Tuesday, May 22, 2007
5/22/2007: Boston Red Sox (30-14) at NY Yankees (20-23) - 7:05 PM ET **LIVEBLOG**
Can the Yankees win three in row? Can they pull within 8.5 games of Boston? Find out tonight!
Lineups
Boston Red Sox
J. Lugo, SS (.244/.306/.369)
K. Youkilis, 1B (.342/.428/.528)
D. Ortiz, DH (.314/.433/.604)
M. Ramirez, LF (.244/.330/.384)
J. Drew, RF (.244/.355/.344)
M. Lowell, 3B (.325/.382/.545)
J. Varitek, C (.280/.377/.415)
C. Crisp, CF (.239/.301/.324)
D. Pedroia, 2B (.260/.360/.365)
J. Tavarez , P ( 2-4 , 5.59)
New York Yankees
J. Damon, CF (.271/.372/.368)
D. Jeter, SS (.365/.447/.488)
H. Matsui, LF (.282/.375/.464)
A. Rodriguez, 3B (.311/.397/.689)
J. Posada, C (.374/.436/.604)
B. Abreu, RF (.244/.323/.314)
J. Giambi, DH (.272/.393/.456)
R. Cano, 2B (.247/.283/.364)
D. Mientkiewicz, 1B (.212/.282/.364)
M. Mussina , P ( 2-2 , 5.64)
Back with the first pitch in about 30 minutes.
Pre-game: It probably goes without saying, but the Yankees need a good effort from Mussina tonight. Six innings and three runs should keep them in the game.
NESN pre-game is saying Tavarez is a little under the weather, which of course means he’ll dominate tonight. It’s probably nitpicking, but I don’t like the current Yankee lineup. From Abreu to Damon you have five straight lefties. That’s a platoon nightmare.
I never understand why they have to go with an instrumental version of the Star Spangled Banner. You’re in New York City, there’s got to be a million decent singers you could scrounge up.
Moose’s K rate is abysmal. 10 K in 22.1 innings. I didn’t realize it was that low.
Top of the first: Julio Lugo leads things off. He’s the worst hitter in the Boston lineup, yet he gets the most plate appearances. Moose starts him off 0-2. On 0-2 he throws a curve down and away but it’s too far in both directions and Lugo doesn’t budge. The next pitch is fouled down the right side. Moose hasn’t broken 85 yet on the NESN gun. Not good. Lugo’s making Mussing work right off the bat, as the count’s gone to 2-2 and he’s fouled off several. A knuckle-curve breaks over the inside corner and Lugo watches it for a called strike three.
Youkilis the batter now. He’s having a great season so far. Moose quickly jumps ahead of him 0-2. He’s staying away from the fastball so far, but he’s throwing strikes early. Youkilis doesn’t bite at two curves low, th en takes a low fastball at 87 mph, so the count is now full. On the full count Moose tries to sneak a fastball past Youkilis on the outside corner and he singles the other way. That one was clocked at 89.
You know who is up. He chops one to LF for a single, and Boston’s got runners on first and second with one out and Ramirez coming up. A DP here would be sweet. A three-run HR would not.
Moose falls behind Manny 2-0, missing with two fastballs down.
Ramirez hits a shot into the LF seats for a three-run HR, and that was decidedly not sweet. It was a fastball that was supposed to be inside but was over the middle of the plate, and crushed. Crap.
Drew grounds out, but that HR was a real punch in the nuts.
Lowell shoots one the other way for a double. They’re all over Mussina right now. I hope Villone’s got five innings in him tonight.
Varitek improves his career .109 average against Mussina with a single to RF. It was hit too sharply for Lowell to score, but that’s now five hits in the inning, and only two outs. Mussina’s already over 20 pitches. I always thought Mussina could survive a loss of velocity since he was a smart pitcher, but it sure doesn’t seem like it.
He has to be hurt. His “fast"ball is sitting at 85. Crisp hits one pretty well but Mientkiewicz is able to knock it down then chase the carom and beat Crisp to the back for the final out of an ugly top of the first inning.
