I have listened to Ozzie’s rant about losing twice to Bruce Chen SO MANY TIMES.

No announcers on the YES feed. This. Is. Glorious.

Brett Gardner is fast.

K and BUC are back. Dammit!

I like runs in the first inning.

[4] Imagine this, though: Hawk Kay.

Swisher’s numbers are looking good, you think he gets resigned?

Chavy!

Swisher’s numbers are looking good, you think he gets resigned?

He’s got an option for 2012, pretty sure it’s going to get picked up.

At the gym, they had the Monday Night Baseball pre-game on. The featured graphic was sad-faced picture of Manny Acta and a smug-faced picture of Tito. It compared their records since May 24, as though the teams had been playing each other every day. Very odd. Luckily no sound so I couldn’t hear Aaron Boone’s “thoughts.”

[6] Thanks for my nightmare I shall have later tonight.

[9] The option is only for $10.25M (with $1M already guaranteed as the buy-out). I can’t see any reason they wouldn’t keep him around for 1 more season at $9.25M.

Nice play, Robbie!

[1-11] Honey badger don’t give a fuck.

Didn’t know he had an option. He’s worth $10 mill.

Lackey should be giving up more than 2 runs.

Granderson for 2 more years $23M to $25M remaining (depending on if he is an all-star and where he finishes in MVP balloting) looks like a pretty neat deal right now.

I enjoy the mainstream spin that Dunn kind of sucked all along because he only hit home runs. What? Never a great player because of his defensive game. He had value with the bat before this debacle though. I thought it was a great signing actually. Go figure.

So glad Chavy is back.  I like Nunez, but he’s a little too raw in the field.

Granderson!

Lackey pitching more like the player I’ve come to love this season.

“Lackey should be giving up more than 2 runs.”

Apparently he takes requests.

Am I alone in thinking, that with Buchholz done for the season, the Sox rotation is no better than the Yanks?

Edit: Lackey getting goferiffic!

I thought it was a great signing actually.

I think Dunn’s having a tough time facing pitchers he hasn’t seen before.  I’d bet on him rebounding a fair amount next year.

BTW, F*** Josh Tomlin.

Jorge is overdue to make an out on the basepaths.  Just saying.

I can’t wait for the Jesus to get here.

And lackey is done.  Isn’t there a rule that managers need to be in uniform. 

Tito ain’t.  A 3/4 pullover is hobo territory.

Congratulations to Teix for getting his average back over .250.

Fundamental baseball right there.

Did Michael Kay just call Nunez Ramirez?

Oh! Umps reverse a bum call in favor of a two-run jack for the Tribe. Cleveland up 7-5.

Bard has not given up an earned run since May 23rd.

The Indians have runners at the corners with no outs against him.

Think they’ll score?

EDITED TO ADD: I see they changed the single into a homer. Wow, Bard’s first earned runs since May 23rd!

WTF Swisher?

Think they’ll score?

Yes.

This game could use more runs for the Yankees.

I like Nunez, but he’s a little too raw in the field.

Gee, what would make you think that?

Fukudome looks and runs like Matsui.

I think this game requires some insurance runs.

Good lord.
Do I have to root for the Rangers?
http://outofbounds.yahoo.com/?vid=26124048

Stupid Pesky Pole….oh wait

These doubles are annoying.

Come on, CC!

I’m confused. The Indians scored three in the top of the 8th but the Red Sox did not score eight in the bottom of the 8th.

So weird.

Has there ever been a Curse player named for the span between 1978 and 1996? 18 years, 10 days and 28 minutes. I blame Mike Heath.

This would be a good time for a homer Teix.

[40]
Because he left the team?
Then the previous stretch wouldn’t be the Horace Clarke era.
How about Steve Balboni?

Tough decision on leaving CC in there. Pierre is much better against LHP and Ramirez owns Sabathia. I would go to Robertson, no doubt about it.

So far, so good.
Also, I still have to call it the Steve Trout era, no matter that that fiasco happened relatively late in the game.
Trout. What?  sorry, I’ll watch my language.

