WHy do I get the bad feeling that 2012 is going to be like 2008 - not only in the elecction in Nov but the way the baseball season plays out.

Yeah, great place to whine about an election. A baseball blog where nobody has mentioned politics.

The best part of last night’s game was the Kate Upton video. And Martin. After that, it falls off sharply.

Which Kate Upton video…actually I’ve probably already seen it.

edit: Yes, yes I have.

bebop, does Magic City really suck? I thought the pilot did but the women were so fine that I thought about going back.

Yankz 2: True, I used to be one of the worst offenders but now I render to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to Jeter what is Jeter’s and never the twain shall meet.

4 The women are unbelievably, the look is great but the story is slow and meandering.

Let’s go Yankees.

Let’s go Yankees.

Vill, do you have evidence to back this up?

Wow Hochevar vs. Hughes. That’s kind of like the 2011 Red Sox vs. the 2010 Red Sox.

Yankz - sorry that came out wrong. I meant to say that 2008 was a bad year for me due to all the politicking AND the Yankees snoring theu the season. 2012 will be the same thing. I hate politics and I hate when the Yankees snooze thru a season. Meaning, that any time I turn on the TV there is nothing to watch since there is no baseball fun and eveything else is all politics all the time.

OK, I can agree with that. And I realized I was being a hypocrite since I’m usually the anti-censorship guy around here. So sorry about that.

So assuming the Yanks snore away 2012, any ideas what to watch on TV? I mean, how many times can I pop in my Giant Super Bowl Video and 2009 WS Video?

Apparently not Magic City either…

What shows are you watching in general, Big Fan? I mean, there’s all the stand-by picks like Breaking Bad, Wire and Mad Men, but I dunno what you’re watching already.

Get The Wire on DVD.

I’ve got the Kate Upton video on repeat.

Maybe we need to start a TV and Movie thread - let’s wait to July if things really get bad. Top movies of all time: Wizard of Oz, Frisco Kid (Gene Wilder kills me) and Princess Bride. For TV more like 24, Law and Order, and Seinfeld. 

Of course if the yankees win today they are going to win the pennant, so todays game is the most important of the year.

How many more years of ARod?  Ugh.

Maybe we could all go over someone’s house and watch movies in their basement while their mom makes us hot pockets and sunny-d.

So long as mom is ok with cigars.

Do cigars go well with Mountain Dew?
(Do they even still make Mountain Dew? Because otherwise we may have to call this off.)

I’m trying to work up the ambition to mow the lawn.  Hughes pitching well would keep on the couch.

When your first major league hit comes off of Phil Hughes, the accomplishment is a little tainted, right?

I’m trying to work up the ambition to mow the lawn.  Hughes pitching well would keep on the couch.

One run in two innings is pretty good for Hughes.

Teix and Iguana manufacture a run.
Yankee baseball!

The heater looks great. I think he’s ready for the bullpen.

Royals’ catchers are now 0 for their last 25.

Wow.

[25]
Oh, Hughes has great stuff.
I’m so…
excited…

So my wife and I got in a little fight this weekend about housework, and she sent me an e-mail in which she expressed her feelings. This is an exact quote…

“Things like setting up the bedroom for our guests, cleaning the shower, etc. are yet to be done! Also, you still needed to clean the places you missed in the bathroom,
but noticing that you didn’t get to it and understanding that you were
running out of time, I started that task for you. I feel like you waste time worrying about what’s going on with Mo Rivera and NOT doing what you need to do around the house. The house is NOT clean!”

A bunt hit! I forgot those were allowed.

Mmmmmhh, run.

Bases loaded, none out.
One more run or no more runs?

WOLFENSTEIN!

Cano! Doing a Jeter impression!

Wow. Hochevar stinks. I can’t believe he let an offense like the Yankees put up a crooked number.

Yeah, and thanks Teix, let’s NOT take some pitches against a guy on the ropes. A$$.

Get him on the ropes, [34]? The Yankees have 6 runs in 2.1 innings. They should want Hochevar to hang around for a bit…

[31]
Hey, that reverse jinx thing…
...interesting.

And why do we keep listing Hughes’ age as 26? He doesn’t turn 26 until June.

Yay Swisher! I didn’t even know you were back!

[34] Impressive complaining.

batting practice…

Yay Swisher!

[39] Isn’t that what this website was built for?

Jeter did not look amused by Swishalicious.

His baseball age is 26. Jeter isn’t actually 38 yet.

Haha! Cone’s comments about Ned Yost’s frustrations with Hochevar made Yost sound like a charter member of the Phil Hughes fan club…

[44]
??

I’m stuck at the JV ballpark.  Anything happenin’ in this game?

Darvish stuck out another 11 in 6 innings today. He did give up 3 er, but the dude is for real.

