Does anyone think that Cashman is out scouring the streets of NY looking for a good Larry Bowa impersonator to help Cano break out of this funk?

my grandma’s real whirling dervish. she refuses to wear a helmet in the coaches’ box though.

a real. sigh.

woo hoo!  day games that sneak up on me sure are a blessing!

This will be the first game I miss because I’m at work. I can’t open gameday, so I will apreciatte if somebody liveblogs the game.

I can try posting updates. Don’t know if you can call it a liveblog though…

Anyways, Sizemore opens the game up with a single. Carroll follows with a groundball to second, but the Yanks can only get the out at second.

Moose gets Dellucci to pop up to Melky in right-center.

question: would the yankees not making the playoffs in 2008 make it easier for the organization to move Jeter off of SS for 2009?

Um, Kay echoing Wedge saying that kids should pay attention to Lee and how you don’t need to throw curves to be successful but merely place your fastball.  If memory serves me correct, he threw some sick curves to strike out a few yankees yesterday and it was instrumental in his success.

Moose strikes out Peralta swinging with a slow curve. I love that pitch, wish I could have seen it. One inning down for the Moose, five to go. WOE coming up…

If memory serves me correct, he threw some sick curves to strike out a few yankees yesterday and it was instrumental in his success.

Yeah, he had a breaking pitch, thought it was a curve, that was just ridiculous yesterday. It looked like it was breaking across both batter’s boxes.

Thank you Lynch

Yeah, Damon definitely looks like he’s trying to hit infield practice with those swings.

Damon grounds out to Peralta.

I pointed this out last year but I feel obligated to do so again. Damn, is Paul Byrd ugly!

Jeter lines to right. Guiterrez makes the catch “on the track” according to Sterling. I wish Jeter still had power. That would be nice.

Abreu lines it right to Sizemore in CF. WOE strikes again! Also, taking pitches: let’s not, OK? OK.

Francisco grounds an 0-1 pitch to Betemit at 3rd. Easy out.

Gutierrez chops a 1-1 pitch back to Moose. Easy out.

Garko grounds an 0-2 pitch to Cano at 2nd. Easy out.

Moose, Inning #2: 5 pitches, 4 strikes, 3 outs. Sweet.

Good Moose

question: would the yankees not making the playoffs in 2008 make it easier for the organization to move Jeter off of SS for 2009?

Well, I’m not sure if it would.  I’d guess it might make it marginally easier, but I think the bigger point is that in the current playoff structure, just making it there is actually a big deal, because there really is no team that is “dead meat” when the playoffs start.  Any team can get hot for a couple of weeks, and I think this team definitely has that in them.  Basically, I think that they’ve been somewhat unlucky the last several years (maybe balancing out some luck in the late 90’s), and I’m rambling and can’t quite seem to find my point….

MOOOOOOSE! Three ground-outs!

The streak is alive!

Matsui keeps his streak alive with a single to left. Somehow he remains exempt from this peculiar, debilitating strain of WOE disease.

Matsui needs to renew his vows in October.

Byrd has walked five batters all year.  You don’t work the count off him.  If you see your pitch, swing.

Yeah, too bad we can’t clone Matsui.

I really think being the DH is helping Matsui.

Giambi pops out to somewhere. Doesn’t matter where.

Re #1-I heard Cashman was in St Mark’s park looking for someone selling controlled substances that might enhance an over the hill athlete’s abilities

By the way, if Mussina keeps pitching like this and the offense ever comes around this team will win a lot of games.

Byrd has walked five batters all year.  You don’t work the count off him.  If you see your pitch, swing.

Yeah, I know. I just hate quick outs.

WOE.

Melky hits it “on the nose” but right at Peralta for the 6-3 DP. I would say that was unexpected, except for the part where it wasn’t. *sigh*

How many scoreless ining in a row is that?  At least last year during their sucking period they gave me a few chaep thrills.  This year they’re no fun to watch.  I was pessimistiv about our chances this year despite the various projection but at least I was looking forward to watching the development of IPK, Hughes and Joba

watching the development of IPK, Hughes and Joba

I think we may still see it, just give it a little time.

Byrd has walked five batters all year.  You don’t work the count off him.  If you see your pitch, swing.

To elaborate, I still think you need to take pitches in order to get that pitch to hit. If you go up there willing to compromise on what “your pitch” is, you’re gonna be swinging at the pitch Byrd wants you to swing at. I’d rather they take more strikes in order to not be forced to swing at the junk Byrd wants them to.

Giambi leans into the stands to catch a pop foul from Blake.

16 innings in a row without scoring.

I thought the Yanks weren’t hitting because it was too cold.

Moose gets a weak grounder from Shoppach to Betemit for the second out.

John, if you take two pitches and are down 0-2, the chances of seeing “your pitch” are minuscule.

I know we’re only a month or so into the season, and he’s been on a downward slope since 2004, but has anyone theorized about Jeter’s reduction in power so far in 2008; were his doubles and HRs over the last few seasons concentrated in the later months, or is the consensus that it’s just a fluke that he hasn’t one HR over the first 30 games, and he’ll revert to a more normal pattern? Or are we just looking at age catching up fast?

A mixture of both, most likely, garethmc.

First pitch strikes to nearly every batter from Moose.  And 37 pitches through 3 innings is nice.

Moose gets Sizemore on a groundball to Cano.

Moose has been ahead of every batter except Peralta. He’s thrown 27 strikes and only 10 balls through three innings.

Moooooooooooooooooooooooooose!

