There are 12 fucking pitchers on our ALCS roster. 12. And the bullpen is threadbare.
You get past Weaver and Kahnle and Hill is the only serviceable arm out there. Maybe we need to call on Stroman. Somebody has to give our Big Two some rest. They can't come in again today and also tomorrow.
We have slack and nobody there to pick it up.
Cashman, as usual, did nothing for the bullpen at the trading deadline. Every guy he picked up off various scrap heaps or scrap teams is gone. (Hill being the only somewhat pleasant surprise, so you know how bad the rest of them were.)
Maybe we should have hung on to Caleb Ferguson. Or dug up Maynard Ferguson. Or given Marinaccio more of a chance instead of putting him on waivers. Or...or...something. Anything.
Boone is an idiot, yes, no question. But who the hell is there to bring in when he needs to quell the opposition? No-fucking-body.
I would love to see Gil put in one of his great seven-inning games tonight, but I doubt it. If we need middle relief, it's got to be Stroman. Weaver's arm is going to fall off.
Which means that, basically, we don't have a great chance at going up 3-1 tonight. A far greater chance at ending up 2-2.
But if Boone can just give Weaver and Kahnle a break so they can pitch effectively tomorrow before the day off Sunday, I'll frustratedly take 2-2 with three left. If those guys spend tonight in the jacuzzi, we have a much better chance of winning tomorrow and Monday.
Fucking Cashman. The incompetent, arrogant, shitheaded asshole.
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1 – 200 of 236 Newer› Newest»What I fear most is Komodo dragons...sorry! What I fear most is the Yanks falling behind early and then quitting. For in addition to their general incompetence, these Yankees are also largely devoid of character. Get them down 3-0 or so, even against this moax who Cleveland is starting, and they will stay down, losing 11-3 or some such. And repeat tomorrow.
What do you guys expect, competence? Baseball smarts? You're asking for the moon. Hal was just crying on my shoulder and he wants you all to know that he does EVERYTHING FOR US and yet we still don't appreciate him. We must be assholes.
Totally agree. They’ve played that way all year long. Gil will be lucky to last 4, then Stroman will come in and it’ll be 6-1 by the sixth, and you can guess the rest.
It would be nice to win one game 8-2, and not have to worry about the 8th and ninth. Really missing Cortes here.
It's more Ca$hman than Boone. They are using all sorts of anal-ytics to decide who's on the roster. If you remember, they overhauled the anal-ytics department...personally, I haven't seen any improvement, but, I can't see their data either...
I would IMMEDIATELY wash those tears off your shoulder and head over to whatever medical clinic is open and nearby you to have a deep fascia skin peel followed up by an emergency skin graft. Best to trust no one at this point and have the doctors use skin from your ass instead of trusting cadaver tissue.
You don't have much time....
Hate to say it, but this team reflects the character that Boone seems to project. Nice, but no meanness, no spine. I'm sure that Boone the man isn't spineless, but as a manager....
Very interesting read in "The Athletic" concerning the White Sox. Starting with the fanboy owner.
Mark Twain: “There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
"Cast whatever light you will." However you look at it this team is just over .500 since early summer. I don't expect much more than that now. That does not mean that they can not win but this team is no powerhouse.
Hey Gang, great news! Mark Leiter, Jr. has been added to the post season roster!!!!!! How exciting. I feel better about our chances already.
Now if we can only get Cashman to add his favorite prospect, Will Warren, to the roster, we can enjoy a lovely dumpster fire where the 28th WS Trophy should be.
Meanwhile, the mutts are trying to lose via pineapple insertion.
Is Javier Vazquez available?
Mets hanging onto the lead.
Hoss, my favorite Bob and Ray routine is the Komodo dragon but. Always find it brilliantly funny.
Leiter Fluid. Oh, yeah, that helps.
We still have Brubaker, don't we? What the hell.
"Fucking Cashman. The incompetent, arrogant, shitheaded asshole."
JM - your eloquence soars like the flight of a thousand sparrows.
AA - I have no skin to lose on my ass, despite the fat underneath. It's all been scraped away by life. Instead, I had my unused testicles, so they just used the scrotum and it's a nice little repair job. Now, when someone puts their hand on my shoulder, they really cupping my balls.
Mets up 8-1 in the 3rd
Thank you, Bit. That means a lot.
Mets and Dodgers keep the back and forth going. Dodgers destroy the Mets in first game. Mets take LA to the woodshed in second. Dodgers obliterate them, third game. And today, Mets kicking their butts.
Weirdest set of lopsided playoff games I've ever seen.
I missed a game there, but you know what I mean.
I start laughing when I merely hear the words, "Bob & Ray," JM.
Also, love "Leiter Fluid."
