Thursday, September 30, 2021

This is it, the night of nights


88 comments:

  1. They haven't said so explicitly, but it's pretty clear to me that Gary is now a part-time catcher with this team and will be so in October (if they make it that far).

    Looks like the postseason alignment would be:

    Cole - Higashioka
    Montgomery - Sanchez
    Kluber - Higashioka
    Cortes - Sanchez

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  2. Great stuff!

    But I think a better song would be:

    "A few more hours
    That's all the time we've got
    Just a few more hours
    Before we're really shot."

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  3. JERRY: (Singing) Camera, curtains, lights - This is it, we'll hit the
    heights - Oh what heights we'll hit - On with the show this is it!

    ELAINE: You know, it is so sad, all your knowledge of high culture comes
    from bugs bunny cartoons.

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  4. It's bluejay season!
    It's DEVIL ray season!

    oooooh, you wascally wabbit!

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  5. I'll be getting some "culcha" at a dance performance tonight with my sis.

    Please excoriate Boone for me when he inevitably does something stupid.

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  6. Great clip! I love that song.

    If tonight's game becomes too painful there's always this...

    Baseball Bugs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdGlrC0oL_A

    or if you prefer...

    Popeye

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHsl4aP_oI

    and if it gets really bad...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAvE0n9PvHY&list=PL4StFg6aFalGgRHzpPTBM-Cnp4ZgiVwh6



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  7. Oh, and for the record... there is no way we win this game.

    Doug K.

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  8. Remember, all: nothing is important.

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  9. Strikeout. Getting off to a classic these are "Our 2021 Suckees" start.

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  10. Oh. Oh wait. That's right. Judge can still hit.

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  11. Suzyn is the best: "Isn't it good to see another team hit into a double play?"

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  12. It feels like every time I fire up the ol' Gameday, Kluber has allowed another run

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  13. I just don't see a 1-2-3 inning left in him today.

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  14. How did Kluber ever toss a no-hitter this year?
    Kluber now looks more like Gruber from McHale's Navy.

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  15. Stanton's hitting .000 for the rest of the season, isn't he?

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  16. The Yankees are hitting .000 today except for the Judge homer.

    I wish I sensed that changing.

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  17. One loud hit is not going to get it done tonight.

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  18. That's the game. Probably the season too. We will not score again this week.

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  19. What's happening? What is this? What is going on!?

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  20. Fuck you, Ray, you short-sleeved, glute-flex-for-the-centerfield-camera asshole.

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  21. You look like Barry Gibb's lost grandson.

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  22. He's been taking the Dominican milkshakes. "Bulked up" in the offseason.

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  23. mlb tv feed is stuck in the stupid fucking ad for themselves loop.

    I hate those fucking bastards.

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  24. Unlike Joe West, I'm not sure this yoyo ump is retiring this year.

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  25. I used to love Sid Fernandez' centerfield camera glute flex. Even Met fans called him Baby Huey.

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  26. I'm surprised that Higgy wasn't rung up on that 1-2 pitch that bounced in front of the plate.

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  27. Ray looked…well…sort of ordinary…

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  28. Maybe Ray can win the Sigh Young award...

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  29. Judge sucks.

    He can only hit a home run every other at bat.

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  30. I hope for the carmines to lose every single game until the day I die, then for another hundred years.

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  31. That idiot and his gagle of other idiots are gonna put Green in, aren't they?

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  32. You're going to need to drink with Green in there.

    Cheers!

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  33. We need good Green, not the bad one.

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  34. Michael Kay just made a Joe Shlabotnik reference!

    I imagine all the fans watching who are under 50 immediately started Googling who that was.

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  35. I'm fantasizing about a three team tie for the second wild card.

    A guy can dream, can't he?

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  36. Why is Chad Green in?

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  37. Boston sucks - they have a losing record since July 1 - Fuck them and their piss yellow frock coats

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  38. Sevi looked good. King looked good.

    Why is he in?

    Doug K.

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  39. Boone should have let Sevy pitch another inning.

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  40. I remember Joe Shlabotnik. Also Moonbeam McSwine.

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  41. I agree with the Sevvy move. You don't want to work him too hard, considering the history.

    But Green...

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  42. He's not going to strike him out, is he?

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  43. Boone should have committed ritual Hari-Kari a couple of years ago.

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  44. He has to get Dickerson here. This is the season in a batter.

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  45. We still have to endure El Chapo in the ninth.

    Unless the Yankees score 5 the next half inning.

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  46. They keep going on about how good Green looks. I don't like it.

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  47. And yet, the true test awaits: Trial by Sweat.

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  48. "Sanchez, afforded a miraculous second chance...struck out."

    Sigh.

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  49. Three more and we might not see El Chapo.

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  50. Old Useless Man hits one out! How do ya like.....that?

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  51. 8-9-1. That's all he has to do. 8-9-1, to protect a 4-run lead. And he walks the first hitter.

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  52. They need two runners on for that patented game ending triple play.

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  53. Here we go. Gut punch city.

    Doug K.

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  54. Okay, struck out Breyvic Valera. Fine.

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  55. what's with chapman and all the off-speed stuff? nervous I am Kevin

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  56. "The most agonizing 20 minutes in sports"—watching this guy try to close a game.

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  57. I really don't like Chapman.

    Doug K.

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  58. Oh, hurrah: it was Chapo's 1,000th strike out. He can put the baseball on the mantle next to his 1,000th expended shell.

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  59. "The most agonizing 20 minutes in sports"—watching this guy try to close a game."

    This!

    Doug K.

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  60. The whole Yankee infield on the mound, whispering to Aroldis behind their gloves: "Stop being an asshole."

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  61. Throwing an 87-mph splitter to Semien, outside the strike zone. You think he's going to bite on that?

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  62. Thankfully the BJs are swinging at balls way out of the zone.

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  63. That weird sort of cutter he seems to have is fooling them. For now.

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  64. Chapo isn't sweating buckets. Is there something wrong with him?

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  65. cool. I'll take it.

    Doug K.

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  66. FUCK YES MOTHERFUCKER!! But, also, it's the hope that kills you.

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  67. If it wasn't for Gardner still around since 2009, the only Yankees with World Series wins would be the fucking ex-cubs. That is pathetic.

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  68. I will leave you all with this. The Giants have 104 wins and the Dodgers have 102 wins.

    Our 2021 Suckees do not have 100 wins, nowhere close.

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  69. True, Winnie, but one of them will have to play the Bud Selig game, and wouldn't it be funny and just if they were to lose?

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  70. The Giants and Dodgers play most of their games against the schmucks in their division. The good teams there are the Giants and the Dodgers.

    The Yankees have Tampa, Toronto and Boston to deal with. Makes a difference.

    They look better than us, granted. But the win count is a little misleading.

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  71. A Giants Dodgers series would be super to watch.

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  72. Nah. I want the Dodgers to lose that play-in game. You let them into a longer series, and it's hard to see anyone beating their pitching.

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  73. Forgot San Diego. Ok, it's not a pushover division. Sorry.

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