[46] Baseball-Reference uses July 1st as a cutoff to calculate ages for a season. Personally I would use a player’s oldest age in a given season, but it doesn’t really matter much. It just helps to be consistent when you are creating a database/doing analysis.

Oh, look - cap’n groundout.
[joke]
 
[49]
Thanks, tree.  Btw - why “Tree?”
Are you a baseball-watching ent?

What’s more likely, the Yankees scoring 7 runs, or Hughes only averaging 18 pitches per inning?

Singleton + Cone makes for a very very smart and pleasant broadcast.

[51]
Yankees scoring 7 runs.
By a lot.

[50] shorter and leafier.

Cano grounds out again.
DFA.

you know, I have no optimism, but as long as Hughes strikes out more than one batter an inning, don’t we kinda have to leave him in the rotation?

Hughes’ ERA is 6.66 right now…

as long as Hughes strikes out more than one batter an inning, don’t we kinda have to leave him in the rotation?

No.

Just got back from softball in the Park. Pulled both quads going first to third in the first inning. Had to play 14 innings with a hobble but I figured that was a better fate than going home to watch Phil pitch. How’s he look?

“I feel like you waste time worrying about what’s going on with Mo Rivera and NOT doing what you need to do around the house. The house is NOT clean!”

I like imagining yr wife has written/uttered similar sentences going back to, oh, 1997 or so…

I like imagining yr wife has written/uttered similar sentences going back to, oh, 1997 or so…

Before this month, why would anyone (except opposing players, managers, etc.) have worried about what was going on with Rivera?

Does anyone else kinda wish we had Damon instead of Ibanez?

I’m actually more convinced than ever that Hughes could be a great asset in the pen.

So, I guess this is WWWMY?

61—substitute other seasonally-appropriate Yankee name, was the idea….

[65]
Ah, well, then.
Carry on.

I did worry a lot about Dion James’s lack of production in 1995, but I was only 14 at the time.

If you take out the 2nd and 3rd innings, the Yankees are getting shut out.

Jeter: “What’d he do that for?”

[28] I too, suffer Post Traumatic Spouse Syndrome.

My solution: lots and lots of Oxycontin and whiskey. Makes you not care until you go properly deaf.

67—“Dion James’ inconsistent bat is not the problem here, young man—the problem is your inconsistent lawn mowing!”

Cone, whose opinion I respect, is really hammering this extra rest point. Saying it no coincidence that Hughes looks great with extra rest, and that should be more of a factor than pitch counts in keeping pitchers healthy and effective.

103 pitches, no HR.
If Girardi—no, he won’t….....would he?

I specifically held off asking about the last time Hughes gave us 4 consecutive scoreless innings… didn’t help.

You “missed places” cleaning the bathroom… that’s pretty horrifying, actually.
Have you tried “That’s what I got a wife for, dear”?
Just a thought.

I expected to see Hughes in the seventh… but not like this.

“flowing”

oh man, that hurts…one strike away from getting out of there, 0-2 count. Throw the hook, hughes

Hughes throwing 95 in the seventh!
And… can someone please post something so I don’t feel like you’re all slumped in your chairs, aghast at my political incorrectness and contemplating ways of banning and crucifying me?
Thanks.

My fault, I was the one what implied he had “good stuff.”

QS for Hughes.

Look at Jesus Montero, that guy can rake.

Btw I called that homer. Hughes with a chance to close out a good performance on a high note, Royals catchers 0 for whatever streak, 0-2 count? Too easy

[75] I chuckled.

[83] and Cone talking up how Hughes had settled in.

Who pitched for Hughes today? Cone? Wait, I hear Cones voice. What the eff happened today?

[84]
Thanks. ))

That Billy Bean knows how to build a team.

On radio sounded like PH gave up a few hard hit fly balls.  Is that accurate?

[89] Yes. He pitched to the Royals who are dead last in HR in the AL. So considering that Hughes’ problem is the long ball, there is no reason to be very happy about his start today. I still think he is bullpen bound when Andy comes back.

Yanks 2/30 with RISP over the previous 6 games. I feel like this could also be their BB/K ratio.

Man, the Red Sox blow.

Yanks, please put this one away.

Did you guys hear Chad Curtis is a child molester?

A-rod! Back to stat padding!

I looked in to catch the end of the 6th, saw Hughes was over 100 pitches; I wondered who would take over to pitch the seventh, allowing Hughes to finish the day with a great line - never occurred to me for an instant that Giradi might push his luck.

Thank you very much Arod.

94 the holier then thou Curtis who objected to Playboy in the locker room.

Why is Soriano pitching in the 8th leading by 7? Stretch Logan a little bit more and try to save Soriano and D-Rob

Is it just me or does the ump look like he wet himself?