Bottom of the first: I really think part of the problem with Moose’s velocity so far is he just hasn’t thrown enough this season. At least I hope so.
Damon leads the inning off by falling behind 0-2, then taking a fastball inside. He can’t check his swing on the 1-2 pitch and fans, looked like a curve down.
Tavarez has sick movement on all his pitches. The Yankees are hacking early, they need to try and get someone on base and see if they can rattle him.
Jeter almost gets hit again by the Red Sox on a 1-2 fastball inside. Why do they hate him so much? He hits the next pitch to RF and Drew catches it after taking a strange route, and there are two down. Not the way to answer your pitcher giving up 3 runs and 20 hits in the first half of the inning.
Matsui will take his shot now. Tavarez is sitting between 89-90 on his fastball as a basis of comparison with Mussina.
Matsui does his Ground-zilla thing and chops out for the final out of an uninspiring inning.
Top of the second: For some reason the Yankees were playing in on the grass (guarding against a bunt probably), and Pedroia takes advantage to hit a single that would have been fielded if he was where he was supposed to be.
There’s this theory about something called a psychic vampire. Basically, it’s people who suck the energy out of you when you talk to them. Bad Moose is a pitching vampire.
Lugo grounds to Cano who flips to Jeter. Little Dustin Pedroia tries a dirty slide to break up the DP but Jeter steps right over him and turns it easily. Youkilis follows with a fly to left. Weird. Boston doesn’t score.
Bottom of the second: Tavarez looks like he can’t spot his pitches because of how much they move. The Yankees need to work the count.
Rodriguez hits one solidly on the ground to Lugo, who backhands it and throws him out.
Posada will step in now. He’ll try to break up Tavarez’s perfect game. A changeup down and away gets Posada swinging for the second out.
Abreu up. How will he make an out? He ends up hitting a slow grounder to Lugo who charges it and rifles over to first to get Abreu by a step. Six up and six down for Tavarez. Call your friends and family, history’s brewing in the Bronx.
Top of the third: Snaggletooth leads things off in the third. At least he can only hit a solo HR here. He hits one up the middle for a single. NESN cuts to the Boston equivalent of Kim Jones with some completely uninteresting babble.
Ramirez up. Goody. He pops it up into foul ground over by first and Mientkiewicz gets it for the first out.
Drew up. It’s scary how well Boston is playing with Ramirez and Drew not producing. They’re both better players than they’ve shown so far, and their improvement will mitigate any potential falloffs elsewhere in the lineup. Drew’s not playing much better than Abreu so far on offense.
Drew tries to out-Abreu Abreu by grounding into a 4-6-3 DP to end the inning. Moose still doesn’t look sharp, but zeroes are zeroes.
Bottom of the third: When an ace like Tavarez gets the 7-8-9 hitters, it’s rarely pretty. Expect to see a pitching clinic here.
Is there a stupider set of commercials than the Coors Light “Love Train” spots? Your beer sucks, and your commercials suck.
Giambi up. The Yankee lefties have looked lost against Tavarez so far, which is odd because I think he is historically much better against righties. He runs the count full then takes a sinking fastball just a smidgen low for ball four. Look for Giambi to steal here.
Cano bats now. His OBP is .283, and frankly, I’m shocked it’s that high. He never seems to get on base. Cano sets a personal record by taking the first three pitches o f the AB. The first two are balls, the second a strike. He then hits a deep fly the other way but it goes foul to level the count at 2. He goes to left again, but right at Ramirez for the first out.
Mientkiewicz up. The perfect game may be on, but the no-hitter is still there and there’s no sign that the Yankees will be getting a hit anytime soon. Doug hits one to medium depth CF and Crisp catches it for out number two.
Damon up now for the second time, and his bat gets sawed in half on the first pitch, a foul down the first base line. Damon breaks another bat, this time on a fly out to RF to end the third. Through three, it’s Boston 3, Yankees 0.
