Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
...on these New York Yankees. Look, I don't care what the pitching match-up is tonight, it's on each and every one of the Yankees to show-up and put forth a winning effort. If the Yanks don't make the playoffs, they've got nobody to blame but themselves.
Get it in gear, fellas, we'll be rooting you on.
Let's Go Yan-Kees.
Either way, what's say we win one for him? After all he's gone through for this team, it's the least they can do.
Seattle did us the favor of losing nine straight or whatever it was, so they're not exactly taking the thing by the throat either.
We could go all the way if we get hot and get lucky at the same time, but we could also fold like a three-dollar suit.
(Never mind the mixed-metaphor. :)
Who knows with this team.
I'd forgotten all about him.
Wang to Mariners:
Not in my house ladies.
Nice catch.
Jorgie!
Yeahh, boyeeeee!
This game shouldn't be a game.
We need to take blow this puppy open.
Such a shame, the poor guy. I really like him.
See, that's just the kind of ball I think will go through in a couple of years when Melky gets naturally stronger with age.
See, that's just the kind of ball I think will go through in a couple of years when Melky gets naturally stronger with age.
Indeed.
Nice catch, Melk.
27 Woulda snuck through on Jeter, I suppose. Dang.
Took the morning off to stay home and watch this, let`s show some spark boys!
Damn, Derek just missed that one.
I actually haven't smoked since Sunday myself.
I'd quit for ten days a couple of weeks ago, kind of as a dry run-through.
Nice job, though, and good luck.
You know, I still am happy about this season even if we miss the playoffs. Just think, Pavano started Opening Day! And look at the roster now...
What was the deal there? Was that when Chien-Ming went down?
Meanwhile, though, Chien-Ming's doing great.
Is Joba available today?
What a sick pitch!!
Wow.
But maybe it was a change...
Left field over the fence, right field on the ground.
I'm certainly down with being conservative, so that's fine.
I was just wondering why, if he's slotted to start next season, he can't start this season.
Will he be that much stronger or more fit or whatever in April?
Did you see that jump he got?
Ack!
Strike 'em out. Throw 'em out. Steal his lunch. Bang his wife. Fug.
Could Torre have picked a worse combo to send the runner. If Matsui, who has a bad knee!! isn't going, Duncan probably takes ball four. Incredible.
Let's take a non-contact hitter, a painfully slow runner, and hit and run with 'em--Seattle'll never see it coming, it's ingenious!
That was a strike.
Or maybe not.
Damn, I'm frustrated.
1-1.
Motherfucker!
Wow, he's out at the plate!
Man, right after Leiter says to throw the slider again and I'm thinking "Again?"
Chien-Ming Wang.
Nice D.
Talk about dodging a fucking bullet.
Come on, sticks!
Really, how many more seasons do we have to suck it up?
Eh, what the fuck am I talking about?
What indeed?
Halladay can't even win a damn game at Fenway.
And oh yeah, the Yankees offense is officially in ridiculous slump mode. It really does seem like in the past few years that the offense seems to run totally hot/cold. Am I wrong there?
In the #2 spot, he is VERY important to getting and keeping things going. But he has been a black hole for a while now.
Great...another rally...the Yankees remain one bad pitch away from another awful loss.
I can't watch this.
Come on, Chien!
Do your magic.
Sure would be nice if we could have scored a few runs of one of the crappier pitchers in the league...
Ok, fucking sticks, hit the goddamned baseball, would you please?
That means it's time to stop funking around and score.
Abreu hits a lot of lazy fly balls that somehow end up on or near the track.
Fucking A.
But what do I know?
Hey- A-ROD! It's gotta be the squirrel!!!
So still I say bring him in for the seventh and the eighth, but get Mo up in the eighth just in case.
Great day for Jorgie.
Make it stand up, fellas!
Torre planned that, I think. H&R gets you a lot of catcher's interference.
Hey, Ichiro can't throw???
The whole Shelley Duncan thing is just about over.
Love,
Reality
Thank you, Robby.
Jobatime! No fucking around, Joe. Joba for two.
Wang's been living dangerously. No fucking around.
182 Cruising? What are you talking about?
I think Ichiro's mistake was he forgot it was Posada running. He could have nailed him at the plate pretty easily, but gave up and tried for 3B instead. And got neither.
Send Chien out, to be sure, but have someone throwing in case he's wild again.
Short leash.
184 You shall do no such thing. (Not that there's anything wrong with that).
They just have to nail this one down. That's not too fucking much to ask, is it?
But he's walked what, three or four?
And he was in serious trouble the previous two innings and just wriggled out.
Its been a long and trying three months, but I like to think we all used each other for support to get through it.
And then the resulting confusion screwed him up.
Ok, who's getting up?
Also, I love Wang. Teehee.
And, Wnag for the eighth, methinks.
And man, am I jet-lagged. It's ridiculous.
Ba-dump-bump!
:)
Torre: Say fellers, whatdya make of this 3-2 homer business?
