It is high, it is far, it is JOHN! : Game 130: Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Game 130: Ev'rybody's Gonna Be Happy

Posted by Stang at 8:30 PM

27 comments:

TheWinWarblist said...: The Season is Long. It will end when the warm days of summer leave us.; August 30, 2022 at 8:42 PM
Ken of Brooklyn said...: This is a great song, we have a truuuuuly shitty team, but this is a GREAT song!; August 30, 2022 at 8:44 PM
Doug K. said...: Rays 6-0 over the Marlins Bottom 7th; August 30, 2022 at 8:52 PM
Stang said...: Ken o' B, thanks for recommending the Fall's Victoria. I loved it.; August 30, 2022 at 8:56 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Bowie. Prescient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo&list=RDROatPGGMvXg&index=15; August 30, 2022 at 9:48 PM
Hinkey Haines said...: This team sucks.; August 30, 2022 at 10:10 PM
Carl J. Weitz said...: Winnie....I hope that's David and not Kuhn.; August 30, 2022 at 10:12 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: So, 5 strong innings against the Mets tonight by Dodgers starter...Andrew Heaney.

Heaney has a 2-1 record and 1.94 ERA as a Dodger this season. Looks like someone there "fixed" him, something the Yankees always claim to be able to do...and never quite manage, somehow.; August 30, 2022 at 10:16 PM
Doug K. said...: It's easier to relax when your team is actually good.; August 30, 2022 at 10:26 PM
ranger_lp said...: We got a break…; August 30, 2022 at 10:31 PM
Hinkey Haines said...: Yankees have discovered a new market inefficiency in bases-loaded situations: hope like hell the other team makes an error. Ingenious.; August 30, 2022 at 10:34 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: All rise, for fuck sake.; August 30, 2022 at 10:49 PM
TheWinWarblist said...: Why did Taillon only go 2?; August 30, 2022 at 10:56 PM
Doug K. said...: Winnie - he took a line drive off his pitching arm; August 30, 2022 at 11:03 PM
gc said...: took a comebacker to his pitching arm; August 30, 2022 at 11:03 PM
JM said...: Doug, I get your point about the Kinks songs. No offense meant. It's the rockers that always appeal to me and stick. Hey, I still have the motorcycle jacket I got in 1972.

I'm not watching so the Yankees are winning. Sometimes it works.; August 30, 2022 at 11:42 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Love their rocker songs, too. But I also love stuff like their word play at the beginning of "Come Dancing"—

They put a parking lot on a piece of land
When the supermarket used to stand
Before that they put up a bowling alley
On the site that used to be the local pally
That's where the big bands used to come and play
My sister went there on a Saturday
Come dancing

Just singing that seems almost impossible! And...in captures in one stanza, the disconcerting nature of modern urban change, as well as this kid's childhood memories.

The rest of the story is pretty (wonderfully) complex for rock 'n' roll, too. His sister is really something of a prima donna, wrapping these guys around her little finger:

In the hallway, in anticipation
He didn't know the night would end up in frustration
He'd end up blowing all his wages for the week
All for a cuddle and a peck on the cheek

And yet, she's filled with sentiment, too, for her physically vanishing youth:

The day they knocked down the pally
My sister stood and cried
The day they knocked down the pally
Part of my childhood died, just died...

Takes a special band to put out something like that.; August 30, 2022 at 11:55 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Hope Taillon is okay. This would provide another excuse for Cooperstown Cashman, though: 'Hey, how could I know that one of our constantly injured pitchers...would get injured?'; August 30, 2022 at 11:58 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: And of course, Lucas Luetge throwing another gopher ball to Mike Ford.

His initials aren't "L" for nothing.; August 30, 2022 at 11:59 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: By the way, anyone know what channel our favorite team is on? Or is this another "prime video" night?; August 31, 2022 at 12:06 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...: And yes, Hinkey, I understand that Donaldson was told, "Hit into errors HARD" on that play. Is that coaching or what?; August 31, 2022 at 12:08 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...: The Yankees win! The Yankees WWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN!

Well, if nobody else is up...

Very nice work by the bullpen. Great to see Greg Weissert, especially, bounced back from that awful debut. The Lasagna was terrific, Wandy did pretty well considering that Oswaldo gaffe, Trivino (could it be we fixed somebody?), and Mariachi.

Aside from the Double L, nice work all around.; August 31, 2022 at 12:46 AM
Joe of AZ said...: Amazing Judge hit a 3-run bomb tonight becuase the first two on base guys...got on base in front of him...Its almost as if this site didnt call that earlier....; August 31, 2022 at 12:49 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...: And the officially word on Bushmills Taliesen is that he seems to have...a boo-boo. So good.

The bad spots? The continuing black holes in the lineup, of course. Higgy threw out Babe Ruth II on the bases, which was great, but he still can't hit. The Gleyber was supposed to play, but I understand that he was distracted by an especially adorable dog, that he followed out to the parking lot, and then was not seen again.

And of course...The Man of Glass once again did nothing. Last HR? July 15th. Well, you know mysterious, undefined calf injuries are always slow to heal. I guess.; August 31, 2022 at 12:52 AM
HoraceClarke66 said...: Joe WTF are you implying??? Why, the two guys ahead of him—the two guys with the best OBP on the team—ONLY scored 4 runs between them! And Judge ONLY had 5 at-bats!

Yeah, once again—second time just on this road trip—the margin of victory provided by going by 150 years of strategy, as opposed to what the computers say is best.

Who could know?; August 31, 2022 at 12:55 AM
AboveAverage said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; August 31, 2022 at 1:07 AM
AboveAverage said...: I’m up I’m awake I live I breathe but it’s a crazy crazy work week.

Was it my imagination or did I see The Babe Ruth of the Angels repeatedly lick and suck his thumb whilst on first base without sanitizing first?

YUCK DUDE- get a room.

I hear there are plenty a few blocks away at the Disneyland Hotel.; August 31, 2022 at 1:09 AM

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