2010 New York Yankees: YES Network vs. NickSwisherTV.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVxdJ25YQWE

let us all hope and pray the yankees miss the playoffs entirely this year.

how can we get nick swisher to post on this thread?

This (not some Zac Brown bullshit) should be NSTV's theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWSevt_i51w

getting Tino Martinez to fill Cone's seat in the booth = stinko

yankees start world's most expensive team

weird that the Mets aren't on there...?

i suppose daniel murphy and rod barajas bring the average down significantly

http://www.yfsf.org/2010/04/report-joba-to-be-traded-within-next-week.html

i'm not falling for that.

lol

Nick Johnson is day to day already
http://www.i-yankees.com/?p=19434

looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

he hit a HR today i thought?

mobot rivera got roughed up by the O's 3rd string.

GLASS HOUSES

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/06zKaxv3oJ0eM/x610.jpg

GREAT, JOE MORGAN

didn't we have a general game thread or something last year? is someone gonna start one this year?

Man, earlier today I purchased a yearlong mlb.com subscription so I could watch games (I don't have cable), and the first game is a blackout.

id be cool with that but iirc we just posted in the team threads most of the time

xp

oh shit, it's streaming on espn 360, nm

what i meant to say jordan was

WRONG. *locks thread*

both of these teams are savages and i hope every player on each team tears an acl

PEDRO

oh shit, it's streaming on espn 360, nm

― biologically wrong (Z S), Sunday, April 4, 2010 7:00 PM (2 minutes ago)

my cable provider isn't good enough for 360, the bastards. that's going to be extra irritating when the World Cup starts.

i do love a-rod tho

wait what channel is this on?

Wouldn't mind 4 HRs and 7 RBIs from him tonight, plus they should get Aceves in there in the second inning to throw 8 innings of 14K, no walk baseball (first and last mention of the Devastating Probes tonight, promise)

xpost

ESPN2 I think, but also streaming on ESPN360 for those of us without cable

yea i think it's on nesn & yes in local markets

oh word forgot that we get nesn up here

man feels so good to get baseball back

hell yes

JOR

GE!

Haha BOTH of my fantasy teams take the early HR lead.

dang curtis

HEYYYY

john sterling just said something incomprehensible

Curtis!

Oh SHIT am I a Yankee fan now

sterling: "oh curtis, youre something sort of grandish"

??????

^_^

there is nothing better than watching the yankees beat the sox on nesn. "and...well granderson puts a charge into this one. and...it's a home run."

xp oh god sterling

that was a monster

Beckett is such a punk. This is fantastic.

can adrian beltre save the runs even if they are homers?

Michael Kay bizarrely OTM in calling BS on Singleton's defense of "the human element."

OTOH, the Yankees have "one of the best infields of all time." Did he mean defense? Forgot the 2000 Mets already?

Past a diving Scutaro

Schoenweis warming up in the fourth.

LOL

That is the oldest trick in the book, and it worked.

smh

he was out

yes he was

Calling a HR for Granderson off the lefty here.

Bet you one Paypalled dollar he doesn't.

Pass.

Terrible throw from Gardner.

i love nick johnson

i loved him in his stint with the marlins last year -- so fun to watch him bleed pitchers

why in god's name did they throw youk a strike with ortiz on deck in a double play situation?

yah srsly

i did lol @ the sox fan flipping off swisher as he was goin 4 the ball tho

xp two strikes...that pitch he took 3-0 was a meatball

ugh swish

missed the birdie move

motherfucker

past a lunging cano

this whole game was blown by them not allowing papi to ruin the inning

wtf is with this belTRAY pronunciation? most insufferable thing ever

would you rather have michael kay y/n

that's how it's always been? how would you pronounce it?

ohh you mean accenting the last syllable...i guess that's the way it's supposed to be

i've never heard anyone say it like that

kevin kell-ER

i assume you are listening to jon miller, who is bilingual and will insist on letting you know it

i was gonna say, jon miller always does that, & it annoys me no end

ha well tbf he has an accent mark thing over the second e. i'm not listening to miller, but i bet it's annoying and probably patronizing

hoo thank god i was reminded that this run-scoring inning was all started by a base on balls

One game of Hershiser with Jon/Joe has been worth a year of Steve Phillips so far.

