Thursday, April 19, 2007
4/19/07 House Money Day - Cleveland Indians (9-5) at New York Yankees (7-6) - 1:05pm (Liveblog)
It’s House Money Day, and here are your lineups.
Cleveland
G. Sizemore cf
D. Dellucci lf
T. Hafner dh
V. Martinez c
R. Garko 1b
C. Blake 3b
J. Peralta ss
M. Rouse 2b
J. Michaels rf
F. Carmona p
NY Yankees
J. Damon cf
D. Jeter ss
B. Abreu rf
A. Rodriguez 3b
J. Giambi dh
R. Cano 2b
M. Cabrera lf
D. Mientkiewicz 1b
W. Nieves c
D. Rasner p
The Yankee offense is rolling, leading the majors in runs per game. Let’s see if they can keep it going today. Back in 10 minutes with the first pitch.i
Pre-game Michael Kay and Paul O’Neill are the announcers today.
I’m not really looking forward to watching Rasner vs. the Indians, but maybe he’ll surprise me.
Rasner’s pitched 9.2 innings on the year, and has allowed 13 hits, 2 BB, 2 HR, and 3 K. While his ERA of 4.66 is fine for a fill-in, the peripherals are not a good sign for long-term success.
Top of the first:He starts of Sizemore with a fastball away for strike 1. He goes to a full count then comes inside with a fastball, and Sizemore drops a double into the gap in right center.
Dellucci steps in. Jeff Karstens is in the dugout, getting ready to be activated in time to get shellacked on Saturday. Dellucci’s fouling off pitches, and Rasner’s pitch count is going to be about 50 by the time this inning is over. The Yankees need a good long outing from Rasner today so the pen will be in decent shape heading to Fenway.
After a full count, Dellucci lines one to Cano, who makes a little leaping catch and is able to double Sizemore off second. Nice.
Hafner now batting. He gets Hafner to ground out 4-3 to end the inning.
Bottom of the first: Fausto Carmona. Is this the clown that kept blowing saves against Boston last year?
Damon leads it off. Carmona looks like a hard thrower who suffers from some control issues. He’s sitting at 94, throwing nothing but fastballs so far. He falls behind Damon 3-0, throws two strikes, then walks him.
Jeter comes up with delusions of bunting on the brain, I’m sure. Carmona gets a first pitch fastball on the outside corner for a strike, which ends any chances of Jeter bunting. Carmona’s keeping an eye on Damon, having thrown over twice now. Jeter gets sawed off and chops to Peralta, who flips to second for one. Jeter is called safe on the relay to first, but it looks like he was out to me. I’ll take it.
Bobby Abreu comes to the plate and immediately takes ball one. High fastball misses for ball two. Fastball on the outside corner is a strike, then a breaking pitch away is ball three. Abreu can look for a pitch to drive here. He doesn’t drive it, but grounds one past first that almost hits Jeter, who would have been called out. Jeter was able to jump over it and get to second.
A-Rod up. Let’s see what he does here. He ends up striking out on a 94 mph fastball in on the hands after taking four pitches, two strikes, two balls.
Here comes Giambi. Let’s see if he can pull Carmona’s fastball. He does pull it, on the ground, but right into the heart of the shift, and gets thrown out. At least they made Carmona throw 25 pitches that inning…
Top of the second: Victor Martinez hits a weak grounder to A-Rod on the first pitch he sees to lead off the second, and gets thrown out 5-3.
Garko steps in, and takes an 88 mph fastball on the inside part of the plate for strike one. Rasner gets ahead but then plunks him on the elbow.
Has anyone been talking about the lack of offense in the AL this year? Entering today the AL average hitter was hitting .247/.318/.392.
Casey Blake hitting now. He’d kill for a line of .247/.318/.392.
Rasner is getting ahead of everyone, but when gets to 0-2, he doesn’t have the pitches to put people away, so he has to keep nibbling and trying to get them to chase. It’s a little frustrating to watch.
He shuts me up by fanning Blake on a hit and run, and the Yankees are able to catch Garko in a rundown. Posada throws to Cano who, flips to Mientkiewicz, who applies the tag for what I think is the most exciting play in baseball, the strike ‘em out, throw ‘em out DP.
