Thursday, October 20, 2022

ALCS Game 2: 1. Bader, 2. Judge, 3. Stanton


111 comments:

Joe of AZ said...

Rizzo was doing fine at 3....da fuck

BTR999 said...

better "protection" for Stanton I suppose.

Boone continues to change his lineup every game, which he did all season long. If it is indeed his lineup, and not something that was handed to him by the shadowy Man In Black from the front office. Boone's been around the game for 30 years, he can't possibly by this stupid can he?

TheWinWarblist said...

This is going to be GREAT !!!

Mildred Lopez said...

Old school:

Bader CF
Peraza SS
Judge RF
Rizzo 1B
Stanton DH
Torres 2B
Donaldson 3B - because he has to play I guess
Cabrera LF
Catcher

AboveAverage said...

Donaldson should have been batting last - coming up the rear like the clown shoveling up after the elephants at the three ring circus

Doug K. said...

AA - finally an avatar I can relate to!

Doug K. said...

Peraza with a solid play.

AboveAverage said...
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AboveAverage said...

I though you might like that one, Doug :)

That said - moving forward I think that Bader needs to do something about the optics of his mouth guard tongue jiggling..

It's just not an enticing/inspirational image.

Would one of you make a call or two to see if this could be corrected?

Perhaps if it wasn't strawberry pink and red and maybe instead incorporated Yankee pinstripes it would be more, uh . . . .

Palatable

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Doug K. said...

13 bit -

Superior!

BernBabyBern said...

Holy crap, Donaldson actually hit the ball.

Doug K. said...

Next inning is the Yankees best chance to put something together.
Old school style.

You've got the two kids hitting in front of Bader and Judge.

Hinkey Haines said...

This just in, from the moral victories department: the Yankees will not be no-hit tonight.

TheWinWarblist said...

Badness lurks around every at bat. Badness of all sorts.

TheWinWarblist said...

Sevy digging deep there. I wonder how long he can do that.

BTR999 said...

I see what you did there AA

JM said...

Fuck.

TheWinWarblist said...

Welp, that's that. See you all tomorrow.




One more all too sadly predictable fuck.

BTR999 said...

Game over I guess

Pocono Steve said...

That's game. We suck. Good night.

Doug K. said...

At least donaldson isn't up yet

Mildred Lopez said...

Thank you my Friend.

My daughter is Deutsch fluent. She translated.

Also, fuck the Azztros

Doug K. said...

OK so two runs scored and now Donaldson. The line up is Genius I tell you. Genius.

Hinkey Haines said...

This just in from the small victories department: the Yankees will not be shut out tonight.

(Radio feed is about a batter behind. It’s a long way to Germany, I guess.)

Carl J. Weitz said...

Donaldson strikes out again.

JM said...

Has anyone mentioned that Donaldson sucks?

He's fucking terrible.

Hinkey Haines said...

Ja. Frankfurt. Heading home in the morning, so I figured it didn’t matter if I didn’t get much, if any, slept tonight.

JM said...

Happy fahrting, Hink!

AboveAverage said...

Dumpsterson

JM said...

Loving Bader.

AboveAverage said...

Bootsie Night Guard

Platoni said...

This is just an eye test, so grain of salt or whatever, but I don't think I've ever seen the Yankees (or any other team) swing at so many pitches WAY outside the zone as in the past two days.

AboveAverage said...

Why doesn’t Draft Kings sign Pete Rose as their celebrity Spokesman?

ranger_lp said...

Brian Anderson can go fuck himself..

HoraceClarke66 said...

Bader having an excellent postseason, Judge a poor one.

This is Cashman's dream.

AboveAverage said...

Cashman has been a nightmare

13bit said...

This is Cashman's team. He owns it. He created it. Hal owns him. And Hal is owned by the tortured spirit of old King George, who haunts him every night to the point that HAL DOESN'T CARE.

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HoraceClarke66 said...

