So, our lineup today features a No. 4 hitter with 0 home runs on the season and a .234 average; a No. 5 hitter with 0 home runs and a .200 average, and a No. 7 hitter who is batting .091.
(Yes, Miggy is back on the bench. Yes, I am sure he will soon regain that major-league swing playing a game once a week or so.)
They just announced it: first pitch in 45 minutes.
So those fans who stick around will have spent at least 2 1/2 hours on a freezing afternoon, waiting for a game to get underway.
The front office, the players, the announcers are all somewhere warm and comfortable. The fans sit out in the cold, paying extortionate prices for bad food copiously laced with rat droppings, while ads are blared at them at ear-splitting decibel levels.
Gee, I wonder how it is that baseball is losing popularity?
The weird thing about last night was the rehabilitation project who started the game and pitched to a mediocre level, was our pitching star last night. And yes, I am intentionally ignoring Whatshisname cause I'm still hurt over the departure of my TuchusMan.
Only question today is if Scherzer will pitch a no-hitter (or a perfect game). Michael Kay keeps inviting the juju gods by talking incessantly about all the no-hitters so far.
So, two walk and three strikeouts in that inning. With two of the K's called third strikes.
This reminds me of when I was a kid and no one was around to play ball, and I would just throw a ball against a fence, seeing how many I could throw for "strikes."
"Baseball: Come spend $100 on the same game you could make up as a kid!"
4 innings, 10 strikeouts. Yeah, I'm really glad we never even tried to get this Scherzer guy when he was a free agent. It would have got tired, celebrating all those World Series wins.
Judge strikes out on a ball out of the strike zone. Torres strikes out on a ball in the strike zone. Gardner strikes out looking on a ball in the strike zone. Multitude ways of ineptitude.
Judge looks awful. And he often has, for some time now.
Nice finish by Kluber. All right, all right, a decent outing all-in-all. But 2 runs in 5 2/3 with potentially another run out there? Not exactly his old self.
This is not a clutch team. It's not a team with good fundamentals in any sense of the word.
Gardner is done. He will always be a great and true Yankee. He should retire now. Have one more trip around the league, get his goodbyes in and watch the second half of the season at home where he can't do anymore damage.
Nah, Warbler. Don't send Gardy home. Make him a coach. Maybe make him the third base coach where, unlike Phil Nevin, he could successfully wave a runner home without getting him injured.
I know Hicks was just coming off the bench and all that. But with the game on the line you cannot go up there and swing at 1 pitch in 4. He was lucky he wasn't called out on three straight pitches.
One run handed to them on a mental error. One run detracted from us because of impatience at the plate...after watching legions of called strikes float by.
Bad clutch pitching, worse clutch hitting.
All in all, a team that once again showed up looking like it would rather not show up.
What just happened? What just happened? I'm not prepared to warble! I'm not! I'M PISSED OFF AND POUTING!! THESE FUCKERS - WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE YANKEES - ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TIE UP THE GAME, MUCH LESS WIN!! FUCK THEM!! FUCK YOU FORD!! GO BACK TO LOSING YOU FUCKING LOSERS!!
Meredith asking Gleyber "how much of a grind it was today," what with the rain delay, Scherzer, and extra innings.
Stop. Enough. Fourteen months into the pandemic, these young millionaires having to sit around a couple extra hours in their luxurious clubhouse, face a great pitcher, and play a couple extra innings is not a grind. It's a slightly longer, slightly tougher day at the office. Which is, after all, a playground.
She should have gone and asked a couple fans that question.
No, really, sorry she was so disturbed, and sorry she put poor old Chuck Finley through so much.
But can I also say: Tom Hanks is a force of nature. People he did movies, TV shows and whatever with in a different era have now retired, died, been reincarnated, etc. And he still goes on, an American icon.
Helen Hunt, where is her career? Peter Scolari? Meg Ryan? Melanie Griffith? Mary Steenburgen, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field???
I mean empires have fallen—and been put back together—and Tom Hanks marches on. Was he in films with Greta Garbo? Did he have an affair with Sophia Loren?
As all of you know, we could have had Scherzer, Corbin, and Verlander on our staff (staph?) at a "reasonable" price. Instead we have to listen to that SOB Hal 'splaining to us that it's Championships are sweeter when bought for as little possible. Not the price that fans pay for tickets and merch, just what he pays. What would it take for sports fans in this Country to go on strike? Sorry, I need to take more peyote and come back to earth.
