Why not drop the hammer 0-2?

I’m pessimistic.

Come hughsie…careful here

I’m pessimistic about insurance runs here too.

That Hughes guy is pretty good.

The hook had them all lunging that inning.

Wait, isn’t Hughes right-handed?  Isn’t Overbay left-handed?  How did Hughes get him out?  I don’t understand.

Awesome.

I’m pessimistic about insurance runs here too.

I can’t believe they would consider moving this guy to the rotation.

A-Rod leading off means there is one RISP.

villainx,
  I heard you were pessimistic about the Yankees playoff chances…true?

But good job Alex.

ARod, that is pure stat padding right there. Mo is pitching the 9th and won’t give up any runs.

Plus, one of the Jays probably tipped the pitch to ARod, and he will probably kiss his reflex in a mirror after the game.

The more HRs A-Rod hits, the fewer times Cano will be up with RISP. It’s really an ingenious plan.

Sweating out the result of an “it is high, it is far” call is like sweating out a photo finish at the track.  Serling just does that to put a little excitment in our lives.

Are those umpire retards from Toronto? I thought I remembered them from there.

?how the hell can those rejects afford Legends seats?

Pete Abe says they were free for some reason.

Are those umpire retards from Toronto? I thought I remembered them from there.

I have to assume the Yankee record with the extra umps in attendance is on the positive side, so….

holy shit, Palin resigned? wtf

[122] I think she just wants to cash in on her celebrity.

Mo. wowee`

[118] Check this out.

Gardner outruns the ball.

Mo has been very good since the week off.

that was strike three

Mo now has a 14:1 K/BB ratio.  Sick nasty.

Yay Mo.  All hail Mo.

Mo is Mo.

AJ’s last 10 starts: 63.1 IP, 2.98 ERA.  Not too shabby.

Is Hughes stuff in the pen electrifying yet?

Listening to this woman talk is agonizing.

Listening to this woman talk is agonizing.

I know, it sucks us listeners are held hostage like that.

AJ and CC are both busts.

Yanks shoulda signed TS and ee.

Heyman:

• I am naming the Yankees as the early favorite for Aroldis Chapman, the Cuban pitching prodigy who defected. Chapman is said to be the best left-handed pitching prospect in the world. He is reputedly 21, but Jack Curry in the New York Times reminded us that it was reported during the WBC that he may be 26.

“this woman” Palin?  Maybe SNL can get Tina Fey to do a bit on line.  Having that woman as VEEP would have been torture.

It’s torture just watching her on TV.

You folks are gonna get in trouble with NPR.

Mo.  I can’t believe a 63 year old guy can still get outs like he can.

I think she was the least qualified, and I’m not talking about time spent in office, to run for national office since at least Agnew.

She did however have some good qualities not always present in candidates for high office, such as being not evil.

Evil, which one of our officials is/was evil.  Cheney?  Nixon?  Anyone who willfully ignores any/all scientific evidence on warming.  The Mo. legislator who was against funding school lunches for poor children in the summer since hunger is a good motivator?  Lex Luthor?

Not here.

She’s not evil - but she ended up in a high political office?
I think you should reconsider this guess, Rilke.

Palin not evil?  I guess the road to hell is paved with good intentions…but still, I peg anyone obviously smart and nonetheless willfully ignorant as she is - ostrich response to global warming, abstinence-only sex education, evolution and intelligent design are battling “theories” - as at least a little, if not plenty, evil.

Is she ignorant or is it just politically expedient given her base to take certain positions?

What does Palin have to do with the business side of the Yankees?

With Palin gone, I’m sure the Alaskans are all asking:

But . . .

(drumroll)

who . . .

(deep breath)

will

(all together now)

pitch teh 8th!!111!!!

She vetoed obtaining Beltran because he looked too gay

Ignorance is actually less evil than political expediency…I was giving her the benefit of the doubt…:)

Dave S., I guess you haven’t been reading Hannah Arendt.

When is this effin ‘pitch teh ate’ joke going away? I’ll take Palin talking over consistent regurgitation of that joke every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Greetings from the Fenway pressbox.  I lost the radio signal somewhere along 90 and the Yankees were up 3-2 with Hughes pitching teh eighth and a man on.
I arrive to find out they won 4-2.  I guessed an A-Rod HR and sure enough, the video comes up on the monitor a few minutes later.  Stat padder.

j, it will never ever go away.

Palin’s booty is pure evil.  Nobody who says things like “you betcha!!” with a false Minnesota twang should have a booty that fine…

You want to talk pure evil, we are facing Halladay tomorrow.  Just once I’d like to light this guy up.

Nick effin Green.

C’mon Seattle, lock this one down.

Sweet.

Nice!

Alright, nice job Mariners.  2 games back.

[153] I made a similar request prior to the start of the season. It is worse than juvenile by now.

If Don/Steve Lombardi is on my side, I may need to rethink my point of view.

Although that joke really does suck. We get it.. stupid people think Chamberlain should pitch the 8th. There are lots of things stupid people think. Let’s move on.

There is a certain type of connoisseur that relishes the absolute beating of a joke into the ground, beyond any recognition, such that its meaning is almost lost.  It is in both the endless the repetition and slivers of variation that pleasure is found; such people abound here.  Complain if you must, rail against its silliness.  You’ll only feed it.

I just can’t believe Don is setting himself up as the arbiter of taste.  No, wait; yes I can.

The fact that the media heads and the call in voices are still (constantly) asking for electrifying Joba to be the setup, and the contradiction that relieving is good for or part of Hughes’ development is more of what feeds it. As well as the complete fanatical devotion Girardi and most managers have for the eighth inning role generally, that feeds the hell out of it.

Not that I don’t mind beating a joke into the dirt, but the relevance hasn’t gone away. Though it’s not like the joke is that prevalent on a % of comments gauge.

It’s a perfect storm of endless jokery, to be sure.

Not that I don’t mind beating a joke into the dirt, but the relevance hasn’t gone away. Though it’s not like the joke is that prevalent on a % of comments gauge.

My biggest problem with the joke here is that a bunch of well educated adults insist on using the syntax/spelling from comments on Pete Abe’s site.  I don’t mind joking about, “who will pitch the eighth?”.  I hate joking about, “who will pitch teh ate??@!!?” or similar.

When did the focus on bullpen roles become popular? I mean, I know the closer has been around for a while, but I feel like people didn’t start talking about the eighth inning specifically until after Joba moved to the rotation. (and when Joba was a reliever, it’s not like he just pitched the eighth.)

“well educated adults”

You ok, Mike?

Jesus goes 3/4 with a walk, but, critically, fails to hit another HR.

Bust.

When did the focus on bullpen roles become popular?

The idea of teh ace set-up man (teh one guy who pitches before your one guy who closes) has been around since at least Ron Davis in 1981.  That’s only a quick conceptual step away from the ace 8th inning guy.  So, in other words: Ron Davis 1981 X Tony LaRussa’s bullpen 1988-1992 produces Joe Torre’s 1996 bullpen, where Mo was the designated guy to hand the ball over to Wetteland (except when Lloyd was called on to K a lefty,  as in Game 5).