Aug
05
Game 107: The End of the Homestand
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The Yankees have won just five of their last 15 games and seven of those losses have been decided by just one run. Two others were decided by just two runs. It’s one thing to get dominated by Felix Hernandez, that’s going to happened throughout the course of the season, but some of the other losses were games the Yankees really should have won. A win this afternoon would give them a tolerable 4-5 homestand before heading out on a seven-game road trip. Here’s the lineup…
CF Curtis Granderson
SS Derek Jeter
2B Robinson Cano
1B Mark Teixeira
DH Raul Ibanez
RF Nick Swisher
LF Ichiro Suzuki
3B Jayson Nix
C Chris Stewart
RHP Freddy Garcia
Today’s game starts a little after 1pm ET and can be seen on YES. Enjoy.
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Today’s game has to be won, it’s as simple as that. At home vs a vastly inferior opponent, Tampa or Baltimore will win today so we need to win the games we should win before facing tougher competition in the next 4 series.
As for tougher competition, the Tigers have been Jekyll and Hyde this year.
Toronto is scrappy but we kicked their ass the last time we met them
Rangers at home should be interesting.
And the Red Sox are trying to avoid a home sweep by the Minnesota Twins.
Win the game, I agree, but the next 4 series are doable
I get the sentiment considering the poor play of late…but in my mind, no game “has” to be won unless two teams are within a game or two. If the Yankees lose, they’ll still be 5.5 up in the division.
It would really, really like a win and it would certainly make me feel better. But a must-win game? Not in my opinion.
And yesterday’s loss wasn’t even about poor play. They go handled by a pitcher that owns them historically.
And a pitcher who’s one of the best in the entire world. I’d like the Yankees to win, but I just can’t blame any team who loses to Felix.
He has three shutouts this year.
Boston, Texas, and New York
CC never does that.
Well, Felix is better. No one would argue with that.
Freddy Garcia is not an ace.
It’s hot today. The Sweat Man will be in his element!
what happened to DoTF last night
he linked to the minor league box scores at the bottom of the Game Recap
I think 6 IP 3 ER are reasonable expectations for Freddy today. The key to winning this game is figuring out Iwakuma who pitched well against the Yankees the last time they faced him. He’s been pretty mediocre overall this year though so.
Iwakuma has given up one home run in 8 straight games.
Let’s hope the Yankees make their one count then.
I think it might be more than one.
The Yankees were on fire not that long ago but it FEELS like it was a while back.
Here’s to hoping they win one today and go on another tear.
A note on Ichiro
BaBIP with the Yanks: .238
BaBIP with the M’s: .279
Harness that sweat Freddy! Turn it into an Asset!
.5 o/u Montero will have a passed ball.
Chris Stewart is fucking terrible.
It was ruled a wild pitch, not a passed ball.
And in hindsight, the run would have scored anyway
Hey asshat, aren’t you the one always harping about, “FALLACY OF THE PREDETERMINED OUTCOME”?
That’s why I said “in hindsight” dumbass
Oh, I see, you right massa. I is wrong, massa.
I’m kidding, by the way. The “in hindsight” doesn’t negate the issue.
He’s so much better than Cervelli. Right?
They are both horrible. However, giving up Kontos for his was stupid.
No. They’re virtually even.
why not lose a series at home against the mariners. It’s not nearly as bad as losing a series at home to the twins.
Ask the Red Sox how that feels.
You still coming to grips with the red sox being a terrible team and non threat?
6 pitchers, one PB, one run and one on.
Pitches, not pitchers.
Thank you, Jesus.
Steal Curtis!
God he’s fucking slow anymore.
Losing more games than winning on a homestand is not what I’d consider “tolerable.”
Now, I don’t get to watch the Mariners everyday and I know there is much love for Montero, but I have to say, in his first full season, he is not been that impressive and may have been a difficult piece for the Yankees to fit in, other than at DH which the team already has 5 on the roster.
Even though Pineda did not pitch this year, I still like the trade and think the Yankees will get the better end of the deal.
“Even though Pineda did not pitch this year, I still like the trade and think the Yankees will get the better end of the deal.”
That’s a lot to except with a labrum injury. I’m not as optimistic.
*expect
But, he is only 22/23, so time will tell.
The injury Pineda had wasn’t a minor one.
The logic that Montero is having a sub-par year therefore Pineda should be better is a flawed one.
Truth is, this year, the M’s at least have gotten production out of their end of the trade while the Yankees have not. Next year and moving forward? Well, we’ll see.
Yep, wouldn’t want to play any small ball to match the Ms. Try a steal, a bunt, anything. The home runs just aren’t coming right now.
The thing is that if you mention small ball around here, you get banned.
This team wasn’t built to play small ball and that style of play is overrated anyway.
After two batters?
Let’s go Mark.
Uh oh . . . RISP with less than two outs. They fu**ed.
I didn’t know Tex was that good with RISP. I thought he was worse
Wait did Teix actually beat that out?
Well, that’s one way to beat the shift.