39 Townie reverse CT

[42] Except there’s already a Curse of the Balboni.

[43]
So far, so good.

[12] #hbdc

[46]
Fair enough, I hadn’t heard of that!
Still, 44.

Damn, 98?

[43] CC at < 100 pitches is always the right decision.  Unless it’s Mo.  98mph on pitch 103 of the night.

Does Eric Chavez still always win at cards?

Most liked the CC signing… but it really is panning out significantly better than we expected, isn’t it?

98’s a suprisingly popular number these days (innings)

Geez.  This guy’s GD for the AB looks like a certain darts grouping from Young Frankenstein.

What’s the record here for consecutive posts?

Probably held by FGas.

Pinch hitting for the DH is kind of embarassing.  Building the case for a DFA?

[56] Backlasher

[57]  Thanks?

Oh, is that you, Frances?

56 Backlasher was bored, very bored.

[61]  Would you not have said it if you knew I was aboard?

I thought we were friends.  Now I feel like the guy in “Cedar Rapids.”  Everything is bad and tainted.

[56] Right.
[57] You’re loved by all, guy.  All in fun.
By the way, [61] is a quote.  From something.  Don’t remember what.

[63] And I wrote [64] before I saw [63].

But fgas takes it, non-Rain Delay Division.

[58] That, also, has happened.

Pinch hitting for the DH is kind of embarassing.  Building the case for a DFA?

At least building the case for some of those DH PA going to Jesus.  I don’t think they’ll DFA Posada, since he has value as a pinch-runner.

CC obviously didn’t have his strongest stuff tonight, but he did a damn fine job anyhow.  We might have to offer him more money if he opts out.

Rios is due vs Mo

What happened in the Townie game ? Rainout ? I though they’re supposed to play 9 innings or until TWN has more runs than any other two teams also playing that night ?

Mo is so cool.

Yay win!

Yay Mo!  Yay CC! Yay win!

Mo had some juice tonight.

Mo is Mo.

I could see really hating Cervelli if I was not a Yankee fan. Even as a Yankee fan, deficiencies as a player aside, his mannerisms can get annoying.

Made it look easy

When I’m on my goddamn deathbed and the best parts of my life are flashing before my eyes, all I’m going to see is a steady diet of Rivera cutters.

Of course, Mo may still be pitching seeing as how that’ll be sooner rather than later. What with the drinking.

[75] When you’re a catcher who can’t hit or play defense, you have to take your celebrations where you can get them.

[78]
Because at other positions (excluding DH), that wouldn’t be a problem, right?

Cyabathia

Posada has a better slash line than Carl Crawford.  By a good margin.  That is all.

In other news, can it be Jesus time now please?

Have I missed Montero conquering AAA?

Think the Indians will take Jorge Posada for Asdrubal Cabrera?  Eduardo Punez?

Newsflash: Jared Weaver is a complete doucher.

[83]
Which is brought on by… ?

Jesus is like backlasher, bored.  Call him up and give him a challenge.

[84] He had a bit of a meltdown yesterday after Guillen showboated after homering off him.  The ump had a long chat with him and then he threw his next pitch at Alex Avila’s head.  Weaver’s about to get suspended.

[84] He decided a player who hit a home run off him showed him up, so he threw at the next batter’s head, to prove he’s a badass and deserving of more respect. #playingthegametherightway

CC obviously didn’t have his strongest stuff tonight, but he did a damn fine job anyhow.  We might have to offer him more money if he opts out.

Did you forget that everyone on this site is required to want CC to walk when he opts out?

Ah. Very awesome.

[88] I thought only us white folks didn’t want to extend him.

[88] I thought only us white folks didn’t want to extend him.

Group-think is color blind.

[90] I know a number of people on this site, and I haven’t met a white person yet.

Lots of pasty, pale pink ones, though.

[92] I prefer to think of myself as the purest shade of translucent alabaster.