im assuming that chick was steven tyler's daughter? creepy kiss at the end

can't tell what was more grizzly -- tyler's face or his singing

wow chan ho did jacoby dirty

ayo

pedroia is seriously the worst

chan hlol

ugh

at least ortiz is up

good lord

smh

we might be in for some prime papelbon 2nite

they bringing in joba?

smh @ red sox nation singing sweet caroline w/ a geriatric neil diamond

How long has this Sweet Caroline tradition been going on?

they've been doing it for years (minus geriatric neil diamond)

such a horrible song too

lol @ this game. smdh at yankees, their twat fans and their bullpen. no lead will be safe.

heyyy cmon

how did i miss that chan ho park is in the yankees pen??

i know he has a mind boggling career obp – but i found Nick Johnson hitting second a little odd.

i didnt realize that sterling call of granderson was real

you know it's John Sterling, right?

Listening to Baseball Today ... Olney really doesn't think Posada can play catcher for much longer.

He had a pretty rough passed ball on opening night.

How long until they go get someone?

He had a pretty rough passed ball on opening night.

This was the Ortiz AB that got Youk home right? Seemed that Joba (?) missed the low inside corner by about 5 feet and the ball sailed way up and over. Sure he could have done a better job jumping up and trying to bat it down but Joba (?) did him no favors on that.

Maybe. Olney says that Posada was fucking up a lot in spring games, which I cannot confirm or deny.

He didn't look crossed up on that play, he looked embalmed.

J Ellsbury stole second, J Ellsbury safe at third on throwing error by catcher J Posada.

how many BOS-NYY games in the last ten years have rounded off to less than 4 hours? Amazing that kids who can't walk 20 feet w/out texting aren't fans...

so was the yankees game the only one today that didn't fill ILBB with woe? (depends on your POV, I guess)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GIEHPGj9sI

ahh..just came to post that one

what makes it even better is the first video recommended off that is Chan Ho Park sprays the crowd! NL CHAMPS!!!

wowwww

http://a.yfrog.com/img118/4681/img1966b.jpg

lol @ DRobertson

MarthaStewart
curtis granderson just asked me to fix the velcro on his batting gloves and then he hit a very very long fly ball to the end of center fiel

apparently she got booed today

lolllllllll

Hideki Matsui wasn’t the only former Yankee at the Stadium on Tuesday collecting his World Series championship ring. Jerry Hairston Jr., who now plays for the Padres, surprised his old teammates by taking a red-eye flight after his game Monday in San Diego to take part in the ceremony.

When Jorge Posada spotted Hairston in front of the dugout, he shook his head and asked why he was there.

“I flew here,” Hairston said.

“Why?” Posada asked.

hahahaha

looooool

http://a.yfrog.com/img118/4681/img1966b.jpg

― sanskrit, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:19 PM (Yesterday)

fucking white people, man

zen assholes thred xp

why does michael kay have to keep taunting us with an alternate reality timeline where he dies and we don't have to hear his voice in the booth anymore?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll_PJm0v_qc

can't believe Jackie R's family went to YANKEE STADIUM [sic] for the ceremonies.

morbs otm

she should have gone to the Brooklyn Dodgers' new home, Citi Field.

Teixeira's quite the weasel, eh?

Teixeria enjoys Broadway musicals. His favorite is Les Miserables (from Wikipedia). There is also a Teixiera Bakery in Jersey. Sometimes you can see their trucks going over the GWB. No relation, sadly.

"I wasn't trying to hurt him," Teixeira said. "I was trying to score the run and knock the ball loose."

Right.

http://sg.wsj.net/public/resources/images/NY-AE396A_NYNUM_NS_20100425195901.gif

A-Rod Has Slowest Home-Run Trot Among New York Yankees Starters

Get on your horse.

posada is fast for a guy who cant stand up on his feet

Get on your horse.

― Antoine Joubert Singers (Andy K), Monday, April 26, 2010 2:27 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

NOT NECESSARY

http://outofbounds.nbcsports.com/A-Rod%20Centaur.jpg

FOOT ON MY RUBBER

HOOF ON MY RUBBER

http://i.tsn.com/i/photos/20091102/128279.gif

Haha I love how that home run trot graphic isn't drawn even close to scale, just to make ARod look that much slower than everyone else.