Top of the fourth: If I was Joe Torre, I’d leave Mussina out there for 120 pitches today, regardless of his performance. He needs to get his arm strength back, and the bullpen needs the rest. When Clemens does come back, it’s important that they separate him and Mussina since neither is likely to good for more than six innings most of the time.
Lowell leads off the fourth with a cheap line drive HR of the foul pole in LF. 4-0 Red Sox. They’re running away with this game like they ran away with the AL East.
Varitek pops out to third in foul territory for the first out.
Seeing Lowell kill the Yankees is always painful, but at least they got Ed Yarnall, Mark Johnson, and Todd Noel out of trading him.
I’m not sure what it’s called where Mussina throws the ball and the batter swings at it and misses it and then has to walk back to the dugout. Whatever it’s called, it just happened to Crisp, and here’s little Pedroia.
I can’t tell if Pedroia’s head is huge, or if it’s normal-sized and his body is just small. Whatever it is, it’s odd looking. He pops out to Cano in shallow right to end the ining.
Bottom of the fourth: Jeter tries to get the Yankee offense going in the fourth. It’ll be tough, since Julian Tavarez has a no-hitter. Not a single Yankee has gotten a hit so far. The next Yankee hit would be their first of the game.
Jeter flies out.
Matsui lines one hard up the middle, for what is the first Yankee hit of the game, and probably what will be their only hit of the game. Will A-Rod hit into a DP here or K? That’s the question…
Tavarez misses badly on the first pitch to Rodriguez, a slider away. He goes back to the same pitch, it’s a little closer but still off the plate. A weak nubber goes foul at home plate, then a fastball inside moves the count to 3-1. Another inside fastball, but this one catches the corner, and the count is full. A 3-2 slider is fouled off. Rodriguez hits the next one solidly to center, but it dies on the warning track and Crisp flags it down for the second out of the inning. He just missed it.
Posada hits. Tavarez’s stuff is really moving all over the place. He can’t seem to throw a pitch straight. Posada works a full count then rips one into RF for a single, and the Yankees have runners on the corner, but there are two outs, and the carcass of Bobby Abreu up.
Tavarez is showing some signs of unraveling, and uncorks a wild pitch that almost hits Abreu in the leg. He jackknives out of the way, it rolls back to the screen, and Matsui scores and Posada moves to second. 4-1 Boston. On 3-1, Abreu takes a meatball that should have been crushed. He ends up flying out to Crisp in center to end the inning. Yanks get one, although it was basically handed to them.
Top of the fifth: Moose is at 66 pitches through four. He could end up having six innings in him tonight after all.
Lugo helps out by popping the first pitch up to Jeter in very shallow left for the first out.
Youkilis hits a soft liner to Jeter, who catches it for the second out.
Big Sloppy up. I should take an instant poll. Do you people prefer Big Sloppy or Snaggletooth as a nickname for Ortiz? Moose gets ahead of him 0-2, then tries to get him to chase a curve away then a fastball away. They go upstairs with fastball, and it’s fouled back. Moose is still topping out around 86 now, but least he hasn’t lost velocity. Ortiz hits a booming fly to center that chases Damon to the warning track, but he is able to catch it for the final out of the inning.
Bottom of the fifth: You know, a run or two here and the Yankees are right back in this thing.
Giambi goes after the first pitch and hits it to left center. Crisp races over while Manny kind of trots over, and Crisp makes the catch.
Here’s Cano, who really has to start hitting soon or his season line is going to be brutal. He listens to me and does get a hit, a solid double down the RF line.
Here’s Mientkiewicz, who really has to start hitting soon or his season line is going to be brutal. In Little League I was told a walk is as good as a hit. In this case, it’s not, because it doesn’t drive in Cano, but it is better than an out.
Runners on first and second, and Damon up. Damon really has to start hitting soon or his season line is going to be brutal. A walk is still not as good as a hit, but it is better than an out. Damon walks.
Here’s Jeter, who really has to start hitting soon or his season line is going to be brutal. (Bear with me)
Jeter hits a grounder to short, not hard enough for the double play. He beats the throw to first and a run scores, and the deficit is now 4-2. Two down, runners on the corners, and Matsui up.