Bottom of the second: Cano leads things off in the second. Although they are different stylistically, Cano reminds me a lot of Alfonso Soriano. When he’s going well, rocking line drives from foul line to foul line, he’s a pleasure to watch. When he’s not, he can be really annoying to watch.
Consider me annoyed, as he chops weakly to second for the first out.
Speaking of annoyed again, here’s Melky. I’d really like to see him start hitting. Malkey rewards me with a bloop single to CF, but Doug M grounds it to first, and they fore Melky at second.
Wil Nieves at the plate. His next hit will be his first as a Yankee, despite getting time in 2005 and 2006. Nieves hits it about as well as he is capable off, which means its a flyball that died in left center field, about 300 feet from home plate, in the glove on an OF. Maybe next time kid.
Top of the third: Jhonny Peralta gets things going in the top of the third, and he whiffs. Since I accused Rasner of not having a pitch to put people away, he’s struck out two. He gets Rouse to fly out to shallow center for the second out, and Michaels will bat with two outs. Michaels grounds out 4-3, and Rasner has his best inning of the day.
Bottom of the third: Damon gets his second look at Carmona now. I haven’t looked at the #s yet, but it seems that most of the Yankee offensive damage this year has come on the second and third trips through the order. He breaks his bat and hits a little dunker into RF for a leadoff single.
Jeter batting. Damon takes off on the first pitch, and Martinez’s throw isn’t even close as he steals second. Jeter hits one pretty well the other way, but Michaels is able to flag it down in RF. Damon advances to third on the play.
Abreu up, and the Indians are bringing the infield in with one down and Damon on third. Abreu grounds a 2-1 pitch through the drawn in infield. I can’t say for sure that it would have been fielded if the second baseman was back at normal depth. Likely not, it was hit pretty hard. Yanks take the 1-0 lead.
A-Rod up. He’s now 0 for 4 with 4 Ks in his career against Carmona. Make that 0 for 5 with 5 Ks, but Abreu does steal second on the play.
Giambi bats with Abreu on second and two down. I’d imagine he won’t get much to hit here. Carmona’s not happy with the last two calls he’s gotten against Giambi as he’s fallen behind 3-0. Giambi flies to short left and Dellucci makes a nice sliding catch to get the third out. Carmona’s performance so far has lowered his ERA to 8.59. Not bad.
Top of the fourth: Rasner gets Sizemore to ground to Cano, who flips to Mientkiewicz for the first out. Rasner’s now at 49 pitches.
On a 2-2 pitch, tries to sneak fastaball inside on Dellucci, who cracks it into the RF seats to tie the game at 1. Feh. That one skimmed the wall on its way out, but it counts.
Here’s Hafner, a very scary fella. He lines one the other way for a single.
It should be noted this is the second time through the order for Cleveland now, and Rasner’s struggling a little bit more, although it seems to be of his own doing. He’s losing the strike zone now, and walks Martinez on four pitches.
Rasner’s working a lot slower this inning, and the Yankees aren’t wasting any time in getting the pen moving. Brian Bruney is loosening now.
Garko gets plunked, and Ron Guidry goes out to talk to him. Since the Dellucci HR he’s been a different pitcher.
I can’t read lips, but whatever Gator told him took about 3 seconds.
Whatever it was worked, for one batter at least, as he gets pop out to the tarp down the first base line, and Doug M makes a nice catch leaning on the tarp. One out away from pitching out of a mess, and here’s Jhonny.
Rasner fans Peralta to end the inning. The last two pitches were clocked at 90 mph even. Good recovery there. But, the Tribe tie it up.
Bottom of the fourth: Cano the singles hitter leads it off. If he can get on it lets the Yankees clear the black hole that is MelkMinkNieves.
Cano hits one up the middle pretty sharply, but Rouse is able to recover when he can’t pick it cleanly and throws him out.
Melky follows up with a single. I’m amazed. Maybe Mientkiewicz won’t hit into a 1-6-3 DP here, and I’ll be even more amazed.
Mientkiewicz is 2 for his last 24, which qualifies as red-hot for him. He flies out to Dellucci for the second out. Melky was running on the play and returned to first.