As we have been saying since 2018, Torres is the slowest man in the world.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Also, as we have said all year, it was one thing for the Yanks to beat up on these No. 4-5 pitchers on lousy teams all year. Against playoff pitching, though, they have nothing.

13bit said...

they have had sucky situational hitting for 20 fucking years now. 20 fucking years. who's fault is that? there has been only ONE constant over that time and his name rhymes with "Dryin' Flashman."

PS, of all the crappy stats that get thrown around, the most significant one for the Yankees since the end of the last Golden Era has been LOB. Left on Base. Or "Left on Fucking Base," as we might have said once upon a time up in Yonkers.

ranger_lp said...

@Hoss and Michael Kay says with a straight face that the Yankees are built for the playoffs…

TheWinWarblist said...

Double helping of Lasagna for Diaz.

13bit said...

Kay would look good on a spit with an apple in his mouth. A-Rod can man the basting brush.

13bit said...

We suck dinosaur balls.

TheWinWarblist said...

9 strike outs is not as bad as 17. Holy crap a-mighty, they only put the ball in play 10 times last night??

Uggh. Fuck.

Doug K. said...

Where do the Astros keep finding these great pitchers and why don't we ever find them?

13bit said...

That's a reasonable question, Doug. I don't think they come from under the rocks where Cashman usually lurks.

Doug K. said...

I looked it up.

Valdez signed with the Astros as an international free agent in 2015, and made his MLB debut in 2018.

JM said...

Peraza. Wow.

13bit said...

Is 2015 the year the Yankees signed Dermis Garcia? Is that the year they passed on Yoan Moncada?

Duque would know. I am too feeble to keep this shit straight.

Doug K. said...

"So while the Yankees essentially did multiple years of shopping in one signing period during 2014-15, they still remained aggressive in 2015-16, signing more players than any other team during the 2015 calendar year, "

Luis Medina
Andres Chaparro,
Deivi Garcia
Alfred Pujols
Edward Paredes
Estevan Florial

There were 6 more but it's just more of the same... nothing

13bit said...

into the fog, Doug. out of the fog and then right back into it...

JM said...

Garcia and Florial. The surviving members. Kinda.

JM said...

Nice play by Torres there.

BernBabyBern said...

So frickin' close by Judge. Ugh.

JM said...

Fuck, just missed.

JM said...

Damn.

JM said...

Please. Robo umps.

Hinkey Haines said...

John gave the blog a shoutout on that fly ball by Judge. Glad I stayed up long enough to to hear it.

BernBabyBern said...

The 3-0 pitch to Stanton was a few inches low, according to the tracker. Called strike, of course. The tying run should have been in scoring position and the go-ahead at first. The umps have been fucking brutal with balls and strikes.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

They have bets on the ASStros or verlander's hooker wife has pictures with them.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Hilarious, Bitty!

TheWinWarblist said...

This is so exhausting.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Robo umps, for sure. And yes, this Yankees team has the same problem, every year.

Cashman blew those international signing periods, big time.

No Moancada, traded for Chris Sale.

No Chapman in his original incarnation.

No Yu Darvish.

No Jose Abreu.

All guys who could have been signed relatively cheap—AND FOR MONEY THAT WOULD NOT EVEN HAVE COUNTED AGAINST THE PAYROLL LIMITS.

JM said...

Why do we keep running into each other?

HoraceClarke66 said...

Thank goodness. I thought for a moment that was going to be yet ANOTHER disastrous, Little League-style collision.

JM said...

Hoss, Cashman is an idiot.

HoraceClarke66 said...

But yeah, the complete lack of control over the strike zone by this group is amazing. I've never seen a team swing at so many pitches well out of the strike zone.

Nonsense!

HoraceClarke66 said...

And the thing is, with all that, these games have both been so close. It would not have taken much—just a couple key personnel decisions—to have put the Yanks UP 2-0 in this series.

Instead of this crap.

JM said...

Kudos to the West Village dude who embraced Altuve. Pissed off Pressly.

JM said...

Cole in New Yawk. We're not dead yet.

JM said...

One of the announcers almost said bowel instead of ball.