MmmmKay variation: "Just past a LUNGING Jeter"

cano 3-4 w/ 2 hrs & a double -- he saw 7 pitches

vazquez out after 3+ IP

STATS_MLB

Andruw Jones of the #White Sox hit 2 HR off Javier Vazquez of the #Yankees today. He has 7 HR in 53 career AB vs. Vazquez. #MLB
5 minutes ago via web

is vazquez hurt or something? i don't get how someone can be so dominant one year and then awful the next even accounting for the tougher league

injuryexpert
Granderson's groin will keep him out 2-4. Usually hear 4-6 for G2 strain, but Granderson's conditioning helps. Expect a month out but ...

injuryexpert
... (Granderson) don't be surprised if he's back a bit quicker than most are expecting.

vazquez was a below avg pitcher for the NYY last go around 5-6 years ago iirc. not this bad tho.

lol
http://cdn2.sbnation.com/imported_assets/447414/0503_large.jpg

andy pettite has been a yankee great all these years, never left the core four, and never even thought about it

If they're going to include Pettitte, they might as well add Ruben Rivera.

enrique wilson more likely

swisher just mashed one

upside down right now buck naked in gravity boots with a pinner
loving these killer jams: http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/artist/Bernie+Williams/

Nick Johnson has a near .400 OBP but is batting well-below the Mendoza line. When was the last time a player had such a disparaging differential in BA and OBP?

Shit, I'm not watching the game but I just saw that Cano got hit by a pitch and then a pinch-runner came in - he's not hurt, is he?

yes

kind of getting bummed out how random concern on team threads is almost completely fantasy related.

whatever happened to allegiances and hatred?

Hey, I just really care about Robinson Cano's health. He always seemed like a really good guy, hate to see him hurt, etc

Nick Johnson has a near .400 OBP but is batting well-below the Mendoza line. When was the last time a player had such a disparaging differential in BA and OBP?

― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, May 7, 2010 5:53 PM (15 minutes ago)

I wanna say Hee-Seop Choi...?

sorry Z S. wasn't accusing. more of a reaction to other threads.

Ha, no worries, it's true. And I do pretty much hate the Yankees - except for Cano, Pettitte, Aceves and A-rod!

*ducks*

'The Sore Four'
- Michael Kay
nyuk nyuk nyuk

Kimberly Jones
What is your deeper meaning?

Ooh Queen Latifah is on Centerstage after the game!

lol it's more like dudes who have never posted in a Royals thread and then get all uppity and outraged correcting someone on Luke Hochevar's FIP.

who ever posts in royals threads?

Escalating rational hatred of Papelbon, Beckett, and Youkilis + the fact that the entire lifelong-Michigander coaching staff of my son's team is part of Red Sox Nation probably means that I currently detest the Red Sox more than the Yankees.

http://online.wsj.com/media/NYFAN-WSJ-100506.jpg

those beer numbers don't look right.

that is some bullshit home-field umpiring, mclellan

and god the fox crew was unbearable today btw

I don't think those stats reflect the Bleacher Creatures

WTF is an Ivan Nova

lol mariano

^esp after MMMMMKay declared him to be a putative "unanimous first-ballot Hall of Famer"

Selective Upcoming Schedule for Your Amusement:

Vs Boston 2x
Vs. TB 2x
@NYM 3x
@ MN 3x
VS CLE 4x
VS BAL 3x
@ TOR 4x
@ BAL 3x
VS HOU 3x

here's to another 100 win season

yes wtf is an ivan nova
dude sounds like a pierce brosnan era bond villain gtfo
can't we just have strasburg and matt cain already not fair

Mets are gonna take 2 of 3 next weekend

you forget javy is an NL pitcher

unless that's the game Mets are going to lose.

ayooooooo

what a win for javier vasquez

what a win for america

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Marcus-Thames-shows-New-York-Yankees-his-clutch-side-051710

It wasn't a clutch situation, but I'll never forget Thames' broken-bat/sawed-off HR off Sabathia.

uh is the ny post being a little racist here?

http://imgur.com/3SBHb.jpg

OH

MY

GOD

not a whole lot of other interps at hand.

Overheard on uptown train this evening, from guy in Yankee togs: "Chan Ho Park's like the Asian Kyle Farnsworth."