Texa Vu
The shift backfires
I don’t trust shifts really.
HUSTLE
There you go- small ball, timely hitting and hustle and good things happen.
Yeah I would hate to see a home run right here. That ‘small ball’ came off of two seeing eye ground balls.
The second one wasn’t a seeing eye ground ball. It was slow enough into the shift.
Nice hustle!
Mark with teh wheels! I’ll take it.
Good job Ibanez.
Nasty pitch
only a moron bats ibanez before swisher
Vicious splitter.
Six batters up, one run. Small ball!
Just be happy they scored, okay?
How dare somebody expect a top-5 offense to score more than 1 run in one inning against a mediocre pitcher? As usual, you’re so right Greg.
Expect nothing. You avoid disappointment that way
Your life must suck.
could swisher possibly get a 2 out rbi ?
I imagine Kawasaki is hard to K, but still a bad job by Freddy
Garcia is just not confidence inspiring.
You just walked a guy with a 26 wRC+ Freddy.
He ran in place!
What the hell was that?
that fake steal was awesome..
And his body language is just horrible, like he feels like he’s losing the game.
Kawasaki: master of the deke
Haha yeah that was hilarious.
fucking awful Freddy
ugh
Go kill yourself Freddy. You just walked the two worst hitters in baseball.
Freddy……….it’s fucking Chone Figgins…….
Watching Freddy pitch lately has not been fun.
Though that fake running by Ichiro Jr was entertaining.
Walking one of the worst offensive players in baseball. Awesome Freddy.
Phelps, please
I love how they’re trying to analyze Garcia’s pitching without saying, “He sucks”.
+1
Ackley helped him out. That was ball 3
I am sick of Freddy Garcia.
Not ripping him, I just don’t like watching the game on days he pitches.
Ackley saved Garcia’s bacon
Phew.
How can anyone be surprised by freddy pitching like shit? It is who he is nowadays.. the only thing surprising is that he’s still starting for a division leader.
The thing that is surprising is that he hasn’t been bombed of late.
He’s given up 3 runs only in each of his last two starts.
Hallelujah
Sluggo reference…….nice
Ichiro’s crappy babip continues
BABIP shouldn’t be evaluated after 12 games…
Everything should be evaluated after 12 games.
Even life.
Jason Nix has some mad reflexes.
Haha @ im-potent. Just say it right, Kay.
Stewie!
Chris Stewart. That man just gets base hits.
RISP WIN
nice base running by Stewart
CLUTCHNESS! It does exist!
What’s the record for number of shitty platoon players with OBP’s at or below .310 on a World Series contender.
Who gives a shit?
He does. That’s why he asked. Greg, stop being a dick.
Tell him to stop being a asshole when the team scores runs.
What’s with you the last two days?
What’s with YOU the last two days?
You are usually not this negative
And you are never negative?
No I am. But not to that level
I mean yesterday, you were like “Fuck Felix” “Fuck Seattle”
You are never like that.
Who cares?
I’m not a huge fan of Felix after he broke Alex’s hand.
He’s menstruating.
That’s what he accused me of yesterday.
Signs of shedding one’s uterine wall: Irrationality, hysteria.
Stewart might have been out if Seattle had a real catcher blocking the plate.
Zing!
He’s the enemy now. I couldn’t resist the urge to take a shot at him even if it was probably unfair.
I feel ya. As irrational as it may be, the ridiculous fawning over Montero in April on here made me actually start to dislike him. I’m coming back from that stance now, but back when there were like 5 commenters a night updating his batting line over and over again in the comments, it started to make me dislike the poor guy.
Agree 100%.
It would be one thing to root for him as a former Yankee farm hand but the vibe I always got was they want him to do well so they can bitch about why the Yankees shouldn’t have traded him away.
When you throw so many balls, you don’t get that call Freddy
Guess it’s a pre-requisite for a Mariner hitter to get to 3-0 today
Yikes….
Ichiro can’t hit anymore but he has to be one of the best defensive outfielders I’ve ever seen.
Come on. Don’t show doughnuts
Those donuts look amazing. And I don’t eat sweets.
Robbie Cano just has the most beautiful swing in baseball. No doubt about it.
Prettiest swing since Ken Griffey Jr.
I agree. The link I tried to post isn’t showing up, which is a bummer. I’ll try again in a minute.
That got me to looking up some old footage of Jr. His swing was almost inhuman.
He was the best non PED enhanced player of my lifetime.
Him and Randy Johnson.
Maybe THE most incredible things that’s ever happened on a baseball diamond:
haha Sterling on Paulie, “He has the most perfect figure, for a man.”
He’ll have to fight Susan first for a piece of Paulie.
Paul O’Neill rule…score late, and score often. Aww yeah.
This could be the slowest 2-1 game ever.
Wow. So productive those two . . .
Those three*
LOL.
Ichiro has to get a hit with RISP for the Yankees at some point, right?
Why? They cant get their own hits with RISP
They do on occasion at least. Ichiro is 0-13 now.