Just looking for entertainment here.

TheWinWarblist said...

The radio feed is running well behind, please have patience if my warble is delayed. It may not come again until the Spring.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Boy, is Torres a bad hitter.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Just got beat, on balls around 90. Awful.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Oh, and how perfect: Josh Donaldson is the last man standing!

Doug K. said...

Donaldson is our final hope? Gaaaaaa.

JM said...

Now, the guy who shouldn't be in the lineup...

JM said...

Carp for Higgy. No.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Well, all I want is all I wanted after we lost the first two to Atlanta in 1996: 1 win.

I also wanted that in 1976 against Cincinnati. Didn't get it.

Hinkey Haines said...

At least I can watch the season come to an ignominious end this weekend without staying up all night. AB, I hope you choose sleep over this dreck.

TheWinWarblist said...

The Master thinks 12 strikeouts is a lot of strikeouts. I agree.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Well, Swingo draws a walk.

Matt Carpenter?

Doug K. said...

So now Carpenter...

HoraceClarke66 said...

Oh, yes. It's Porn Stach. Ridiculous.

TheWinWarblist said...

Oh. Oh. A walk. This pain still goes on.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Yep, that's the best pitch you will see, my boy.

Doug K. said...

Maybe he can Kirk Gibson it.

TheWinWarblist said...

C'mon Golden Age of Porn Stache! Swing that mighty stick!!

HoraceClarke66 said...

Don't know why they are bothering to run Locastro.

TheWinWarblist said...

Oil it up and swing it!!

HoraceClarke66 said...

And then, NOT run Locastro. Boone is a genius!

TheWinWarblist said...

They are running Locastro because they heard that's what a major league baseball team might do that.

HoraceClarke66 said...

That was not a strike. But why was he even close to offering?

TheWinWarblist said...

13 strikeouts is more than 12.

Doug K. said...

Bullshit!

JM said...

See ya.

HoraceClarke66 said...

And of course, no Boone, no Carpenter, no nobody bothering to protest that awful call.

I know it wouldn't matter. But it would be nice to see they cared.

TheWinWarblist said...

What happened to the animals in the box?

HoraceClarke66 said...

Well, yeah in the replay he did go. Absurd that this is what we are relying on late in the game.

BernBabyBern said...

Can we get Porn Stache a minor-league rehab stint before next game?

BTR999 said...

Another pitiful offensive display. Can’t (actually can) wait to hear the spin job on this series…

Can’t you just wait to see the Arse-tros celebrate a sweep on our field? Their filthy, cloven feet dance where Rivers and Jeter stood?

HoraceClarke66 said...

Carpenter now 0-7 in this postseason, with 7 strikeouts. Gee, think he was ready?

What I can't fathom is how the Yankees' "brainstrust" looked at him and decided, 'Oh, yeah, he's set. Get him out there!'

No, he's not set.

HoraceClarke66 said...

Obviously, they have to maximize what offense they can get in the lineup. But how?

I would recommend Peraza at short and IKF at third, but IKF-Donaldson is probably a toss up. I don't know; I think this team is at its end.

AboveAverage said...

I really don't know what's worse - watching this team lose to the ASStros or having a colonoscopy ?

Kevin said...

In spite of the close score, the last time I saw a lashing like that was in "High Plains Drifter".

Kevin said...

Where is all that talent the Yankees have snapped up in the Caribbean? I mean, they never even made the Majors after being dumped or traded... Maybe three guys get hot, and we come back to make a show of it. But right now we are being un-dressed on national television.

AboveAverage said...

I may see Black Adam over and over again to avoid watching Saturday's game . . . . (well, OK - maybe not) . . . but I'm just saying.

HoraceClarke66 said...

It went nowhere, Kevin. Cashman, and the guys he hires, are obviously terrible judges of talent. Also, they are bad at nurturing and developing talent. But somehow...

HoraceClarke66 said...

AA, I have seen so many Black Adam ads by now that I feel I HAVE seen the movie. What bloated dreck. But what's new?