A-Rod: Small sample size, skip?
Torre: Shut up Ramirez, now here's what I want you fellers to do from now on. Only swing when it's 3-2! It's a strategy that can't lose I tell ya!
Fuck!!!
NOooooooooooooooooo!!!!
Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckcuck.
M
G
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I don't think most guys end up on third there; they're waiting to see if the ball falls in.
274 A-Rod went headfirst into 3b and Beltre fell onto his calf. A-Rod grabs his leg and starts screaming in pain immediately, clutching around his knee...Trainers sprint out as if their jobs depended on it, which of course they do...
He seems all right, though.
Yeah. Real powerhouse you built there JP.
Torre: Say now fellers, I know we all saw Mendoza nearly lose his knee out there tonight...
A-Rod: That's Rodri...
Torre: Shaddap! Now here's what I want you fellers to do, from now on getcher self one of them emery boards from some of the floozies at the hotel, see? And ya get that emery board and you sharpen yer spikes up real nice. Then we'll run through those third basemen just like it was VD day!
Damon: VD day? I thought we only had that in Oakland???
Come on Shelley, make us proud.
Nice job, Frankenstein!
Nuts!
Love,
Reality
Seattle DOWN BY 6!
A good night so far for the WC race.
Robby!
What a beautiful motherfucking hit.
God, that was sweet.
Get him up!
Revenge for the 7-1 thrashing.
If we could get this guy a brain transplant, we might have a superstar.
Guy from Winnipeg: What d'ya mean by that, eh?
With any luck, maybe one will start a brawl.
320 I don't think you HAVE to fill up the entire bench.
The Attorney General maybe coming in? We can get a look at how a SS is supposed to field?
Atta boy, Melky!
Well, one factor is that the M's AAA team (in Tacoma) did not make the playoffs in the PCL, whereas Scranton did, and the Yanks wouldn't call up their full complement until after Scranton's season is over.
But judging by the composition of the Yanks' 40-man roster, I'd be surprised to see the Yankees get as large as 35- maybe Clippard or Igawa will get a look, perhaps Sardinha, depending on the playoff race status.
Don't you remember the weeping from the booth about how he was JUST TURNING THE CORNER
Or for that matter, my JP Ricciardi rant?
AG: I do not recall.
Senator Schumer: But, we have a memo that you sent to Derek Jeter commiserating about your first at bat, a force out to short.
AG: I do not recall that memo.
Senator Schumer: Do you not recall that the final out of the seventh inning on September 7th was recorded by Alberto Gonzales, as shown by this retrosheet data?
AG: I recall the seventh inning of that game, but I do not recall the final out.
Posada, or pitch count?
So does bringing in Vizcaino with a 10-run lead. Joe REALLY wants this game.
Of course, I have teh sound turned down. Was there any plausible explanation from the booth?
Or was this all a clever ruse to buy more time?
Isn't that what ESPN would have us to believe happened against Boston?
You're taking your life in your hands.
He does realize that's a much higher % compared to the rest of the world, right?
However, while I wouldn't give him 25, but I think his skills out of CF are pretty damn valuable, combined with the money he'll bring in.
I would even do anything just to play right field for one batter (who gets struck out).
Can the White Sox hold on?
BRuney it is.
That was Bruney, right?
405 Take it back.
Now.
I can't tell those two apart.
I think that would be hilarious.
Oh, Bobby and His Wall!
ha hah ah ah !
http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grahamo01.shtml
Ted Lilly and John Gibbons got into a brawl last year.
He screamed at Joe from the mound, causing the manager to put his hands up deferentially, turn tail and sit his ass back down on the bench.
Classic.
And there is nothing we can do about it.
Bruney sucks. Britton looks like Bruney. Farnsworth is Satan on a mound. Why?
I mean a knock down drag out, knock his beard off kinda fight.
Quite a day.
This is going to piss me off so much
What the MOTHERFUCK?????????????
Joba's coming in???
For fucking fuck's sake, why???
Has tomorrow's game been called off and no one told me?
Does Joe have a secret deal with Seattle whereby they'll try not to score tomorrow?
Does Joe know something about Hughes the rest of us don't, like he suddenly throws 140mph with pinpoint control?
What.
The.
Fuck?
Nice play, Derek.
Ok, I'm exhaling now.
ha ha hah aha hah ah ah ah ah1!!!!!!!1
I'm cracking up about this Joba business.
Joe's just fucking with us, I think.
He wanted to see how many heads he could explode by having Joba throw a couple of practice pitches.
Ha ha, Joe, good one, we get it!
ha ha hah ah ah a aha hah ha hah !!
Mickey Mantle (10)
Ken Caminiti (10)
Chili Davis (10)
Bernie Williams (8)
Tony Clark (8)
Jorge Posada (7)
Oh, and even though there were many more meaningful highlights, that play by Damon in the ninth was pretty sweet looking.
Now we nervously await to see if Franchise and Joba and Mo, hopefully with some revived bats, can carry us tomorrow.
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