The Red Sox get the pen going, with Kyle Snyder and Javier Lopez warming. A single here would be huge. No single, as Matsui grounds to Lugo, who runs it to second for the force on Jeter. But the Yankees get one more run, and probably got Tavarez’s count high enough that he’ll be out of the game. Whether that’s good or bad remains to be seen.
Top of the sixth: Manny leads off the sixth. He hits the second pitch in the air towards right-center, and Damon gets it for the first out.
Drew up. He hits the first pitch he sees to Cano for the 4-3, and there are two down. Lowell grounds out on the second pitch, and it’s a five pitch inning for Mussina.
He should pitch the seventh. You can’t keep babying his arm or he’s never going to get any fastball back.
Bottom of the sixth: With Rodriguez up, I’m assuming it’ll be Kyle Snyder pitching, aka the new Brandon Arroyo. Hmm, Tavarez is still in. They’re probably saving Lopez for Abreu->Damon.
Rodriguez walks on five pitches, the last two of which were close.
Posada steps up as the tying run. I’m very surprised they’re sticking with Tavarez here, although I guess they think he can get a GDP. And shit. He does get it. That was painful.
Now they pull Tavarez for Lopez. I know he had a high ERA coming in, but he pitched very well today. Hopefully the pen’s not as good.
Abreu fans against Lopez to end a disappointing inning.
Top of the seventh: Mussina starts the seventh by walking Varitek on a full count. Not a good start.
Crisp grounds to Cano, who can’t pick it cleanly but it rolls to Jeter who steps on second for the force.
Pedroia follows up with a fly to RF for the second out, and Lugo comes up.
Crisp steals second, his 9th SB of the year. Posada can’t throw anyone out this year. Good thing he’s hitting .370.
The steal ends up being a huge play, as Lugo singles and Crisp races home for the fifth Red Sox run of the game. 5-2 Red Sox. Dammit. Youkilis follows up with a double off the wall in right center to score a sixth run and knock Moose out of the game.
Well, that start went to shit in a hurry.
Is there any doubt that Snaggletooth is going to homer off Myers here? He doesn’t homer, but does hit an RBI single, and it’s 7-2. This one’s pretty much over now.
Luis Vizcaino in, ostensibly to erase any chance the Yankees have of winning this game. In 22 innings he’s given up 36 baserunners. Nice. Vizcaino does get the out, but the inning is a disaser, as the Yankees give up three runs and now trail 7-2 with only nine outs left in the game, and Okajima and Papelbon looming.
Bottom of the seventh: I’m not expecting much fight the rest of this game. Boston pitchers have thrown 110 pitches through six. I predict they’ll throw no more than 30 more pitches the rest of this game.
This team really pisses me off sometimes.
Giambi tries to get things going but grounds to Youkilis instead for the first out. Eight outs left.
Cano hits the first pitch right to Youkilis, who fields it while standing on first for the easy out. Seven outs left.
Josh Phelps pinch-hits for Doug Mientkiewicz. He Ks.
Top of the eighth: I’m looking forward to the Manny/Vizcaino matchup about as much as I’m looking forward to my first prostate exam. Oh, Manny already batted. Oh well.
Drew up. Vizcaino doing what I like to see, falling behind in the count while trailing by five.
How bad is Drew slumping? He just struck out against Vizcaino. I think that’s Vizcaino’s first K of the season.
A flyout by Lowell is the second out. Since this game’s lost, may as well let Vizcaino close it out. He actually looks decent today. His slider has a sharp vertical break, it’s not as flat as it’s been this year.
As I praise L-Viz, he walks Varitek. Here’s Crisp.
Here’s a question to ponder as we watch the Yankees’ division title dreams slip away. Ignoring payroll, would you trade the entire Yankee 40 man roster for Boston’s?
A flyout to shallow left is caught by someone, but NESN didn’t think it was important to show who caught it, so I can’t tell you if it was Jeter or Matsui.
