I really hope they don’t get shut down by Trett Bomko.

Thanks SG. Of course I’m going to bed soon.

Bald stop where Melky is standing is where they had the porta-potties for the Raiders preseason game.

spot

4- Hate when that happens. Happens a lot to me.

Yeah, how are they not beating the crap out of Tomko yet?

[5] DO you have Trader Joe’s there ? $2.99/btl wine.

Do

Damon’s defense has improved lately.

Aye on the TJ’s. Nay on the spirits purchased there.

Peno !

Johnny Adventure Damon knew exactly what he was doing.

That’s got to be one of the more interesting ways to face the minumum number of batters in an inning.

My preference tonight: Cap’n Clutch rather than Captain GIDP.

Set up, let’s score.

[10] Shame. Is that a state liquor board thing, or do you just have, like, a pallette ?

The batters should just imagine Tomko as a pinata.

Sterling with another stifled homerungasm.

I’ve got a GS feeling in my gut here

ugh

I’m never speaking again.  Good Night.

Not dude Alex.

It’s Brett Tomko people.  WTF?

A-Rod with another stifled grannygasm.

[22] was not a Madonna reference.

oof. Nice. Also disgusting.

Bomko is having the time of his life. His post game will be something like, “I knew those assholes would rue the day…”

At least A.J.‘s throwng strikes.

16- Taste thingy. 22 was very funny.
Tomko proofed yet?
Wanted to be the first.

You knew it would start this way, but Tomko won’t be able to keep it up.
That wasn’t a reference to [22].

Cano up. Noone on. Predicting a hit.

Did Tomko clear waivers?  The Yankees should trade for him to be the fifth tarter.

Well, you can’t predict baseball.

Tarter? Noone. My spelling seems to have EFFECTED youze.!!
C YIZ.

NYT:

“I don’t know where else I would want to go to,” Damon said. “Obviously, that’s not the right thing to say when you’re about ready to approach free agency, but I’m very happy with playing in New York, and my family’s happy I play for New York. There’s no bigger place to go. If you play well here, you’re going to get paid. New York has the resources.

“But we also have the chance to win every year. I don’t want to attempt to go make more money elsewhere, for more years, with a chance to be out of the race by the first of June.”

So, y’all are high, yes?  That or I’ve lost the ability to read English.

Rilke, youdt dkagy tgje hait, no?

Seriously Tomkat, where was this three months ago?

You could park a cruise ship in that foul territory.

AJ throws a sinker?

[32, 33] are true. [34] is good news, to me. I like rooting for players that actually LIKE being Yankees.

Reverse 33 and 34 in prior post. Jeesh.

Actually, it’s ok either way.

“[34] is good news”

You’re glad I can’t read?

Why would you play the infield in in the fourth inning of a 0-0 game where the opposing pitcher is Brett Tomko?

Wait, now the game’s gone insane too.  Hey, maybe my test setup at the lab has started working to balance this out.

wtf?

If the infield wasn’t in earlier this inning would have been over after one run.

Thanks for the visit, Joe. It helped a lot.

[45]
Might have been a homer without the visit… ?

I think losing to Tomko would be down there to dropping 2/3 to the Nats at home.

[46] Nah, he’da balked in the run, but we would’n't’ have the baserunner.

It’s super nice that we’re cooling off against crappy teams right before the road trip to Boston.

what the fuck is happening? How is Tomko blanking the Yanks?

Jeter hasn’t forgotten that Tomko sucks.

It was all a big conspiracy. Beane sent him as a spy to discover the Yankee hitters’ weaknesses.

Melky’s OBP is down to .330? Yikes.

This is rapidly heading towards worst game in a long time

Tomko is gesticulating more than Joba ever does.

It’s just not possible that this will happen.
Therefore, it will not.

This is ghastly.

Tomko is gesticulating more than Joba ever does.

Scrappier pitchers need bigger gesticles.

Gameday suggests it should be 3-2 to Damon

How do you give a replacement level pitcher that call? Umpiring incompetence has reached new lows this season.

As much as I hate to go against the text poll hive mind, I’d give Honus the nod over Jeets. By an eyelash.

