actually had some big hits this year. Just hard to believe in this lineup that by the time it gets around to Martin;s slot and the opposing pitchers are worn out that he can actually be hitting as poorly as he has this year. Hoping for a big 2nd half from him, he’s due.
Yay-Rod.
God damnit Alex. Take a pitch!
Guess not.
Fuuuuuuuuck.
Fuck.
Another top of the order man on base situation and our best hitter waits in the on deck circle. Girardi better get this situation straightened out. Batting Cano 5th tonight has cost the Yankees their best hitter not batting twice when he could have turned the game around. ARod really looks old this year, I’m a big ARod fan but 5 more years of this performance and probably more declining performance is going to be hard to watch.
Excuse so far is the big lead in the division. But Girardi has to do it. Your best hitters should get the most ABs and ARod’s not among the best 4 hitters in the lineup.
Who are the 4 better?
Cano, Granderson, Tex, …?
Jeet? the guy hitting over .300?
They’re close. Jeter definitely has the edge in AVG, and a slight edge in OBP, but ARod beats Jeter in SLG, OPS, wOBA, wRC+, and even SB. Overall, ARod has probably been slightly better offensively.
and Swisher all have higher OPS than Alex. And Jeter is only 10 points behind him. Jones and Chavez also have higher OPS but they’re not regulars.
Right. Only 3 regulars have been clearly better. Jeter, Swisher, and ARod have all been very similar. I’m not sure ARod is definitely not in the top 4. At worst, he’s borderline. ARod is 4th among the regulars in wOBA/wRC+.
He has looked worse as the season has gone on. I dont think its all age regression, I think at least 50% of it is the hip. It wouldnt suprise me if his hip/lower body is bothering him, as his defense hasnt looked very good lately either. That contract was going to be even worse than all of us fans thought, the day he hurt his hip.
I’ve only been watching since the sixth, and A-Rod has made the last out with RISP twice in that time. damn.
Guy on 1st is not RISP
Yes it is with this lineup.
Not with ARod’s power
CHRIST. I’m drunk and it’s 6 in the morning. You people don’t cut a guy any slack, huh.
Andruw Jones needs a golf cart or something.
Looked like he was waiting for the ball to ricochet the wall back to him and mailed it in a bit.
Looked like he was limping or running rather gingerly. Another guy waiting for a muscle pull.
But everyone loves to argue with me that Ibanez gets to balls that Andruw won’t. Not “can’t,” but “won’t.”
Because I’m making it all up out of nowhere.
That was a sorry exhibition, Andruw.
Jason Nix, BASEBALL PLAYER nearly cost the team another run with a god awful relay throw.
Are they capitalizing it now?
only when they get excited lol. I’m almost sure they didn’t tell their radio audience, Jones let up going after the ball and Nix nearly air mailed the throw into the left field stands.
No, I certainly didn’t get any of that. I guess they didn’t want to criticize the BASEBALL PLAYER.
Don’t allow any runs here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES! Good play!!!!!!!!!
Koko Kwisp
yesssssss
Come on Yankees…no wins after trailing after the 8th. Time to change that!
I see A-Rod has graced the A’s dugout with his presence.
ONE RUN! DO THIS!
Yankee pitching has been walking a tightrope most of the night, but 2 runs allowed should be a win.
Hopefully the Yankees get the bloop before the blast this inning.
Two blasts will also work…
I’m not picky.
Nope
The chickens will come to roost if Girardi does not move Cano up by playoffs. In playoffs, fans will be disappointed if Cano does not drive in runs with Arod on deck with 2 outs but if Arod is still batting fourth and Cano is on deck and AROD has 2 out RISPFAIL the boos will rain down from the heavens.
ROBBY!
ROBBIE!!!!!!!
ROBBIE
Yes, motherfuckersssss.
IT HAPPENED
IT HAPPENED
MY OH MY
IT HAPPENED
Oppo!
Robbie!!!! now we need one more for the streak and hopefully a win.
Boom!!!
WOOOOoOOOoOoOOo
Robbie is sooooooooo good.
Pathetic. Trashes me, blocks me so I can’t see that crap, then calls me a name. All while not giving me a single example of why I suck.
marc carig
is he talking bout wally?
Wait…what the fuck are you babbling about?
wut?
marc carig tweeted that … was just wondering who he was referring to? insider beat writer gossip stuff
It was some idiot fan tweeting at him.
thanks mike. i apologize.
was jus curious.
dafuq did I just read?
no seriously…
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-B3e2.....d-meme.jpg
I love you Robinson Cano!
Sorry, Ryan Cook. You got an ERA now.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Extend the streak, get a win.
Can someone describe the homerun? I’m listening to Sterling.
Hard hit line drive oppo taco.
Hard line drive, right down the left field line. It almost looked like a laser line drive homer of the bat of a right hitter.