Well he has 2 RBIs, and one was by the homer, so…
K…the glitter is starting to wear off the Ichiro trade.
Not sure there was any glitter. More of a faded tin color.
He was brought in for defense and baserunning.
Sad
Chance to get Freddy some cushion and 3 straight pop ups. Well done.
Iwakama vs Garcia, it doesn´t get any better than this !
ichiro cannot get a hit with RISP. not sure if he has gotten 1 yet for the Yanks…..
he is avg at best. a poormans gardner ouch………
Ventura and…Donnie?
Ventura was there after Girardi had gone
A ton of popups by both teams
TEX. He’s gotta be the frontrunner for the AL Firstbase Gold Glove. No way they’re giving to Prince and Gonzalez hasn’t hit well enough.
Pujols will have more home runs than him. He will win it.
And more RBI’s. BBWAA loves those things.
I thought managers and coaches vote the Gold Gloves.
That would be a travesty, as Teix’s glove is substantially better than Pujols’s.
Agreed 100%.
AGon? What does hitting have to do with GGs? Also, his line reads: .300/.344/.442 . . . I’d take that any day of the week.
You don’t believe GG voting is entirely based on fielding prowess, do you?
I believe it’s based mostly off history . . . You win 3, you get another . . . You win 8, you’ll have 12 on the shelf in no time.
I agree.
His power numbers have dropped off considerably though which is concerning for the Red Sox.
Iwakuma seems to be a mix of Kuroda and Garcia
racist
I meant in their styles. Not in his looks
Bigot
Pitching styles
Homophobe
Misogynist
Ugh, a little harder Nix.
That’s what she said!
Heh whoops, didn’t realize I had gone there. My bad.
Good to see that Garcia has settled down.
Another “just missed”
At 1:35 yesterday were we already in the 7th inning? This is really moving very slow and it’s only 2-1. Break it open already.
Ichiro and Stewart have nearly the same line . . . I’m not quite sure what that says about EITHER player.
Nice block, Jesus.
Nice job Cap.
JEET!!!!!!!!!!
What’s with all the name calling and hostility? Is the heat wearing everyone out?
I’m just messing around.
So am I. The negativity gets into me a bit.
And he can RUN!!! Yeah BOOYYYEEEEE!
Greg thinks Iwakuma is a bad driver but is good at math.
He also eats Chik-Fil-A every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner while donning a white sheet over his head. And he’s a staunch believer of women being paid less in the workplace. Oh Greg. You rascal.
Greg endorses the Jim Crow laws.
Greg harpoons dolphins for sport.
I blow my nose on $100 bills
Greg believes Global Warming is a government hoax with all his heart.
Greg is a covert financier of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Greg napalmed an entire village of Cambodian cattle because he destroyed hit backyard BBQ in a fit of Yankee-induced rage.
Greg is an advocate of the Gold Standard and thinks Rick Santorum is “all right”.
Greg kicks his dog with steel-tipped boots.
Greg is an avid Ayn Rand fan.
Greg’s father is Jerry Sandusky. Greg has issues.
Hey, the Japanese have some great formula 1 drivers.
So what you’re implying is that Asians have poor eyesight? Greg, that’s incredibly insensitive.
My 14 year old half Brazilian cousin, when seeing the Olympics on last weekend, said that Japanese people can’t see because they have slanted eyes.
Needless to say, I wanted to throw her through the window. Then again, since she’s basically always been a bitch, that’s par for the course.
I too have a cousin who is a bitch. She is also fat. Positive correlation? Surprisingly, no.
Let me know when your cousin is 18. If she’s Brazilian she has a big ass.
Brazilians are also renowned for their affinity of plastic surgery.
I tried to post the Family Guy Asian driver joke, but it’s not showing up. Eh, whatever.
Captain clutch. Stewart has scored 2 of the Yankees 3 runs today.
Chris Stewart MVP of the ballgame.
God if Robbie just learned some plate discipline he’d be a top 3 hitter in the game.
Gotta be Freddy Garcia, right?
I’m wrong
You tried your best and failed. The lesson is, “Never try.”
“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
“Never try, never fail.” -Squidward Tentacles
Just got back from doing random stuff around the apartment…this game thread has taken a rather interesting route. Not that I’m complaining, it was entertaining to read through the last ~30 min of comments.
It’s like when I took a break yesterday and came back to find nothing but comments on whether or not it’s OK to constantly pick on the announcers. Comedy gold.
Greg clubs baby seals . . . after dragging them behind his tinted out Chevrolet pick-up truck. Sick, Greg. Appalling.
Greg drives his RV across the country so he can defecate in as many super markets as possible. He then proceeds to steal candy from small children standing outside en route to getting back in his RV parked in the handicapped spot.
Sorry Greg, I had to. It looks like too much fun.
Greg’s last name is Hitler.
Hitler (and by extension, Greg) was born on 4/20. I will leave that to others to decide where I was going with that.
