Open Thread: 3/9 Camp Notes
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(AP)
The Yankees lost to the Braves this afternoon, but the outcome of the game was secondary to the return of Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter. Mo struck out two in a perfect inning while the Cap’n singled and grounded out in his two at-bats as the DH. Both guys were making their Grapefruit League debuts, as you know.
Other than that, Jose Ramirez was a star of the game, allowing one hit and zero walks in four scoreless innings. He struck out four and was very, very sharp. Ichiro Suzuki singled twice while Ronnie Mustelier had an opposite field triple, which pretty much sums up the offense. The Yankees have scored zero or one run more times this spring (six) than they have three or more runs (five). That should (hopefully) correct itself once all the regulars start playing in the same lineup together. Here’s the box score and here’s the rest from Tampa…
- Phil Hughes (back), David Robertson (shoulder), and David Aardsma (groin) all threw bullpen sessions this morning and everything went fine. There were no issues. Hooray for that. [Chad Jennings]
- Right-handers Tommy Kahnle and Kelvin Perez were both reassigned to a minor league camp. By my unofficial count, the Yankees still have 64 players in big league camp. [Jennings]
- The Yankees will be in Dunedin to face the Blue Jays tomorrow afternoon. David Phelps gets the start and Frankie Cervelli, Dan Johnson, Jayson Nix, Kevin Youkilis, and Brett Gardner are the projected big leaguers making the trip. That game will be on MLB.tv only.
Here is tonight’s open thread. The Devils, Knicks, and Nets are all playing, plus you’ll have USA vs. Italy in World Baseball Classic on MLB Network at 9pm ET. If USA loses, they’re as good as eliminated. Talk about those games or anything else here. Enjoy.
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This kid is what we have been waiting for for years.
Oh, gods. It’s begun.
Teh best pitcha eva!!!! Only he haz to be teh bullpen!!! Heir Apparent!!!
I mean, teh V-LO! speaks for itself, right?
Indeed it does.
I do agree he has been impressive….. in 9.0 ST innings against MiLB guys and scrap heap scrubs + Dan Uggla. his stiff has been very good though but don’t get too excited.
Except that’s not really true. Yes, it’s ST, but he’s not just facing MiLB scrubs and all.
BR has his opponent quality at a 9.4 (not updated to include Saturday yet) based on where guys played last season (10 is MLB, 8 is AAA, etc.).
That number doesn’t mean he’s facing a bunch of all-stars, but it does mean he’s facing plenty of guys who are major leaguers already, and that counts for something.
no mention of melky mesa working counts?
Major injustice
With the Yankees luck I’m surprised Mariano wasn’t injured walking up to the podium. It’s crazy he’s leaving so soon. Here’s to hoping he walks out with one more ring.
Carolina/Duke tonight. All that matters.
Of course it does mean having to see Ryan Kelly’s rat face. Seriously, he’s like the basketball equivalent of Pedroia.
VIVA ITALIA!!!!
+1
Those Italians need a lesson to be taught.
If carmelo does not get his ass back on the court by next game I will be ticked.
So, I just started Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog, 8 minutes in…wtf?
I have no idea what you’re referring to, but were you actually expecting sense from something so named?
Haha, apart from being nonsensical it’s pretty awesome. The concept is great Neil Patrick Harris is “Dr. Horrible,” and in between trying to take over the world he’s crushing on this girl Penny who is falling for NPH’s arch nemesis, Captain Hammer, played by Nathan Fillian. Also it’s a musical directed by Joss Wheaton.
Hahaha, I love Dr. Horrible. Of course, I also love pretty much anything and everything Joss Whedon touches.
Has Captain Hammer shown Penny the hammer yet?
“And guess what? These aren’t the Hammer. (refers to fists)”
“My penis is the Hammer.”
Back from vacation. That shit goes too fast. I had a fucking blast though. Hope everyone had a good week!
Yea, literally nothing good happened around here. Ass.
Lighten up, Francis.
Still finishing anthropology final. Stress level at maximum.
wasn’t your midterm like…yesterday?
This was an 8-week, half semester class. Yes, the midterm was due two weeks ago. Got an A on it.
Oh, also…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEwlW5sHQ4Q
Oh, Pat I’m so happy you finally watched Archer. Please tell me you started from season 1 though because honestly so far for me the order of greatness goes:
Season 2
Season 3
Season 1
Season 4
Not that season 4 is bad at all so far, IMO one of the best episodes happened this season, but season 2 is just incredible from beginning to end.
Well I watched the episode with the Magnum PI takeoff first, then watched all of seasons 1 and 2 from the start. So now I’m on season 3. I watched a couple new episodes this week and the first thought I had was, “These aren’t quite as funny as the ones I’ve already seen.”
Stage 2/Placebo Effect(Magnum PI reference) is probably my favorite episode of the series by far.