I think all the lopsided scores mean two teams whose pitching staffs are basically shot, keep wanting to hold guys back for when they have a chance to win—another problem with overlong playoff system.
We'd probably have seen several one-sided games in the ALCS, too, but both teams' hitters are so incompetent (not to mention their base running).
Drunks.
LA has cut the lead to 5. Only the fifth.
I have very good flashbacks to Bob and Ray on snl. Saying they didn't really like disco and preferred the acid rock of the 60's like the dead and the airplane.
Then they went into rod Stewart "do you think I'm sexy" with Gilda, Jane and Lorraine as the ronettes in glitter.
Still gives me chuckles.
...and the MAD magazine parodies
They're rapidly devolving into a Yankees/Red sucks game.
"Are we not men?"
Damn....do the Mets and dodgers NOT have pitching ... They making Yankee starters look like the best group among the remaining teams
Let's do it!
SOOOOOOOOOOOTOOOOOOOOO!!!!! JUANDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So long as we score in every goddam inning, we should be fine. That's easy, right? Happens all the time, right?
Yup, all the time. HA HA
Wells done!
Alls Wells in Austin
Gee, I miss Trevino.
WELLS!! BREAK IT DOWN!!
Nice to see.
Finally moved him down in the order and boom.
Verdugo does play an excellent left field.
Cle already going to the pen...interesting
Gil needs to throw strikes.
All Kwan does is hit the ball through between second & third. All the Yankees do is position Volpe up the middle. I wonder what would happen if Volpe was playing, you know, shortstop?
Its obvious Gil has not pitched in awhile
Gil's velocity is okay but his location is all over the place.
Modern ball does not look logical - just analytical. Drive me nuts
Gil blocked Wells' throw so he had to double pump. Cripes.
The umpire may be more drunk than I am.
That was completely avoidable.
That may be clinically impossible.
Fat guy base hit there.
@Hinke Haines - if Volpe had been playing in the true short-stop hole that run would never have happened. Good call.
Blake why dont you go fuckin talk to your rookie...ffs
Rufus? Perhaps.
Gil needed to come out with control. He hasn't, Boonie will be going to the bullpen real soon...
That was NOT a checked swing ass Ump
Nope.
You get the feeling that Gil is about to allow something horrible
Gil often has control problems, but this looks bad. Rusty.
Or not. Next inning he should be great!
No way.
And so long as we score every inning, we should be golden!
Needs to come out for at least one more inning
Gil, 70 pitches in three innings. Not what you'd want...
Looks terrible for three or four pitches, then he's Nolan Ryan.
SWING AND A MISS!!! GRAB SOME BENCH, YOU BIG CHEESEBURGER!!
At least.... But hey! We have Leiter now!
I think that’s it for Gil. Will it be Stroman?
Judge’s brain is on the IL
Chisholm needs a day off.
Jazz could shut the fuck up and have a 3 hit game and score a few runs.
TWO TJ surgery's? How did the Yankee crackhead ANALytical team miss this guy?!?!?!?
Stealin' Stanton can't run, but he still has sick bat speed.
I know that NO ONE expects the spanish inquisition, but how can you not expect a fastball down the middle?!!
Everyone needs to calm down and accept that we will lose. Peace and happiness (plus a little drool and piddle so be prepared) awaits all the do.
Rufus, he wanted to get back to the comfy chair.
That bunt was a gift out…
Excellent inning.
Good inning for Gil. Hope Boonebrain lets him go one more. Please, no Mayza.
Esteemed commentators, do you send Gil out for the fifth inning?
Yes!!
Agree!
But I have the feeling that Boone doesn't have the stones...
We got ourselves a bullpen game here. I need a bucket of fried chicken.
Boone will always fuck up a game by trying to steal an extra out of two from a spent pitcher
Gold Glover out there…
Fine play by Soto. Like a Gold Glover.
Yessir.
Holy cow! Small ball...
Jazz can bunt.
Good choice, given how he’s been hitting.
Stanton!!!!!!!
Stantonian small ball!
HELL YES!!!
Stanton!!!
That was not small ball!!!! What a shot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man of Glass!!
The Hardest Part https://g.co/kgs/A5yUJEX
Need 12 outs. So another half-dozen runs would be helpful.
When does he pull a muscle?
Askin' fer a fren'
I'm still wondering who this #27 guy playing for us. You know, the guy with Stanton's old number.
He swings! He hits!
Sure would.
We need one more run to weeen
Ballpark got awfully quiet.
Another nice inning from the pen.
Yeah, 6 more runs should do it.
Maybe 8.
Let me just say THIS to the JuJu gods - we are definitely going to win this game. Put THAT in your pipes and smoke it. Muhahahahahahaha.....
