Game 141: Rebound

September 6, 2013 by Mike Axisa 458 Comments

Last night’s loss still stings. Fair or not, it will be considered the devastating blow if the Yankees fail to reach the postseason the same way Ryan Dempster’s intentional plunking of Alex Rodriguez will be considered the turning point if the Yankees do make it to the playoffs. The narrative is strong with this one.

The best and worst thing about baseball is that they play everyday. The Yankees have a chance to put that loss behind them and move forward with a win tonight. They’ve rebounded after brutal losses plenty of times before — including earlier on this very homestand — and they’ll have to do it again. If they sit around and sulk, they’ll have no chance. I don’t expect that to happen. This team has shown the ability to put things in the past and move forward. Here’s the lineup that will face left-baller Felix Doubront:

CF Brett Gardner
DH Derek Jeter
LF Alfonso Soriano
2B Robinson Cano
3B Alex Rodriguez
RF Vernon Wells
SS Eduardo Nunez
1B Mark Reynolds
C Chris Stewart

And on the mound is left-hander Andy Pettitte, who needs to give the Yankees some serious length tonight. None of this five-and-fly business. The bullpen is short because of recent workloads and I have no desire to see Joba Chamberlain in a big spot again. It would be nice if the offense gave him some breathing room as well.

It’s been another cool and cloudless day in New York. Very nice weather for baseball. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05pm ET and can be seen on YES locally and MLB Network nationally. Try to enjoy.

Eddard

I do think Andy is a winning ballpitcher and can give them 5-6 great innings tonight. But what do they do after that? Hughes? No Kelley, no Mo, maybe no Drob. I’m hoping Nuney will provide an offensive spark like he did a few days ago. They need to win tonight or the season is over, got lucky the Rays lost yesterday.
fabricio

we got this guys have faith never lose hope
YankeeFan

Offense needs to lift the team tonight early, often, and consistently and hopefully Andy can do the rest. Tonight’s a tough game due to the short bullpen but if they can somehow pull it off and finish tonight with a W, that will be the best win of the season by far.
- YankeeFan
  
  And it will really help take the sting away from last night’s loss considering they would have had the short bullpen one way or the other tonight. Tampa Bay has Iwakuma tonight too.
Winter

No Ellsubry. Not a deal breaker, but it certainly doesn’t hurt.
Winter

The Yankees have scored four or more runs in an inning in four straight games and six of their last nine. Please do it early here.
Hype.less.in.NewYork

Mo has blown 4 out of his last 6 save opportunities. I don’t want a T shirt, a glossy photo or any other crap they are marketing. I want him to stop blowing saves in the last tow months of the season.
- Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning
  
  Make up stats much?
  - Winter
    
    He’s blown 4 of his last 6 not including the ones he hasn’t.
    - Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning
      
      Technically, he’s including 2 of the ones he hasn’t.
      
      But yeah.
Pat D

I’d love to see Pedroia make a play without attempting to make it look like a spectacular play.
Karl Krawfid

Wooo shit! – Derek Jeter
- Pat D
  
  Funny.
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

That’s a nice start!
Pat D

About 3 more of those tonight will make up for last night, Fonsie.
Eddard

HAL STEINBRNNER FOR EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!
- Pat D
  
  Not eligible.
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

What’s the record for most times a team got picked off in a series?
- Winter
  
  Probably a lot more than two.
Winter

Not to be a downer, but has anyone else noticed how far Cano is from the hat-line?
- http://www.riveraveblues.com Mike Axisa
  
  Yeah, I know. For most of the summer I was happy because at least if they missed the playoffs, Ben would have to eat that fucking hat. Now it looks like neither is likely :(
- Pat D
  
  So?
  - Winter
    
    So I don’t think I’m the only one who wants to see hat consumption.
    - Pat D
      
      I didn’t. I don’t get the pleasure out of seeing someone eat a hat. That’s me.
      - Deathstroke Heathcott
        
        But that hat looks so delicious!
Wheels

How did they score?
- Winter
  
  Soriano two run shot. No doubter.
YankeeFan

Meredith talks fast.
Rolling Doughnut

Andy noooooooooo
Eddard

Andy’s getting in trouble now. Daley may be in before we thought.
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

Strike 3.
- Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning
  
  and strike 4
Rolling Doughnut

The cutter is amazing tonight-so far.
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0-2 pitch.

Come the hell on, Andy.
Karl Krawfid

Yankees get burned with this stupid ass shifts every damn time
Cy Pettitte

great 0-2 pitch selection, ugh.
Eddard

Can’t throw that and lose him while starting 0-2. Andy needs to pitch better and smarter.
Rolling Doughnut

Ross? Oh my
Wheels

DP, alright
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Well, at least that didn’t get worse.
Rolling Doughnut

Nice recovery Andy.
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

Nuney!!!
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

NunEEEE!!!!!
Wheels

Nuney! a triple
Cy Pettitte

helmet stayed on until he rounded 2nd base, impressive
Eddard

EDUARDO NUNEY MVP OF SEPTEMBER!!!!!!!!
Wheels

Ball.
Rolling Doughnut

Nuñez 99 wrc+ 2d half
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

Stewie did something useful at the plate!!!
Winter

Sac fly isn’t an AB!

Still 0-22
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

Hey everyone look at that Chris Stewart hit one out of the infield!!!
Rolling Doughnut

Sac Fly for Stewie!
Eddard

Off the plate. Now Stewey will have to get him in.
Elton Cod

Girardi threw away another game last night with his bullpen management.

Putting Claiborne in in the 5th was pretty much waving the white flag.

This is practically the playoffs, you have to be willing to do anything to win.

Robertson should have pitched the 5th. He could have gotten 9 outs.

Then Mo could have gotten the last 6 outs.

Mo is done at the end of the season, it doesn’t matter if you Proctor him out.

Robinson is young, he can handle the extra workload.

They are our two best relievers by far. If you want to win, you need to use your best players, not your Prestons and Jobas. Don’t know what Joe was thinking. He should be fired.
- Wheels
  
  Why are you bringing this up now?
  - vicki
    
    last night was a school night?
- Chip
  
  Hilarious. I would point out that Rivera cost them the game but that would encourage this sort of trolling
  - Elton Cod
    
    Rivera only cost them the game because it was a 1-run game because Claiborne and Warren gave up all those runs earlier. If Robertson and Rivera had pitched all 5 innings they would have had a 5 run lead in the 9th, so giving up 1 run on defensive ineptitude wouldn’t matter. Also, Rivera didn’t cost them the game, Alfonso and Joba cost them the game. Rivera did what he did, it was up to the offense and bullpen to pick him up. They failed, so it’s their fault we lost, not Mo’s.
    - Chip
      
      So Rivera pitching 2 innings would have been better than Rivera pitching one inning? Maybe the offense should have picked up Claiborne and Warren? O yeah, they did and Rivera cost us the game. I’m sorry but Rivera and Robertson just don’t have the stamina to pitch effectively for that length of time especially after their heavy recent use.
      - Elton Cod
        
        ‘Stamina’ is that newfangled trainer talk. They were really worried about stamina for Strasberg last year, reducing his innings so that he wouldn’t get injured, blah blah blah. That worked out real well. These guys have the stuff, they want to win, they would figure out what they needed to do in order to make it happen. That’s what winners do.
        
