Tuesday, August 17, 2021

2nd game thread


 

44 comments:

TheWinWarblist said...

What 2nd game. There was no 1st game. This is just game thread.


"All Important Loss Column."


Stop it right now!

TheWinWarblist said...

Ah. The Gil-A-Monster.

DickAllen said...

Luke has some of that Nick Swisher, doesn’t he?

DickAllen said...

And Win, you’re here with the rest of us, so you must have a smidgen, a crumb, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, hint, lick, a particle, scintilla, a soupçon, spark, maybe a splash, or even a sprinkling, a suspicion, a tad, touch, trace OF HOPE about this team, otherwise…

You’d be watching reruns of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and drinking too much in memory of a wasted life.

BUT YOU’RE NOT. YOU’RE HERE SUFFERING, JUST LIKE THE REST OF US!!!

DickAllen said...

But you would not be alone in drinking your way through this mess of a team

TheWinWarblist said...

When I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself. I prefer to be by myself. And I am watching Mary Tyler Moore reruns. I'm streaming them, alone, by myself.

Now shuush!

TheWinWarblist said...

Hustle double? Hustle double!!

I'm a bit unnerved by heads-up play from these Yankees.

JM said...

Wendy made up for Wade's kind of miscue.

Judge stole a base.

We're ahead with four outs to go.

The full moon isn't until the 22nd. What's going on with these guys?

Pocono Steve said...

Game ain't over yet.

JM said...

Wendy's past his sell-by date.

TheWinWarblist said...

JM, really? 8 times already this year and you carry on this way?

Hurrumph!

JM said...

That was some throw to first. Wow.

JM said...

As Mel Brooks said in Blazing Saddles, I didn't get a hurrumph outta that guy.

JM said...

Tampa beating Baltimore 8-0.

Pocono Steve said...

Chad throwing: fiddle dee dee!

DickAllen said...



Keep the Maalox nearby. The worst is yet to come.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Hurrumph!

TheWinWarblist said...

Well said, Rufus. Well said.

Hurrumph, hurrumph, do the hurrumphty dance

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Rhubarb!

Hurrumph, hurrumph!

JM said...

Friday is DJ bobblehead night. Order your champagne now.

Anonymous said...

Fucking A! After all the games they sleepwalked through. They are playing with passion!

Doug K.

Pocono Steve said...

Ha ha! But we still have the bottom of the 9th, er, I mean 7th, to survive!

DickAllen said...

Come on Chad - make us proud and walk the lead off man

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...

Where the white ladies at?

JM said...

Beau, can we dance wif your dates?

JM said...

Sweep!!!

DickAllen said...



A1-2-3 inning. What a disappointment.

I never got to have my peak cardio today.

TheWinWarblist said...

Yankees win. Thuh-uhh-uuhhh-uuhhh-uhhhhhhhh Yankees win!!!

TheWinWarblist said...

UhuhuhuhUHUHUHUHHUHUHUUHHUHUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pocono Steve said...

Well, then.

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...

JM- if we continue this, we’re eventually going to be, um, taken out of context.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

five Schnitzegrubens is my limit!

JM said...

We are in second place, by .001 in winning percentage.

JM said...

Beau, that's true. But those were funny movies.

JM said...

Rufus, as Madeline Kahn said, what a nice guy.

Publius said...

Couldn't be happier for John and Suzyn. They sound like they've found el Dorado.

TheWinWarblist said...

[sniff sniff]

Shut up!!

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...

What happened to Jack “Candy” Moldanado? John has been praising his producer Matt Shortis or Chortis or something like that.

Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside said...

just googled it… he’s gone. Possibly related to John’s call of Judge’s instant replay.

ranger_lp said...

There's a rumor about Jack. If you look at his twitter account he seems to be anti-mask and posted a reference about Florida Covid deaths lower than NY Covid deaths. He also mentioned that they should be going on the road but are staying home because of money. Might have done him in...the latter relates to Judge's instant replay which wouldn't have happened if they were on the road.

HoraceClarke67 said...

The Ghost of Horace here:

THEY'RE DOING WITH MIRRORS!

Or rather, great pitching and flashing leather, which seems like mirrors, it's been so long since we've seen it.

I hate to say it, but...This team's got moxie!!!

They probably won't have after "Home Run" Heaney takes the mound. But for now...they have it!

Joe Formerlyof Brooklyn said...


If WED turns into a bullpen game, here's what's left (from Fangraphs data)

Britton -- threw 6 pitches in past 3 days

Joely R -- ditto, 6 pitches in 3 days

Ridings -- yeah, in the minors -- 15 pitches in the past week. They sent Gil out already today (8/18) . . . I don't think they can call Ridings back up this soon (?)

Other bullpen guys have thrown in 2 of the past 3 days. Green + Lasagna each have 5.1 innings in the past week, 87 pitches (Chad) and 88. Peralta has 5 innings and 67 pitches in the past week, 23 of which were last night.

Luetge last threw on 8/15. He threw 29 pitches on the 14th and 15th combined.

So when Heaney melts down -- or if this is a planned "bullpen" game -- we are going to see Luetge, Britton, and Joely R. Plus whoever gets called up today.


Anonymous said...

Please enjoy this sweep. Let it bring back sweet memories cuz Wed., is going to be a sheet show with Petticoat Junction on the mound.

The Archangel

Anonymous said...

Also, things could be worse, you could be a genetically challenged Red Sucks fan, which is redundant.
Some I know had already staked out their part of the curb for the WS Champs Parade. Of course, being reprobates, they already lived on the curb

The Heartless Archangel