Just how far into the opposite batter’s box does the strike zone extend ?

This game is pissing me off.

Where was the Jeter vs. Wagner argument?  That’s absolutely preposterous.
Read Wright’s chapter on Wagner in “The Diamond Appraised.”
Wagner was a god.  Wagner is probably one of the top three baseball players who ever lived.
I love Jeter and all, but that’s not a serious discussion.

Nice swing, Jorge.

Texas still leading Boston late in yesterday’s game.

Did Teixeira have both feet in bounds on that catch?  We may need instant replay.

It was chest high, calm down.

Runs…

Three innings to get three runs - make it happen. 
And then some.

I love Jeter and all, but that’s not a serious discussion.

Text poll results for best shortstop, so by definition it is nothing like a serious discussion. YES viewers came back with something like:

Jeter 82%
Ripken 6%
Ozzie 4%
Honus 8%

You could at least have an interesting debate about the other three, but Honus was on another planet. (My “by an eyelash” was sarcastic, of course.)

They’re not even trying, are they?

Ah, thanks.

Swish does good?

Swisherian!

Let’s start with one.  Okay, Melky: pretend we’re at NYS and it’s the bottom of the ninth.

It’s time to stop sucking, Melky.

Are any of you in the northeast right now?  I’m currently melting into my couch even with the air on. 
This weather blows.

Can someone plausibly make an argument that there was ever a player better than Ruth? Look at the fangraphs leaderboards for a bunch of stats- he’s at the top for all.

http://www.fangraphs.com/careerleaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&type=1&min=1000

Then throw in the whole great pitching thing.

[76]
And it’s June.

[78] Sweltering northern NJ.

That ball is out in NYS.

If it were hit about 30 deg. to the right, that is.

[79]
Probably not.
But the best attempt I know if is the cpt in “Diamond Appraised.”

Hairston PHing for Pena?  Does that mean this fly out will be deeper than if Pena stayed in?

Alex Cora out for the season.  He’s been playing with torn ligaments in both thumbs.

[78] Sweltering Pacific Northwest. 90’s all week, outside chance to top 100 tomorrow.

Will Carroll:

What’s less surprising - Nats upping their bid or Heyman getting the scoop?

In 1920, Ruth slugged .849. The next year, he slugged .846. What was the average OPS in the 90s (height of the steroid era)- .775 maybe?

Bonds once slugged .863. But he has small testicles.

Could they be any luckier with BABIP?

Maybe the Yankees can start hitting the ball NOT right at A’s fielders before this game is over.

Wow- Pujols is sixth ALL TIME in OPS+. Tied with the Mick.

Wagner’s numbers get almost grotesquely adjusted for playing in the deadball era. His career pretty much captures the most offensively-depressed era in the history of baseball.
And Bonds has small testicles.
I’m in the minority here that doesn’t count any power counting record, and possibly any record at all, for the recent period in question.

79: You have Cobb and Bonds who are in the same room, but not there.  It’s that pitching thing.  But then, you also have The Splendid Splintsicle: the thing that makes me wonder about him is the years he missed to the wars.  You look at what he did both before and after WWII, and you’ve just carved the best three years of his career out.  And then there was the Korean War, where he all but lost 1952 and 1953…so he was robbed of five full prime years.  I think with him, you’re talking about adding at least 150 home runs, 500 RBI, 500 Runs, something like 700 (!) walks and 850 hits.  So yeah, I think with Williams you have a plausible argument versus Ruth.

Dave S.- no love for Gehrig? Check out the link, I’d definitely put him above Bonds and Cobb.

Also, even if you could convince me Williams was a better hitter than Ruth- and I’m not sure you could- we’re forgetting that Ruth was a damn good pitcher!

Awesome game with the bat, Jorge.

Never mind, you snuck that 2nd sentence in there.

BaseballAmerica: Aaron Fitt reports Strasburg signs. MLB deal worth $15.67 million over 4 years.

Yes, but Wagner doesn’t have the Flip Play.

Hey, I’m not saying I think Williams was better than Ruth.  The question was in regards to a “plausible argument”.