Greg lied to his doctor, complaining of nausea and headaches, in order to receive his medical marijuana license. Greg has cheated the American government and medical system. Greg is addicted to Hentai, Code Red Mountain Dew, and Ecstasy.
Greg is family friend of the Campbells of Holland Township, New Jersey.
Greg is the owner of an wildlife conservancy and exotic menagerie, which he claims is step forward for animal rights, but is actually a wicked sin-bed for his sick trists of bestiality. Greg prefers giraffes.
That’s about 15 minutes from where I grew up!
I actually live in Alexandria Township, which is right next door to Holland Township. It’s boring as fuck over here.
No way! I live in DC now, but spent most of my life in Bethlehem Township, like 5 miles outside of Clinton.
What High School did you go to? I went to Del Val. I think Bethlehem sends it’s kids to Hunterdon Central.
That’s incredibly frustrating
Two-out RBIs are painful.
Fun watching other teams get 2out hits that score runs
We’ve got 2 today. Granderson and Jeter have 2 out RBIs
false
Why?
Because you’re ignorant and a supporter of terrorism.
Granderson reached on an error. He did not get an RBI.
God is this an annoying inning.
Take him out please.
Freddy just get the fucking third out.
Stop giving up runs Fred
Phew!!
SO each team has scored 2 times with 2 outs. The difference is, we have one more run.
I;m sorry. The M’s have scored only 1 2out run. We have 2
Meredith looks exquisite today.
Nothing new there.
Zobrist was taken out of the game and was seen hugging teammates in the dugout.
Wonder where he’s going?
Because of back spasms. Nevermind.
Apparently just back spasms, but the hugging makes the back spasms claim strange to me.
Maybe they were hugging just because.
Bromance.
RAUL!!!!!!!!!!!
He just missed one his last at bat…gets it this time
The Count with a blast
What a blast…
VOLDEMORT….GOES YARDEMORT!!
That was a fucking moonshot by Raul. He’s making Cashninja look smarter and smarter every day.
So everybody is yelling at Greg, calling him a racist and a bigot…and I missed it.
Very disappointed.
Greg voted for Rick Perry in the Republican primaries. He agrees with everything in this ad:
Let’s all secede!!!
Sometimes I think America would be better off if the North didn’t fight the Civil War.
I think that, too, but then I remember that Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays and Hank Aaron would never have been able to play baseball, and that we may have never had a space program, and that there probably wouldn’t be a Disney World, and a bunch of other stuff.
I think Cali would have been on the North’s side though, so we’d have Disney Land anyway!
But that’s so far away…
Two-front war, baby!
It’s also in Southern California, Anaheim to be exact . . . Not a place anyone should ever want to visit/live.
We need to deport all the gays back to Europe and convert our tanks into pick up trucks. ‘MERICA!
Saw a Suburban yesterday that had a sticker in the window with a picture of a handgun and a caption that read “We don’t call 911!”
I’m saying to myself, of course you don’t, because you’ll get killed by the other guy before you have a chance.
Wow. Were do live? Northern Michigan? Heartland Texas? South Carolina?
Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania.
Trust me, this area is a perfect little example of melting pot that is our country. A lot of different minorities in the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton; a lot of white yuppies; and a ton of white rednecks.
I live about 10 minutes from the Delaware River on the New Jersey side and I agree. In this area there’s lots of diversity, and lots of hicks.
Right there with ya boys. Or at least a was a few months ago.
There are a lot of Penn State fans (cultists) around here too. Yuck.
Why did they take him out?
Because he didn’t want the Mariners to score anymore.
/trollface
Greg doesn’t use coasters when he is a guest at someone’s house.
Greg doesn’t wipe his shoes.
Do you respect wood?
Greg has auditioned for Jersey Shore multiple times. He went under the sobriquet, “G-Spot”.
Greg pisses in the toilet and NEVER flushes.
Greg puts his elbows up at the table
Greg pees on the seat and does not wipe anything, ever.
Greg is also known as Duh! Innings when he takes his Mr. Hyde potion.
The real trolls are much better than you goofs.
Who’s trolling?
Only The Troll can troll. And right now, The Troll is on patrol.
Greg gallivants in a Hummer that gets 1.5 miles to the gallon, while deflating bicycle tires and driving on sidewalks.
Did Michael Kay really just that Chris Stewart “gives them offense”?
He kinda does.
Only kinda.
I guarantee they think Stewart is a better hitter than Martin because of batting average.
STEWART FOR PLAYER OF THE GAME!!!!!!!!!
Chris Stewart is making a name for himself.
Chris Stewart is a triple and a home run short of the cycle.
Haha. That’s something you don’t hear very often.
Bad execution by Jeter
If Jeter had bunted they would have walked Robbie Cano. Now Robbie gets to hit.
Oliver Perez versus Robbie Cano?
Eric Wedge is playing right into our hands. Muwhahahahahahhahahahaha
Ollie Perez’s coming in
You know what that means…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....#038;h=360
Train jokes? That’s fucked up, bro.
