Get well, sir.
In the meantime, some songs to your team.
Tweak us a groin, you're the Pavano man,
Tweak us a groin, tonight.
We're all in the mood for a Tommy John,
And we know you're not feeling all right.
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Come out, Giardi, don't make us wait.
You went with Sabathia two innings too late.
I guess in the long run they'll say he was great,
But tonight he's just not the one,
Certainly not Cy Young.
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Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Red Barber in the boothMickey Rivers, Fran Healy, Joe DiMaggio.
Billy Martin, pine tar, Reggie Jackson candy bar,
Bobby Bonds, Catfish, Phil Rizzuto.
Ban on facial hair, Igawa in Wilkes Barre
Trade Jay Buhner, keep Joba, Phil Hughes
Syd Thrift, Paul Blair, Giambi's golden underwear
Boone on the hot seat, singing the blues
Bob Lemon, spin the wheel, Arod's got a new deal
Dock Ellis, Bobby Meachem, Daryl and Dwight.
Houdini, Jorge, lost season at Shea,
Roy White, game night, Thurman on that fateful flight.
Bucky Dent, came and went, how much money have we spent?
Eggs were always laying since we started playing...
Aaron Judge, botched fly, Juan Soto, goodbye,
Gerrit Cole points to first, all the moments, this is worst...
Have at it, everybody...
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A brilliant tribute, O Peerless One! I have tears in my eyes.
My favorite Billy Joels:
—Say Goodbye to Hollywood
—Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
—Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)
—Captain Jack
—A New York State of Mind
What’s the matter with my bullpen, mister
Can’t you see that they’re almost there?
Maybe I should just shuffle that deck
And throw them out, be it foul or fair?
Where have you been hidin out lately, Brian?
You can’t talk trashy till you spend a lot of money.
Everybody’s talking bout the new Yanks
Funny, but it’s still Aaron Boone to me.
I never really liked Joel. Sue me, again. He thought he wrote rock songs but they always sounded like Broadway show tunes to me.
I remember when he won a Grammy back in the early 80s, and took the opportunity to say he hoped he got it for his chops and slagged off New Wave bands who used sequencers--"playing with one finger." Came off as an arrogant bastard and shithead old fart. Maybe that's when he was plastered all the time, destroying his marriage to Christie Brinkley.
Whatever. My wife calls him The Dwarf. Still, I hope he can get better, if that's possible. Side note: the late brother of a family friend went up against Joel in a high school Battle of the Bands. Billy won. So it goes.
I have never liked the guy. That being said, I was going out with a young woman in the 90s and she wanted to see him at the Garden. Since I was basically willing to do anything to get laid at the time, I got the tickets and want. During one number, as he wafted over us, suspended from a rope or something - the memory has been blocked out by PTSD - I remember thinking to myself, "is it worth it?" I'm glad I got out of that relationship, but it was many years before I was getting laid again with any frequency.
In the Spring of 1976 I drove up to State College to buy a bag of supplies I needed for the side hustle I was running back then and my suppl guy had an extra ticket to Billy Joel and Eric Carmen that night at Rec Hall. I remember the date well - it was my first ex-wife's school of nursing capping ceremony and I skipped it, probably one of the contributing factors in she subsequently becoming the first ex-Mrs. Lopez.
Everybody was relatively familiar with Billy Joel, college tour thing, but Eric Carmen was the headliner. Except he didn't show for whatever reason, and rather than break it to the crowd right off Billy Joel came out and said he would be performing that night, "all by myself". This was pre-turd Joel and he played for hours, interacted with the crowd all night, really a good show. I was almost a fan.
Someone went through my Beetle that night, maybe got a pack of smokes or something, but never looked under the front hood where the supplies were stashed. Good old days.
Another chance but you’re still really down.
Lost last night’s series game, to the guys cross town.
Their uniforms, make them look like clowns
We played bad.
Mmm-hmm
But you head to the sports bar to watch game four
Hoping that the Yanks recall, how to score.
To feel the taste of victory just once more
And you smile
Mmm-hmm
And Captain Jeets will get you high tonight.
And beat that team from Long Island.
Yes Captain Jetes hits a long fly tonight
On the first pitch and sends it flying.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Cashman's gone out; he's on a date. And you just sit at home - and massssssterbate.
AppleTV. MLB. TBS or TNT?
Hopefully it’s found on YES.
If not, it’s anybody’s guess.
Gotham Sports or MSG.
ESPN One Two Three.
Amazon, Roku TV
Someone find this game for me.
.
Hey, where the fuck’s the ball game?
It was heaven
when on Chanel 11.
Hey where the fuck’s the ball game?
It’s the third inning and
I heard their winning.
Hey where the fuck’s the ball game?
I’m not being needy.
You just got too greedy.
Hey where the fuck’s the ballgame?
The whole thing your botching
We should just stop watching…
Hey where the fuck’s the ballgame…
BTW - El Duque. Yours were nothing short of great.
13 - Yours too.
I think it's the reverse!
El Duque, you need to have your son's band record those lyrics and find a local DJ to add it to the playlist rotation!
Before I saw BJ in the 2000s with my daughter at MSG and the Hartford Civic Center (Go Whalers...I mean Hurricanes!), I saw him in the spring of 1974 in my college gymnasium with my girlfriend. The crowd was about 300 and cost $2.00 with my student ID. Those were the days.
Met him at a bar in Old Roslyn back in the early 70’s. As I remember he was affable and friendly,
Carmen had a serious coke problem and got increasingly erratic. The Raspberries were a pretty great power pop band, and I'm glad I got to see them later on when they reunited with Carmen. He's gone now, so RIP.
Game on Gotham, so I can't even watch on MLB.com. "Exclusively on Gotham Sports."
Fucking hell. What is this shit?
Martian from the left, Martian from the right
It all depends on whose pitching tonight
Use your VPN with the MLB.com subscription. Watch the Rockies feed.
It's because you don't have MLB.TV (not .com. ) $100 for the year for one team. Might be a different price in Germany but you are out of market so MLB.TV will work 95% of the time.
Come on Boonie, don't let it wait
Nestor should not be pitching this late
Sooner or later it comes down to fate
Freddie's gonna get into one...
Thanks, gentlemen.
someone can come up with one about Midges in Cleveland while Torre sits stone-faced.
Volpe, as usual, strikes out on a pitch outside the zone in a clutch situation. Really getting tired of this. I called it out loud as soon as he got to 2 strikes. My wife was amazed at my prognostication. She doesn’t watch the games like we do.
BTR...Not to diminish your oracle-like observation, but I called it too. I'd bet most avid watchers did as well.
No doubt Carl, no doubt…
Working on a few projects so I'm listening to the game's radio broadcast on the MLB APP.
Right before Weaver came in and gave up that HR to Moniak there was a commercial looking for sperm donors.
It got me thinking.
Then I stopped.
I’ll take a win anyway we can get it, but this was too close for comfort against a team like the Rockies.
You can’t spell “wino” without “win.” Just saying…
Great point Bitttt
Ugh - the Knicks Win !
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