Thanks guys.
Girardi fucked this game up batting Cano 5th. A lead off homer could have been much more in the middle of the 8th inning.
That’s not the way it works.
If Robbie bats last inning he faces a lefty.
Who gives a shit, I’d rather have Robbie hit a lefty than watch ARod. It’s as simple as this, Cano should not be batting 5th, period.
FotPO
I like this acronym a lot, its almost as much fun to say as TOOTBLAN.
You don’t if he would have hit a homer in that other situation.
You’re nearing a fallacy
Yeah, Girardi totally fucked this game up not arranging Cano’s homer to occur in the correct inning.
So I guess you’d bat him 5th too.
That’s some ridiculous fallacy shit there.
Are they giving up the DH now? What the hell.
It’s a cluster
The Binder has a plan Mike. The Binder always has a plan.
Yeah in a tie game (and with noone left on the bench) that seems odd.
They want to give Chris Stewart a chance to PH and drive a go ahead triple off the glove of an infielder.
I would bat CC before Stewart.
/only half kidding
I would be behind this decision 100%
They won’t be playing clips from this game at Andruw Jones’s Hall of Fame induction. Jee-suz.
A’s have some big walk-offs this year as I recall – let’s hope tonight is not one of them.
9 walk-offs – almost 20% of their wins – wow.
Four in the last eight home games, or something like that, too.
So they’re red hot at doing that stuff. Hopefully, not tonight.
For the love of God, no balls hit to Clay please. He only knows how to throw to home plate and no other plates.
Is Rapada gonna pitch past this batter?
Come on Rapada get the first guy, I’ve stayed up this long we might as well go extras and win.
Nope.
That was a hideous chaw stream Rapada just expelled.
No need to throw a pitch remotely close to the zone
Offense didn’t get it done tonight.
Can’t get it done every night, but 2 runs against Milone et al isn’t going to win very often.
Not for nothing, but Cespedes looks awesome in a baseball uniform.
This guy just rakes
C’mon Eppley!
Get Phelps up
This.
OUCH.
Everything has gone the A’s way in this series.
Lousy luck on that.
Oakland is a very Yankees-like 2-13 with RISP tonight. Need some more of that now.
Yeah.
No.
Fuck
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well that sucked…
Bean Cespedes tomorrow 100% of the time.
Get well soon Joba. You too Aardsma.
Girardi is an idiot for not having Phelps up
He pitched 2.1 innings yesterday.
He was almost definitely unavailable.
What the fuck.
Fucking oogys in the pen. Cashman get some relievers here already.
fuq
Needs more Phelps.
By the way, this is not serious.
So…that’s the streak…
That streak was unimportant to follow period. No reason to keep caring about it. Robinson Cano’s yes. This one no.
I stayed up all night to watch A’s walk off for tenth time.
Yankees are in trouble / Greg
Well, that was underwhelming. Nothing quite like getting smacked around by the A’s.
Everybody asking for Phelps is forgetting two things.
1. He had pitched 2.1 innings yesterday
2. If you want him to start in Seattle, you cant pitch him here.
Not Girardi’s style to switch to Phelps for the start in Seattle without teeing such a move up with comments (he actually praised Garcia for toughing it out in his post-game comments) so I will be very interested if he makes that move.
He probably think Phelps is needed more for the non-LOOGY/non-ROOGY role.
Puke
When was the last time this team lost two games in a row?
June 28-29
July 2-3 vs Tampa.
LOOGY/ROOGY really hurts in a tie game on the road.
Well when you have 3 of them in the pen it is… the problem is the Yankees have just three “1 inning guys” and 1 (the closer) will be saved for a lead.
Sadly, they called up Phelps for that role. Rather see him as starter over Freddy.
Glad I stayed up to watch that….
Cody Eppley sucks
Fuck the Athletics
Goodnight everybody
I knew this series would be difficult. They better get up tomorrow or the division lead could be coming down.
it’s 8. not that big of a deal if it drops to 7. You think the Orioles are actually a threat?
Fuck fuck fuck
Offense was bound to cool off. They still have an 8 game lead and they lost no ground on best record in the AL.
And the Red Sox and Beckett got their ass kicked so it’s not a totally bad baseball night.
might want to try mongomery over appley.
batting arod 4th over cano isn’t very smart.
if swisher dl, who they bring up mcdonald.
out of 9 hitters yanks have 2 good hitters, 2 ok ones ones, 5 bad ones
out of 9 hitters yanks have 2 good hitters, 2 ok ones ones, 5 bad ones
That’s just a stupid thing to say.