All of the above isn't enough griping, but gawwwd Meredith gets on my nerves really quickly. Another Hal money saving move I imagine.
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Weirdly, the Mets and Yankees are playing in the same city today. The Mets are playing, the Yanks have the tarp on the field.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, having a staff made up mostly of pitchers who have trouble going five innings has led to the bullpen already starting to wear out in May.
ReplyDeleteHmm, who could have predicted that? Oh, right!
Just wait until September.
My bad. SNY was just re-running last night's game.
ReplyDeleteCan we take bets for when we’ll see a baseball game?
ReplyDeleteNo, “they haven’t payed real baseball since 1969 and never will again. “ is not an acceptable answer.
Hilarious, Beauregard!
ReplyDeleteHey, it's just the routine mistreatment of the modern fan. Wait two hours for the rain delay to end.
So, our lineup today features a No. 4 hitter with 0 home runs on the season and a .234 average; a No. 5 hitter with 0 home runs and a .200 average, and a No. 7 hitter who is batting .091.
ReplyDelete(Yes, Miggy is back on the bench. Yes, I am sure he will soon regain that major-league swing playing a game once a week or so.)
They just announced it: first pitch in 45 minutes.
ReplyDeleteSo those fans who stick around will have spent at least 2 1/2 hours on a freezing afternoon, waiting for a game to get underway.
The front office, the players, the announcers are all somewhere warm and comfortable. The fans sit out in the cold, paying extortionate prices for bad food copiously laced with rat droppings, while ads are blared at them at ear-splitting decibel levels.
Gee, I wonder how it is that baseball is losing popularity?
ReplyDeleteCount your blessings. Hicks is not in the lineup today. May his cramps persist!
At least until next month.
Ah the glory of rain delay theatre dysentery.
ReplyDeleteBUT...
ReplyDeleteThe Genius of Aaron Boone has Gardner batting fifth.
What a manager.
Never thought I would hear myself say: "Can't wait for Luke Voit to show up."
Looking at that photo, do you think the Master is related to Lewis Black?
ReplyDeleteThe weird thing about last night was the rehabilitation project who started the game and pitched to a mediocre level, was our pitching star last night. And yes, I am intentionally ignoring Whatshisname cause I'm still hurt over the departure of my TuchusMan.
ReplyDeleteOnce more: Does August 18th work for everyone? We should all be vaccinated by then and restrictions lifted.
ReplyDeleteYes for me. Every day being much like every other.
ReplyDeleteYes Winnie, count me in for Aug 18th!
ReplyDeleteWorks for me!
ReplyDeleteBarring and act of God or Satan, I should be able to come. How we going to work this fiasco?
ReplyDeleteSimply brilliant play today.
ReplyDeleteMike Ford, after a mental mistake in the field that led to a run, strikes out to go to 3-34 on the year.
Hey, at least he shaved his moustache!
HIGGYBURGER!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOnly question today is if Scherzer will pitch a no-hitter (or a perfect game). Michael Kay keeps inviting the juju gods by talking incessantly about all the no-hitters so far.
ReplyDeleteBut...HIGGY!
ReplyDeleteLove me some Higgy.
Higgy is so obviously the superior catcher in every respect. Sanchez should just be traded.
ReplyDeleteSo, two walk and three strikeouts in that inning. With two of the K's called third strikes.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of when I was a kid and no one was around to play ball, and I would just throw a ball against a fence, seeing how many I could throw for "strikes."
"Baseball: Come spend $100 on the same game you could make up as a kid!"
Judge looks lost.
ReplyDeleteBitty, I'm just the ideas person. Now I need you and LBJ to do all the work getting the tickets.
ReplyDeleteI'll pay for tickets for whoever does everything!!
ReplyDelete4 innings, 10 strikeouts. Yeah, I'm really glad we never even tried to get this Scherzer guy when he was a free agent. It would have got tired, celebrating all those World Series wins.
ReplyDeleteJudge strikes out on a ball out of the strike zone. Torres strikes out on a ball in the strike zone. Gardner strikes out looking on a ball in the strike zone. Multitude ways of ineptitude.