        Chip
        
        That’s fine, think whatever you want but I’ll listen to the guys who know something about throwing 90 mph baseballs for a living
- Eddard
  
  Robinson Cano is 30 and he’s not a pitcher.
  - Elton Cod
    
    Are you sure?
- Winter
  
  Robertson for three innings a Rivera for two? They already had pitched the two previous nights and are both unavailable tonight. They were losing the game at that point. You’d be willing to lose Robertson and Rivera for several days following, plus risking injury and future fatigue, for a game they were trailing 3-2?
  - Elton Cod
    
    Yes. The time to win is now, not two weeks from now. By then it will be too late.
nsalem

Andy started vs the Red Sox 10 years ago last night in the opener of a big 3 game series versus the Sox. With his 8th out he has now lasted longer in this game than on that unfortunate night.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA200309050.shtml
https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries

Nice to see Andy isn’t getting that pitch at all tonight.
Rolling Doughnut

Let’s see if West squeezes Dubront. I hate that dude. Not Dubront. West.
Winter

See? Stewart can make defensive mistakes too!
forensic

John and Suzyn are on some sort of tangent about movies that came out decades and decades ago. I think all the beards somehow started it.

I think it’s been about 10 minutes since they actually called a play from this game.
- nsalem
  
  If they were actually calling the game it might be even more confusing to listen.
- Rolling Doughnut
  
  You´re actually calling what they do calling the game, you know that right?
Eddard

Vernon with a nice defensive play! This could be their night.
Get Phelps Up

I hope we sign Napoli this offseason just so he has to shave that hideous beard.
trr

I am still effing reeling from last night
I need a nice, 7 or 8 game winning streak to help me recover….

Help me out Yanks, help me out….
- Winter
  
  I’m thinking Lou Gehrig.
  - Winter
    
    Wrong comment. That was supposed to be a trivia guess.
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Trivia guesses:

Musial, Williams, DiMaggio
- http://www.riveraveblues.com Mike Axisa
  
  Pujols is one of the three. I know that much.
- forensic
  
  What was the question?
- Winter
  
  Gehrig?
https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries

I’m getting really tired of seeing Napoli mashing Yankee pitching. This never seems to stop.
Chris

Can’t keep throwing him the high stuff.
Winter

With all the talk of doubles, here’s a neat stat I’ve been holding on to:

Chris Davis and Manny Machado are on pace to lead the league in home runs and doubles. The last pair of teammates to do that? Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
- VT Yankee Fan
  
  Very cool.
Eddard

I wouldn’t have given up a cheap run there. Bring the infield in. You don’t have your best pen pitchers tonight so every run matters.
- Winter
  
  I disagree. A big inning could be a death knell.
  - Eddard
    
    I disagree. Andy’s been striking out guys left and right and looks to be in command. A big inning is unlikely with Andy in the game. Don’t give up a cheap run. Give the next pitcher as big a lead as possible because he’s going to need it.
    - Winter
      
      Yeah, but the out at home is far from guaranteed. There’s a very real chance you end up looking at a runner at first with one out and a run in.
your mom

These Red Sox are pesky motherfuckers.
Chip

Nice of Reynolds to walk and clear the pitcher’s spot in the lineup
Elton Cod

Need another Nunez triple here. a) scores a run b) brings Stewart up so we don’t have to waste an out next inning.
Winter

Still 0-22, but I’ll take it.
Rolling Doughnut

Walk the pitcher I mean Stewart, make them pay
Eddard

He walked Chris Stewart. They have to make him pay for that.
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

Another triple, very nice!!
Cy Pettitte

Gardy is so clutch, been on fire these past few weeks
Rolling Doughnut

Gardy another triple!
Get Phelps Up

I was thinking inside the parker when it got by Victorino :(

I’ll take the runs though!!
- Chip
  
  I had the same thought. Too bad Gomes knew from the start that he had no shot at it and sprinted for the wall
Tom

6 runs on 3 hits… gotta love that!
Eddard

YES! THEY MADE HIM PAY FOR THE 2 WALKS! HOW DO YOU WALK CHRIS STEWART WITH 2 OUTS?
- Tom
  
  How do you walk Stewart with any # of outs?
Chip

I wonder if Gardner’s back hurts from carrying this team
- vicki
  
  he remains ridiculously underrated.
Rolling Doughnut

Well that’s not what we wanted to see Andy
- Winter
  
  I hate the feeling that Middlebrooks is going to be doing this for like a decade.
  - Rolling Doughnut
    
    Did he really go to the minors? Or maybe it was ARod’s lab.
YankeeFan

I wonder what the Yankees pitchers percentage is on terms of shutdown innings after the offense scores. It can’t be good.
- YankeeFan
  
  In*
Wheels

This team does a good job of moving on from bad losses to the task at hand.
- Rolling Doughnut
  
  I’d wait a few more innings before breaking out the champagne
  - Wheels
    
    Yeah. Just saying that they’ve shown no signs of being in a funk
Chip

Time to start thinking about getting Pettite outta there
Rolling Doughnut

ARod is due.
nsalem

Grandy PH???
- Winter
  
  Save him for Wells or Stewart.
  - nsalem
    
    I meant for Wells. Good thing I’m not the manager.
  - Winter
    
    Sorry, thought you were talking about A-Rod. My DVR’s behind and I didn’t realize it.
- vicki
  
  mark reynolds forgot he’s not supposed to hit righties.
Tom

Too early for PH?
Cy Pettitte

I would have PH Grandy but big hit by Wells
Rolling Doughnut

Love the Ratboy hop.
Chip

Why is Vernon Wells hitting here? You have two better lefties on the bench who are better defensively as well
- Chip
  
  Apparently my feed is super behind as well. Good results but still bad process
- Winter
  
  Granderson and…?
  
  Not that it matters since Wells got a hit.
  - Chip
    
    Against a righty, I’d rather have Ichiro in there than Wells. I’m not saying Ichiro is good, I’m saying he’s less bad than Wells
Eddard

Contributions from Vern Wells and Chris Stewart tonight. They have to win this ballgame because that won’t ever happen again.
- Winter
  
  Wells has actually been much better since he started playing part time, like he should be.
  - nsalem
    
    Della Rosa’s SSS of a MLB career shows that he has no real righty/lefty split with a small advantage to RHB’s. I think he strikes out lefties at a greater rate than RHB.
Tom

Nice job by Wells there – didn’t try to do too much 3-1.