A four run lead is not safe.
Torres is slower than a very slow thing.
Bitty!? NO!?
Ugh.
John Sterling sounds so PISSED when pitchers throw balls. Why walk the leadoff hitter?? Make him hit his way on.
Kwan is a really good hitter
Bring in Stroman.
Holmes
Great. Holmes coming in with runners on base. That always works out.
Aroldis Holmes. Great. Genius. Bet they never saw that coming.
Holmes with men on. The stupidest way to use him
At least Holmes can't give up a 5 run home run. He can't. Right!?
Big K! Now, how about a double-play to end the 7th?
That was a good pitch.
mik, I'm not sure you've internalised the IIH IIF ethos.
Fuck.
Not feeling good about the lead…
Probably not.
Me neither.
What lead? It’s as good as gone.
Boone is so so so stupid
See??
Mayza and Leiter warming up fast.
Here comes the 3 run home run. Oh G-d Lieter is warming up.
Feeling worse that Leiter is in the bullpen…
Holmes. Boone. Shit.
Holmes sucks.
Wisdom from The Master: "It always begins with a walk."
I'm getting a kick out of listening to Sterling while watching the TV broadcast. The Master sounds like he's having a lot of fun. ... Screw this retirement thing. Have him do like 10 games a year. That way it's not a chore and it's not too much for an 80-whatever-year-old guy, but he still gets a chance to do his thing.
How many programmed losses can we afford in the playoffs? ( Asking for me.)
Why the fuck is Holmes still in there?
Remember, Leiter has strikeout stuff.
Cough.
That's it. I'm exhausted and ready for Lieter to break my heart.
YOU DON’T BRING HOLMES IN WITH RUNNERS ON. EVER. Boone is an idiot.
I said we needed 8 more runs.
Winnie - because he's better than leiter much the same way that a shit sandwich is better than a shit sub.
He's 85 or 86. That's getting up there. But if he can do it, that's a good idea.
this X10,000,000
Man, I miss the days of Stanton-to-Nelson-to-Rivera
Omg. Heart attack.
We all do.
it is high, it is far, it is caught
Thought that it was absolutely OUT!!!!!!!
Strikeout stuff.
Got out of the inning…barely…
Whewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I did, too. Was sure of it.
It's only the seventh
I have no idea how they’re going to get 6 more outs without giving up any runs. No bloody idea.
Cool, we got out of it while still holding the lead.
Now, we only need to get through two more innings, and we can hand it over to ....
to ....
uhhh .... well ....
We are so fucked.
Top of the 8th. They blow the game now or bottom of the 9th??
Jazz is pathetic at the plate.
Bottom of ninth of course.
Awful hitting by Judge/Stanton/Chisolm in the 8th. Especially Chisolm, who should be benched.
Chisholm looks like Soriano did in the 2003 World Serries. He might as well be blindfolded up there.
Jazz is an awful ballplayer, and another terrible Cashman acquisition.
The beginning of the end.
WHY IS HE LEAVING LEITER IN???
NO, NO, NO! HE CAN PULL HIM AFTER THE LEADOFF DOUBLE! WTF IS WRONG WITH HIM?
HOLY SHIT! LEITER NEARLY GAVE IT UP LAST INNING!
It's a throwaway game. ALCS is a marathon, not a sprint.
FFS…
Bottom of the 8th and the best we have to send out there is Lieter.
WTF??????????????????????????????????????????????
We’re losing this one…
This is embarrassing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of course.
Pathetic.
Losers. That’s what they are. Losers.
Keefe is going to be inflamed.
The Williamsport Yankees
Boone is The Moron.
Our lack of an actual bullpen has caught up to us.
This is proof that we are living in a simulation. NFW can this be happening.
Rizzo doing his best Bill Buckner impression…
Was thinking the same. Wow.
I’M INFLAMED!!!
Leiter panicked. Rizzo choked. That’s all there is to it.
This is almost all on Cashman...but Boone is a fucking idiot.
Yeah, it's mostly on Cashman...
Rizzo should not be playing. I dont care about his hit(s). His appaling D has been the Yankees downfall the last two nights.
The Tonys give us hope.
But why is the broken-fingered 1B still out there? WTF does Boone have against Cabrera? He can't start over Jazz, who is a joke, he can't come in at first for Rizzo. Why is he on the roster?
Wouldn’t Cabrera be the third catcher?
What a break…
And there’s the run we needed
Finally, a squibber that helps.
Listening to this announcer, I thought Rocchio was in the Hall of Fame already.
We need to score 7 more runs.
Blasé is a mere mortal…
They need 5 more runs. At least.
Sign Torres!
WTF? Good things are suddenly happening?!
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