Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Game One – AL Wild Card Series Game Thread – NY √s Boston – Fried √s Crochet



 Fried the Flipper
not
Pouty the Pointer

69 comments:

AboveAverage said...

The Line-up

Paul Goldschmidt, 1B
Aaron Judge, RF
Cody Bellinger, LF
Giancarlo Stanton, DH
Amed Rosario, 2B
Trent Grisham, CF
Anthony Volpe, SS
Austin Wells, C
Jose Caballero, 3B

JM said...

No Jazz, no Ben
Boone is a moron
Matchups are dumb

Doug K. said...

I hate Bregman. At least Devers is gone

JM said...

Bregman of the cheating Astros.

Doug K. said...

They'd better fucking score here

JM said...

Crap.

AboveAverage said...

Shat

JM said...

Volpe took his Adderall today.

13bit said...

mares eat oats and does eat oat and little lambs eat ivy...

JM said...

Volpe?!!??

BernBabyBern said...

Volpe!

JM said...

Is it me, or are these announcers just loving the Sox? Not Cone, of course.

JM said...

K on ball four. I like it.

Hinkey Haines said...

Phew. Good time for a double play there.

JM said...

Fried fraying.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Espn always does

Hinkey Haines said...

Let’s see what the bullpen has in store for us tonight.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

One run ain't winning this game.
Fried did his job.

Time for offense to show up

Hinkey Haines said...

Was nice to see a Yankee pitcher covering first.

BTR999 said...

This is where the game will go off the rails.

Why?

Boone.

BTR999 said...

BTR999 said...

I know, what a concept!

JM said...

Exactly, BTR. This is the kind of game Boone blows.

JM said...

Fucking Perez is praising Cashfuck's deadline deals? Jesus.

Hinkey Haines said...

That’s the game.

JM said...

Weaver doesn't have it.

TheWinWarblist said...

Weaver is awful. But he's also the best we have. That's CashBrain's bullpen trade deadline magic.

Local Bargain Jerk said...

Fried wouldn't have given that up

BernBabyBern said...

The fucking bullpen

BTR999 said...

Boone blows it, asI predicted

JM said...

Right, LBJ.
With men on second and third and one out, you might consider how poorly Weaver was going and intentionally pass the next guy, then bring in another pitcher. But Boone is an idiot who would never think of such a thing.

Local Bargain Jerk said...

What time in the morning is it for you, JM?

JM said...

2:18

13bit said...

"Life is nasty, brutish and short." ~ Hobbes

Pocono Steve said...

At 98 pitches, Crotchit still dispatches the hapless Yankees with efficiency, while the tops of innings take half an hour. Unwatchable.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

You called it.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Miss strikes hard is not a good approach to the playoffs.

JM said...

Boone is an idiot.

BTR999 said...

Of that there can be no doubt.

Doug K. said...

So many stupid moves. Where's Rice. You know his 2nd best hitter

JM said...

Here comes the sweatball.

Doug K. said...

El chapo in. He could blow it.

JM said...

Fucked up there.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

lifeless team. r.i.p.

JM said...

Shit.

Hinkey Haines said...

If only it was Sheffield & Crosby playing out there.

JM said...

Oh fuck. It's over. Nighty night.

ranger_lp said...

Not surprising…

TheWinWarblist said...

Remember when Mad king George would sign a player like Bergman just to make sure we didn't have face them in the postseason?

Fuck HAL. And fuck Oklahoma too.

TheWinWarblist said...

Earnestly fuck HAL.

Hinkey Haines said...

Heartbeat?

ranger_lp said...

Rolaids…

ranger_lp said...

Maybe time to take some…

BTR999 said...

All too predictable.

TheWinWarblist said...

Judge got a hit? In the playoffs? In a close game?

TheWinWarblist said...

Pathetic.

Local Bargain Jerk said...

F Me.

ranger_lp said...

That was awful…

Pocono Steve said...

Shithole team.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Same.as.it.ever.was

Hinkey Haines said...

F all of us.

AboveAverage said...

JM is it still 2:18 in the morning?

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Fire Boone already

13bit said...

So, if the playoffs are just a crapshoot, as Brian says, did we throw the dice and get fucked tonight? Is that what happened? Or did we get outplayed, out managed, and beaten by a better built team? Or was it a crapshoot? Asking for a friend.

Doug K. said...

I'm starting to wonder if Boone isn't somehow doing this deliberately.

Leave the two most enthusiastic players on the bench
Not pinch run for a 37 year old after he singles so that he doesn't even try to score on a fly ball.
Not take a reliver out who clearly has nothing.

There are more but I'm happy that Volpe is elite!

When you take the above and addit to all the other bizarre decisions he's made in other playoff games...

No manager can be this bad. There's something genuinely wrong with him.

HoraceClarke66 said...

I'm just baffled. I expected them to lose—but if you'd told me before the game that:
—Volpe would homer and have another hit
—Goldschmidt and Judge would each have two hits
—Stanton would be up, bases loaded and nobody out in the ninth
—Fried would pitch a good game
...I would have said we win that game...

HoraceClarke66 said...

...This all comes down to the manager and—behind him, just how much we can't know—Brian Cashman.

—You have a 30-30 guy at second base. I know, highly erratic, vastly overrated, but still—a 30-30 guy. And you don't start him in the playoffs because...he's injured? But then you DO pinch-hit him with the game on the line?

—You don't play the young up-and-coming guy with the hot hand, but you DO start your lout of a catcher who did so much to lose you the World Series last year...and hit .219 this year...

HoraceClarke66 said...

...You guys are right. This is, all around, desperate self-second-guessing, self-undermining mismanagement. This is not a great or even, really, good Yankees team. But the competition is as weak in these playoffs as I've ever seen it. And they're going out tomorrow night. Just head-shaking nonsense.

AboveAverage said...

Boone