14 Yes, Yes! Fantastic uniform, and one of the great all time wind-ups. My buddy was a huge Pirates fan when we were kids and they had Pops Stargell and the Family, he used to always try and pitch like Tekulve. Didn't he hold the all time appearences record until Jesse Orosco broke it?
Holy guacamole. That's unreal about Shawn Chacon. He attacked the Astros GM, choking him and throwing him to the floor. He was angry at being demoted to the pen. He's been released.
His career is likely over, and should be.
I had no idea he was like that.
And too bad about KT. He had season-ending surgery on his hand, and was released by the Pirates.
My sister when to St. Mary's, which is across the street from Notre Dame. She had a roommate from Montoursville who dated Mussina in High School. I always thought that was mildly interesting.
2223 i really have no idea if any yankees are able to steal on their own - but if arod went on his own, it wasn't that smart as it was unnecessary (though i do like some of the aggressiveness over the last few weeks) - can't blame him for getting doubled off on a pop up to the catcher though
23 It was more the way he stopped between 1B and 2B to look at where his ball hit. I guess he thought it was a home run or ground-rule double. But jeez, if there's any doubt, get your butt over to 2B.
60 ... A Severe Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect until 830 PM EDT
for Allegheny and Washington counties...
At 734 PM EDT... National Weather Service Doppler radar continued to
indicate a severe thunderstorm capable of producing penny size
hail... and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was
located near Virsoix..moving east at 28 mph.
Ah, good to see you all. Alex, I still don't know how to pronounce his name without cheating. So I'll just call him either Tek-Serve or Tek-None. Vote?
And that uni... reminds me of my LL uni, except the letters were royal purple. We couldn't even win for losing, that's for sure...
Good news on the forcast.
Tonights weather is being dominated by a Canadian low... which is not to be confused with a Mexican high.
Tonights forcast..... DARK!
Remaining mostly dark, turning to widely scattered light in the morning.
Play Ball!
The problem with blowing through the pen tonight is tomorrow is a doubleheader . . . so Traber gets sent down for someone (Patterson, Karstens, Igawa? (shudder)) to help during Giese's start if needed, then that someone gets demoted for Ponson? Then what happens? Does Giese have options? Ponson, I'm sure, does not. Is he one and done? Or do they finally DFA Moeller?
The Cleveland game, which had been delayed by this same storm, has just resumed play. The Yankees will be in for a long night, but they will get the rest of the game in.
No idea who's going to pitch. Veras pitched yesterday, but only one inning, so maybe he's good for another. Hawkins can't be ready yet after his 49 pitches on Tuesday. Ohlendorf threw 19 pitches yesterday, I guess he'd be okay for one. Edwar last pitched Tuesday (12 pitches). My guess:
I agree, the longer this game goes, the worse tomorrow looks.
To be honest, I'm just hoping the Yanks can split this weekend. My preference would be for them to win Game 1 at the Stadium and then Sunday simply because I loathe Oliver Perez.
That's the nightmare of this game. If they stick around all night and get part of it in or don't at all, they still don't get home until the wee hours of the morning, then turn around for a day game and THEN a night game.
Sigh. Sometimes I really wish the new Yankee Stadium had a retractable roof. I have a feeling it would end up being a pretty big advantage, not having to make up these games via doubleheaders and playing on off days (especially at the end of the season).
It wouldn't help for tonight's game, but if Yankee Stadium had a roof, there would be no need to play a day game tomorrow.
112 I suppose adrenaline could carry them through tomorrow, but then they have another day game on Saturday - that is going to really, really suck.
Anyone know the forecast/weather was this afternoon in Pittsburgh? So nice of them to not move the game to the day. I can't imagine this storm just appeared out of nowhere.
113 I've got a simpler idea - eliminate this idiotic interleague crap. The schedule becomes much easier overall, and fairer - and it becomes easier to re-schedule missed games, too.
116 umm...no... 117 you mean Royals-Diamondbacks doesn't it do it for you? I personally like inter-league play, getting to see that young Volquez pitch against the Yanks was a pleasure (except for us losing of course..)
114 No way would they move the game to the day. The fans would have been furious. They were probably charged extra for this game, and they're at work during the day.
115 Nah, but my ill feelings are tempered by the fact the Pedro is just a name at this point. Outside of Johan, the Mets' other starters are just as inconsistent as their Yankee counterparts, perhaps moreseo. I trust in the Yankee O a lot more than I'm skurred of the Metsies.
119 Actually, last year the Yanks had a better record vs the AL then the Red Sox - who road a ridiculous record vs the crappy NL to the division. I don't know how its played out in other years, but its clear that the imbalance of the interleague schedules affects races.
118 Even Yankees-Mets doesn't do it for me anymore. 11 years ago, it was fresh and new and different. Now its linoleum-curling blah, just another over-hyped series that fuels the fish rags and the media machine. It might be different for you City dwellers, but I'd be perfectly happy never if the Yanks never played the Mets in the regular season again.