ReplyDelete10 strikeouts through 4 innings. Holy Shit are they unwatchable.
ReplyDeleteHow much longer can the Yankees and MLB keep the charade up that Judge is one of the best in the sport?
Judge looks awful. And he often has, for some time now.
ReplyDeleteNice finish by Kluber. All right, all right, a decent outing all-in-all. But 2 runs in 5 2/3 with potentially another run out there? Not exactly his old self.
This is not a clutch team. It's not a team with good fundamentals in any sense of the word.
And now Chad Green is on. Sigh.
Keep pitching Green until his arm falls off. No worries if he's ineffective down the stretch. We won't be in the running for a playoff spot.
ReplyDeleteGardner is done. He will always be a great and true Yankee. He should retire now. Have one more trip around the league, get his goodbyes in and watch the second half of the season at home where he can't do anymore damage.
ReplyDeleteThat 2-1 score seems like 9-1…
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteThey were mostly NOT hitting in spring training. "It'll come," I said to myself.
They mostly did NOT hit in April. "Maybe later," I said to myself.
NOW: I am no longer talking to myself. If the NYY pitchers aren't near-perfect -- all the way thru ALL of the bullpenners -- we ain't got a chance.
If Boone let's Ford bat in the right, he should be fired.
ReplyDeleteNah, Warbler. Don't send Gardy home. Make him a coach. Maybe make him the third base coach where, unlike Phil Nevin, he could successfully wave a runner home without getting him injured.
ReplyDeleteJM, that's like saying I should fire my Apple for my next typo.
ReplyDeleteHoss, just so long as Gardner never gets another at bat.
ReplyDeleteFord! Ford! He's our man! If he can't do it ... AND HE WON"T DO IT BECAUSE HE'S TERRIBLE! HE'S NOT A MAJOR LEAGUE CALIBER PLAYER!! WHY IS HE HITTIG!!
FUCK YOU BOONE!!! FUCK YOU BOONE!!
Un-fucking-believable. .086.
ReplyDeleteHey, lefty-righty match-up!
Who wants to bet Ford exceeds expectations here and hits into a DP?
And Chapman is up. Boy, that's optimism!
ReplyDeleteWashington had the shift on against Ford, which I think was insane. He was as likely to hit an opposite-field dribbler as anything else.
ReplyDeleteTo think I sent my warbling pants to the cleaners for this ...
ReplyDeleteTawny Kitaen died :(
ReplyDeleteAnd Stanton takes a swing at ball three, from a guy who can't get the ball over the plate.
ReplyDeleteGreat. A "rally." Now they are intentionally fucking with us.
ReplyDeleteGELYBER!!! IT'S A GLEYBER SIGHTING!!! A HIT!! A PALBAPLE HIT!!
ReplyDeleteI dunno. I think LeMahieu should have taken more of a risk on that...
ReplyDeleteBoone wants to lose the game.
ReplyDeleteNice!! And glad our runners were able to advance on that single.
ReplyDeleteOh, good Lord, it's Hick!
A break from the ump!
ReplyDeleteAnd now the make-up call...
ReplyDeleteI guess that was a brain cramp.
ReplyDeletePathetic
ReplyDeleteI know Hicks was just coming off the bench and all that. But with the game on the line you cannot go up there and swing at 1 pitch in 4. He was lucky he wasn't called out on three straight pitches.
ReplyDeleteAnd now Frazier takes the first two strikes...
Awful, awful hitting. And now comes bullshit-ball.
ReplyDeleteIf Stanton is patient there, we win the game.
Three good games against the minor league Tigers and two more against a hated opponent, do not make this a good team
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, this is the day Chapo has nothing.
ReplyDeleteThey truly suck!
ReplyDeleteDoug K. (somewhere in Missouri)
One run handed to them on a mental error. One run detracted from us because of impatience at the plate...after watching legions of called strikes float by.
ReplyDeleteBad clutch pitching, worse clutch hitting.
All in all, a team that once again showed up looking like it would rather not show up.
What just happened? What just happened? I'm not prepared to warble! I'm not! I'M PISSED OFF AND POUTING!! THESE FUCKERS - WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE YANKEES - ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TIE UP THE GAME, MUCH LESS WIN!! FUCK THEM!! FUCK YOU FORD!! GO BACK TO LOSING YOU FUCKING LOSERS!!