Bottom of the eighth: I have but one wish for the rest of this game. That the Yankees bring the tying run to the plate. Hopefully not in the person of Bobby Abreu or Wil Nieves.
Hideki Okajima takes over for Boston. He’s having an absolute monster season. I don’t get it, he was nothing special in Japan. I think he gave up 10 HRs in about 70 innings there last year.
In un-related news, Sammy Sosa has 10 HRs. Who’d have thought he’d be better than Abreu in 2007?
Damon flies to shallow left and Ramirez catches it. Fuck this game.
Jeter singles up the middle. Too bad he couldn’t do that when he came up with the bases loaded and a chance to make the game close…
Matsui walks. Too bad he couldn’t do that earlier when it would have had a chance to make the game close.
Rodriguez walks. Too bad he couldn’t do that earlier when it would have had a chance to make the game close.
Posada hits it to third, Lowell tries to turn two but A-Rod pretty much tackles Pedroia at second and he can’t make the turn. They get the force at second, but the Yankees get one meaningless run out of it. Abreu will bat now with two down, runners on the corners, and the Yankees still trailing 7-3. The good news about Abreu making the last out there is we don’t have to see him “hit” again tonight.
Top of the ninth: This game’s over. Papelbon will pitch the ninth, and he doesn’t give up 4 ER in a season, much less half an inning.
Moose shit the bed. A very disappointing start. The first inning three run HR set the tone for the whole game. AFAIC. I was a big proponent of re-signing him but I’m starting to think it was unwise.
Villone in to pitch the ninth. Two grounders to third, two outs. A flyout to RF, and even though it comes with 40 feet of the wall, Abreu bravely fights his wall-phobia to catch it.
Bottom of the ninth: I know the Yankees cannot win this game. It’s an incontrovertible fact. It’d be nice if they could muck up Papelbon’s statistical ledger at least.
Giambi, Cano, and Phelps due up against Papelbon.
Giambi decides to prolong the agony by walking.
Cano decides to prolong the agony by walking.
Melky pinch-hits for Phelps. Not sure i like this move.
Melky fans. Phelps could have done that, and would have been more likely to homer there, which is what the Yankees needed. I don’t get that move at all.
Now Damon can hit into a double play and this giant ####tease of an inning will be over. He grounds to second, but it’s to far away for Pedroia to turn two. Two out, and Jeter up. He tanked with the bases loaded earlier in the game, which no one will mention except me.
Two called strikes, borderline but too close to take end it. Thanks for nothing Captain.
Ugly, crappy, bad game. I don’t know why we watch sometimes.
Comments
What are the odds Dougie M. takes Tavarez deep once again?
Damn it! I’ll delete.
I think Doug’s already hit his HR total for the season.
Lou Brown: We won yesterday. If we win today, that’s two-in-a-row. If we win tomorrow, that’s called a winning streak; it has happened before.
Sorry I crapped out on the live blog last night, my real job needed me
Moose is still the guy I worry about the most. Most of his starts this year he’s topped out at 86 or so, and his curve hasn’t had the normal bite to it.
Sorry I crapped out on the live blog last night, my real job needed me
I would have stepped in but the team was winning and I didn’t want to mess with that.
That looked like a strike to me.
SG, Youkilis started off phenomenal last year too before cooling off. I wonder if it was just random or if he wore down?
Someone please hit Manny in the dome.
So much for that winning streak.
Yeah, Moose isn’t making me feel any better about him.
Bad Moose
Oh boy.
Yeah, Moose isn’t making me feel any better about him.
Me either.
A DP here would be sweet. A three-run HR would not.
Nice call.
Typical Moose. He gets screwed on a call (strike 3 to Youk) and then falls apart.
I’m not one for throwing at people but Manny really should get plunked after standing there to admire his homerun. That shit is just annoying.
I’m with you, Kyle. Moose throwing 86-88 is not going to get it done. And the knuckle-curve doesn’t look to be biting.
Mike Mussina is so bad.
The Yankees are gonna need double-digit runs to win this game.
I thought we traded Randy Johnson?
wait! I restarted my computer because the MLB.TV was freezing. I restart and it is 3-0?