Ledger_Yankees
Johnson here in a sling.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pqOBRLICPOk/Rv2O7R_K1JI/AAAAAAAABfY/gfN6Fj8Ds6I/s400/PunchOut_GlassJoeAbime.jpg

uh, JtheMod, why exactly would the Stanks be lookin fwd to playing Toronto, per your Selective Upcoming Schedule? They're a game behind NY.

no one believes tor is all that good. this is before the realization that i have 5 more months of thames and winn to look forward to

had no idea Vazquez was second to RJohnson in Ks in the last 10 years

what's with Mo?

what's with wright

had 4 RBI yesterday, prhaps u missed

What's with Jeter?

he's got an EDGE

Mets are gonna take 2 of 3 next weekend
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 16, 2010 11:10 PM

you forget javy is an NL pitcher
― sanskrit, Monday, May 17, 2010 10:30 AM

unless that's the game Mets are going to lose.
― sanskrit, Monday, May 17, 2010 10:31 AM

what an incredible strategy the yanks had, pick up a pitcher who will dominate in all interleague games.

the Asian Kyle Farnsworth

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2010/05/porkchop_01.jpg

my man

jonahkeri
New Joba Rules: Demoted to hot dog vendor.

give the guy a break, he had to face lou marson!

His stats today: 0.1 IP, 108.00 ERA, 15.00 WHIP

jobba you fat fuck

lol lou marson xpost that dude 2 the worst regulars thread

In their two years as Yankees teammates, Teixeira has been intentionally walked in front of Rodriguez on nine occasions. The only time Rodriguez was credited with an out in his batting line was last June 12. And all that happened that time was the most memorable moment for both New York teams in the 2009 regular season: Luis Castillo dropped a Rodriguez popup, two runs scored and the Yanks walked off to beat the Mets.

In the other times, Rodriguez is 5-for-5 with two walks, a sacrifice fly and 18 RBIs. And . . . wait for it . . . Rodriguez has now hit a grand slam each of the last three times Teixeira received an intentional pass.

http://itsaboutthemoney.net/archives/2010/05/31/the-people-in-my-section/

mark teixeira: platinum sombrero
also every time i write his name i have to google for the spelling

no one believes tor is all that good

better not tell THEM :D

OMG THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ABOUT THAT POST I HAD MEANT TO BRING IT UP!@

mark teixeira: platinum sombrero
also every time i write his name i have to google for the spelling

― sanskrit, Saturday, June 5, 2010 4:44 PM (3 hours ago)

andele andele mami

YES dudes speculating on whether girardi getting thrown out has "fired up" the yanks - imo the five walks didn't hurt either

Cito intentionally walked Tex to get to Arod/Cano in one of the weirdest moves ever.

yeah i never understood that move, for one thing a-rod always seems to own in that situation, but (1) teixeira sucks atm (2) teixeira has bad numbers against that dude and (3) freaking cano was coming up next!

i'm guessing he was hoping for the double play at that point, with 1 out.

MMMMMMKay thinks "postseason hits should count in your career total," cuz guess who just got his 3000th (including postseason) hit?

what a colostomy bag.

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/NY-AH055_MASCOT_DV_20100614211638.jpg

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703389004575304961535825960.html

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/bronx_blowhards_v3yRWOSPKLLHaIUNFaus1I

lol powerful lineup

awesome how 9 / yankees broadcast(ers) get david wright ads but SNY is running Jeter's Got an Edge nonstop.

jeter stats i'm not surprised to learn:

leads the league in swinging at the first pitch (37.3%)

i say as he pops the first pitch to left field

also wasn't surprised a few years ago when i discovered he led the league - by a large margin - in groundout-to-flyout ratio

hooooly shit burnett wtf

man against a team like this burnett will either strike out 12 or give up 3 homers in the first inning

those aren't mutually exclusive

lol

http://www.walkoffwalk.com/2010/06/mark-teixeira-idolized-kurt-co.html

str8 lolzin

Hitting like a turdt.