Nieves up. I would be shocked if he doesn’t make an out here. He hits the first pitch to second base, and the force Melky.
Top of the fifth: Rouse leads things off by hacking at the first pitch, and flying out to Melky for the first out. Everyday Mike Myers is loosening now in the pen.
Melky’s 2 for 2 has raised his average to .212. Mientkiewicz’s 0 for 2 has lowered his to .147.
A groundball single that Cano can’t quite get to ends Rasner’s day. He wasn’t bad, but I guess they don’t want to take any chances here.
Myers in to face Sizemore. He starts him off with a strike, then follows up with three straight out of the zone. Grady hits it well and the crowd groans, but Damon is able to make a nice running catch in right center field the wall for the second out.
Myers then gets Dellucci to ground right back to him to end the inning. If the Yankees are going to score, now would be a good time.
Bottom of the fifth: Carmona begins the inning with 77 pitches through four, so the Yankees can probably get him out of the game here with a little rally.
Damon tries to do his part, working a full count before flying out to CF for the first out.
Jeter grounds to Peralta who fields it and bobbles it a little, but still recovers in time to get Jeter. Two down, Abreu up.
Abreu grounds out to Garko.
Yeah, when I said rally to knock him out of the game, that wasn’t quite what i had in mind…
Top of the sixth: Hafner singles up the middle against Myers. That was the first hit Myers has allowed in the last 22 batters he’s faced.
Torre keeping Myers in against Martinez. I don’t like this in a tight game. If he gets him out, then that means that it’s more likely to keep happening, and if he doesn’t, that means something bad is going to happen here.
Myers ends up hitting Martinez on the leg, putting two on with no outs. Myers out, Bruney in.
Bruney has had much better control this year, which has been the biggest thing holding him back. Garko’s really battling him here. Lots of fouls. I think Bruney’s thrown about ten pitches now to Garko. Garko wins the battle, grounding one between third and short. Melky charged in, which kept Hafner at third. So the Indians have the bases loaded, and no outs. Blake up.
Blake rips one on the line, but right into A-Rod’s glove. One down.
Bruney doesn’t look like he has his good fastball today. He’s been mostly 93-94 on his fastball, and is not getting many swings and misses.
Come on Bruney. Rasner struck Peralta out with a fastball. Why can’t you?
He does the next best thing, getting Peralta to pop up. Infield fly rule is called, and Cano makes the catch for the second out. One more out to go. Sean Henn warming in the pen.
Bruney gets Rouse to pop out to Melky in LF to end the inning. Great job pitching out of a bases-loaded, no out jam in a 1-1 game. He deserves a win for that effort. If the team can score for him here, he might get it.
Bottom of the sixth:
Giambi to lead things off. I’d imagine Posada will hit for Nieves if they get to that point.
GIAMBI MAULS IT. UPPER DECK! 2-1 YANKEES!
Giambi’s now hitting .259 /.355 /.519
Cano and Melky go out meekly, so meekly that I missed it while typing about how great Giambi is. I apparently also missed A-Rod not striking out to really lead things off.
Top of the seventh: L-Viz in. While his ERA is nice, he’s walked 4 in 8.2 innings and only struck out two.
He walks the leadoff hitter. That was sub-optimal. Sizemore follows up with a ringing double in the gap in right center. Abreu picks it up off the wall and throws in, and the Indians hold Michaels at third for some reason.
A Dellucci grounder brings the tying run home. 2-2, Sizemore goes to third on the play.
After a mound conference, they decide to walk Haftner and set up the double play.
Victor Martinez hits one into the right center field bleachers for a three run HR, and the Yankees now trail 5-2. Shit.
This game went to hell quickly, huh?
L-Viz recovers to strike out Garko. That almost makes up for giving up four runs.
Another K ends the frame, but the damage is done.
Bottom of the seventh: I miss a Josh Phelps PH appearance because someone came to my door, but I am in time to see Posada fly out for the second out. This game is really going to leave a bad taste in my mouth.
Damon doesn’t help things with a weak fly out to end the inning.
