Sunday, June 23, 2019

Today's Big Game: Happy! takes on Verlander

Posted by JM at 12:39 PM



He might need Chris Meloni for this one. Cross yer fingers.

18 comments:

HoraceClarke66 said...

Absolutely delightful to see the Old-Timer's Game Today.

The Great One not only pitching, but played CF and hit an inside-the-park home run. Mo blazing one in on a laughing Sojo, Dr. Bobby Brown still looking all right at 94, great scoop by Chambliss, fun to see Bernie, Johnny Damon, Piniella, Paulie howling in pain after hitting a pitch from Mo, Graeme Lloyd (with a hit!), Ramiro Mendoza (with a hit!), Mick the Quick—who made a pretty good catch in left, and still runs all right.

Only sad things were seeing how old Larsen looks, no Whitey Ford, and poor Brian Doyle suffering from Parkinson's Disease.

And—how uninvolved the fans were! Hell, when I was a kid, this was such a big deal. I remember the Times used to even carry the 2-3 inning box score in the paper. Maybe just because the players seemed SO great—DiMaggio, Mantle, Ford, Berra, etc.—and the team was so down then. But still.

June 23, 2019 at 2:12 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...

Incidentally, we now have our biggest division lead since August of 2015—right before Toronto blew past us like we were standing still.

Don't know if this is a good thing or not.

June 23, 2019 at 2:59 PM
Joe of AZ said...

Right Yanks will have a winning record against everyone this yr except Toronto who'll end up in 4th place :(

June 23, 2019 at 3:07 PM
ranger_lp said...

Happless Yanks...

June 23, 2019 at 3:10 PM
JM said...

Another opener. Killed second time through.

June 23, 2019 at 3:22 PM
JM said...

Cessa. Another one who should be at Scranton.

June 23, 2019 at 3:29 PM
TheWinWarblist said...

Holder may pitch now.

June 23, 2019 at 4:44 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...

Exactly. If you have to use Holder, use him responsibly.

June 23, 2019 at 5:18 PM
Joe of AZ said...

Love DJ..too bad he doesn't pitch

June 23, 2019 at 5:20 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...

Ah, me—another "Crappsody in Blue" outing from J.A. Crapp. The sound of the gopher balls he surrenders can be used for all those marvelous Gershwin crescendos.

Well, at least Toronto torched the Carmine Hose again. And Boone's cooling off of Torres and Sanchez seems to have worked, thank goodness. I was really worried that they might explode there.

And of course today, just 12 hours or so after Stanton finished using the Astros' infielders as human pinball bumpers, he is sat for Gardner. That's right: cool him off AND use up innings Gardner will need in September! Genius!

Finally, so glad we saved on World Series, uh, I mean money, by not getting that darned Verlander. Who wants to have a guy like that, come October?

(I can still remember Coops saying how he wouldn't trade Farnsworth because he was afraid the Yankees might have to FACE him in October. Good times.)

June 23, 2019 at 5:26 PM
JM said...

Boone is an idiot operated by a moron.

June 23, 2019 at 5:53 PM
Anonymous said...

Boone gave this one away by leaving Mis-Happ in to give up eight runs. Remember--don't offend or ruffle the ego of the veteran starter by taking him out before the game is out of reach. Boone's Golden Rule.

June 23, 2019 at 5:56 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...

Happ is becoming a serious problem. 5.23 ERA, 89 hits, 19 walks, and 20—count 'em 20!—home runs in just 84 1/3 innings.

The guy is killing us.

June 23, 2019 at 7:35 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...

This just came in. It seems our karma, kismet, rama-lama-ding-dong is generating some serious juju. Whether it's reverse juju, double reverse juju or just Nigerian prince juju, is unknown at this time.

https://johnsterling.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-2018-difference-between-yankees-and.html

Oh, and the carmine hose lost. Badly. Or, bigly.

June 23, 2019 at 10:28 PM
Wezil1 said...

No new postings here alarms me! Has Moscow on the Hudson decided to act against “disloyal” Yankee fans by shutting down IIHIIFIIC?
And yesterday was one of the best faux-calls ever on Hicks at bat: “except it’s a foul ball.....
is there anyone out there? Anyone at all? ......

June 24, 2019 at 7:23 AM
Rufus T. Firefly said...

http://www.lawrence.com/videos/2003/nov/18/34/

June 24, 2019 at 8:10 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...

We were all just tired of winning. It actually happened!!

June 24, 2019 at 2:09 PM
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