The offense has answered with run every time the Red Sox have scored
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

So much offense, this is awesome.
Cy Pettitte

this team is making way too many outs on this bases this series
Wheels

C’mon Nuney.
Rolling Doughnut

More bad baserunning. ARGHHH
Tom

More stupid base running.

Had a chance to clear the pitcher’s spot in the lineup, but I guess getting to 3rd base with 2 out was important.
https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries

Coney just made me realize Kazmir is facing the Mets.

Troll, troll, troll your boat. Wow.
Eddard

It’s a good thing they got those tack on runs because Philbert Hughes is warming up. Maybe he can go 3 innings and save the pen. I actually think he can be better in the pen where he can ramp up his FB and use the curve as his K pitch.
Chip

Hughes for the 3 inning save?
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

Gameday had 3 of those balls within the strike zone.
Rolling Doughnut

Although the binder says let him finish the inning, let’s not repeat past mistakes Joe.
- Rolling Doughnut
  
  Nice finish Andy. I’m more than happy to be proved wrong.
nsalem

Unfortunately this game is so fucking far from over.
Chip

O good, they’re going to let Petitte work himself into trouble before bringing in the reliever
Cy Pettitte

6 gutty innings from Pettitte, hopefully the pen can get through these next 3
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MLB.tv plays the same stupid commercial twice during every commercial break. To make it worse, it’s this stupid ad with two scouts on tablets (one on a Windows 8, the other on an Apple) and the head of scouting or whoever-the-hell for Windows 8 guy is asking questions like “what’s [the [pitcher’s] ERA against LHB”, you know, a split that doesn’t exist.

Stupid ad, and I’m tired of seeing it 18-20 times minimum a night.
- Winter
  
  If you have a Mac.
  - https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries
    
    Dammit. The only Apple’s I ever used were when I was in school years ago.
nsalem

Whitey Ford only K’d more than 200 in a year once. His lifetime K rate was 5.6/9 .
Chip

It must suck to be both a batter and a hitter with Joe West back there. He doesn’t seem to understand that pitches right down the heart of the plate are supposed to be strikes. You just never know what he’s going to call next
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Jeez, really. For someone with as much dain bramage as Mike Richter suffered, he doesn’t look that terrible.
Winter

0-23
Wheels

Fasten your seatbeats.
Eddard

Here comes Hughsie. He should feel right at home only having to go 3 innings.
- vicki
  
  gold.
nsalem

Please state your criticism now. SEcond guessing Sucks
- Winter
  
  I think it’s the right move. Just risky.
- Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
  
  I’m on board with this completely.
- Rolling Doughnut
  
  OK but get someone up like now.
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

Oh, Nunez. I know you’re hitting well right now, but holy shit your defense and baserunning suck ass.
JonS

Where’t the 95mph fb? He’s throwing just as hard as h does when he starts.
nsalem

I agree. Choices are severely limited. He looks comfortable
Winter

Hughes velocity doesn’t look like it has increased significantly. Or at all.
Winter

I decided last Red Sox series that, of all the beards on that team, Carp’s is the worst. I stand by that decision. Homes, Napoli and Pedroia all look like hobos. Carp looks like a serial killer.
- Winter
  
  Gomes, not Homes.
Rolling Doughnut

When Hughes gets it to 0-2, 1-2 that’s when you have to worry-
Hall and Nokes

What would your reaction have been if someone told 2008 you that the 2013 Yankees’ two least effective pitchers would be Phil Hughes and Joba Chamberlain?
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Phil cannot be serious with this shit.
Rolling Doughnut

That was a better pitch than the one he called a strike. ffake.
Rolling Doughnut

Here we go. Start oiling the asses.
Wheels

Fuck.
Anderson Silva

Now we know. He still sucks and the FB is not faster
yeayo

No magic for Hughes in the bullpen.
Tom

Well this is the last batter for Phils (unless he gets a DP)
Eddard

He still can’t put hitters away. He does fine strikes 1 and 2 but then can’t finish, even coming out of the pen. I thought he would be better ramping up his FB and using the curve as his K pitch.
Anderson Silva

They are going to blow this game
Winter

To be fair to Hughes, he did everything right to that last batter. Still, the lack of a velocity bump is disappointing.
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

So, we’re going to blow this lead.
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Thanks for NOTHING, Phil.
Eddard

Of course that little dribbler leads to a run. Now it’s up to Boone to get out of this. Then what?
- Chip
  
  Shut the power off to the stadium and call the game due to darkness
yeayo

Wow, Hughes is awful.
WhittakerWalt

Pretty funny to hear how giddy Ma and Pa were when Hughes came in. “He should do great in this role!”
WhittakerWalt

Man, I really dislike Phil Hughes.
- Wheels
  
  Feel bad for Hughes. Come on Boone
  - WhittakerWalt
    
    I don’t. He lives in a Hell of his own devising.
OldYanksFan

And now Papi is the tying run at the plate.
And who is left in the Pen to finish the game?
https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries

Yankees needed a little length from their bullpen, and Phil Hughes got all of one out and now has created a situation where a home run ties the game.

He’s taken it to a new level of being completely worthless.
Rolling Doughnut

Hughes kind of got bad breaks with Stonehands Nuñez at short, then there was the ground ball up the middle and Ratface’s infield hit.
- WhittakerWalt
  
  And the walk after having the hitter 0-2.
  - Rolling Doughnut
    
    Never said Hughes was blameless. Just that he got some bad breaks.
JLC 776

Relax. None of this is surprising in a Yankees-Sox game.
Rolling Doughnut

Bet Papi’s juiced for this AB
nsalem

Perfect Fucking Pitch!!!!!
The Real Greg

Pick your poison.