Top of the eighth: Funny how O’Neill is talking about how hitters don’t like seeing Farnsworth. I don’t like seeing him either.
After one out, Farnsworth gets a popup foul on the third base side, but A-Rod can’t make the play thanks to fan interference. Farnsworth ends up walking the hitter. Jason Michaels flies out for the second out.
Farnsworth adds to his legend by balking. He gets out of the inning, but this game’s basically over. I’d be shocked if the Yankees get a baserunner over the next two innings.
Bottom of the eighth: Rafael Betancourt in for the Indians. Jeter up. He fists ones to RF and Michaels catches it for the first out.
Abreu falls behind 0-2, then takes three straight out of the zone. On a full count he lines a base hit to RF.
A-Rod up, with his 17 game hitting streak on the line. He gets under the first pitch and pops out to Blake at 3B for the second out.
Giambi up. He takes strikes two and three, and did not agree with either call. Inning over.
Top of the ninth: Sean Henn gets the ninth. He gets Dellucci to K on a slider down and away for the first out. Haftner and Martinez follow up with singles, and there’s runners on first and second with one down.
Henn gets Garko to ground out 5-3, with the runners advancing. Henn needs to get out of this here.
A weak grounder to short and A-Rod cuts in front of Jeter to make the play, but his throw is high and Blake beats it. They give him an error on the play, although it was close. More importantly, it’s now 6-2 instead of 5-2, and the Yankees’ comeback chances are that much worse.
Inning finally ends on a weak liner behind second that Cano catches.
Bottom of the ninth: Joe Borowski in to get three outs before giving up four runs.
Cano steps in. He pops to shallow center, three Indians converge and almost collide, but Sizemore is able to make the catch.
Melky now batting and quickly down in the count 0-2. He grounds out to Peralta for the second out.
Josh Phelps is the last hope.
This game sucked ass. Hopefully the weekend goes better.
Phelps decides to prolong the agony by homering in a lost cause. 6-3 Indians.
Posada decides to prolong the agony by lining a single up the middle. Now Johnny Damon is the last hope.
Damon decides to prolong the agony by drawing a walk.
I think I mentioned last week how when the team is trailing late, I always just root for them to get an opportunity to bring the tying run to the plate. Well, he’s there now.
Jeter decides to prolong the agony by singling in a run, and making the game 6-4.
Damon is at second, Jeter is at first, and Abreu is up. He falls behind quickly 1-2.
Abreu decides to prolong the agony by singling in Damon. It’s now 6-5 Indians and A-Rod comes up with the tying run on second.
Wild pitch moves the runners to second and third.
HE HOMERS. HE HOMERS! YANKEES WIN!!!!
The agony is no longer being prolonged.
Wow. Just Wow.
Comments
Somewhat a house money lineup.
Is Melky becoming the next Bubba Crosby?
This year’s house money lineups are much better than last years.
I’ll give Rasner a pass since its Sizemore and he’s super-terrific. Lets see what he can do from the stretch right off the bat.
Sweet double play.
Melky looks like crap at the plate. Wish Cash had sold high.
The Yankees should see plenty of pitches against Dr. Fausto.
Run, run, run on Martinez.
It’s a bit early to write Melky off, but he’s certainly been swinging at more poor pitches than he was last year. If Britton can get his act together, I’d love to see what Cashman can get for Farnsworth at the trade deadline.
Keep it going Alex.
Hey Alex, I just got engaged!
Too late.
A-Rod has a good arm. He’d be a good shortstop.
Rasner is getting ahead but he can’t put guys away. Hopefully, he can eke out five innings this afternoon.
SG, someone mentioned that the cold weather is to blame for the bad offense in the AL. Could be part of it.
SG, someone mentioned that the cold weather is to blame for the bad offense in the AL. Could be part of it.
And here I thought the 2007 Red Sox were going to be the 1971 Orioles…
Man, that’s a shitty 7-9.
All right Melky, second base is yours for the taking.
I’m sure this won’t be a surpise to anyone, but Josh Phelps only has only one fewer basehit than Mankiewiecz in less than half the at bats.
Why weren’t they running with the human double-play, Doug M., at the plate?