Someone had to make fun of Adrian Gonzalez, huh?
jones please
No. Lefties hit .373 off of Perez
Who cares, Ibanez can’t hit lefties period.
He’s 3-for-7 against Perez.
4-for-8!
Previous 3 years: the avg is .205
But I’m sure the 28 AB sample size you are using is much more meaningful. The smaller the sample the better, right?
The previous 3 years were ’08,’09, and 10
There’s a missing year in there
Here comes the gift out because Girardi won’t pinch-hit with Andruw.
Did you not see the stat before?
Lefties hit .373 off of Perez
He could not have looked worse on those first two pitches
And
it worked once. I’m happy that it worked out obviously, but I still disagree with the decision.
It’s 30 PA.
This will probably cause Girardi to use Ibanez against a lefty in a bigger spot against a better lefty.
Mike just got OWNED!
THIS !!!!!
But whatever.
That’s a pretty interesting move to IBB Teix to get to Raul, lefty-righty notwithstanding.
Joe… Ibanez is not good vs lefties. Regardless of teh result this is a boneheaded decision.
Where have you gone, Andruw Jooo-ooo-ones, our lonely nation turns it’s eyes to you, woo-ooo-oooh.
Figures. That only means Girardi will keep not pinch-hitting.
I can’t wait until Ibanez faces Phil Coke with the bases loaded in the ALDS and strikes out.
True Yankees fan.
Wow! Would like to see his team fail just to prove a point.
No luck with that.
Well, waddya know? Lefties hit Oliver Perez
.205 average the last 3 years
Waddya know?
How to misuse statistics?
Rauuuuuul!!!!!
npoh
Unfortunately that hit will convince Joe to leave Ibanez in games in situations like this again. Why have two righthanded bats on the bench if you’re not going to use them to try and blow the game open?
Example of people are never happy.
Or more accurately, that some people understand that sample size matters.
Do you mean like below?
Now with that hit. lefties hit .413 off of Perez
12 hits in 29 ABs
.205 average the previous 3 years
Greg, do you think those 29 ABs outweigh the 870 previous career ABs Perez had where he was better against lefties than righties? And do they outweigh the past couple years where Ibanez has around a .500 OPS vs. lefties?
You’re constantly drawing lessons from only very recent events, and that’s not very predictive of what will happen in the future. I’ll bet you anything Perez will do better vs. lefties the rest of this season, and for the rest of his career.
Voldemort laughs at your platoon splits!
Ibanez says ” SHUT UP AND LET ME HIT THE DAMN BALL”
LOL
That 2-2 pitch to Ibanez could have been called a strike. I think we caught a break.
Looked low to me.
Ollie Perez: Not even good at LOOGYing any longer.
Fuck the cameraman and Michael Kay. Almost as bad as Sterling.
Yeah that was bad. “DEEP TO RIGHT FIELD. GOING BACK….”
Alright.
By “right”, I meant “left”.
That was about a 300 footer. Didn’t even make it to the warning track. You’d think Kay would be good at reading fly balls with how long he’s been at this.
Cue Greg “I told you so” comments. Hey, by the way, did you guys know that the Oakland Athletics would be a pain in the ass?
Given that Raul himself was 3-7 lifetime against Perez, I’m not sure I see the problem with Girardi’s decision to leave him in there, and I’m not sure that Girardi’s take-home-lesson will be “leave Ibanez in against lefties”.
I don’t think so. They’re just generalizing things. If it’s a better lefty in a much more important game I’m sure Girardi goes to the righty. But then Wedge brings in the righty to face Jones. What are the righty’s #s against Jones? You have to take that into account as well and they aren’t.
Jones is far, far better against righties than Ibanez is against lefties
Dunno if they had a righty warmed up and ready to go if Jones pinch hit.
I have been multitasking, so correct me if I’m wrong. But wasn’t Perez brought in just for Ibanez? If that’s the case, isn’t he required to have a batter before he can be removed, regardless of the pincher hitter situation?
I’m not arguing Jones vs. Ibanez, but I don’t think Wedge could have brought in a righty regardless of what Girardi did.
Perez was brought in to face Cano
My bad. Like I said, I’m only half paying attention. Today is laundry day for me.
No. Perez pitched to Teix.
Then you pinch-hit Chavez. The Yankees have a really strong bench and it’s okay to occasionally use it.
I hope Girardi doesn’t make decisions based on 7 plate appearances.
He also did it because he saw that lefties hit .393 off of Perez this year.
There’s a difference between seven plate appearances “lefties against Perez” and seven plate appearances “Ibanez against Perez”. The latter is a meaningful piece of information if you are deciding whether to allow Ibanez to bat against Perez.
Ibanez was 3-7 career against Perez
Combine that with lefties hitting 11-28 off of Perez this year.
Let him hit.
Looseleaf binder logic.
NOOOOOO!!!!!
Jones should of hit anyway even if it work out. They should replay the inning and let Jones hit because the Lords of baseball said so.
.205 average the last 3 years
You really don’t understand small sample sizes
3 for 7? What if it was 2 for 7? (and say one of those hit was broken bat hit) Would you treat the numbers different.