Joba one night
Hughes the next
Frank

Great 3-2 pitch
Tom

Wow – hell of a pitch by Logan

Don’t know what the hell Ortiz was questioning.
Wheels

Nice pitch.
Rolling Doughnut

HUGE.
Wheels

Oh my fucking god.
Cy Pettitte

who didn’t see that coming?
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

unfucking real
Frank

Yankees killer- Mike Napoli
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

…

There are no words.
JonS

WTF…
Anderson Silva

No surprises
- The Real Greg
  
  You want to blame Girardi for this too?
  - Anderson Silva
    
    Hughes faced 5 batters, retired 1. Why so long a leash?
    - Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning
      
      They have shit left in the bullpen.
      And 2 of those that reached could/should have been outs.
BFDeal

SOB
Eddard

I knew it. They are not winning this ballgame. Thank you Phil Hughes and Boone Logan.
- Winter
  
  Just shut up. The last thing I want to hear after blowing a five run lead is you saying you called it.
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WHAT THE FUCK
ugh

What a shitty shitpile of shit this bullpen has turned in to lately
- ugh
  
  shitpen, I mean
Deathstroke Heathcott

Despite that, the Yankees are gonna win this game somehow. But boy, not gonna be sending Hughes and Joba off with very good memories at all.
Jorge Brosada

I HATE THE FUCKING RED SOX SO MUCH

AADHKAGHADGN;LKASDGNKLAVLNADSL;ADL;ADGHL;AGH;ADFGHJAFG
The Real Greg

The Yankee bullpen has completely imploded. Top to bottom
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

Mike Napoli is without a doubt the most annoying f*cking player on that team this year.
stuart a

worse loss then yesterday coming down the pike…

nunez has hands of stone. hughes fucing sucks. he cannot strike out anyone.

and the great boone logan gives up another homer. but according to michael kay he is a very good pitcher.

what a farce.

arod cannot play defense by the way either.

disgraceful disaster….fuckin pathetic,..,.
- Winter
  
  This game is not over.
  
  Yeah, criticize the guy who had a three-run triple.
  
  And that was a very tough play for any third baseman. A-Rod did fine.
Tom

Call me crazy – Ichiro should have had that.

He gets to the wall and jumps that’s a makeable catch.
- Deathstroke Heathcott
  
  Meh, he needs a bit of a running start to reach that high.
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

That was definitely a catchable ball though.
Ichiro took way too much time getting back.
WhittakerWalt

Yeah. Awesome.
Rolling Doughnut

Not really too surprised.
Anderson Silva

What a shitty team
Frank

And everyone thought last night’s loss was tough
ugh

What the fuck is ichiro good for, stupid piece of shit. Though I guess at least it’s not Swisher, if people got pissed at him for blowing that catch he would cry and go into an 0-40 slump.
- Frank
  
  What are you 10? Idiot.
Anderson Silva

Gotta thank girardi for leaving Hughes in there
- WhittakerWalt
  
  WTF
- The Real Greg
  
  WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?
  - Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
    
    Hey Greg, here’s an idea. Try this:
    
    “Who would they have replaced him with, though?”
    
    It makes you look way less obnoxious.
    - The Real Greg
      
      When he makes a dumb statement like that, he deserves the obnoxiousness.
      - Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
        
        I’ll give you this one.
      - Anderson Silva
        
        Why let him give up a run and load the bases? He should never have a leash that long for Hughes.
        
        The Real Greg
        
        Because there’s nothing left in the bullpen!
        
        Marshall
        Betances
        
        There’s nothing left. The Cupboard is bare
        
        Anderson Silva
        
        Clairborne. That was easy.
        
        The Real Greg
        
        Ummmmmm…….
        
        Did you see Claiborne yesterday?
WhittakerWalt

“Hughsie’s my guy”
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

I really hate the 2013 Yankees. I’m just going to say it. They’re not good, and even if they win they haven’t really been fun to watch all year. Their pitching was good, their hitting was shit. Now they’re hitting well, their pitching is shit.

Well, I’m still rooting for them, but this is my least favorite Yankee team since the early 90’s.
- JLC 776
  
  Oh, just shut up. This team is a hundred times more likable than what last year’s team turned into.
  - Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
    
    I could not disagree more. By the end of the year, with all of the awesome Ibanez comebacks, and after that great ALDS, I had a blast.
    
    The ALCS sucked, but at least we were there.
The Real Greg

You all wanted Phil Hughes yesterday. Its just what I said

PICK YOUR POISON
- WhittakerWalt
  
  Nobody likes you.
  - The Real Greg
    
    Nice response. Don’t respond to the statement. Deflect with insults.
    - Pasqua
      
      WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
      -Pot, to Kettle
    - WhittakerWalt
      
      Boo hoo hoo.
    - WhittakerWalt
      
      As if your incessant trolling and “I told you so’s” are so interesting.
- Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
  
  *Breathes Deeply*
  
  FAAAAAALLLLLAAAACCCCCCY!!!!!!!!!
  - The Real Greg
    
    Yes, but you know what would have happened yesterday, given his track record this year.
    
    This performance just cements it in my mind, even if it is after the fact
  - WhittakerWalt
    
    Only Greg gets to determine when it’s a fallacy. He’s also the only one who gets to decide whether Girardi’s made a bad move or not.
JGYank

Our pitching has sucked since the AS break. Right when the lineup got its shit together too.
Chip

That’s it, I’m done with the crap
- Winter
  
  Thanks for letting us all know.
dkidd

four months ago, who would’ve guessed that come september the problem would be the pitching?
http://www.projectneox.com ProjectNeo

If logan didnt hurt himself there he just pulled the biggest bitch move i’ve seen all year. That ball didnt touch him.
Eddard

I just don’t think you come back from a loss like last night and you certainly don’t come back from one like this. They won’t win the ballgame. They don’t have anyone to pitch these last 2 innings. Season is over if they lose.
Rolling Doughnut

Game is still only tied everyone.
https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries

You know, I cannot handle this. I cannot. This is way too much.

I’ve gotta take a walk, I’ve gotta knock out some cardio. Whatever. I have to get the hell away from this game.

Hope the Yankees have the W when I return. Somehow I doubt it. But I’m knocking out for at least the next hour or so.
CashmanNinja

1.) Hughes is freaking garbage. The guy cannot get batters out. Good-bye. If we did somehow make the playoffs he has to be left off the roster.

2.) Logan is a freaking waste of space as well. So he’s a loogy who can sometimes get lefties out. Ok…well it seems like he either gets a lefty out or blows a big ass lead.

3.) This team is just frustrating as hell where all the little things come together and turn into a big cluster-fuck.
Jorge Brosada

I would smash my fucking tv if I didn’t love it so much. We better win this game…
Mickey Scheister

Wow. The Red Sox have the better team this year. This team is full of fighters and no lead is safe with this annoying Sox team. A tip of the cap, now start losing please.
CashmanNinja

And 1 more thing. I know Mo and Robertson are tired, but I don’t give a damn, These guys simply cannot afford to be given days off now. It’s the home stretch. If they don’t get used then we’ll lose. What’s worse…that or we use them, advance, and then they tired out? I’d rather get there at all costs than to sit on our hands.
- Winter
  
  Worst case scenario is that they blow the lead tonight because they’re exhausted then can’t pitch for a whole because of fatigue/injury.
Revan

“I would be shocked if Hughes didn’t get a 10 million dollar AAV.”

XD
JLC 776

Alright everyone, get a freaking grip. Since when has a Yankees-Sox game ever not been dramatic?