“out of 9 hitters yanks have 2 good hitters, 2 ok ones ones, 5 bad ones” defend your thesis.
jeter and arod can’t hit righthanders so far this year, ibanez has a 300 obp, martin is god awful. jones has been great, but he a platoon player.
maybe arod picks it up and on fansgraph has a 116 runs created, but a 777 ops isn’t acceptable.
jeter the king of cheap hits
Hey yanks if you’re going to lose such games please at least do it whilst you’re on the east coast.
Arod still with a whopping 41 rbi’s he friggin sucks. tried to guess in the 7th or so and jump a first pitch fastball.
the guy fuckin sucks and is hitting 4th. Binder boy is a friggin moron.
arod hit 1 ball near the warning track so have a parade…..he is a slap hitting joke….
Clockwork.
Xaviera?
HA! I KNEW YOU WOULD BE HERE, I FUCKING KNEW IT!
Aren’t you up past your bedtime?
hope you are holding jeter to the same standards
I certainly hope this is the last gane Cano bats 5th, it just cost us a win. We get Eppley on the mound in the 9th in a tie game. We might have had Soriano in the 9th with a lead. Things might have been different if Robbie not ARod was up with men on base instead of leading off innings two or three times as it worked out tonight. Nobody knows for sure how things would have worked out but can we all concede that against rightys or leftys Robbie cannot bat as far down as 5th. Please Joe grow some balls and make the change. Last year you wouldn’t hurt Tex’s feelings, now it’s ARod.
FALLACY for the previous statement you made on this same issue.
Robbie has been the Yankees worst everyday hitter vs. LHP this year. He’s not getting moved up against lefties until he actually starts consistently hitting lefties.
Cano hits leftys just fine, check his lifetime stats. Any reason Grandy hits 2nd vs leftys, do you want to compare his lifetime stats vs Robbie’s vs leftys. It just seems Cano has to prove over and over how good he is before he is moved ahead of his over priced teammates. The lineup shouldn’t have to do with the size of the contract as it has the past 2 yrs with Tex last year and Arod this year hitting ahead of Cano. He’s our best hitter in the prime of his career and should hit 3rd, everyday, period.
Has nothing to do with the contracts and everything to do with the fact Cano has been awful vs. LHP this season.
If you compare Grandy’s stats vs. lefties since KLong “fixed” his swing, he’s been better than Cano vs. lefties ever since then.
Also, studies have shown that for optimal run production, best hitter should hit 2nd or 4th, not 3rd.
Over the past three years Robbie’s hitting 303 and has an 860 ops vs leftys, move him up he’s in his prime, take some pressure off ARod he’s on the downside of his career.
my bad arod has a 4 point higher slugging % then Nix give him an extension…………..
they should bat him 3rd so he gets more ab’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yvonne?
Gardy out for the year any ideas who the Yanks might shop for in the outfield or do you think they’ll stay with what they have.
Ricky Ledee. I hear his heart is still beating, plus he’s got tons of heart.
i could not bitch about arod the lady recently I was out of town but nothing has changed he still guess ll the time, he cannot hit a fast ball inside, and binder boy and his legion of apologists are still in denial.
arod friggin sucks……….
Oh right of course. It’s just a coincidence that the last three games you’ve commented on were losses.
Zoey?
So are you a sexist, a homophobe, or both?
nothing has changed on the arod front. binder boy and the blind mice(his apologists) are still either blind, stupid, or delusional on his value to the team.
I could not bitch the last few games I was out of pocket but arod still sucks and did nothing the last few games per his usual…
Agatha?
Clara?
hitting .333 with a .542 SLG since the break but he did nothing the last few games per his usual
Do you have a secret room where the walls are all covered with photos of Arod?
axisa i was out of town. how can ypou continue to support arod the guy is a friggin joke………….
what are you watching or smoking..
the best team in baseball has a slap hitting guess hitter batting 4th ……..
i think only bloggers here and girardi have not gotten the message arod sucks…………….
yanks only lost the last 2 not 3 btw……….
Bambi?
I know, but amazingly you didn’t bother to comment on the wins. Weird.
the guy has 41 friggin rbi’s… he has done shit the whole year..
on pace for 73 rbi’s……
I forgot RBI’s mean nothing according to you einsteins………….
Cecilia?
Will Robert DeNiro play stuart in a remake of The Fan?
There goes teh consecutive 3 runs per game streak
I really don’t get why any of you bother with stuart a anymore. it’s just a waste of time and energy to answer him. He never responds anyway.
Im not sure he even knows it’s possible to respond to another comment.
The reply button must not have enough RBIs.
If the reply button was Ike Davis it would definitely have enough RBIs.
Stuart you can bark all you want about ARod he is who he is. Maybe Joe should take a little pressure off him batting him in the 3 and 4 hole everyday. It’s pretty obvious he’s not worth 27m a year but in this lineup with Tex starting to hit he’d be a solid No 5 hitter and decent third baseman. If you’re pissed at ARod now you’re going to need a therapist the next 5 years.