Moose throwing the curve for strikes has picked me up this morning.

Yeah, too bad Moose’s team can’t, you know, score.  All that great effort…wasted!!!

Anyone else feel like with the way the offense has been going they won’t be able to clear Molina’s spot this inning even though he’s up third?

John, if you take two pitches and are down 0-2, the chances of seeing “your pitch” are minuscule.

Yes, yes. My point is that Byrd isn’t a great pitcher. He’s not able to paint the corners at will; if he were, he’d be great. He is going to throw *some* balls. I understand he isn’t going to walk to many guys. Nonetheless, if you are going up there hacking at anything close to the plate, your playing into Byrd’s hand.

At least Cano hit the ball hard in the air.  I’m rather tired of the weak grounders to second.

I wonder how they would do against an all-pitcher lineup.  I bet they still get outhit and outscored.

The Yankees need to bring the outfield fences in about thirty feet. That might help the offense.

Cano flys out to deep center. Sterling says it’s a home where anywhere else.

Betemit also flys out.

This offense is pretty horrible.

Sterling lies. Don’t listen to him.

Jeez, why so much pessimism?  It sounds like the Yankees have struck the ball hard, just some bad luck.  They’ll get Byrd the second time through the order.

Byrd at 32 pitches through 3.

Molina grounds out to third. Good thing we’re waiting to get good pitches to hit. Seriously, let’s say all we did was strike out waiting for Byrd to screw up. Who would know the difference? The scoreboard wouldn’t.

The offense has basically been bad the entire season. They’ve been good for what, two three game stretches?

Moose throws a first pitch strike to Carroll, who then grounds a 1-1 pitch to third for an out.

A pitchers’ duel between Mike Mussina and Paul Byrd; betcha could gotten good odds on that as a possibility before the season began!

You know, it’s funny.  Going into the season, everyone was freaking out about our pitching.  Get Santana!  You are going nowhere without Santana!!1!11!  Um, yeah. Not going anywhere if you can’t score, either. Unless Santana can pitch a CG shutout every time, even he wouldn’t save this team.  So MSM can shut the fuck up about the trade that never was.

/cranky

First pitch ball to Dellucci, but Moose comes right back with a couple strikes to make it 1-2. Dellucci makes Moose work, fouling a few off and running the count full. Moose then gets strike three on the outside corner. Bravo.

A pitchers’ duel between Mike Mussina and Paul Byrd; betcha could gotten good odds on that as a possibility before the season began!

The O/U is 9.5.

Moose!

Honk if you love Moose!

Peralta lines out to Abreu. 1-2-3 again for the Moose.

Four innings, 51 pitches, 36 strikes, (and therefore) 15 balls. One baserunner. *swoon*

Unless Santana can pitch a CG shutout every time,

He would need to pitch 12 inning complete game with this offense.

Honk!

Unless Santana can pitch a CG shutout every time, even he wouldn’t save this team.

Not sure that would work either… =P

He would need to pitch 12 inning complete game with this offense.

True, dat.

I’m sure this is just my perception, but this team seems to lead the world in foul HRs and liners right at people.

Thank you!

Oh.  My.  God.

thanks you Damon!

DAMON!

I was just about to say that at some point a couple of these fly balls are going to leave the park.  I see Damon beat me to it.  Wahoo!

Since when do they play an air raid siren for home runs at Yankee Stadium?

Damon! He gets his pitch on 3-2 and homers to right!

Moose better lock it down from here, because that’s likely all he’s going to get by way of run support.

Now, if only the players that aren’t already contributing start to do so.

Probably since it became more likely that there is an air raid than a HR.

Jeter lines a base hit to right. Sterling mutters some nonsense; I’m sure you’ve all heard it before.

Since when do they play an air raid siren for home runs at Yankee Stadium?

It’s a warning to fans, since so rarely do the Yankees actually hit HRs, they want to give them a heads-up that a ball will soon be coming down from the sky.

It looks like the skies are about to open up here in midtown.  I hope they can make it to an official game before it starts pouring.

It’s a warning to fans, since so rarely do the Yankees actually hit HRs, they want to give them a heads-up that a ball will soon be coming down from the sky.

Well played.

Plate Jeter

Abreu ensures that, God forbid, we give Moose anymore help by hitting into a 4-6-3 double play. Nuts.

Matsui follows with a base hit to center. Fucking double plays.

Matsui is a machine.

Is Matsui 2008’s Posado?

Giambi gets it out!!! FUCKING DOUBLE PLAYS!!

Nonetheless, 3-0 Yanks!!

I can has official game plz?

Fucking double plays.

Indeed.  Maybe they should just bunt every AB, regardless of the number of outs.  Can’t possibly be any worse than what they’re doing now, can it?

Is it an illusion or do we hit into a lot of DPs?  Cash must have gotten Jason the “stuff” and I magnaminously forgive his sucking for the next 4 ABs

They say Matsui’s wife is a ‘civilian.’  I think she’d make a great drill saergent, though.

There’s no way that just happened. Just… can’t… be… true.

IE, I will note that Matsui and Giambi both hit the first pitch. I bow to your wisdom.

Is it an illusion or do we hit into a lot of DPs?

They can’t be getting enough runners on base to hit into a lot of DPs.

Melky is not a good #6 hitter.

Where would Giambi be without Paul Byrd and Mike Timlin?

Melky makes an out, but we got Moose three runs and right now we’ve all got to be feeling pretty good about that. Let’s see if Moose can keep his groove going.

Giambi owns junkballers.