Still ballgame left.
- JGYank
  
  True but our pitching has to turn things around and fast.
  - JLC 776
    
    Our pitching is downright atrocious.
Mickey Scheister

They stay off the ball in the dirt, forcing the opposing pitcher to throw it over the plate.
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

We really need to win this game. Coughing up a 5 run lead in one half inning is inexcusable and downright pathetic. Hughes’ free agency can’t come fast enough.
- Revan
  
  Now that people can’t overrate him by giving him money I wonder what’s the next excuse people can come up with that he’s a quality pitcher.
  - Tom
    
    “He’ll be better in a big park”
    “He just needs a change of scenery”
    “He’s still young”
    
    These seem to be the common phrases when you don’t want to look at his stats.
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

So, I have to say, I did NOT see this utter and complete meltdown of our bullpen coming. I mean, shit, up until a week or so ago we were awesome.
- The Real Greg
  
  It started with Kelley against the Orioles.
  
  Then Mo, Claiborne, Logan, Hughes, Joba, Warren have all given up runs this week.
  
  The only bullpen pitcher who hasn’t is Cabral, I believe.
The Real Greg

I would not expect Larry Rothschild back next year.
Winter

Yankees have been hitting today, and they roughed up the Red Sox late inning guys yesterday. This game is far from over.
- Cy Pettitte
  
  there is nothing left in the Yankees pen, I really doubt they win
- Frank
  
  Yea, it is. Boston wins this game easily.
  - JLC 776
    
    I hope the Yankees win and you get severe abdominal pains tonight.
    - Frank
      
      Go to bed. It’s past your bedtime.
Wheels

Blast one ARod
- Wheels
  
  shit
WhittakerWalt

Even more annoying than listening to all this shit is listening to the constant cutaways so Ma and Pa can read advertising copy. Talk about disrupting the flow.
- Wheels
  
  There was just a good Richard Sandomir article in the Times about that:
  
  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/sports/baseball/radio-broadcasts-balance-baseball-with-advertising.html?pagewanted=all
Anderson Silva

Like hell they are going to score another run. They are done.
Jorge Brosada

Oh my god, now the offense is fucking cooked. The bullpen is complete shit. It’s going to take a miracle to win this game now
The Real Greg

Yankees are going to have to call up more pitchers.

Huff goes tomorrow and we don’t know how long he will last.

What an epic meltdown by the entire pitching staff
stuart a

nice ab’s in the bottom of the 7th. what was better the cano 1 pitch roll over, the soriano flail at the ball in the other batters box or aroid.

aroid could not catch up wit h2 92 mph fastballs waist high and then was a tourist on a curve ball..

nice ab’s.

boone logan doing his thing last inning like hughes the guy cannot get 3 strikes on a batter. the red sux are the old yankees just scruffier….tough ab’s, take walks, just win…

worse loss then yesterday…
your mom

WTF?????????????? I come back to see this fucking score???? Hughes is a piece of shit and fuck you Boone!!!!
Eddard

This game is over, folks, and if they lose the season is over as well. You just don’t come back from 2 heart breaking losses like this. Sox out pitched them, out hit them and out played them in every facet of the game. You’re asking a bunch of AAAers to get through this lineup without giving up a run. That ain’t happening.
Eddard

And what did I say about not giving up that cheap run back in the early innings? They just let the runner score from 3rd and I said the bullpen would never every run it could get. They sure could use that run right about now.
Steinbrenner’s Ghost

FIRE CASHMAN

He’s responsible for this piece of shit roster.
- Winter
  
  No, he’s not.
  - Anderson Silva
    
    Its not like he is the GM
- Mikhel
  
  He won’t be fired, and Girardi won’t be fired, everybody will return because ownership already gave them their blessing. Ownership wants to cut costs and maximize their earnings, they think by not acquiring the pieces they needed for this year and next they’ll keep having great attendances, and to a part it will happen.
  
  Why didn’t the Yankees acquire their pieces before july 31st? Why they didn’t acquire a single player via waivers before August 31st? Now they’re left with two catchers who can’t field a pitch in the ground, don’t know how to block the plate, neither can hit and neither can stop the runners from stealing.
  
  They needed pitchers, who did they got? NOBODY, well, today they acquired a pitcher who has not been in the majors since 2011 when he posted a 10.50 ERA.
  
  It fits that everybody in baseball are laughing their ass off when watching this Yankees Massacre. They have not been able to beat their division rivals except for Toronto. Boston, Tampa and Baltimore know how to beat the yankees and they got pieces to beat their rivals, the Yanks can only beat Toronto and Cleveland, besides them, as for the rest, the Yanks are their little cheap bitch.
http://www.penuel-law.com/ Cuso

I left at 8-3 figuring it was safe. Why in the hell would I think that?
- Rolling Doughnut
  
  You haven’t compared our pen to their hitters?
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

Boy, won’t Huff pitching tomorrow just be a fucking treat.
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

Can anybody get outs?

Anybody?
JLC 776

Amazing. A blow-out becomes close last night and everyone thinks we’re going to the WS. A blow-out becomes close tonight and everyone wants everyone fired / sold / dead / etc.

It’s baseball. Relax. We might win, we might lose… just… relax.
Wheels

It isn’t gonna happen.
Noah Poser

Well this game is going to suck just as much as yesterdays.
Eddard

BALLGAME OVER! SEASON OVER!
WhittakerWalt

Nice.
http://www.penuel-law.com/ Cuso

Victorino – Yankee killer
Cy Pettitte

told you guys this was over, they had zero chance
Anderson Silva

The game and season are lost. Let Cabral and betances pitch.
wow

fuck this we suck!!!!!
Nuke Guy (Knoxvillain)

Jesus. I’m trying not to laugh right now but at the same time I’m holding back tears.
Cy Pettitte

back behind the Indians and the Orioles after tonight with 9 straight games against the O’s and Sox coming up, don’t see any way this season isn’t over.
your mom

My mind is fucking blown. Are we this shitty? The Sox can’t be this good. Not unless they’re all on some fucking roids. What fucking bullshit.
Miky

I have never seen such a bunch of total assholes as you people on this site. It is really pathetic.
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

So yeah, my worst nightmare for this series is slowly unfolding before my eyes.
Eddard

They had the lead against the Os, they blew it. Lead against the Sox last night, they blew it. Lead against the Sox tonight, they blew it. 3 losses that they should have won and the season is now over.
- WhittakerWalt
  
  So stop watching.
stuart a

over over over.

think how much better vitorino is then Ichiro.

ichiro btw should have got the napoli homer..

red sux are going for the sweep.

btw hopefully ichiro will get to hack at a few more balls tonight late in the game like he did last night.