You forget that Perez did not pitch last year. So there’s a missing year between those 3 years and this year
So to be clear, the fact that Perez missed a year means that we should use his last 29 ABs to predict that he’s worse vs. lefties than righties, despite the overwhelming evidence from the rest of his career to the contrary. Is that right?
Do you think he’ll do worse vs. lefties for the rest of this season and for the rest of his career? If so, I’ll take that bet any day.
He has 30 PA’s.
I’ll take a couple of years of data over a ridiculous 30 PA sample size.
And why are you quoting 3 for 7 for Ibanez if the info I’m providing is “old”… just so I understand, you can only use data prior to this year when it suits your argument?
Those 7 AB’s all occurred this year, right?
Greg is the king of small sample sizes.
When reliever are involved, all the sample sizes are going to be small.
That doesn’t mean you should make predictions based on those sample sizes. You shouldn’t, and if you do, you’ll be wrong very often.
If you did, every time a relief pitcher started off his career with 29 ABs where he had a reverse platoon split, you’d predict that he’s going to continue to have a reverse platoon split. And you’d be wrong most of the time, because most relief pitchers don’t.
The Yankees best offensive performers today are Raul Ibanez and Chris ‘Slugging’ Stewart.
And that’s just fine with me.
I wonder if leaving Ibanez in was a binder decision or a gut/PH-reluctance decision.
A gut decision based on binder notes?
Seriously, if Joe had shown a willingness to pinch hit for Ibanez in the past and he decided to leave him in the game today against Perez, I’d question it less. It’s the fact that he lately keeps leaving Ibanez in to face lefties when he’s shown no ability to hit them and he NOW has two righties to come off the bench.
Maybe it has something to do with Chavez not being able to play and not wanting to lose the DH position if there was an injury.
So I’m seeing Greg being called everything in the book here, but can’t figure out what he said to start it. Can I get a Cliff Notes version here?
It’s all in good humor. At least the comments from me are. But considering Greg himself got into it, I’m pretty sure it’s al in good fun. Do your own, Tilapia, I’m sure it will be funny.
Greg’s a piece-of-shit-fucking-Castro-sympathizer?
/Ozzie Guillen’d
Too much cussing. Greg drives a Harley chopper just for the ear-shattering pops of the muffler.
The Real Greg says:
August 5, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Iwakuma seems to be a mix of Kuroda and Garcia
Brian S. says:
August 5, 2012 at 2:30 pm
racist
The rest is history.
“You look exotic. Was your dad a GI?”
Greg’s favorite “films” are Gigli and From Justin to Kelly. He also talks on his cell phone, chews loudly, and laughs uncontrollably while at the movie theater.
And the guy smokes menthol cigarettes at Chuck-E-Cheese while perving on welfare-ridden, single mother divorces.
While eating a watermelon?
Sorry, that was going to far.
And yet, even if it’s only in my own personal experience, has always been true. Stereotypes are typically true. Sad, yes, but cultivated from truth.
I know, you are right. Stereotypes do exist for a reason, at least most of the time.
My coworkers are fun-loving racists. My supervisor’s birthday was last month (he’s black), and my Asian assistant manager bought him Pop-Eyes chicken for lunch. He loved it.
In the immortal words of Avenue Q, “everyone’s a little bit racist.” The world might actually get along a little better if we just embraced such differences and cut away all this PC BS. Also, some people are total tight asses with no sense of humor whatsoever. Those people suck chode.
The more you know . . . brought to you from late 90′s NBC.
and THAT’S one to grow on…..brought to you by mid-80′s NBC.
I don’t say this out loud very often, but I will here, since I am among friends.
I enjoyed “Glitter.”
Booooooone!!!
Welcome back, Good Boone Logan.
What a job by Boone Logan! And with the 4-run lead we might even spare Robertson and Soriano heading into Detroit.
Boonetang.
*gives mad cookies*
Boone Logan proving he’s more than just a LOOGY. Speaking of Boone, how’s Arodys Vizcaino doing these days?
He’s currently not pitching for the Cubs. He had TJ surgery earlier in the year.
This really becomes a lot more enjoyable when you don’t look up stats on splits and just want the guy holding the bat at the time to get on base.
I like how people always complain about Girardi and his binder then he goes against the book once, it works, and people still complain. It was Oliver Perez in an early August game against the Mariners, it’s not like he’s going to follow the same line of thinking against a better lefty in a mid October game.
he’s been doing that all year long
Don’t you get it? Girardi is much stupider than any of us, and now he has learned the stupid lesson from this one at-bat that Ibanez is great against lefties and he is gonna leave Ibanez in all the time against lefties, even in game seven of the world series.
The weird thing is that Joe always gets accused of using this mythical binder of his, but he’s just as capable of doing something completely boneheaded and “old school” and then trotting out some cliched reason why he did it. To hear some people talk you’d think Girardi was always beholden to his book of stats, and that’s not true at all.
lol
Wow
Ichiro!