Has their recent failure against Kendall (which I am baffled by) made the Yanks a less agressive team on the bases?
Wow. Melky, Alphabet & Nieves, 7-8-9. That’s, like, what - 5 for their last 223?
I think Nieves is a good bet to hit .000 this year.
Rasner does look pretty good today - sharp curveball, locating his fastball pretty well. I don’t think he’ll ever light the world on fire, but I don’t see why he couldn’t be a decent #4, #5 starter.
I envision Rasner as a good long relief arm in the bullpen and a spot starter.
"I think Nieves is a good bet to hit .000 this year.”
“Hit .000” is a sad oxymoron.
Is the game on pause for some reason or has gameday crapped out on me?
About time they stole on Victor....
What happened to Jeter’s power?
Wow, Dr. Fausto owns A-Rod.
Dellucci is pissing me off.
Atta boy, Vernon Wells remembers he’s a Red Sox killer! 3-1 Toronto.
Dellucci is now REALLY pissing me off.
Uhm, Toronto’s in first. You should be rooting for them to lose.
balls…
Never mind, I see they’re not in first anymore....
Don’t make me laugh, SG.
That home run went about 314.2 feet.
"David Delucci has hit over 20 home runs a couple of times, so he’s got more power than people think.” Uh, no, Paul, thank you. He hit 29 home runs for the Rangers in ‘05 (17 the year before) but hasn’t even hit 15 in any other season (10 year career). He’s got miserable power for an outfielder, and I’ve hated him since he hit .176 for the Yanks.
Didn’t Dellucci lay a kiss on Anna Kournikova when she threw out a first pitch at some point? You’ve gotta give him some credit for that…
Geez Rasner. Don’t implode now. At least go 5.
Ranser needs to realize that the Cleveland hitters aren’t swinging at balls in the dirt when they have two strikes on them.
this sucks
Rasner put that pitch exactly where he wanted it and got the popup.
Nice play by Minky.. Giambi would have injured himself doing that.
huge batter here
Ooohh… squeezed on that curve ball.. where was that one blue?????
Where the F was that 0-1 pitch?
That was strike 4.. good recovery.
Wow. All of a sudden Daryl Rasner turned into Daryl Clemens....
You must really suck to get blown away by Darrell Rasner.
Whoa, he got out of that? Impressive.
Halladay is mowing down the Sox. Their offense is somewhat underwhelming, to say the least.
Nice comeback for Mr. Rasner. Those last two pitches were 91 and 90 mph respectively.
Damnit Robinson, you need to get hot.
two knocks for melky
I expect nothing less than a double play from Doug here.
Welcome to Above the Mendoza line Mr. Cabrera, will you be staying long?
Yeesh, the Yankees are basically playing with pitchers hitting in the 8 and 9 spot.
Wow, talk about no trust. I think Rasner should have been allowed to try to get out of this inning.
JOE!!! WTF?!?
At least his ERA is down to 3.86 and he’s in line for the win (I think) if Myers can shut it down and the Yanks can score a run in the bottom of the 5th, but he was 81 pitches in. Stretch him out a little and save your bullpen before the series with Sox!!
J, the score is tied and Rasner only went 4.1. He can’t get the win.
And that’s why Bernie isn’t around anymore.
Bummer.
I wasn’t sure if he had to go 5 IP or had to pitch into the 5th.
Either way, since Rasner came out with the score tied, he can’t get the win no matter what the Yankees do in the bottom half.
One has to love all the innings Myers is giving the team this year.
Why are Yankee pitcher plunking people with 2 strikes today???
oh jesus fucking christ
On the one hand, Joe must trust his bullpen quite a bit. On the other hand, Joe is an idiot when it comes to using his bullpen. It’s vicious cycle. Thanks Joe, I’ll make sure to remember this move when Proctor, Vizcaino, Henn and Myers are all getting their arms operated on in about two weeks.
Crap.
Henn is up. Joe must be banking on a CG from Pettitte tomorrow.
Bruney is a badass.
Is it possible to burn out the arms of 6 relievers in one season?
Wow! Atta boy Bruney!
