Honestly, I don’t see a down side to having it rain all day.  That win took a lot of work last night and if a makeup occurs later, Yanks could be healthier and Tigers may not be as hot- or not.  Also, you worry about the weather affecting injuries and outcomes.

Can we pass the rain delay by discussing whether Melky is close enough to his decline years for us to offer him 180/8 ?

Pursuing Melky = admitting they screwed up by letting him go.  Cashman doesn’t strike me as the type to do that.  Especially after A-Rod begged them to sign him when he was non-tendered by Atlanta and they refused when they could have had him for free.

In better news, Becky got bombed yesterday and the beaneaters of Boston are baying for his blood. 

Is that enough alliteration for y’all sorry asses?

[4] BOO.

(3) Agree 100%
(4) Helps my mood considerably

Looks like a miserable situation on the field today.  Maybe will stop the running game somewhat (joke), perhaps not the trotting game. Again, please no injuries because of conditions.

(3) Agree 100%
(4) Helps my mood considerably

Looks like a miserable situation on the field today.  Maybe will stop the running game somewhat (joke), perhaps not the trotting game. Again, please no injuries because of conditions.

Mel!  Good to see you.

Chief Sockalexis might be a good new handle. I’m getting restless with my current one.

First pitch has been delayed to 1:35 ET.

Not sure if anyone saw this interview with Mark Newman.  From RAB.  Good stuff, and he talks a lot about injuries.  I know a number of people are concerned Yankees have no idea what they’re doing when it comes to keeping players healthy, so I think it’s good stuff.

Pursuing Melky = admitting they screwed up by letting him go.  Cashman doesn’t strike me as the type to do that.

I don’t see much evidence of that.  I think Cashman has been quite honest when he’s made a mistake.  And they don’t at all need to admit that they screwed up; they traded him for a pitcher who had received Cy Young votes the year before.  And as for not getting him after Atlanta let him go…I think the reasons Atlanta let him go is why no contender signed him in the off-season.

They’ll talk to Melky in the off-season.  The reason they (likely) won’t sign him is that he’ll price himself out of their range.

It’s amazing how many bad deals Cashman has made since winning the WS in 2009. Some bad luck on one hand and some pretty poor scouting on the other one. Letting go Kennedy, Melky, A-Jax and Montero for only one productive player is as bad as it gets.

If I were Rothschild, I would be richer than Rothschild, because I’d do a little tutoring on the side.

[12] They also got Logan in those deals, FWIW.  And the jury is certainly not yet out on Campos or Pineda.

[12, 14] Melky was also the worst player in the MLB the year after he was traded. Let me repeat that: WORST PLAYER IN THE MLB. Granted, it looks like Cashman should have listend to ARod and resigned him, but I doubt Melky would be who he is now without his putrid 2010.

Is Posada playing for the Tigers?

Ichiro!

“Raul Ibanez triples” does not compute.

The old guys doing the job.

“Raul Ibanez triples” does not compute.

I’m trying to envision how this could have unfolded and it’s not happening.

[13]  Mel, is that a quote or an original?  Either way, take a bow.

Wow.  I really cannot rip Cash for trading Melky.  How… I mean…

He was bad, and had basically treaded water (or sunk a bit) since his debut.  He then proceeded to suck in Atlanta.  It was in KC that he started to figure it out.

I could complain about IPK, as I always liked him, but I have lingering doubts about whether he’d have been effective in the AL.  Austin Jackson… ok, but man… the K-rate w/o power was a legit concern.  And Granderson has been good.

Montero-Pineda looks potentially awful (not that Jesus is doing anything), but pitchers get hurt.

It doesn’t feel good, but going decision-by-decision and trying to avoid things that could only be known in hindsight (as opposed to things that were reasonably predictable at the time), I just can’t get that angry.

By the way, as much as the Yankees recent play has been frustrating, this:

E. Chavez, 3B: .288 .347 .513

is pretty amazing and heart warming and stuff.

[20] FB off of CF wall (that’s a LONG way).  Ibanez rounds 2nd as Chavez rounds 3rd, and Tigers go for play at plate.  Ibanez goes to 3rd on the play.  Since he never slowed down going around 2nd, scorer awards him a triple.

I have no idea if it actually happened, but that’s how I can envision it.

[23]  Plus, he’s a cripple.

Hiroki!

No I saw it.  Single to AJs left Kay wondered if he could stretch it to 2 and the instead of sliding into 2nd turns on the burners and with a text book fade away slide gets into 3rd.

Flaherty an endless font of mundanity, inanity and cliches.

Ibanez for the cycle today?

Whoa, Fister is really getting squeezed.

BTW, 2 big T&F races today and the end of the Decathlon. Usain Bolt in the 200, A challenger for the WR in the 800 (and a couple of medal contending Americans).