RIP Kurdt Keixiera... never forget.

he likes to sing along

Teixeira looked "very ape" getting thrown out at third in the first.

this game is like a clinic on how not to run the bases

it's stupid and contagious

I was eating lol mexican food w/ the GF and yankees game was on in background and I audibly gasped and cursed when I saw the baserunning out of the corner of my eye

bringing the lols tho, in some sense

rodriguez should have cut across the mound there

10 hits, 13 walks and you have to win in extras U_U

http://deadspin.com/5576040/yankee-fan-on-cellphone-catches-ground-rule-double-with-his-face

http://twitter.com/NickSwisher/status/18066050874

did Youkilis even have a hash tag?

so i'm reading the Yanks are gonna ship out their catcher of the future to rent Cliff Lee?!

or apparently - they are NOT gonna do that.

like 90% of scouts think he's not a catcher anyway

and this is actually kinda a weird trade because of that...by trading montero the yankees are finally admitting that he can't catch, since he'd be an untradably good prospect if he was a catcher, especially now that mauer's locked up in MIN

essentially the mariners have to be happy with the idea of montero at 1B/DH to do this

I was 110% sure the yankees were gonna move Montero for something this year.. Didnt think it was gonna be Cliff Lee, but there you go..

yeah montero definitely had no place on the yankees, its kinda funny that they have their first elite hitting prospect in ages and they have to trade him away

'have to'

I can see Montero being a huge bust only because hes going to the Mariners. That and I tried to draft him as a keeper on my fantasy team, which turns gold into lead.

well he's closer to the majors in seattle than he was in NY so that can't be bad for his fantasy status

i guess he'll be hitting in a park that steals a few would-be home runs though since he's a RH hitter

seriously, the mariners might as well send him straight to the big leagues. they can DH branyan if they want him to work on his 1B.

also the yankees have a prospect behind him who isn't AS GOOD of a hitter but he's been hitting really well in the minors and can actually play the position

yeah romine is a legit good catching prospect now, so montero wasn't even their 'catcher of the future' anymore

baseball's brokest team steals one from the richest. lee to rangers lol.

smoak!! holy...

whats in the deal where ru seein it?

Joelsherman1

i have learned deal done with #Rangers, Smoak and 3 others for Lee and reliever Mark Lowe #Rangers, #Mariners

the '3 others' are kinda important here since montero's a slightly better hitting prospect than smoak...

the rangers have a super deep system

you have to imagine that they're getting some pitchers back

yea texas has a ton of quality pitching

its probably either scheppers and 2 scrubs or two of texas's 2nd tier pitching prospects and a scrub

also this means chris davis will be the 1B on a playoff-caliber team haha

keithlaw No. RT @ryan_j_lewis: @keithlaw If you were running the Rangers, could you part with Smoak in this deal?

shock! keith likes the prospect better!

::was not clicking on this all day because lee to yanquis wld be too much right now::

i think i agree with him tho -- they could've kept smoak, traded for a lesser starter (oswalt) and still won that division and made a good run at the WS

cuz when you look at it, that team has a bunch of old ass hitters powering them right now, smoak is pretty important

they couldn't have fit oswalt into their budget though, they're already gonna be getting cash from the M's probably to fit lee who's being paid half as much

LOL JOBA

I KNOW ;_;

he sucks

2008-2010

siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh

aw, bob sheppard died

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/top-posts/bob-sheppard-the-voice-of-yankee-stadium-1910-2010.php

I know RIP dude -- the good thing is he was, like a million years old and had a pretty awesome life

a great blow to our freedom,

and our way of life

he'll never ask us "to honor America" with that triumphalist horseshit song again.

take me out to the ballgame?

lol

wfan660
NYY owner George Steinbrenner has suffered a massive heart attack, according to several reports. http://ow.ly/2aJyM

oh plz no, I hafta skip the entire All-Star Game if it's his wake

Pekar and Kupferberg, who will be the third angry visionary to go? (Steinbrenner doesn't count.)

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 8:37 AM (22 minutes ago)

Steinbrenner totally counts.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/steinbrenner-dead-at-80/article1638149/

and the world... can be a better place....

odds on GSIII's Stadium tribute involving the flight of an eagle?

RIP Big Stein

I thought the commish forbade giant industry scumbags from dying on the eve of the ASG?

<3 U Stein

Howie Spira to give eulogy

RIP to THE BOSS

His image has really improved since the days when he was posing as Napoleon on horseback.

rip georgie

POUR ONE (CALZONE) OUT

poly, are you counting the two periods he was suspended there?

