[0] “subjected to watching Hughes trying to do something he is not equipped to do”

Nicely done.  I was all set to follow with snark but you were already putting away your setup shot.

You misspelled Natinals.

I thought going with Natinals would have been hack.

Strasburg is only 2 years younger than our hero which would be kinda surprising except after every disappointing phil year at least 100 people point out that he is 1 year younger/ the same age as/one year older/two years older than phenom x/y/z

3- best leave it to me, then

Uh… is everyone over in dred’s living room listening to the story?

Go Yanks! Go Phil! Hope all Nationals home runs are just solo shots!

Impressive battling from The Gopher

I’m stunned.  Stunned!
Stunned.

Gameday and MLBTV jacked up at the same time?

So far, Teix is the offensive hero of the game.

Hughes has “wow” stuff tonight. There. that leaves room for interpretation.

Of course Swisher would be laughing after that silly play. Dbag.

double post

Rare baserunning mistake by Arod

Pete, reading the New Yorker piece. ?, Stalin’s dead? A lot of people missed that one.

So does Jeter look like he’s hitting again or are we stealing signs with no one on?

Nix>>>>>>>>>>>Nunez

OTF, we like to be informative as well as entertaining!
While you’ve brought it up, any support in the social media will be greatly appreciated.  Comments, recommends (the grown-up New Yorker word for “likes”), shares, etc.  We’re close to a point that would put the piece into a higher status which would mean a good chance of getting into the New Yorker on a regular basis.
Which would be fabulous.
 
Btw, besides revelation about the Great Leader - what did you think of it?

That’s about 40 strikeouts in 5 innings… that is a record, right?

WP - what’s the link?

It’s here:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/martin-amis-in-conversation-with-olga-slavnikova.html

[19] Wombat Pete is Leonard Lopate?

Bting on Strasburg.  Lee and Susan also.  All of em’

[23]
Sshhhhh!!!!!!!!!

Why does it almost never feel as if this team is winning, even when it is?

Dred.
Italian supermodel.

It’s late, and I may be drunk.  But from here it looks like Hughes is dealing.

[23] dred, pete is really the good ghost of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky. Sounds crazy but the guy was a Yanks fan.

[29]
Now AKA Leonard Lopate.
AND Martin Amis.

[27]  If there really was an Italian supermodel, I wouldn’t be here on a Friday night, now would I?

Dzerzhinsky was Polish, btw. Just sayin’.
They put in the screen doors.

[29] He was a Yankees fan?  Must have been a pretty good guy then.

Can’t an Italian supermodel be a rabid Yankee fan?
Can’t she?
...
...(sigh)

Was listening to the Natinals (not above that hack joke) radio feed earlier and they went through the ENITRE Yankees DL list, which took quite a while. Pedro Feliciano. Good times.

[32] Better vodka.  http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=632   Good taters.

[35] I posted this earlier in the wrong thread, but our friend Becky has been scratched from his next start with shoulder inflammation and Jason Bay managed to concuss himself tonight while allowing an inside the park home run.  At least no Yankee has done that (yet).

[37] Now you’ve done it.
Btw, the first time I went to Russia, before I spoke a word of the language, I was in a map & poster store in Moscow and came across a huge, two-part Dzerzhinsky poster.  I was so amazed that they would have anything of the sort that I bought it and framed it.
Bet it’s worth a pretty penny now as unfindable Soviet evil kitsch.

Third strike, where art thou?

Oh cool, Robertson is back.

I was kind of dreading the bullpen turning into a pumpkin tonight, but I guess it won’t be midnight for awhile.

[38] I think the Belorussians (whatever they are) put up a statue of Dzerzhinsky sometime in the last decade.  I remember being dumbfounded by that.

Also dumbfounding-Phil Hughes has sneakily become a decent pitcher again.

THERE it is!!!

[41]
Ok, now you’ve done it. Again. !!!

Great outing by Hughes!