HIT STREAK!
Hahahaha they gave Ichiro a hit. The streak lives.
Not watching. How generous was the scoring decision?
It was an easily catchable ball. 100% catch rate, but it got lost in the sun. It was the proper scoring decision, but it was a total luck hit.
With all the liners he’s been hitting at people he deserves that one.
Yes, plus it keeps alive the odd, one-hit-a-game batting streak. Twelve down, 45 to go!
Single and an error?
Not sure. But Kay said Ichy was granted a hit on the play. The official scorer must be aware of the streak.
Nix needs to get on here so Chris Stewart can hit a 3 run home run and end this thing.
Guess what?
That’s another hit by a lefty.
13-31, I believe now. A .419 BA
It’s a pop up to shallow CF. Are you really trying to use that to try to further your argument?
It was scored as a hit and goes into the books as a hit.
I’m just stating facts.
and completely misrepresenting their significance
Everything is significant.
Of course significance is not a binary outcome.
(which is why in statistcs that have tests of significance and things like regression analysis)
That’s what Idi Amin said.
Shows how useless that stat is
Q: What’s better than making predictions based on small sample sizes?
A: Claiming that you were right based on even smaller sample sizes!
Greg, I’ll repeat my question from above. Are you predicting that Perez will pitch worse vs. lefties than righties the rest of this season, and the rest of his career as a reliever?
A: When relievers are involved, they are always going to be small sample sizes.
B: This season? Yes. The rest of his career? Don’t know.
A. Repeating my answer above:
That doesn’t mean you should make predictions based on those sample sizes. You shouldn’t, and if you do, you’ll be wrong very often.
If you did, every time a relief pitcher started off his career with 29 ABs where he had a reverse platoon split, you’d predict that he’s going to continue to have a reverse platoon split. And you’d be wrong most of the time, because most relief pitchers don’t.
B. Bet taken!
They still bunt?
Runner on third for the Yankees’ best hitter.
Small ball! Are you happy now Greg, you xenophobe?
Sutor?ku o utsu!
Someone please tell me how does a Yankees fan say this:
Brian S. says:
August 5, 2012 at 3:37 pm
I can’t wait until Ibanez faces Phil Coke with the bases loaded in the ALDS and strikes out.
“Cutting off the nose to spite the face”
That’s crazy. Even if it’s the wrong decision I’d like to see it work and see the Yankees win. I’d never wish that they’d lose just to be proven right. I’m guessing they wanted Ibanez to fail there and see us lose this game. Good thing he came through and we’re on our way to taking 2/3 in the series.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
AGREE 100%
interesting game thread o_O
and attaboy ichiro. lol.
I hope he breaks DiMaggio’s record and somehow hits under .300 during the streak.
#ireallydontmeanthat
someone was joking about ichiro’s 57 game hit streak with a slg of .225
i’d die.
When small ball goes wrong . . .
Stepping away from the Yankee game for a second, what do people think the Phillies should do with Cliff Lee?
I think they should “gift” him to the Dodgers and get the committment off their books. I haven’t heard if the Dodgers were one of the teams on his no-trade list.
DRob? Really? Using your best set-up guy back to back days to protect a 4 run lead?
D-Rob again? I’m surprised after the two-inning outing yesterday.
Then again Nova is pitching tomorrow, so the odds D-Rob are slim he’s needed.
Sarcasm, I hope. : -)
A bit of cynicism to steel myself for him to get pounded. His ungodly extra base hit rate and that ballpark and that lineup? Not a great combination.
Obviously I hope I’m wrong.
YOU WANT THE YANKEES TO FAIL!!!!!!!!
Making his point is all that matter in baseball.
Someone please tell me how does a Yankee fan say this:
mustang says:
August 5, 2012 at 2:34 pm
I wish Germany had won.
….with a thick accent?
mustang also said:
July 25, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Pol Pot was my idol growing up.
Something tells me he didn’t really mean either of those.
mustang
July 25, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Just to reiterate my hatred of all lesser beings, I cannot emphasize enough how much I idolize Pol Pot. I mean it. I’m being totally serious. Pol Pot is my hero.
You sure it wasn’t Greg who said that? That guy loves brutal dictators and genocide.
True. It might have been Greg. I mean, his nickname in High School was “Baby Killer” after all . . .
Something tells me he didn’t write either one of those, but when you say something stupid there nothing left but to make shit up.
Please show me the link because I never remember saying that.
You didn’t. At least not on this thread.
I remember reading it. I was horrified. I even called up the ACLU screaming for your head.
I never wrote any of them, but whatever all in good fun whatever floats your boat I guess.
Didn’t he only throw very few pitches yesterday?
16
My bad: 16 pitches yesterday.
I mean, not a ton, but he pitched two innings regardless.
Wow, AJ had a great road start in a game, attack me if you will, the Pirates HAD TO HAVE!!!
That series is going to TURN THE PIRATES SEASON AROUND, even though they lost.