I’m no fan of Torre’s bullpen management, but of Proctor, Vizcaino, Henn and Myers - the only one of those who is being overused at this point is Proctor. Myers is pitching every day, but that’s actually a good thing given the fact that he throws 70 mph and needs constant work to stay sharp.
By the way, nice job by Bruney, who was also a bit lucky on that shot hit right at A-Rod.
And Toronto is blowing it.
Is there any chance that Bruney has a future as the Yanks closer?
christ...whither BJ Ryan?
nice
I ♥ Giambi.
Crushed!
You call that a hit, Giambi?
So does Jason have his stroke back?
Ummm? Is there a bunt quota for the month of April?
My one worry about this game is that Torre is going to use Farnsworth. Hopefully, he’ll have more than a one run cushion.
There must be some virus around 2B at YS that is stealing power.
Let’s not forget that Cano didn’t hit for much power for the first few months of the season last year. He certainly righted himself, though. I find it particularly encouraging that he’s finally working the count and even taking some walks.
Susie claims Farnsworth is slated to pitch the 8th. Let’s hope he throws the ball over the plate.
Leadoff walk. Well played, L-Viz.
Damnit all to hell.
Damnit.
Gotta love those leadoff walks, eh?
Especially to the #9 hitter. That’s always a good idea.
Proctor is warming up in the pen..
I hate you L-Viz. Walks and homers are no good.
oh fuck a duck
Oof.
Fuck.
Why exactly did I think Vizcaino was good?
The good news is that Farnsworth is probably no longer slotted to pitch the 8th.
Well, im not givin up on this game, but it’s sure looking bleak at this point.
You can’t walk the leadoff batter. You just can’t.
the yankees hate sweeps.
Timely striekouts there, you douchefart.
Let’s-Go-Off-ense!
Of course, considering that Minky and Nieves are due up…
WJ, I think Vizcaino is good, or at least has been the last couple of years.
Once we clear the two pitchers spots I think they can score three runs of the Indians bullpen. Jeter is due for a weak groundball single and A-rod is due for a HR. That’s two runs right there.
Hell of a swing there, Phelps.
Pinch hitting! WOOHOO! Oh Joshua…
We gonna get a Posada PH here?
Bah, Gameday lagging. Doh, flyout.
motherfuck
If you’re sitting in those rows, you better fucking be ready to let a Yankee make a play.
Dumbasses.
jesus FUCKING christ Farnsworth, throw a fucking fastball
Hi, everybody!!!
Who is Mike Rouse and how does he draw a walk? He’s 0 for 7 on the season, I see. Clearly someone with whom to be careful. Bah.
Cool, we’ve attracted our first Red Sox troll who will mysteriously show up whenver the Yankees are losing late. Funny, I though it would be Kevin.
Yanks can come back in this game.
What a shock, the cable guy didn’t make it to my apartment between the scheduled time of 12:00pm-4:00pm.
To quote Major League: “I’ve only got one thing to say to you: strike this motherfucker out!”
Ok. Jeter-Abreu-Rodriguez this inning. Time to do some damage, fellas!
Let’s get some bodies on for A-Rod.
OH, WJ, try not to be such a poo poo head. I don’t know who’s winning the game here. I just saw no one at Game Chatter over at BTF, was told you were all here, so here I am. Just like before. You gotta problem wit dat?
Jeter down. Come on Bobby.
"I don’t know who’s winning the game here.”
uh huh
argghh, this is a really frustrating game.
Well, I do now. Heh. I’ll have you know that I have Andy Pettitte and Robinson Cano on my Roto team. Although not for long with Cano, as he sickens me.
atta boy Bobby, let’s get on base here.
Huzzah! Full count Bobby singles on the payoff. The BAD MAN (in a good way) is up.
oh Alex…
I sure hope Cano sickens you after you get rid of him 
ARod with a rough day. It’ll happen. Giambi needs to pick him up…
A-Rod missed that by about a millimeter.
...and fails to to so. Backwards K. Meh.
I need a closer. I’m forced to trade him. I have Orlando Hudson and Placido Polanco at 2B. BJ Ryan is on the DL, WJ,and it looks like it will be a long stay there. I need another closer badly, and had to give up quality to get one. The other 2 2B’s weren’t going to get me anyone decent.