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/419696-george-steinbrenner-dies-top-ten-hilarious-moments-as-yankee-owner

I always mix up the alleged Steinbush elevator brawl w/ Billy Martin's fight w/ the marshmallow salesman.

poly, are you counting the two periods he was suspended there?

ah, the good ol' days

TAKE IT TO THE FAT MAN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r75KU9reHAs

^nsfw

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2010/07/16/2010-07-16_yanks_fail_to_show_stripes.html

jeeez that was not a strike

^^^

i can already hear the "arod has to man up and let himself be speared by the bat to make that play" calls on wfan

omg michael kay is laying it on thick

@ the stadium now. couple chicks in rays gear cheer

are they hot

@ the stadium now. couple chicks in rays gear cheer & hold up sign after pena HR. dude in front of me "back to the dungeon, TROLL!"

TOO MUCH TIME ONLINE

haha love how that post fragment looks like I'm asking if you saw the ass on that one, weird

Gardner, who suffers from acid reflux, had to go to the hospital Saturday morning after having a particularly bad reaction on Friday after eating a pork chop.

chan ho lol

chan ho shitshow

nice to see Berkman truly swingin' like Fat Elvis

MLBastian
U.S. customs guy wouldn't give my passport/boarding pass back this morn until I said the Yankees would win this series ~ welcome to America.

Dear Baby Jesus,

Please please let the Yankees finish third.

behind the Js, thank you.

god, YES is the fucking worst

was at the game today -- most irritated i've ever felt watching a game in person... just... I heard Granderson in the starting lineup and wanted to shoot girardi in the face.

omg this guy in the yankees T behind home plate

welp

http://deadspin.com/5612847/big-yankees-fan-inspired-by-katy-perry-humiliates-a-franchise

^^ sub-shaggsian in it's awkward genius. doesn't appear to be a way to vote for guy.

this comment is spot on tho:

you basically look like the yankees version of steve bartman

whoa that hope week kid w/ no arms and no legs throwing out the first pitch looked better than vazquez.

It wasn't long ago that Hughes' ERA was low.

dude - it's still below 4.

Michael Kay defends The Wave against grouchy objectors

god, that makes so much sense

hey, only... three years and 49.5 million (that does say "million" right?) left on the burnett deal!!

he's barely NOT the worst starter in the AL, so that's something

but the PIES

in the FACE

when actual good players on the yankees perform well!

- C. Quentin walked
- C. Quentin to second on wild pitch
- A.J. Pierzynski grounded out to first, C. Quentin to third
- C. Quentin scored on wild pitch

hes just lulling the AL into a false sense of superiority

as soon as hes the actual worst starter... then he will strike

think about the fact that the yankees may very well win the world series with two of the three worst starters in the AL (by my count, only millwood has been worse)

fun thing i learned the other day--vazquez has something like 2.25 hr/9 innings rate at home... and 1.75 on the road

haha

dude - it's still below 4.

Yeah... but at the moment of the post, it was over four, and the AL ERA is 4.16. (Hughes' ERA is currently 4.12.) I was surprised to see that it had gone up one and a half runs -- up to league average, basically -- since early June.

LOL I was at this game, the fourth inning was nuts.

I look fwd to hearing Joe Morgan promote CC for Cy Young on Sunday. "Weeeeens, Jon, weeeeens."

The NYY seem intent on making the playoffs in the most irritating way possible.

CC now 4th in VORP behind Felix, Jered and Trevor.

last night's game was 5hrs 12min

Looks like both guys brought their A game to this Second-Best Pitcher in the AL Showdown.

Senator Leiter came perilously close to saying Yanks should blow the division if that's what it takes to face Minnesota in the LDS.

i dunno whether MIN or TEX is scarier in a short series but they both look better than the rays to me

Gardner of Evil

flipping btwn this and the crucial Mets-Pirates game: 19+ innings, no runs.

ze breignac psycho

here's my post i was typing as he hit that. with the RP involved it's topical too!

lame accidental abbott and costello routine i had with a friend of a friend sitting w/ us in right field bleachers a few weeks back:

i'm looking out at vazquez number 31 warming up in the bullpen for mop up duty and the guy goes:

there he is, fucking Meat Tray
ha, you call JV Squad "Meat Tray"?
huh who?
JV
who?
I call Javier Vazquez "JV Squad"
great, but I call Sergio Mitre "Mitre"
oh, i thought Vazquez was "Meat Tray" because he lunched himself

Definitely getting a whiff of '07-08 Mets here

Too bad the two pair of orthopedic Sox are the closest pursuers.