This is a little strange that D-Rob is in here and has thrown at least 20 pitches, after 16 yesterday. Now he is definitely not available tomorrow, correct?
I would not be surprised if Soriano pitches the ninth.
He hasn’t pitched in awhile
I’d prefer Joba, actually. Get him an inning with the home fans and a comfortable lead.
I heard you mutter something under your breath there.
I’m pretty sure he mumbled something along the lines of “Soriano looks like Tracy Morgan. You know what, all black people look the same.”
Racist.
Greg always prefers to bring in the white guy.
White Supremacy. Geez, Greg, go start a concentration camp, why don’tcha?!
I know Blackburn kinda sucks, but is Carl Crawford back? Looks like he’s been hitting the ball pretty well since he returned from the DL.
Who’s next on the all time hits list for Jeter to pass? Willie Mays right?
Nap Lajoie, then Eddie Murray. Should be able to get both of them this year.
Oh, and no matter how many times YES shows Lajoie’s hit total at 3252, it’s actually 3242.
Greg likes his hookers like he likes his rum. Feel free to finish that however you choose.
Smooth at first, but burns his stomach later.
Makes him puke, but still finishes the job.
Ew. Greg has herpes and anal warts. Gross, Greg.
Weak and easy to swallow.
Was Greg ever in today’s game thread? I showed up late. He hasn’t responded to any of the “attacks.”
Yes. Some of them are funny; others aren’t
Greg wears silver lipstick and paints his finger nails black. Freak. You’re a freak, Greg!
Greg shops at Hot Topic and is obsessed with Robert Pattinson and the Twilight series.
The correct answer was:
A. Light
B. Dark
C. Thrown up on the side of the road.
I’m loving the hustle Robbie.
Although, Michael, If I could change ONE thing about Robbie it would be his plate discipline.
There’s Andruw Jones
That ball boy gave the ball to the white kid instead of the black kid! THE BALLBOY IS GREG!!!!
What’s this? But I thought that Girardi would never pinch hit for Ibanez!
Ibanez was 0 for 1 lifetime against Luetge – the decision was obvious and based on the #’s.
I should also note it was a K… which is worth double.
He will. He’ll pinch hit for him in low-leverage, meaningless situations, but will leave him in for key, high-leverage situations that could cost the Yankees the game!
He’ll generally PH if the Yankees are tied or trailing, or at the end of the game in a meaningless situation.
He doesn’t PH with a lead and a chance to blow the game open.
In the 6th inning we heard that Girardi would never pinch hit Jones for Ibanez vs a lefty ever again as it worked once so it’ll always work. 3 innings later he pinch hits Jones for Ibanez against a lefty and out goes that theory.
Dumbass in the YES booth forgot to reset the pitch count for Soriano.
OK. They fixed it.
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excellent game!!!!!!!!!
Soriano untucks shirt. Greg untucks white sheet.
Haha, there you go. Grab your torches, boys! Greg’s a-goin’ lynchin’ tonight! mustang will bring the tar and feathers.
Interesting. Untuck if it’s a save, tuck if it’s not.
Wait, he didn’t untuck?? Guess it’s only for saves.
So *that’s* what it says inside his cap!!!!
“Untuck for save, keep tucked if not.”
Racism and Bigotry aside, great game. I’ll take 2 out of 3 against the Mariners with the sole loss being a Felix Hernandez game every time.
Greg only accepts sweeps. Some crazy shiz is going down tonight . . .
Greg and his buddies James Earl Ray, John Wilkes Booth, and Sean Hannity are heading to Memphis to piss on Martin Luther King Jr’s memorial later tonight. Anyone who hates change is invited.
Okay maybe this one is bit extreme.
Haha. Extreme, yes, but hey, that’s Greg for ya.
Except Hannity heard you and started getting in the car.
Absolutely, and I think I got all the racist Greg jokes out of my system.
Greg, thanks for being a good sport. Really. Almost makes up for the Oakland series.
Yeah Greg is cool. This was all in good fun and was completely facetious.
I didn’t even go back to check what set it off figuring it all seemed in good humor.
This is how it started and things only went downhill (or uphill de ending on your viewpoint) from there: http://riveraveblues.com/2012/.....nt-4657963
Your welcome.
soriano looked like he was judging the hell outta figgins on that 3rd strike.
“dumbass, i just threw that same damn pitch, you gon’ swing at it again?? MFIKY”
I look forward to the eventual complaints about Freddy Garcia looking too much like a fill-in #5 starter to be the fill-in #5 starter.
Freddy’s been fine during his entire tenure with the Yankees with the exception of the horrible April this year.
Glad they didn’t cut him as many wanted. Never cut depth.
“……but David Phelps is melting away like the final scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark…..”
Question:
If Ibanez leaves next year and gets picked up, do we get a comp pick?
We’d have to give him him a $13M qualifying offer for that to happen. So no.
Oh. Bugger
Only if they offered him a qualifying offer of approximately $13.4M. In other words, no!
Since Freddie has been back from the BP he has posed a 3.89 ERA.