If I restart again, will they start the game over? And also, Tavarez is not going to shut them down
Looks like Bad Moose couse a terrible moment to grace us with his presence.
also, Tavarez is not going to shut them down
Yeah, if they don’t score at least 5 off him they deserve to lose.
This Dick’s sporting commercial makes me want to medieval on all those actor’s asses. Jesus what an awful commercial.
Slug fest tonight. Good, I’m gonna be at work late, the game will still be on if I get home at ten.
Chip in situation. Lets keep the game close to see what happens.
Why didn’t they mention Julian’s desire to be an adult-film star as part of his scouting report?
So much for getting 6 innning out of Moose. Will he last 4?
I always thought Mussina could survive a loss of velocity since he was a smart pitcher, but it sure doesn’t seem like it.
I remember some posts from mgl last year talking about velocity, specfiically RHP, and I believe his opinion was that a RHP needed to be at least 87-88 to be successful. I don’t know if any RH pitcher can be sucessful with a straight fastball at that velocity.
IIRC, he did say Maddux was better last year because he was back up to 85-87 or so, up from the low 80’s, but Maddux’ fastball also has great movement.
1-2-3? Its Tavarez.
Inspiring first inning.
So much for getting 6 innning out of Moose. Will he last 4?
He could, but he’ll give up 12 runs if he does.
When did Alex Gonzalez become an “all-time great defensive player”? Seriously he’s pretty good, but all-time great?
Is it just me, or does Lugo look like he hikes his pants up higher than normal?
Sweet - now Manny’s homer in his next AB will only be of the 2-run variety.
When did Alex Gonzalez become an “all-time great defensive player”?
When Theo the Genius signed him, I’m guessing.
“When did Alex Gonzalez become an “all-time great defensive player”?”
Same time Mike Lowell did (which is a round about way of saying what SG already did).
4 up, 4 down, huh? Its Tavarez.
Arod still in pull happy mode.
Tavarez pitching a perfect gaem through 4. Batters, but still.
5 up 5 down for Tavarez. a 3 game winning streak was a pipe dream.
I thik I need to take a break from this game. Maybe I’ll read about how “Bret Smith is teh awesome.”
Its Tavarez.
This guy is a journeymen hack, what the hell is going on…..He’s making everyone look bad….Mussina is done, it was lost in Game II vs Detroit
I hope I’m wrong, but this has the feel of one of those games where the Yankees offensive gets completely shutdown by a terrible pitcher in frustrating fashion (ie quick at bats, swinging at terrible pitches, GIDPs).
Tavarez’s final line: 6 ip, 4 h, 0 er, 1 bb, 3 k.
Mussina sucks.
Yankees offensive
That was not on purpose, but I like it.
Remember Yanks, its Tavarez.
Chip in Yanks.
There goes the perfect game. By the way, how in the world a .400 OBP Hitter is batting 7th??????
If the Angels are talking about Figgins and Molina, pass. I would hope we could at least pry Aybar, even if we have to pick up more of Jason’s deal. Of course the Yankees will play Jeter at SS until he’s 77, so Aybar would be wasted.
Kyle, how about Figgins, Molina, and Mathis?
I saved up Tivo time and used it to skip over Eyechart’s AB rather then a commercial. I am happy with my decision.
I really, really don’t like Mathis. I don’t think he has more potential than a backup.
I’m trying to think of who they have that they’d trade? Morales doesn’t look like anything either, otherwise he’d be a good guy to target.
ITS TAVAREZ!
Forget Mathis, didnt’ realize how bad he’s been this year.
I don’t think the Yankees can afford to give up Giambi anyway, regardless of his salary. Their lineup is just not that strong without him.
Julian Tavarez has a no hitter! Alert the press!
Mussina used 1 fewer pitches to get through 3 innings while giving up 7 hits than Taveras did to get through 3 innings of no hits… too bad that doesn’t count for anything.
There goes the game
I don’t think the Yankees can afford to give up Giambi anyway, regardless of his salary. Their lineup is just not that strong without him.
