Mindreading - five yard penalty.

Is Torre afraid Gonzo's slick glove will show up Pastadiving Jeter?

What level math?

Then again, given Betemit's L/R splits, it may have been a good idea to get AG in there

I have the game on mute while I listen to the Jets' game on NFL Field Pass. I had to make sure that wasn't a replay.

I overslept, so I am a bit late, but I'm going to keep the mojo going by posting it.

Seem to get a lot of North End Liquor ads too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3m2idlYVnI

Man.

I can't complain there...

Right over the dish.

One episode was taken from an O. Henry story.

Gift of the Magi.

The one where Ralph sells his bowling ball to buy Alice a Christmas gift and Alice buys Ralph a bowling ball bag, which of course he can no longer use because he's sold his bowling ball.

80 Nope, s'okay, just asking Stay in shape, Coach! >;)

I know the wsporter - O. Henry connection. But what was the thread to which you refer?

"Oh, Fuck!"

That was the Butler's reaction to popping the ball up.

I say the same thing when I pop up in softball, but you have to be careful, they can throw you out for profanity.

Hard to just suck that up, though.

He looked like he swung, to me.

62 for Greinke.

Good old channel 11, eh? Yankees, Honeymooners, Star Trek.

Big mistake of them putting the Yanks on Sportschannel instead. It was a major factor in my falling away from baseball for many years until my early twenties.

Like they didn't break at all.

Yes Yankz, you were right >;)

86 Completely off topic, but I remember your first day on the Banter. I forget what post Alex had written but it was a good one. Everyone proceeded to tell stories similar to what he had written and you had a good one of your own thus introducing yourself to the Banter. I don't know why that stuck in my memory but nevertheless...

Sorry for the OT. Back to the game.

Nice play, Chien-Ming.

No wasted motion, cool under pressure.

I can recall my own first comment, and I personally think it's hilarious. A struggling Randy Johnson was seen assisting the ballboy with sweeping up the dugout. I commented that he was finally earning his paycheck.

Because at some point he had to decide how to handle the transfer.

I'm so glad we sloughed him off.

About $550,000, am I right?!

Damn, that's not fair.

Another well-struck ball by Leche.

That one hurt.

Can you imagine?

That's really funny, but I have no idea what it means.

Another slider?

He made him look silly.

A good ole Mariano strike.

Ok, slider, here?

Or is that too predictable?

Now what?

3-2.

What do we do here?

Damn it.

Ok, now we have a situation.

I say go fastball away, slider in.

2-1.

Damn it.

Damn.

It.

Ah well, the game's interesting now.

Wow, nice slider.

KC's really lucky to have gotten those three.

What happened in that inning? Single, single, walk, double?

For a bad inning, that's a pretty good inning.

He could have gotten out of it just as easily.

That's a lot of hard-hit outs we've made.

Good lord, Alex.

140?

God damn.

And look at Alex's batspeed.

Amazing.

That was a thing of beauty.

Oh, what a fucking beautiful stroke!!

Wowwwwww!!!

Nice and easy!

173 Told you so >;)

180 Incorrect. Single and an error, for those scoring at home.

wait...we have two of em?

Man, we would be up six or seven runs if not for Gload.

And with that, I'm out. Goodbye.

Chien-Ming is more than a stud.

He's becoming a golden god too, like Andy.

I mean, how awesome is it that he can turn into a strike-out pitcher and just start using a completely new pitch midstream?

When he can't spot the fastball, he really goes to that slider, and effectively!

That's really remarkable.

There's a shot!

Good old Carl.

Come on, Chien!

Wow, how smooth, Robby!

Excellent, boys, excellent.

Did he throw the slider at all in that AB?

All fastballs, right?

That was a strike!

That was close.

Very, very close.

If we do, they could easily put up another three-spot in a hurry, with the way he's throwing.

Whatever we do, in other words, will likely involve drama.

Pick your poison.

Nice job, Jorgie!

Stink contributes.

I don't know.

I guess, but I don't feel great about it.

Ohh, nice!!

Textbook.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

Sacrifice, basehit up the middle.

Nice and easy.

Venison is overated.

wince

"Heeeeeeeere's JOHNNY!"

I would feel better with Farns at short and the new kid on the mound.

You catch that little leg-action frisson there, when he punched him out?

I was watching our local gridiron team take on the Jets. Missed #52, dammit.

As I live and breathe.

Does this mean Joe and Guidry are going to rely on him again for real in October?

Soria just made mincemeat of Leche.

Nice two-strike, short stroke.

So clean, so violent.

Guess not...

I wanted that 2-2.

Well, no perfection for Mo today. Let's finish this now!

Wang and Shitface get 18 on the same day. Do they face each other in Boston?

At minimum, Joba can give us 2 innings in game 1, 1 in games 3 and game 5, and 2 in game 6. And I venture to say, if needed, we will see him in game 7.

I hope Sabathia gets it.

312 My greatest concern is that Joe will trust him in the postseason with a 7 run lead and he'll blow it. I do not trust this guy one whit.

As a personal highlight, Guidry waved to me before the game on his way out to the bullpen. I idolized this guy when I was a kid. How cool. Also I have pics of Joba wearing a pink NY backpack. Beatiful weather for baseball here this weekend, Yankee fans everywhere, even had some Section 39 imitators. Made it feel almost like home.

Will we move IPK or Hughes to the BP and go with a 4-man rotation? Will Moose will be in the BP too? Is Moose in the rotation and both Hughes and IPK in the BP?

In any event, Farns will most likely see some innings. It's not a matter of trust, but need. Do you trust either of the B&B boys more?

Now we're stuck with him. He's a bad late inning reliever, and nothing that happened in the last month is going to convince me otherwise.

David Pinto has upped A-Rod's chance of breaking the AL season HR record to 16.5% (yesterday morning it was about 3%).

And the White Sox were eliminated from play-off contention today (see Bob Timmerman's discussion on The Griddle).

I guess I'm in the minority of people actually enjoying it.

::ducks::

334 The Cowboys secondary is pretty horrible too, fwiw. If they have to face a team with a decent defense, they're in big trouble.

Sorry, man. Tough break with Eli and Jacobs - you hate to see that in the first week of the season.

Although it could always have been worse - it could have been a spinal injury - yikes!