In the Decathlon, the WR was just set by an American (Ashton Eaton) during the trials, he is currently leading and has the best results in 3 of the events so far. 2nd in two and a 3rd, 10th and 15th place with 2 events left to go. He leads another American by over 200 points.

[30] That’s the nature of the beast and inherent in the activity.

[31] Medals, Boris, we get medals.

In what year anus domini did Jeter last hit a non-single?

How can the glorioles be in the wild card lead with their huge negative run differential?  And the sawx be so far back with their huge positive run differential?

*crickets*  *tumbleweeds*

*solitary confinement*

Cano smote that ball with a mighty smite.

[35] entropy

I am nonplussed.  My plus is non.

Not digging all these wasted opportunities.

[38] as to the sawx, the answer is not scientific.  Rather it is moral: justice.

[40] That’s why my plus is non, SG.

How can the glorioles be in the wild card lead with their huge negative run differential?

By winning/losing more close games.  It’s not really any more complex than that.

The question is whether it’s sustainable.  For some reason I think the Orioles will be hanging around.

What is it Pythogoras who said, “In onion, there is strength”?

Maybe it was Abe Lincoln.

I believe Pythagoras coined the term “kosmos.”  Don’t know about his feelings regarding onion.

Well, that stinks.

Goddamit Toyota!!!

I missed Mel.

[44] No, that’s a character from the excellent book _Holes_ (or the even better movie of the same name).

Way to protect the lead

Someone please to explain the “On-field delay” for the non-TV-empowered?

Well that fell apart in a hurry.

What did joltin Joe Girardi do to cause hisself to be ejaculated from the game?

Why did Girardi get ejected?

Damn.

But you know, offense, you need to score more than 2 runs to win usually.  Hows about doing that (he says after they put up double-digits the night before)?

Girardi must have been bottling up his true emotions for a good long while.  That is not good for him, because that which is repressed ramifies like a fungus in the dark and will eventually find expression in an extreme, distorted, and anti-social form, leading to ejaculation from a baseball contest and feelings of shame and remorse and lightness in the pocket book.

Another one of these games where we score early, go to sleep, baserunning and then surrenders the lead.  Dreams of a split shattered.

Mel you think you be making plenty of sense but you don’t be sayin shit.

At least they took 1 out of 4

Even Ja Rule Ibanez cannot save us from a fate of damnation.

Yeah, one out of four is one more than I expected.  Yay Spiders.

[57] Nothing so terrifying as a ramified fungus.  Unless it’s the Yankees over the last 20 games.

This feels like 2008, except this time the Yankees weren’t already in a hole when the collapse began

My GF had a ramified fungus so I told myself Mel you better leave that shit alone cuz it will make you null and void.

I am frustrated and nonplussed by this latest turn of events.  I demand a blue-ribbon panel to study the problems beleaguering the New York Yankees, complete with recommendations for cutting the deficit.

Who else here is nonplussed?

Hiroki is no joki he deserves more run support.

We need the exorcist.  And a blue-ribbon panel.

What else do we need?

At some point Kuroda just needs to say fuck this shit and bat for himself, since his team certainly can’t

I think the silence speaks volumes about peoples’ plussedness or lack thereof.

[72] I agree emphatically with this post.  It makes plenty of sense.

What pitcher was the greatest you ever saw at wriggling out of jams and jellies?

[75] Any pitcher facing the Yanks this year?

Seriously, has a one run deficit with three innings to go ever seemed less surmountable?

The Rays will win the East, no doubt about it.

[78] ah the vaunted dakranker, noted for his sunny optimism, bordering on pollyannaism and polyunsaturatedism.

[76] Correct

Eaton is within striking distance of a new WR with 1 event left to go and will almost certainly take home gold.

How can DJ manage to hit into a DP here?

Adam Eaton?  I thought he retired?

Buster Eaton?  I thought he did silent films.

Alright so what happened on the foul ball?

I thought Buster Eaton was the catcher for the Giants?

Positively shocking.

[86] That’s Parker Posey.

I feel a 1-run loss coming on. Followed tonight by an Oriole 1-run win.

[89] I do too.  Feel it in this here prison cell.

Rapid Clay Rapada brought in in relief.

Do the Yanks even get to bat again? Would it matter?

yes and no

If we lose, and I hope we don’t, let it be a one run loss which at least provides some black comedy and auto schadenfreude.

Let’s go Yankees!

Joan Benoit on the hill now for les tigres

Just got out of a 2:30 meeting.  Of course we didn’t score again or hold the lead.

Wow, wasn’t expecting that!

Surmounted!

Man it must feel good to get Benoit like that! Seems like he just dominates us constantly