If it weren’t for the final game in Oakland, this would definitely be the worst game of the year.
A pitch even closer than that wasn’t called for Myers twice earlier in the game. Inconsistent jerk.
80 million dollars worth of players gets one lousy F’n single. Damnit.
Well, this game is on the offense. Vizcaino’s meltdown aside, they couldn’t manage more than two runs of Fausto Carmona?
Past a diving Jeter.....
Jeter made it a whole six inches to his right on that ball.
I know he’s practically the definition of mediocrity, but I can’t help but prefer to have Pratt in the lineup than Nieves. Pratt can at least pretend to hit.
In retrospect, I wish Torre had just left in Rasner. If the end result is a 6-2 loss, you might as well end up doing it with 1 or 2 pitchers rather than blowing through your bullpen before a big weekend series.
Are they booing a-rod yet?
booooooooooooooooooooo
Phelps has now equalled Mankiewiecz’s hit total.
Bullshit strike call there.
Prolonging!
Time for his first HR of the season, CMON JETER!
PROLONGING!!!
would love to see Abreu up with the sacks jacked
or that...come on Bobby! this guy is meat!
Stop prolonging the agony… just get it over with.
"sacks jacked”? You mean juiced?
yeah juiced, crap 1-2....hang in there bobby!
PRO-FREAKIN-LONGING!
Oh geez....A-Rod time.
Holy fuck. “It always seems to come down to me” indeed.
wow...um....COME ON ALEX!!!!!!!!!!
Man, let’s go A-rod.
I prefer “bases drunk with XXX”
Stop prolonging the agony… just get it over with.
oh shit, for a second It hought that tied it
HOLY FREAKIN CRAP!:!”?!:!@K@#K%R@
OMH
MYYYYYYY
GOOOOOOOD
Hey, McNally...WJ objected to my presence here earlier. Tell him I was invited, will you?
HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!
A-Rod is the NEW Big Poppi.
Oh my god - that was awesome.....
OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! A-ROD IS GOD!!!!!!!!
That certainly makes up for Sunday’s game in Oakland.
hahah, Bivens
Oh. My. God.
Sorry Bivens, I guess you’re a good luck charm. 
Joe’s okay with us WJ… Joe’s okay.
"A-Rod is the NEW Big Poppi.”
No, he’s still not as clutch as the guy who hits HRs in July for a team that finishes in third place. BARF.
Two MVPs in three years. Awesome.
Is he a true Yankee yet? How long can he keep this up?
"No, he’s still not as clutch as the guy who hits HRs in July for a team that finishes in third place. BARF.”
Talk about a selective memory....
Schilling, Beckett and Matsuzaka, and no rain in the forecast the next few days. It will be fun.
The whole season, Ankiel… The dopey contingent of Yankee fans that booed him all last year is going to miss him when he’s gone.
I had to walk out of the lab so I could yell. Wow.
You may or may not believe, but I was counting the batters and thinking about what we’d need to do to get A-Rod up. Just a different feeling this year - when he gets up something good is going to happen. He just missed one with the popup in the 8th and he tatooed that one. What a game.
Wow....
I’ll never doubt again.
Bivens is being overly sensitive. I just pointed out how unsurprising it was that Red Sox fans started showing up when the yankees were losing late.
"Talk about a selective memory.... “
Yankee fan site. I’ll revise less when I post on Primer. Free reign here.
Personally, I like it when some Sox fans show up (PJ, SSA, Darren, Bivens, others I’m sure).
I expect the chatters this weekend to be awesome.
I figure A-rod hits at least 62 HRs this year, maybe 82.
WJ, no I’m not being sensitive at all. You were wrong. I went to Yankees chatter over there to talk about the Red Sox stealing a game from the Jays, and no one was there. Someone told me you were all over here. I would have shown up here no matter what the score was. I like most of you guys. Sometimes, I even like you.
“The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until after the egg is laid"… DL Mahnken.
Thanks for the laugh, Larry.
A-Rod’s on a pace to drive in 300 runs & hit 100 HRs…
its absurd, but it makes me smile when I read the stats & boxscores.
shades of ‘98, that was.