Up in the Fenway pressbox today.  Ready for small unnoticeable fist pumps.  Although lots of NY media all around here.

The whole town is going nuts over the 1-6 Sawx.

[2] We gaht ess eh juggahnawt !

[1] Give a sloppy French kiss to the remdawg from Mel Hall.

Whatever.

Now it feels like baseball season.

The probability of a Yankee win is so low it approaches assymptotically zero hence whatever.

I fully expect a 12-2 blowout.

From the 2011 New York Yankees Potential Milestone Sheet the NY media was kind enough to supply:

Jorge Posada needs 1 hit to tie Phil Ruzzoto (1,588) for 14th place on Yankees’ all-time hits list.

Derek Jeter needs 3 hits to tie Barry Bonds (2,953) for 33rd place on MLB all-time list.

Jonathan, here’s your milestone sheet for the August 5th game at Fenway:

Derek Jeter needs 1 hit to tie Barry Bonds (2,953) for 33rd place on MLB all-time list.

Stronger PED HGH, Roids, Knute Epstein pep talk or a pitcher wo a fastball.

Have the Sox clinched a playoff spot yet or do they need to win this afternoon as well?

[11] I think today’s win gives them home field advantage through the 2013 season.

I kind of want Colon to have a great season just to see Goldman’s head explode, and the endless columns explaining that while he may have been mistaken, he wasn’t actually wrong.

Also, I’m excited to see what Nova’s got today.

Fox sideline douc…announcer just blurted out, in all seriousness, that Boston fans have optimism for the season because they came into yesterday’s game undefeated at home, and plan to keep the momentum.

Uh, well, ok, so long as C-W Fuse pitches the first two innings of every game and is traded like, 25 times this season to keep him on the mound at Fenway.

13: thats one of us but I hope I’m wrong

Listening to Serling laptop deserves the Cy right now

McCarver’s key to watch: Saltalamachia, who not only has the longest name in the league, but eh…sticks his leg out to the side when catching. No mention of how either would affect the game, I have to presume that’s the kind of insight you need to be a former player to appreciate.

(McC mispronounced the name).

[15] You don’t want Goldman’s head to explode ? I hope your wrong about that, too.

Jete was safe on replay.

Looks like April Tex finally showed up.

Also what kind of idiot gets psyched up by THEO EPSTEIN?  Mark Zuckerberg?

Why would you run Jeter there ? Wouldn’t you rather have a baserunner on for Teix and A-Rod, instead of a runner at second and a 1-2-3 inning ?

Woooah…the old center of the plate brushback ! Better watch out if you’re gonna start that shit.

BOHICA

It’s getting ugly quick.

Nice recovery, would have liked to see some groundballs, but I’ll take it.

Nova clamps down.

Jeter must have run on his own.  He’s deranged.  Girardi ought to tells him no bunts, only steal when I say, but he won’t.

If you’re going to give the Elf a base, make him earn it with a bruise.

Nova looks like he throws pretty free and easy to me for a guy who sits 92-94.

Alex’s bat looks so quick.

A-Rod with the power bunt !

Great fielding by Jessica Lowrie.

I’d like to see Canoe deposit one on the Mass pike.

Smoked to dead center

Cano rakes in this ballpark, year in and year out.

lazy double

Buck taking credit for calling the double.

Swish Nicker badly fooled on the change

At least Sterling is happy.

Swish has become the master of the RBI groundout recently.

Julio Caesar Chavez on deck

Laptops throwing fastball/change/occasional curve

Good eye, Grandyman

I’d like Chavez to be the master of the RBI double right now.

Yay, Julio Caesar!

Holy Crap, it worked !

Can A-Rod still play short?

Loving the offense so far. When did the Red Sox trade for Hughes?

He must be off the hunger strike

Well Chavez has already exceeded my expectation of him this year.

Mark Prior will too if he even pitch one Minor league game without being hurt

48 wouldn’t that be nice

Shit, fuck, piss.

Stupid.

Totally unnecessary to run on that.

suboptimal

not… a .... strike…

Gardner is totally locked in.

Take the bat offa your goddam shoulder

We should’ve gotten so much more out of that inning.

[60] True.  I hate when we don’t bury them.

Any guesses on how big the Sox lead will be after this inning?

[60] Now THAT’s a complaint.

Could be getting late early

[62] 4, going by my Hughesometer.

now the inevitable coughing back the lead immediately inning

[62] 5-2

I see a three run inning at least…

I’m optimistic, I’m saying 4-2.

Once again, the key statistical graphic: longest last name in mlb history.

Cashman is such an idiot, he doesn’t even compete for this kind of thing.

[69] You’re deluding yourself.

thank god Jarrod Satalamachacaceadfadtaea is the new Jason Varitek

I’d like Elsbury to become the master of the weak DP grounder Jeter right now.

Ok, maybe now it will only be 2-2 after this frame.

[74] Don’t worry if they don’t get to us now they will next inning.

In the words of OTF, “me likes Nova” 

Am I really biased to think that Nova is getting squeezed a bit while Clay is getting a fairly generous zone?

hurrah for black hole lineups

Jeter brings the intangibles to compensate for immobility.

Something’s wrong. The scoreboard is showing a 0 for the Sox in that inning. Surely that can’t be accurate, right?

Buck complaining that BG is to TS and it’s unfair that Elsbury was robbed.

Oh, they’re going to take a closer look at the A-Rod tag now. They’ll be doing this one frame by frame, but the Jeter stolen base just got a pass ?

[80] Don’t trouble yourself, Donovan Osborne Cox, the crooked numbers will appear in due course.

Longest Jeter contact this year.

In Russ Hodges’s voice “he hit a fly ball, he hit a fly ball, Jeter hit a fly ball.”

Buck and McCarver are the most insufferable announcers.  I watch with the volume turned off.

Buck and McCarver are the most insufferable announcers.  I watch with the volume turned off.

[84] HA ! I beat the tag !

sorry for the double post

Buttholez has a really good change up.

I’d love to see Robinson go yard.

Great grit on the fielding miss by Desitin Pedroia.

Me loves Cano.

I’d like to see Swisher go yard.

now is a good time to stop sucking Swisher

[94] I don’t see Joanna Garcia around.

grrrrrrrrrrrr

OK, that was a really funny commercial with Arec Bardwin.

Yeah, Tim, he busted it out of the batter’s box, right after he kept from falling on his ass. And doubles have nothing to do with scorched grounders down the line along the wall, it’s all about the batter’s box.

Very happy with how Nova has navigated this lineup so far.

Hurray, Joe. The Red Sox are on the board. The Yankees got a “cheap run” on their RBI grounder, but the Sox are ON THE BOARD !