I just whiled away some time reading Bill James (an actual book, not the internets!). He writes that he studied the question of how much more important the 'relief ace' runs prevented are than the 'starter ace', and he had to try out several different models (based on the way relievers were used in different eras).
It turns out that if you use your relief ace in the most effective way, his runs-prevented have triple the impact of a starter's. A starter adds one win for each 8 or 9 runs prevented. A reliever used in tie games or with a one run lead in late innings gives you an extra win for every 2.5 runs prevented.
Now, no manager has ever used a relief ace like that (James thinks Whitey Herzog basically understood the proper strategy). Even so, moving Joba to starter no longer seems like a no-brainer.
120 Aren't the fans furious now though? They paid a bunch of money which has gotten them 2 and a half innings of a game. Most of them have probably gone home, so if the game finishes tonight, that's all they got. If there's a makeup game, that's likely to be a day game, in the middle of the week, maybe in September when the kids are back in school. If it even gets made up at all.
124 But that is going to depend on the team, no? A crappy team is not going to have a lot of instances where the game is tied going into the 8th (or 7th, even), or where they have just a 1-run lead going into the 8th (or 7th). Same thing for a team with a big offense and an OK pitching staff.
Let's be broad and assume you want a tie game or a lead going into the 7th inning. So far, I've found 9 games where the Yanks were tied or up by 1 going into the 7th, and ultimately won the game. I'll let you know if I find anymore.
113 Really, a $1.3+ billion dollar stadium and no roof. MLB should design a cost effective roof and mandate it on new stadiums. Even a 1/2 roof which covered the infield would be effective.
If the schedule went to 5 game series, while I haven't dont the math, I'm guessing it would save a dozen days or more. 19 game series could be 4 trips instead of 6. 10 game series could 2 trips instead of 3. That's a bunch of days saved.
124 It wouldn't matter because managers use their 'ace' or closer for the 9th, as opposed to the highest leverage situation. LaTroy and Co. would still come in with bases loaded and no out in the fifth, give up 4 runs, and make Joba and Mo's role 'mute'.
126 Actually I think that the statistics shows that crappy teams do have a higher percentage of close games, due to the fact that they can't put anyone away with superior offense/pitching.
For example, see the Orioles, and George Sherril's 26 saves on a team that has 39 wins. As a fantasy baseball player, I know this sort of thing happens every year- a crappy team has a valuable closer because they play a lot of close games.
126 OK, I found another 11 games: 6 loses, 5 wins. I'm still not sure James is right. How often is a crappier pitcher going to get his team a 1-run lead or a tie going into the 7th to use the ace reliever appropriately?
127 Unless the weather forecast, a couple of days in advance, is for a huge storm the night of the game.
128 I'm no architect, but my understanding is that a retractable roof is simply not cheap, whatever the design.
Besides, how many rain outs in the NYC are there are year? This year, 1 so far. Last year, 2. In '06, 5. In '05, 1 (and it was in October). In '04, 4. So over the last 4 and a half years, the Stadium has averaged under 3 rainouts a year. Is that worth another $350-$500M? I doubt it.
132 You can expect Perez to show up half the time, though apparently there is absolutely no timetable for those occasions. Kei on the other hand... well, maybe if we tossed him bodily at the other team, but that's about it.
139 But with so few rainouts, my guess is that rain delays on the last day of a series are even more scarce.
And again, the far cheaper solution is to rid the schedule of interleague play. More games against the other non-division AL teams, and so more opportunities to make those games up if needed.
140 But if the polar ice caps melt in the next fifty years, would it not compel MLB to build stadiums on stilts? My point being is, why be reactive and head off any potential trouble, when it will cost more down the line to fix a problem that is foreseen?
145 I don't know if there are special procedures for athletes/charter flights, but for ordinary travelers, customs going into Canada aren't bad. They pretty much wave you through unless they have reason to suspect otherwise.
Customs coming back to the U.S., however, are brutal.
147 Yeah, U.S. customs and airport security procedures are the worst in the world. Not that they shouldn't be stringent, but they could be a LOT more efficient, effective and friendly. I love coming back to Japan and breezing through customs even though I am not a citizen.
Sorry, way off topic, I know.
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I also really, really want to see Moose win 20.
His career is likely over, and should be.
I had no idea he was like that.
And too bad about KT. He had season-ending surgery on his hand, and was released by the Pirates.
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for Allegheny and Washington counties...
At 734 PM EDT... National Weather Service Doppler radar continued to
indicate a severe thunderstorm capable of producing penny size
hail... and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was
located near Virsoix..moving east at 28 mph.
Eek.
We need Chyll Will to get us through this rain delay.
And that uni... reminds me of my LL uni, except the letters were royal purple. We couldn't even win for losing, that's for sure...
(cricket, cricket)
too bad pedro is starting game two.
Tonights weather is being dominated by a Canadian low... which is not to be confused with a Mexican high.