Its not that strong with him tonight.
Hey atleast we’ll lead most of tomorrow’s game…untill the bullpen blows it for Petitte
Everyone was correct, this is a pitching match-up between a borderline HOFer and a replacement level scrub.
We were clear favorites to take this game, and we lost it from the first inning. This team has no consistency at all
Its not that strong with him tonight.
Hey, he’s the difference between a perfect game and a no-hitter.
If I had more confidence in Melky hitting, I’d happily deal Giambi and move Matsui to DH if we could cut most of his salary and get back a somewhat interesting player. I really want to get more athletic and improve our defense.
If we have a chance to trade for Teixera then dumping Giambi wuld be a great idea.
If we have a chance to trade for Teixera then dumping Giambi wuld be a great idea.
What are you willing to give up for Teixeira? It would take at least one of Hughes/Chamberlain/Bettances and probably Tabata too. I don’t think it’s worth it.
Yes, it’s Tavarez.
I like Teixeira, but I don’t want to trade the prospects or pay the money it will take to get him. At least he’s a great fielder, but still, it’s 1B and his bat just isn’t valuable enough there for what he’ll command.
On the other hand, it seems like all of Daniels trades work out almost as badly as possible for the Rangers.
I worry about Teixeira outside of Texas too. Even if you factor in the fact that home/road splits tend to overstate the difference, that’s typically a great HR park.
10 down 17 to go
Somehow Matsui is not intimidated by Cy Tavarez.
Its not that strong with him tonight.
Hey, he’s the difference between a perfect game and a no-hitter.
True. Ok, reason enough to keep him.
Damnit. He’s just missing it, and it seems like he’s had one right there 4-5 times in the last week.
Not to sound like sour grapes but I noticed that after EVERY pitch, Tavarez wipes his hands all over the top of his head and forehead and then touches the brim of his hat in one specific spot. Never fails.
we’ll take it
We really need a scoreless inning here.
2 quick outs.
Seems to me that Cashman will have an extra 16 mil next winter at his disposal…..Thanks Bobby A., Your contributions in 06 will be remembered….So will 07…..
BATS!!!
Hmm, in college we used Snaggletooth to describe a girl with horrible teeth that kinda, well, got around.
I don’t know which option this means I should favor.
RIPPED by Cano
Cano has to score. Unfortunately the pitcher is coming up. Maybe he should bunt him over….
I think (hope?) Cano is heating up.
I prefer Snaggletooth, for what its worth, though Papi Monster would work just as well (think cookie monster). Big Sloppy sounds a little like Shaq nicknaming a sandwich. Deep thoughts from Denmark.
Cano is hitting rockets lately.
Come on bloop single.
Hmm, in college we used Snaggletooth to describe a girl with horrible teeth that kinda, well, got around.
So did we! Did you go to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too?
Two votes for Snaggletooh sounds like a consensus to me. Snaggletooth it is.
Actually, sloppy monster isn’t bad either.
Is anybody else following the lottery draft? I’m going to laugh my ass off if the Bulls get the 1st or 2nd pick. At least the Jazz are good, because I can’t stand the Knicks right now.
Lets go John.
Hollywood Upstairs Medical College
Hi everybody!
Damon shoulod take a strike or two
I’ll flip to the lottery. With the Knicks irrelevant, I’d love to see the Suns keep the pick they got from the Hawks, so Atlanta needs to stay out of the top 3. They are going to get a player to help at 4 or 5.
OBP
I guess that’s better than most sac flies since theres a runner at third now…
Damnit, Yankees need the BIG HIT here.
Clippers, Hornets, 76rs, Pacers, Kings, Bulls, Bobcats, T’Wolves, Bucs, Celtics, Grizzlies.
Portland, Seattle, and Atlanta moved up. More after a commercial.
Boston lost out and will pick 5th. I don’t really care about them, but it’s hilarious and I like Danny Ainge pissed off.
Bulls pick 9th in place of the Knicks. Not as bad as it could have been, but I still can’t believe Thomas hasn’t been fired.
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