No home runs? The record is safe.

Phil has only really sucked twice in his last 10 starts.  Must. . .not. . .be. . .optimistic.

Hold on, are we about to see the first Phil start of 2012 without a gopher ball? Nicely done young man! Pray Girardi doesn’t leave him in an inning too long..

[47] I think Fuse gets PH for this inning if they get to his spot.

Did Jones really steal?

[49] No.  They pinch ran Wise for him.

Leiter with an excellent point, Cano to hit for Fuse.

Edit - and a better follow up, don’t waste Cano to PH with first open as they’ll walk him.

[50] Ah, thanks.

Binder says the Nats should intentionally walk Nix.

[47] Aye aye sir.
[19] Sorry pete. missed the question. I really enjoyed the article despite the England fanboy farns. You are well aware of my feelings about “them peeps.”

Bases loaded? We’re fucked

Why not PH Iganez there? They probably walk ANY LHB the Yankees put up there. Hell, PH CC right there.

Lidge is throwing crap. Fastball time.

gameday scout telling me that Lidge showed faith in Jesus.

Very nice. Thanks baseball gods.

Who are these people and what have they done with the 2012 New York Yankees?

4 runs without the long ball tonite

Can anyone tell me what exactly happened in Jeter’s at bat?

Granderson!

Outlandish cavalier!

dfa, I believe, is the proper response.

[62] 3 really cool things. If nobody else does, I’ll rewind and type it. I’m the worlds worst (and slowest) typist.

I wish ATL would finally stand up to someone in the AL East. It’s disgraceful.

I can root against BAL tonite, since TWN already lost.

What’s the combination probability of two zero probability events taking place; we win a game without a homer times Hughes does not give up a homer.

[62] Bases loaded,3-2 count,1 out, bouncer to far left short, ss picks it, Nomars the ball to the short side of first, Jeet safe 2 runs score to make it 4-1.

[62] Bases loaded,3-2 count,1 out, bouncer to far left short, ss picks it, Nomars the ball to the short side of first, Jeet safe at second, 2 runs score to make it 4-1.

[54] OTF, I’m glad to hear that, thanks!

Nats surrender to the inevitable.  Let us have Harper now.  We’ll give you Nova, Nuney and Betances.

Still baffled that teams don’t absolutely destroy Rapada and Eppley, but I’ll take it!

Bob Feller was 17 when he entered the AL. That’s effen crazy.

Psh. Clearly this team can’t win without the long ball.

Fascinating, Pete. My own world view is very Soviet/Stalin phobic, which is how we were raised, but in my heart I want to believe in the victimhood of the Russian peoples (excuse my lumping all the non-russian ethnic victims of the soviets into one label) and champion their liberation - not at our hands, but at their own. We have so little visibility into the reality of 90 years or so over there.

MVP MVP MVP !

It’s too easy to pretend that Stalin personally made all that happen.
Not realistic.  I have ideas about how it happened; some of the authors I love most lived through it… or didn’t live through it.  It was a system that slowly spun out of control.
Kind of like the Mets, actually.

after scanning the pitching matchup I figured we’d dominate so didn’t bother following…..

D-Rob, why not strike out the first three, THEN load the bases?
(Think he’ll fall for it?)

complete win

Arguments at my office re Stalin’s complicity in mass murder between right wingers and tbe communists (active PL)

I like these percentages on the my9 poll, either nice rounded coincidence, or exactly 20 people texted in. I also like this guy’s accent.

QS in 6 of Phil’s last 8 starts. Pretty good young man.

[78, 82] I think it’s perhaps more a question of who else was complicit. It is too easy to focus ONLY on the leader. For my part, I choose to believe in the victimhood of the people at the hands of the movement, though I know, like in Germany, or anywhere else one chooses to point (including certain regrettable aspects of our own history) the people also bear a certain responsibility.

Miami are a bunch of cupcakes with no bottom.