"Derek Jeter shows he's flawed after all

Captain's stab at acting -- and, let's face it, cheating -- proves he's less than perfect"

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/columns/story?columnist=matthews_wallace&id=5580067

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ... Jeter not perfect ... worldview collapsing ...

He's a motherfucker with some dark secrets.

why does aj have a black eye

i'm fairly certain it's not due to any pie to the face.

Nick Johnson hasn’t played in a game since May 7, and he has had two right wrist surgeries since then.

holy shit.

Torre returns to Bronx for Steinbush ceremony tonight

as long as he doesn't return to the Mets dugout, fine; I don't want to relive my high school years either.

next, MMMMKay talks to Selig

MUTE

lol i know right

Kay also can't figure out how TB is 2d in league in runs when "the averages and the names don't knock you out." His best guess: SPEED.

bud selig just said 'bitch' on television

Marge Schott came up?

no -- she's dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lls-EKAKxV8

take a drink every time michael kay says "hot shot"

anyone been to The Stadium in the last month? there is this really creepy home run animation w/ michael kay's head in it. It's kind of like JibJab with John Kerry's photohopped animated head ala South Park mouth movements. anyway Kay's head rocks left to right and the text reads SEE YA after a hr. and his eyes glint with silvery evil (part of the animation). truly disturbing, can't find a youtube of it.

wish Terry Gilliam had done it

very modestly sized monument for Steinbush

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/5434/the-problem-with-steinbrenners-plaque

Javy V ready for the playoffs

hahahaha

JV OUT OF AL

That was entertaining.

4 steals of rivera

*off

guess i shd say rivera +posada

is posada's arm still basically a noodle?

glad i missed this

Morgan's Cano priapism continues unabated.

Joe Buck repeatedly said last year in the WS that the speedy Cano is always a threat on the basepaths = PROFILING IS TEH RACISTS

charlie batch is always a threat to scamper for a 40 yard gain.

lol @ AJ

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

yankees playoff rotation:

sabathia
[day off]
hughes
[two-day layoff]
sabathia
?

pretty much

jonmorosi
The #Yankees shouldn't put A.J. Burnett in their postseason rotation. Here's why: http://bit.ly/bKPCrm #NY #MLB #Twins #Rangers

#ohwordson?

The #Yankees shouldn't have Ramiro Pena in their postseason starting lineup. Here's why:

Our long national nightmare is over

is that labatts? fucking molson?

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2010/09/29/pi_20100929015727_660_320.JPG

It's Blue bro.

SHAMEFUL, BRO

http://www.antiqueathlete.com/antique-baseball-memorabilia/yogi-berra-yoohoo-advertising.jpg Yogi's not there; they can do what they want

NOOOOOOOOO - CANADIAN BEEEEEEEER - I MIGHT ACTUALLY GET DRUUUUUUUNK!

cito gaston farewell speech is grim. I couldn't even be bothered to look up the actual toronto page.

shd probably stop trying to win the division now.

although in fairness, if you're running vasquez out there you're not REALLY trying to win the division.

I was looking at JV Squad's numbers from September 2009 this morning on a lark. got me pretty depressed: 5 G, 4 W (oooh, not a stat), 39 K, 1.42 ERA, 0.84 WHIP

http://www.theonion.com/articles/yankees-decline-wild-card,2295/

http://images.marthastewart.com/images/content/tv/martha_stewart_show/show_photos/6001_6050/msshow_6041_clip_curtis_l.jpg

http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/848644_o.gif

haha curtis is such a goofball

crutis granderson

Were there any "Granderson shops at Wal-Mart, buys $15 velcro shoes" articles in the NY papers this year?

http://i53.tinypic.com/11sjbkh.gif

Yankees to Derek Jeter: Test the market

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=5843151

heard some radio earlier and it was amazing how fast yanks fans went from fairly polite kvetching abt cano not getting a single mvp vote to OUTRAGE abt that jeter story

http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/6401/should-jeter-want-to-be-modern-babe