claiborne is officially but to reality.. they have no arms that are effective, scary how bad the pen is…

10 runs but hey they are playing hard.

btw aroid cannot field anymore. the guy cannot move..hit a soft ball to 3rd and he cannot make the plays. but let’s sign cano to a 10 year deal for 220 mill…what a fuckin joke…
your mom

Claiborne sucks shit.
John

This is sad
Jorge Brosada

I knew it was coming. I feel oddly relieved…I’ve told myself this before but now I can stop giving a fuck about this season and give my blood pressure some much needed relief
- Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
  
  We all know, me included, that this isn’t actually true…we’ll care.
WhittakerWalt

Well, they now officially have no one in the bullpen who can get anyone out.
Anderson Silva

Joba lol
stuart a

up 5 runs need 9 outs they did not even get close to it..

logan sucks on inherited runners.

don’t worry they got joba in the pen. the fat dope…
- Winter
  
  To be fair, nine outs left is a save situation.
Tom

Whats Sad is Andy did his job, the offense did their job, and then Girardi and the Blowpen didn’t do theirs!!!
Jorge Brosada

The Red Sox fucking broke this team, and they broke my spirit. I submit…just bring the offseason now please
stuart a

it is over. they are not making the playoffs.

the oriles debacl, last nights debacl, and now tonight…
your mom

The Red Sox are blowing their wad early. By the time the playoffs come they’ll be struggling to get runs in.
- Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
  
  At least they’ll be in.
Tom

On the plus side the possibility of running one up and in on Ortiz has increased. Would love to see him get drilled.
- Mikhel
  
  Nah, the Yanks have always been too afraid to plunk Ortíz, only once he has been hit by the NYY while Jeter has been hit almost two dozens of times.
Rolling Doughnut

Hats off to the Sox. They are relentless. I would rather see several years of rebuilding than watch this kind of shit next year. At least there would be a plan. Cashman cobbled together a club that was better than expected but it’s just not going to be enough.
- Winter
  
  Rebuilding quite often doesn’t work. You could be looking at five or more years of sucking, especially given where the team is right now.
  - Rolling Doughnut
    
    Well what they did this year certainly hasn’t worked. If they’re not going to spend money then what’s the alternative? Put up 85 win teams year to year and sit through this shit?
    - Winter
      
      The Yankees are three games out of a playoff spot. Without injuries who knows where they are.
      - Jorge Brosada
        
        And the team is only getting older. More injuries will occur because that’s what happens to old players. Mo is gone, probably Andy and Hiroki too. CC sucks now. The only good thing about next season will be that Hughes and Joba are gone. Good fucking riddance…
    - Mikhel
      
      My guess is that’s the plan, to have an “almost” team, you know, a team that can ALMOST win against their division rivals, a team that can ALMOST get to the playoffs but won’t, a team that can ALMOST get that big player via trade but won’t get him, a team that can ALMOST win a series but gets pummeled to the ground.
      
      This kind of team is what the ownership wanted, that’s why they never tried to resign Swisher, never tried to acquire Napoli who had his deal broken by the Red Sox and a few weeks later signed him with a massive discount(knowing that Napoli had good numbers vs Toronto and the NYY).
      
      They could get Michael Young and Carlos Ruíz, who did they get? Nobody.
      
      They could get Alfonso Soriano three weeks before they got him, and they waited until the yanks were in a downward spiral to finally acquire him.
      
      And that’s the way it will be, they will be spending less and less until their payroll is low enough that will be enticing to anybody who wants to buy them, and they’ll sell, give it 3-4 years.
      - Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
        
        I actually think there is something to this. I mean, Hal has basically come out and said outright that he doesn’t really care about how many games we win, just how much money we make.
        
        And you know what? That’s his prerogative. But it’s going to be very irritating to sit through a few years of these teams.
stuart a

did cone get a nice look at philly out of the pen tonight.

when kay tells the story about phil in the pen in 09 does he ever mention how he sucked in the playoffs out of the pen!!!!!!

nah….
- Winter
  
  SSS
- Randi
  
  That’s no surprise.. Kay has selective memory.
Cy Pettitte

just throw one at Ortiz’s head if you’re gonna IBB him
Winter

Hopefully Joe West isn’t still pissed a Joba.

Ah, who are we kidding? Joba’s getting no calls tonight.
- your mom
  
  Joba needs to bean someone here. Seriously.
Randi

Ok… I have no clue what happened here. I was watching early in the ballgame and the score was Yanks 4, Sox 1. Then my YES Network went on the fritz (I have Cablevision – this is an ongoing issue with this channel). Anyhow, I just turned back – channel is still on the fritz – but now and its Yanks 8, Sox 10?!?!? WTF HAPPENED?!?!

This maybe the defining game of this entire season.
- your mom
  
  No that was yesterday.
Tom

Why intentionally walk ortiz??? Let Joba drill him in the back
- Winter
  
  Don’t want a wild pitch.
your mom

So IBB Ortiz to give up another HR to Napoli?
NY2FanMaynard

I tried to stay away but watching this without RAB is painful.
stuart a

they should hit ortiz here but nah..
Alkaline

I look at the score an hour ago – 8-3 us. Yay!

Now we’re down two? The hell?
Tom

If they were going to walk him why not “dempster” him?

After the game Joba can talk about wanting to establish inside fastball command.
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

Remember when they could pitch great, but couldn’t score?

Because I don’t.
- Randi
  
  That was the past two playoff years.
Tom

Defensive Catcher (TM)
stuart a

don’t worry Joba is in the game.

wow ichiro or victorino what a joke.
your mom

I’m calling a Nava grand slam here.
Cy Pettitte

does Stewart have a concussion or something? how can you get crossed up this many times?
Winter

Thank god Chris Stewart is catching today.
stuart a

but hey ichiro has 4000 hits. that celebration was worth about $2.
- Randi
  
  Its special.. I just wished that MLB & the media treated it that way.
  