Did you…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gdj62aqx-w
I am so damn proud of you, Pat.
Did you see the sun rise this morning?
Nope. Waaay too hungover to wake up that early.
I did watch Regis though.
But not really.
I’m referring to this, fyi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXa9wipv6j8
I know, I saw that reference back at ROVP HQ.
Freeze frame on gun firing.
That. Is. All.
(..several hours later)
Yeah, S4 has definitely been weaker than the first two. S3 needs to get on Netflix.
Surely you, The Resident RAB Movie-Guy, picked up on the Stripes reference?
No, unfortunately I don’t remember any specific lines from Stripes. Probably because when I watched it was during one of those end-of-the-month Netflix-instant-watch purges, which means I probably watched that and like 8 other movies in a week’s time.
That’s a shame. There are several good lines in there.
Who is the Yankees’ big toe?
Big Toe Cano?
The entire film is good lines.
Okay, longer post now that I’m finally back in my apartment. Quick sidebar: Screw you Plouffy for not thinking DC traffic is bad. Took me almost two hours to get back from Dulles because of traffic at 8:30 on a Saturday. Should be a 40-50 minute ride even with light traffic.
But seriously. Dude. I swam with dolphins (2 of them, domesticated and in a pool), and even rode both dolphins at the same time. Coolest fucking animals ever.
I swam with and held sting rays (in the wild, no domestication there). Fuck you Steve Irwin. Too soon?
I raced my brother on jet skis for 3 full hours, and those mothers topped out around 55-60 mph. Pretty sick. Considering my only other jet ski experience was the Jersey shore where the jet skis topped out around 40 mph and you have a boxed in set area to stay in, it was pretty sick to literally go anywhere you want.
Some areas of Grand Cayman have some insane houses. Like, Beverly Hills on the water. My dad ran our 28-foot Sea Ray aground from staring in too much awe. No damage, so it was just funny.
Also, I ate a Kangaroo Filet Mingon wrapped in bacon. Yup.
Too soon on Steve Irwin? Not anymore. Maybe Bill Maher’s costume was, but I tended to agree with Maher’s point that Irwin was probably doing something that caused the ray to sting him.
Maybe the species are different? Maybe where I was had enough tour guides around to feed them so much that they didn’t care? Either way, they were docile as hell. Pretty cool though, there were like ~50 of them swimming around and they let you just pick them up.
http://www.environmentalgraffi.....ns?image=0
Dolphins are the humans of the sea. (and I don’t really mean that in a good way.)
And fact number 7:
If you stick your legs out straight, two dolphins will push each push one of your feet and propel you forward and upward until you literally are completely out of the water. Just too freaking cool.
“on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
-Douglas Adams
I’ll skip over what type of week I had.
’nuff said
So what’s this I heard about a brawl in the Mexico/Canada game? Aceves caused it or something?
After a brawl like this, I guess it’s a good thing these two countries have us between them. Otherwise, ya know, things could get ugly along the border…
I love a good brawl. Video:
http://espn.go.com/mlb/worldcl.....s-wbc-game
Too funny, because the pitcher (NOT Ace) plunked the batter, and then the benches cleared, and then Tyson Gillies tackled Aceves. And when Ace went back after Gillies, he was completely engulfed in Canadians.
And somehow throughout all this, Ace was considered the instigator.
Like, literally, he was under a fuck pile of Canadians, and the color guys were saying that he was an embarrassment to the Red Sox and the league… I thought I was being punked.
Well because I’m pissed at what’s going on in the Carolina/Duke game right now, I went back and found the video from a few years ago where Duke’s Gerald Henderson pretty obviously cheap-shotted UNC’s Tyler Hansbrough in the face. And for the next five minutes all that fucking idiot Billy Packer did was deny that it was a dirty play by Henderson and say that Hansbrough shouldn’t have been in the game anymore. While the latter was true to an extent, it was also completely missing the point because Henderson clearly threw his elbow into Hansbrough’s face.
So, yea, announcers are fucking idiots.
The solidly built Walker also tried to restrain Aceves.
“I had a hold of him and I thought I saw Satan in his eyes,” Walker said
Did you see this piece of gold?
Team USA is flat out not hitting… like Yankees in October not hitting, amitire?
Someone needs to tell this USA team these are no longer exhibition games. Pretty sure the first base ump is on Clitality’s payroll. (I’m Italian-American FWIW)
Team usa sucks!
Italy leftfielder named a vagina lol
Yeah, they also have Labio Clitorini warming in the pen…
…that’s a joke right?
I wish it wasn’t.
Hey they got one by a vagina
Ryan Fucking Voogelson is the best we can come up with in a pseudo-must-win?
