Doesn’t Greinke have a rather better record?

MLB has camera feeds from Fox on it’s website, with some audio but no announcers.  It might be the greatest thing ever.

Unfortunately for Greinke, he has 2 more losses than Halladay, even though he’s got better stats in just about every category that matters.

Greinke definitely should be starting, but he’s been merely solid for the last month or so.  His first two months were legitimately insane, but his last 7 starts he has an ERA of 4.0.  I guess Halladay has been the same way, so it’s not even like you could say they’re “riding the hot hand”.

I’m sorry I can’t bring myself to give a Farnsworth.

I’m sorry I can’t bring myself to give a Farnsworth.

I think MLB owes you the apology.

Let’s go Yankees ... representatives.

I do root more seriously - if in irritation - for the AL now that they’ve linked WS home field advantage to the outcome of this silly exhibition.

Buck and McCarver.. gag.

Mute!  Mute!

The AL really needs to win this game.. just in case the Yankees need to take the WS to 7 games.

Bad news folks.. Steve Lombardi was named GM of the Yankees and proceeded to trade Phil Hughes for Cliff Lee.

MLB now has a twitter feed on their gameday page for the AS game.  Less intelligible, Buck/McCarver or Twitter feed?

Everytime I listen to Ken Rosenthal talk, I imagine him and his demeanor trying to talk to a girl in a bar.

.... and I laugh.

Everytime I listen to Ken Rosenthal it’s because I forgot to mute the tv.

Oh crap, he got hit. Where? Please tell me not in the hand.

CP, more news so that I could only have a minor heart attack?

I think CP was hoping someone with a TV could tell us Gamedayers.

BTF Chatter (which is pretty lively it seems, not to steal thunder from here) seem to indicate that Jeter is okay. But I don’t trust those folks there too much, most of them hate Jeter and the Yankees.

not to steal thunder from here

It’s hard to steal thunder from silent space.

You think JP’s shaking clenched fists at the trade fates right now?

That was a pretty weak performance after two were out…

Teixeira is a monster at 1st…

I wonder if GM’s have a sense of humor. I would have sent Ricciardi a text message: “Rough outing for Halladay.  I’ll take him off your hands for Willie Bloomquist, straight up. Offer expires at midnight.”

Sounds like something out of Moneyball (i just finished reading it)... i don’t think Beane would offer that much… BTW, you do know that JP and Theo are ‘friends’... ?

Wow… Grienke is nasty… cannot believe the Royals play a 4-game series vs. the Sox and he doesn’t pitch…

Wow… Grienke is nasty… cannot believe the Royals play a 4-game series vs. the Sox and he doesn’t pitch…

It’s in the MLB rulebook.

So the NL han’t won since 1996?  I’d be OK with them winning if it meant some sort of cosmic reordering that kick-started another Yankee Dynasty.

So the NL han’t won since 1996?  I’d be OK with them winning if it meant some sort of cosmic reordering that kick-started another Yankee Dynasty.

Only positive spin is that your predictions haven’t been that super this season, so maybe re-ordering anyway.

Alex must be out doing something by now, right?

Mo is so nasty.  Give him the MVP for just being Mo.

That’s what Mo does.  No fuss, no muss.

Looking at the players going down the line with the high fives, how great or lucky to be high five by Mo.

Mo deserves the all star game saves record.  Getting those 4 opportunities is a strong statement about his rep.  Of course, he also had to convert them all.

I think Rivera saving a win for Papelbon is more than enough for a reordering of the cosmos, no?

During the ‘07 WS, I was at a bar in NYC with a friend.  A buddy of his from work came along.  He was the stereotypical Boston fan - the kind you see copied and pasted all over Boston.  We got to arguing about the better reliever at the time.  He asked me if I had to take one closer who would I choose.  I said Mo and he laughed and said he couldn’t believe it, as though the answer was so obviously Papelbon.
I had to remind him that as good as Papelbon is, Mo has been dominant for many years and continues to excel.  I suggested that Mo is, by no means, second to any closer, even now.  And that some closers who dominate for a few years out of the gate don’t always continue that dominance (Gagne).

My favorite part of the All Star Game lately has to be watching really good closers like Joe Nathan reduced to setting up Mo, and no one thinks it should be any other way, either the players or announcers.  Pretty cool IMO.

[37] Same argument with Sox fans when they had Lee Smith… same argument when it was “Who was the better SS, Jeter or Nomar”... they’re so f’n blind, it’s silly… and, the P envy they have with anything Yankee is just unreal…

and no one thinks it should be any other way

Except the aforementioned Papelbon.

Except the aforementioned Papelbon.

Maybe I should have said no one who breathes through their nose, but that may eliminate several announcers too.

no one who breathes through their nose

I’m totally using this in conversation tomorrow.

[41] This blog has brought so much joy into my life.

i wonder, seriously, if i will ever be able to enjoy baseball once Mariano Rivera has left the game.

Papelbon gace up balls in play totalling around 750-800 ft. Mo’s totalled around 200 feet.

Also, isn’t it just great the way Jeter falls ass-backwards into scoring 2 of the AL’s 4 runs, with an HBP and fielder’s choice?

I got into an argument with some Red Sox Nation fanboy at the bar I was at in brooklyn. I pointed out that if I was him, I would be nervous about Papelbums fly ball rate, considering they’re going pretty damn far. He gave me a look like I was in the wrong, but it’s NYC and if you’re going to chant Y2K (clap clap, clap clap clap) someone should at least say something so you know

1. that you aren’t in Boston
2. that you’re a jerk
3. that you should close your stupid mouth

but instead, it’s pretty much illegal to be a yankee fan, even in NYC and I finally know what the Jews in Spain felt like.

So… does FOX understand how to cover a baseball game?
At all?