  When Jeter got 3000 hits, they treated him like Jesus.
Unreal

Welp, this about wraps it up. Oh well, good thing football is kicking off.
NY2FanMaynard

“Joba crossed up Stewart”… Seems like everyone crosses up Stewart. What is the common denominator?
Jorge Brosada

This bullpen makes Pedroia, Ortiz, and Napoli look like fucking Murderers Row
- Jorge Brosada
  
  Oh and I forgot Nava, yet another Red Sox prospect that comes up and is ridiculously productive…
Tom

1-2

Slider in the dirt
slider in the dirt
Ball 4 fastball?
- Tom
  
  Mixing it up
  
  Fastball away
  Slider in the dirt
  and
  ?????
your mom

Might as well have beaned him Slobba.
Rolling Doughnut

So let’s see. They’re not going to spend any money and they’re not going to rebuild, so that means putting up 85 win teams and sitting through this shit for a few more years. Oh boy. I’m pumped.
- Randi
  
  I’ve always said that its time for this team to rebuild. Stop signing over-aged players to outrageous contracts and build from the farm system. But no. They Yanks gotta sell $1600 tickets. Therefore, they will still have to attract big names to attract big spenders even if it means on field mediocrity.
Mickey Scheister

Joba and Hughes! LMFAO! They were worried who was gonna close the game an inning ago.
And in merrie olde England

Bahaha, just came on here to bitch about Stewart! Did he get hit with a pitch earlier??
- Winter
  
  No. Walk and sac fly. Up to 0-23.
  - And in merrie olde England
    
    I meant with him being even more out of whack than recently, head injury while catching?
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

Never say it can’t get worse.
- NY2FanMaynard
  
  It just got worse!
Cy Pettitte

absolutely hilarious
stuart a

joba has been horrible.. it is amazing how bad he is…staggering bad…

ichiro has another year on his deal. the guy has a 305 obp with absolutely no power.

this game cannot get any worse… it is amazing the yankee pitchers with 2 strikes cannot get anyone out.

what a train wreck. total
Mickey Scheister

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! Okay, I think it’s time to shut this game off. Wilfred…here I come!
your mom

Okay just let Joba pitch the rest of the game….
Cy Pettitte

if Joba gets a major league deal this offseason I will laugh so hard
- stuart a
  
  i do not think he will. imagine how far he has fallen. and how delusional he is….
  - And in merrie olde England
    
    Pre strasburg it was always a given that it would take a year to get command back after TJS. He’s probably going to rebound all over the Yankees next year.
stuart a

don’t worry all stewart is up next inning..

he is a hell of a hitter…..

i guess stewarts prowess behind the plate does not translate to the pen……..
Eddard

LOL! This season is over. Look at Hughes and Joba give up 8 runs by themselves. What a joke those two are.
- Randi
  
  Well these two came out of the Yankees farm system. So you gotta question what’s going on down there. At least Robertson and Warren have panned out.
  - stuart a
    
    warren is the epitome of a mop up guy. he is not exactly a good prospect.
  - Jorge Brosada
    
    It’s laughable if you compare the amount of productive players that have come out of Boston and New York’s farm systems. Both teams have drafted near the end of the 1st round for a while now. There is a fundamental difference in scouting between the two clubs, and the Yankees strategy is not working at all.
    
    I can list on one hand the number of significant contributors that the Yankees have developed through the farm.
    - Steinblunder
      
      Hip, hip Jorge! Best comment on here. Ownership and GM are the number one thru 99 problems of this team. I’m up here in new england and the sux got more prospects coming, it’s sickening.
Tom

How about that…

You’d think it was hard to do worse than Phil’s outing (1 out, 4 baserunners) but Joba is trying (1 out 4 baserunners so far)
your mom

How the fuck do you give up 9 runs in 2 innings after having a 5 run lead????? Season over folks. Next year’s not looking anymore promising either.
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

You know what? Fuck hat’s off to the Sox. The Sox are playing like shit. Against any other team they’d be getting clobbered. They only look good now because we suck.

So hat’s off to nobody. This is a Yankees meltdown. The Red Sox are playing like shit too. Just slightly less putrid shit.
- Mikhel
  
  They just scored 20 runs vs the Detroit Tigers before playing vs the Yanks, just saying.
  - Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
    
    Yeah, they played well against THEM, didn’t they?
Mickey Scheister

Thank god Joba and Hughes are gone after this awful season. I’m sure Cash will replace them with Mitre and Gaudin though, which would be an upgrade.
Rolling Doughnut

Send Joba out for the KFC and beer. Cashman’s buying.
Jorge Brosada

The only good thing about these past two games is that Joba and Hughes are gone for sure. Good fucking riddance. I hope Cashman tears this team apart…or quits.
Sean

Disgusting. Hughes and Joba need to go already. While they are at it, dump Stewart too. He’s been useless behind the plate since July. I’d rather have Betances or Cabral in the game, and I would have rather brought in Teagarden off waivers than have Stewart or Romine. At least Teagarden hits in the 10th inning and throws out base runners.
- http://www.penuel-law.com/ Cuso
  
  Don’t worry. Hughes and Joba are almost gone.
- Mikhel
  
  Doesn’t Joe Girardi always have two bad pitchers he’ll continually use even when they are failing? As as manager I imagine he could tell his GM he won’t be using them and to get him other pitchers.
  
  IF as a manager you’re not allowed to have a say on who you’ll have in your roster, then it sucks because the job of the manager is to use his best players not his worst.
NY2FanMaynard

That’s right, Huff is pitching tomorrow. more bullpen innings needed.
- Tom
  
  Hughes and Joba didn’t last very long so they should be good to go.
Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)

I don’t even know how to express what I feel like right now. A combination of disgust, horror, and extreme, extreme disappointment. And anger. Can’t forget anger.

Fuck you, 2013 Yankees.
- Rolling Doughnut
  
  Dude what did you expect? Have you compared the teams? I think they did better than expected. So they win 85 games with a cobbled together bunch of declining stars. It is true that CC sucked this year but even that could be seen coming from the last half of 2012. Kuroda tanked in Aug last year also so no surprise there. Nova and Andy have been much better than we could have hoped so all in all they are lucky to be over .500
  - dkidd
    
    if cc didn’t turn into a pumpkin, we’re battling for the division right now
    - Rolling Doughnut
      
      No.
      - dkidd
        
        yes
      - Mikhel
        
        At one point the Yanks lost 6 consecutive games started by CC, just two of those were Vs teams with a winning record; CC’s ERA in those 6 games was 7 (28 runs in 36 innings), so, yeah, the Yanks at least would be leading the second wild card.
  - Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
    
    I expected them to win these last two fucking games, to sweep the Orioles, and to win at least one game against the MEts and White Sox.
    
    But, more than any of that, I expected them to win at least one of these last two games!
Winter

Why overlay and not Granderson?
Jorge Brosada

It’s laughable if you compare the amount of productive players that have come out of Boston and New York’s farm systems. Both teams have drafted near the end of the 1st round for a while now. There is a fundamental difference in scouting between the two clubs, and the Yankees strategy is not working at all.