Jeter turns 37 next summer. When Ruth turned 37, the Yankees cut his salary, slightly. When he turned 38, they cut his salary by 30 percent. When he turned 39 -- by the way, the Babe was still a highly productive hitter, one of the best in the majors -- the Yankees cut his salary by another 30 percent. And when Ruth turned 40 and was making noise about being bigger than the franchise, the Yankees simply cut him loose.

two sidebar headlines on espn's mlb page:

Source: Yanks want Jeter to take 'reality potion'
Source: Rivera talks with Yanks going smoothly

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/New-York-Yankees-general-manager-to-rappel-839918.php

so really, no one has linked yet?

http://blogbeckett.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/totally-fake-baseball-cards-29-derek-jeters-you-wont-see-in-2011-and-one-you-just-might/

yeah i was going to troll the mets thread yesterday with one of those then blah what's the point

curtis granderson visits new zealand

lol, with Steinbush dead, Randy Levine is the Stankbrass most in need of having his head used for batting practice:

http://sports.espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/news/story?id=6068830

suggest Keep Your Team Off Welfare as 2011 Yanks thread.

Pettitte reportedly set to retire Friday

is he still a 'true yankee' if he abandons them in their hour of need?

he's going to be the vikings' qb next year from what i've heard

is he still a 'true yankee' if he abandons them in their hour of need?

didn't stop him in 2004, lol

when is it not the yankees hour of need?

endless loop animated .gif of cameron diaz feeding a-rod popcorn at the super bowl pls. [/football]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMVRmwlrvWg

that'll do!

why do we need to see that? o_O

Yankees fans you are in luck. Russ Martin is in the best shape of his life (tm). This would make it the third consecutive spring in which he has made the claim. That means he's due to throw up an 85 OPS+ if the trend holds..

Russell Martin will FITE YOU http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2011/02/09/2011-02-09_russell_grapples_with_mma.html

I used to love Russ then he became a pull happy robot whose only mission was to ground out to third or short or take a walk. He used to be so pretty.

any catcher that will steal a base gets big time brownie points.

michael kay married someone above his station and the nypost is there:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/beautiful_catch_9GMXqlAsq41IMsgSfdqNjO

Sabathia is in th ebest shape of his life!

Sabathia, who had knee surgery this offseason, said he is 25 pounds lighter after he stopped eating full boxes of Cap’n Crunch.

crossposted w/ Spring Training.

I'm guessing sanskrit doesn't want to start a 2011 Stanks thread cuz he knows it's gonna be a swan dive.

can't be bothered to think up a title

that wpix broadcaster is so botb, they're perfect together

Get Your Team Off Welfare can't be topped

i like!

this thread title was prescient though considering how Swisher's social media fixation was the only reason he beat out Youkilis for the last AL All-Star spot.

fattest yankees team ever?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703373404576148633980571882.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Neal Cotts still lookin' like lithe groupiebait

that cracked me up this morning. the print version is even better because the pictures go Colon 245, Sabathia, 290, and then the last and fifth one said Joba, unclear

...hailing from parts unknown!

This is why they built a new Stadium, so the fatties could have an aircraft hangar for a clubhouse

http://i53.tinypic.com/11sjbkh.gif

is that joba in the crowd?!

the best guy has to be the "fuck you" mouthing second row guy wearing sweatpants at night.

The gent in the WS sweatshirt is the real star here.

― Andy K, Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:29 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

kill every new yorker

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:33 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the sweatshirt guy is infused with the power of owning 40 garbage trucks

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:35 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark

2010 ALCS - Yanquis vs Rangers

hahaha

http://cdn.newsday.com/polopoly_fs/1.2693427.1297994645!/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/display_600/image.JPG

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh3f4cw6Lz1qb0ctno1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1298603925&Signature=tnm8DMTODhmS2InJdgFaARiSaMs%3D http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh3gelBFK01qb0ctno1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1298603929&Signature=O5C0jPf%2Fdlq6u83XkGoGf0tGMbs%3D

WOW

these are so unpleasant.

jeter-rod kinda looks like teix. I swear they grow these fools in a lab somewhere..

this made me lol. never thought I would read this sentence.

Jon Heyman of SI.com writes that Freddy Garcia has "a leg up" for the fourth spot in the Yankees' rotation, but that competition for the fifth spot is "wide open."

cc vs. the nationals today: 2.2 IP, 5 R, 6 H, 1 K, 2 BB