Tonights forcast..... DARK!
Remaining mostly dark, turning to widely scattered light in the morning.
Play Ball!
He has drawn a hilarious mental picture with this one.
Check out 'When worlds collide' on the Lohud site.
The problem with blowing through the pen tonight is tomorrow is a doubleheader . . . so Traber gets sent down for someone (Patterson, Karstens, Igawa? (shudder)) to help during Giese's start if needed, then that someone gets demoted for Ponson? Then what happens? Does Giese have options? Ponson, I'm sure, does not. Is he one and done? Or do they finally DFA Moeller?
Giese has done too well to get sent packing.
No idea who's going to pitch. Veras pitched yesterday, but only one inning, so maybe he's good for another. Hawkins can't be ready yet after his 49 pitches on Tuesday. Ohlendorf threw 19 pitches yesterday, I guess he'd be okay for one. Edwar last pitched Tuesday (12 pitches). My guess:
4th and 5th: Ohlendorf
6th: Edwar
7th: Veras
8th: Farnsworth
9th: Rivera
Rather than burn out one pitcher in a close game, just a moderate effort from a bunch of them.
The Pirates, meanwhile, have that pitcher they just traded for, Denny Bautista, who can go for a lot probably.
I also forgot that Matsui could go on the DL, which would make all of this simpler.
Man, that crosstown doubleheader tomorrow makes this rain delay brutal.
...be right back, that thought alone makes me want to go restock on beer...
To be honest, I'm just hoping the Yanks can split this weekend. My preference would be for them to win Game 1 at the Stadium and then Sunday simply because I loathe Oliver Perez.
Not a bad idea! Sacrifice the game, save the pen.
It wouldn't help for tonight's game, but if Yankee Stadium had a roof, there would be no need to play a day game tomorrow.
Anyone know the forecast/weather was this afternoon in Pittsburgh? So nice of them to not move the game to the day. I can't imagine this storm just appeared out of nowhere.
109 111 I bet he could handle 50 pitches!
117 you mean Royals-Diamondbacks doesn't it do it for you? I personally like inter-league play, getting to see that young Volquez pitch against the Yanks was a pleasure (except for us losing of course..)
118 Even Yankees-Mets doesn't do it for me anymore. 11 years ago, it was fresh and new and different. Now its linoleum-curling blah, just another over-hyped series that fuels the fish rags and the media machine. It might be different for you City dwellers, but I'd be perfectly happy never if the Yanks never played the Mets in the regular season again.
We'll probably end up getting tattooed by Andy Phillips...
It turns out that if you use your relief ace in the most effective way, his runs-prevented have triple the impact of a starter's. A starter adds one win for each 8 or 9 runs prevented. A reliever used in tie games or with a one run lead in late innings gives you an extra win for every 2.5 runs prevented.
Now, no manager has ever used a relief ace like that (James thinks Whitey Herzog basically understood the proper strategy). Even so, moving Joba to starter no longer seems like a no-brainer.
Let's be broad and assume you want a tie game or a lead going into the 7th inning. So far, I've found 9 games where the Yanks were tied or up by 1 going into the 7th, and ultimately won the game. I'll let you know if I find anymore.
You don't expect the game time to be moved from night to a weekday.
If the schedule went to 5 game series, while I haven't dont the math, I'm guessing it would save a dozen days or more. 19 game series could be 4 trips instead of 6. 10 game series could 2 trips instead of 3. That's a bunch of days saved.
For example, see the Orioles, and George Sherril's 26 saves on a team that has 39 wins. As a fantasy baseball player, I know this sort of thing happens every year- a crappy team has a valuable closer because they play a lot of close games.
anyways, still in shock that there is no roof in Minneapolis..that's beyond stupid..
Bonus Round Q: you're down to Oliver Perez and Kei Igawa to start Game 7...who would you choose?
127 Unless the weather forecast, a couple of days in advance, is for a huge storm the night of the game.
128 I'm no architect, but my understanding is that a retractable roof is simply not cheap, whatever the design.
Besides, how many rain outs in the NYC are there are year? This year, 1 so far. Last year, 2. In '06, 5. In '05, 1 (and it was in October). In '04, 4. So over the last 4 and a half years, the Stadium has averaged under 3 rainouts a year. Is that worth another $350-$500M? I doubt it.
132 To answer, I quote Pete Abe: "Melky has a good arm."
UPDATE, 10:16 p.m.: If you're staying up to watch the game, go to bed. They're going to call it any minute now.
And again, the far cheaper solution is to rid the schedule of interleague play. More games against the other non-division AL teams, and so more opportunities to make those games up if needed.
138 That's the second time I've linked to the wrong post today.
Sigh.
Customs coming back to the U.S., however, are brutal.
When Derek Jeter falls one hit shy of breaking Pete Rose's all-time hits record, let's all remember this game....
;-)
Sorry, way off topic, I know.
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