ReplyDeleteFUCKERS!!!
Wait, what's going on? Some big-ass pigs just flew by my window.
ReplyDeleteThere are also strange, chilly drafts coming up through that weird portal in the basement...
ReplyDeleteVoit will be here next week so we won’t have Ford to kick around no more…
ReplyDeleteBoone batted Hicks as a PH.
ReplyDeleteThen he got worse.
We have to score a run here…heart of the lineup…
ReplyDeleteI would red-light Judge on everything. This guy can't find the plate all of a sudden.
ReplyDeleteRainey’s got nothing…
ReplyDeletePaulie just called Judge "Aaron Hicks." Paging Dr. Freud, paging Dr. Freud...
ReplyDeleteThis would be a great spot for a Baltimore chop.
ReplyDeleteBaseball is gone.
ReplyDeleteWashington going to just two outfielders. All we need is a bloop!
ReplyDeleteyes. yay.
ReplyDeleteThis is the greatest Yankee team ever!!!!
ReplyDeleteDoug K. (Somewhere in Missouri)
Paul O'Neill speaking truth: contact makes things happen.
ReplyDeleteThe pitcher should have let Starlin take that one. But hey: a win is a win is a win.
Glad most of all for those people who sat out the last 6 1/2hours.
Thuh Yankees win.
ReplyDeleteI am astounded.
ReplyDeleteFUUUUUCKERS!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat was a big Yankee win.
ReplyDeleteMeredith asking Gleyber "how much of a grind it was today," what with the rain delay, Scherzer, and extra innings.
ReplyDeleteStop. Enough. Fourteen months into the pandemic, these young millionaires having to sit around a couple extra hours in their luxurious clubhouse, face a great pitcher, and play a couple extra innings is not a grind. It's a slightly longer, slightly tougher day at the office. Which is, after all, a playground.
She should have gone and asked a couple fans that question.
She should have asked the fans behind the plate not paying attention to the game in the 10th.
ReplyDeleteWe should have lost this game...good omen?
ReplyDeleteEvery Yankee win is a big Yankee win, but they didn't have to put us through that.
ReplyDeleteFuckers.
Goodbye, Tawny Kitaen.
ReplyDeleteYou were never the same after the plastic surgery.
Tawny, we hardly knew ye.
ReplyDeleteNo, really, sorry she was so disturbed, and sorry she put poor old Chuck Finley through so much.
But can I also say: Tom Hanks is a force of nature. People he did movies, TV shows and whatever with in a different era have now retired, died, been reincarnated, etc. And he still goes on, an American icon.
Helen Hunt, where is her career? Peter Scolari? Meg Ryan? Melanie Griffith? Mary Steenburgen, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field???
I mean empires have fallen—and been put back together—and Tom Hanks marches on. Was he in films with Greta Garbo? Did he have an affair with Sophia Loren?
On he goes...
As all of you know, we could have had Scherzer, Corbin, and Verlander on our staff (staph?) at a "reasonable" price. Instead we have to listen to that SOB Hal 'splaining to us that it's Championships are sweeter when bought for as little possible. Not the price that fans pay for tickets and merch, just what he pays. What would it take for sports fans in this Country to go on strike? Sorry, I need to take more peyote and come back to earth.
ReplyDeleteAll of the above isn't enough griping, but gawwwd Meredith gets on my nerves really quickly. Another Hal money saving move I imagine.
Hal’splaining... Is a new and accurate word!
ReplyDeleteVery true, Kevin. Not to mention Chris Sales, who could have been had for the price of Yoan Moncada.
ReplyDeleteBut you know, much as we rightly ridicule Food Stamps Hal, the Yanks do have a pretty big payroll.
The trouble, again and again, is that HAL listened to Brain. "Get Sonny Gray, not Verlander!" Etc., etc., etc.
ReplyDeleteI really want the world to know about this great man who brought back happiness into my life again after my husband left me and the kids 3 years ago for another women online when i contacted Dr Believe he cast a love spell for me within 48 hours my ex husband start calling me and begging for forgiveness for everything that have happened between us. I was so happy to have my family back together with love again here is the email of Dr Believe via believelovespelltemple@gmail.com a man with the great powers you can also call him or add him on Whats-app: +2348156148821
God bless you
I am very grateful for your help in my marriage.
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