Seeing Trout with Wells is one extreme to the next. Wells 21MM for 0.5 WAR then you have Trout with his gaudy 10.7 WAR for $510,000. So Wells makes 41 times Trout but Trout out produced Wells by over 10 WAR or 21 times as better, according to value. Crazy shit. With all that said WHY isn’t Trout PLAYING?!?
Because he’s doing things…stuff.
(yes, Mike Trout is secretly Rick Grimes)
Rick Grimes > Mike Trout
http://imgur.com/plqI4l8
Why does Rick have a penis coming out of his head?
My question too. Carl > Rick
It’s my friend’s visual interpritation of Rick’s “CARL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!” Right in the poor kids face, right after he shot his mom in the face. Also, Mickey, Darryl>Glen>Carl>The Governor>Rick.
Darryl is the shit. I put Rick above the Governor though. At least Rick as a reason for being so crazy.
The Governor has reasons too, trust me. Read Road To Woodbury and Rise of the Governor, they’re novels that take place in TWD universe that chronicle the creation of Woodbury.
I’m sure. But just going off of the TV show, Rick is far more likable as the tragic hero.
Yes, but The Governor is a much better leader and just overall much more badass. The TV’s Governor is also much more likable than the graphic novel’s Governor, who is much more comic-book evil and a much more one dimensional character.
Eh, I lost anything I felt about the Governor when I saw how he kept heads as trophies. That’s a special kind of crazy that I can’t get behind. Ditto the whole gladiator fight thing.
Oh, he’s absolutely a special kind of crazy, but it was completely made by the apocalypse.
Fair enough. Though I think (again, going just on the TV show) that Rick’s means are both less extreme and better justified.
Less extreme? Absolutely.
More Justified? Debatable. While The Governor has much more extreme methods, he’s looking out for the safety and well-being of 40 plus people, including children. Also, until tomorrow’s episode he’s never met Rick. For all he knows, Rick is the raving lunatic described by Tyreese’s people, not the nice guy described by Andrea.
True. And it’s also true that I don’t know as much about the Governor’s back story. But with Rick, I totally get him losing it after he woke up in the hospital to the apocalypse, his best friend tries to kill him, and his wife dies rather suddenly. I’m more willing to give him a pass on shit based on what I know.
Also remember, The Governor knows that Rick is housing Michonne, the woman responsible for killing his daughter(in his eyes) and taking his eye, as well as The Governor’s Brutus in Merryl.
The killing his daughter thing is another reason why he’s too crazy for me liking. I doubt Rick would have kept a walker prisoner like that.
That wasn’t really a “prisoner,” he truly believed that Milton was going to come up with a cure. Pretend it isn’t the Governor for a second, is it any more crazy than Hershel keeping walkers in the barn? I’d argue it’s less so because the Governor was actively searching for a cure or some kind of cognitive connection with the zombies.
Herschel was crazy for that too, I won’t defend that. He was a lot more isolated and understandably naive than the Governor was though.
On another note, I’m just watching last week’s episode now. I didn’t get AMC in the Caribbean
Never saw them bringing Morgan back.
Very powerful, very sad episode.
It is indeed.
Let’s be real, Tyreese>Everyone else
Of course, that’s solely because Chad Coleman is the shit, not because of anything he’s done so far in the series other than be T-Dawg take 3.
Where is
Verlander
Kershaw
Halladay
Weaver
Wilson
Johnson
Sale
Etc
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr.....qfji49.jpg
Jose Ramirez. Nice.
Ha. The space guy wouldn’t oblige Archer and say “Danger Zone.”
Just wait Pat D. *Laughs diabolically*
Well I’ve seen some clips from these episodes in some YouTube best of character videos.
Smoke bomb!
There are a few great Star Wars and The Warriors references in that two-parter, keep your earballs open.
Got the Alderaan one. Ooh, it was a swerve.
Whenever I hear Fleetwood Mac’s Landslide I think about the episode of South Park it was in, when I seriously thought that Stone and Parker were going to walk away and then thought they were going to change the dynamic of the show completely. (triggered by that Budwiser commercial about a man and his horse having a…close…relationship)
Rollins shits the bed Next
Tora tora tora
Come on juice boy braun you cheat get one.
Grandslam for Wright, he crushed that.
David Wright! USA….USA…..USA!!
Usa usa david wright goes deep
Nice to finally see some signs of life from USA’s offense. Awesome Wright! Hopefully that jump starts them.
For anybody still awake, Pat Vinditte is coming in for Italy!
Damn, must have missed it by a few minutes. I rushed to the TV as soon as I saw this lol
Watching part of Saturday’s game on DVR right now.
Let me just say I’m so glad Dan Uggla isn’t on the Yankees. It’s like watching Granderson’s insanely one-dimensional offense at a more important position while playing defensively with Jeter’s range and Nunez’s accuracy.
YIKES!!!
it’s Selection Sunday! Get ready to pick your NCAA brackets