I can list on one hand the number of significant contributors that the Yankees have developed through the farm.
- Mikhel
  
  Also keep in mind that the changes made to the draft were because teams like the Red Sox were taking advantage offering millions to good young players who would be drafted near the top of the first round but were instructed to say to other teams they were not interested in signing so they could go to college, then Boston would sign them in the second round after everybody passed on them. That’s how they acquired Pedroia, Lester and Buchholz to name a few. Now with the slot money it is harder.
  - Jorge Brosada
    
    Well why didn’t the Yankees do that more often? They’re the fucking yankees they have more money than everyone else. But no, they’re too busy signing “high character” scrubs like fucking Cito Culver and DBJ
- BFDeal
  
  Glad to see you’re tuned in to the organization so closely that you can state it’s scouting and not development.
  - Jorge Brosada
    
    Maybe it’s both? Either way it doesn’t take a genius to see that there’s a problem with the way the farm system is developed and managed..
dkidd

i have an idea!

let’s come back and win this game, then win tomorrow and go from there
Tom

The game might be over, but how the hell do you let Stewart hit here?
Rolling Doughnut

Not even bothering to PH for Stewart.
NY2FanMaynard

Up in Boston and they keep re-playing the grand slam. I swear I thought Ichiro could of caught it.
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

Why is Chris Stewart hitting?
- Tom
  
  I guess they need his framing skills in the 9th, he could save 3 or 4 runs with that skill alone.
wow

I can’t wait for the offseason when Cashman and Girardi will point to the second half offense and say that this team just hit a stretch of bad luck and bad pitching, then proceed to do nothing to improve this team on tax-saving grounds.

It’s only getting worse and management seems to be content with this product while BSing the fans by saying that they will put a championship-caliber team on the field.

This whole organization is dead in the water. As a fan, it’s not even interesting to watch, it’s insulting. At least if they were running out there a bunch of young guys or some other crazy Athletics-esque plan to content, this team would be watchable.

But this is just insulting to fans. No organizational direction, poor management and sloppy play.

Oh, and Girardi going to Hughes and Joba? lol Tell me that doesn’t stink of someone who has thrown in the towel.
http://www.penuel-law.com/ Cuso

Why was everyone cheering like something important happened?
Steinbrenner’s Ghost

With the old man dead, no body is being held accountable.
- stuart a
  
  the rewriting of history on goergie is classic.
  
  like they did not have a15 + year stretch of winning zilch.
  
  like steinbrenner did not hire a criminal in the WInfield manner.
  
  like steinny did not overpay for about 15 overhill stars like tartabull and about 20 other guys,,,,
  - dkidd
    
    but he satisfied our knee-jerk bloodlust by firing people!
    - nsalem
      
      I don’t think Hughes and Joba would have survived this long in pinstripes with George running the show.
  - http://www.penuel-law.com/ Cuso
    
    All of your points are absolutely true.
    
    So was his though. Big Stein always held people accountable – even if it wasn’t their fault.
Need Pitching & Hitting & Defense & Baserunning

A defensive replacement for Stewart immediately after letting him hit just makes my head hurt.
- stuart a
  
  and the guy drew a walk…
  
  stewart sucks…
NY2FanMaynard

A pitching debut for the Yankees. And a strikeout!
nsalem

Now will see a 1-2-3 inning. haha
NY2FanMaynard

He stuck his leg out. What a joke. Here hit me, hit me here.
nsalem

Check out the size difference between Ortiz and Daley
Jorge Brosada

Stopped watching the game. Please tell me Daley plunked Victorino on purpose. I want blood…
dkidd

the royals have given up 9 more hits than we have tonight
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

Seems like other teams’ best relief pitchers are ALWAYS available.
Tom

Matt Daley, lockdown bullpen arm. New 7th inning guy(TM)?

I’m already sold on him passing Joba and Hughes on the totem pole – screw small samples!

Seriously though – after Mo/DRob who pitches while Kelley is out? Claiborne? Logan as a non LOOGY? Warren?
NY2FanMaynard

Hopefully Jeter can start it off.
https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries

Well, I have returned from my exile. I have not checked the score yet. I hope the Yankees fucking slaughtered the Red Sox after I left, but the Red Sox had about an 80% chance of winning when I left, so I’m not expecting good things to have happened since.

My response to this comment is either gonna be an all-CAPS “YES!” or all-CAPS “FUCK”. I hope it’s the latter.

3…2…1…
- https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries
  
  FUCK
  - Jorge Brosada
    
    Come on dude, 80%? We all knew what was going to happen
    - https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries
      
      I was being so extremely generous with that. I wanted to think a sliver of hope still existed.
Jorge Brosada

Sure bring in Koji. Salt in the wound, but okay…
HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)

Remember the days when scoring 8 runs was a guaranteed win? Hah. This team’s pitching has become atrocious.
NY2FanMaynard

9 runs in two innings. bullpen WTF. just looks ugly.
https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries

(I will repost this in the post game thread)

Since the 2004 ALCS, I cannot think of another two-game stretch that shook me to my very core the way these past two did. Truly. I had to bolt because these games are literally bad for my health at this point. And as much as I love baseball, nothing this frivolous is worth hurting your health over.
- Improbable Island’s Dirty Midget Whores (formerly RRR)
  
  Yeah, for a TWO game stretch, this is the worst since 04′.
- HateMclouth (formerly I’mVernon)
  
  Would have to agree with you, even if I didn’t follow baseball as much back then. I feel the pain of that series vicariously through other Yankee fans. It is interesting though feeling this crappy when we really aren’t directly competing with Boston for a postseason berth. Got to hope for a Rays loss later, and hopefully remain 2.5 out.
  - https://twitter.com/KramerIndustry Kramerica Industries
    
    Regardless of what happens there, this is where I’m gonna draw my line.
    
    There’s a Florida-Miami football game that starts at noon tomorrow. I’m a huge Gators fan. Football season is finally back. I will hope the Yankees win these next two games, but I am not watching another pitch until Monday, if I can help myself. Time to enjoy life again. The Yankees are my strongest fandom and none of the other teams I root or support (NY Giants and Rangers, TB Bucs and Lightning, along with UF) will EVER be in the same stratosphere as the Yankees.
    
    Unfortunately, there is a down side, and nights like tonight prove to me that I really do have a threshold of the level of emotional pain I can take. I already smashed a can of soda after the grand slam. I was literally shaking so bad that I had no choice but to get as far away from the game as possible. I love the Yankees, but I realized that if this is the degree of how much I care, then blood pressure and stress will have me dead before I’m 30.
NY2FanMaynard

Robertson is out for 5 – 6 days.
Mouse

Why didn’t Cashman sign Napoli. Besides giving us the production he’s giving Boston, it would have kept him from them.

He also signed on the cheap also.
- Steinbrenner’s Ghost
  
  Cashman was too busy trying handing Youklis 12 million dollars and stealing Wells from the Halos.
Steinbrenner’s Ghost

I wonder if Jeter even wants to come back to this mess.

At age 40 do you really want to spend the next year or two playing on a train wreck?

Why put yourself through this daily clown show for a meaningless farewell tour.
- Wheels
  
  Cash money.