AP MFY IGT - 2006

[Elster88]

Shane Costa (???) with a home run. 6-4 KC.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Oops. And I was wrong. Sturtze came in to relieve Wang.

[Guest sharpie]

Tanyon Sturtze comes in and promptly gives up a homer to Costa (whoever that is).

[Willets Point]

Rotblatt wrote: Oops. And I was wrong. Sturtze came in to relieve Wang.

A sentence with the words "came" "relieve" and "Wang" is open to so many naughty interpretations.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Willets Point wrote: ="Rotblatt"]Oops. And I was wrong. Sturtze came in to relieve Wang. A sentence with the words "came" "relieve" and "Wang" is open to so many naughty interpretations.

Well someone had to relieve Wang after he'd gotten beaten around so much.

[Guest Rotblatt]

And "Sturtze" just SOUNDS like a VD, doesn't it?

"Yeah, I hooked up with this chick last week and I got a bad case of sturtze."

[Elster88]

Bill Simmons wrote: Tanyon Sturtze sounds like a national park. "I took my girlfriend to Tanyon Sturtze last week. It's lovely this time of year.

7-4 KC.

[Guest Rotblatt]

The Mighty Yankees have the tying run at the plate in the form of Pusada in the bottom of the 8th.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Posada walks, and now it's Cano with the bases drunk and no outs.

Cano represents the go-ahead run.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

MFYs have 9 walks in this freaking game. If the other guys are gonna give it to ya...

[Elster88]

Jeter homers and immediately receives an on-the-air blow job from Suzyn.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Well, shit.

- A. Sisco relieved E. Dessens
- J. Giambi walked
- H. Matsui singled to right, J. Giambi to second
- J. Posada walked, J. Giambi to third, H. Matsui to second
- R. Cano grounded into fielder's choice, J. Giambi scored, H. Matsui to third, J. Posada out at second
- B. Williams singled to left center, H. Matsui scored, R. Cano to second
- A. Burgos relieved A. Sisco
- J. Damon struck out swinging
- D. Jeter homered to deep left, B. Williams and R. Cano scored

9-7 MFY

[Elster88]

You know what?

The Yankees beating the Royals at home 9-7 on a 5-run eighth doesn't bother me in the least.

[Willets Point]

I'm achin' for a triple happiness, but it looks like it will be defered.


OE: Atlanta's not playing today anyway so it would only be double happiness.

O2E: But it's not going to happen anyway. Oh and the Yankees are going to win the World Series this year.

[seawolf17]

WP = Michael Kay ?!?!

[Willets Point]

Bite your tongue!

[metirish]

] Jeter homers and immediately receives an on-the-air blow job from Suzyn.

Brilliant quote Elster....I might have to steal that line...

[soupcan]

metirish wrote: ] Jeter homers and immediately receives an on-the-air blow job from Suzyn. Brilliant quote Elster....I might have to steal that line...

I liked it too.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willets is a great believer in playing reverse psychology on the aseballbay odsgay. It's worked for him since 2001. I'm not going to argue with him.

[metirish]

Steinbrenner not impressed.

] Boss ready for run at Mets BY JIM BAUMBACH Newsday Staff Writer April 14, 2006 The Mets may have the best record in baseball at 7-1, but George Steinbrenner isn't impressed. Asked after yesterday's 9-3 Yankees win what he thought of the crosstown rivals, The Boss said, "They're all right. We'll be ready for them." The Yankees and Mets play their first three-game interleague series at Shea Stadium May 19-21 and another three in the Bronx June 30-July 2. When asked a follow-up question about the Mets -- who beat the Nationals, 13-4, yesterday -- Steinbrenner nodded and replied, "We'll be ready to play them." They usually are. The Yankees are 29-19 against the Mets since interleague play was introduced in 1997 and they won the 2000 Subway Series in five games. Still, with talk like this so early in the season, it figures to be a heated baseball summer.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]"They're all right. We'll be ready for them." ... ... Still, with talk like this so early in the season, it figures to be a heated baseball summer.

Boy, Jim, you're right! Them are fightin' words!

One time a guy said I was all right, so I punched him in the neck and kneed him right in the balls.

[metirish]

The Daily News has an extra quote from George...quite funny .


Asked to be more specific, Steinbrenner momentarily struggled to hear reporters over the enthusiastic cheers of fans waiting to catch a glimpse of him outside the Yankee offices.

[Elster88]

Those poor reporters. With no Steinbrenner soundbites they might have to find actual news to report.

[metirish]

If you read Bob Raissman today you'll see that these reporters wait on Stenbrenner like little puppies....

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/408699p-345949c.html

[nymr83]

well why wouldnt they? he's been opening his big mouth giving them fodder for 20+ years.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Youngster Baker shuts down the MFY for 7. Twins win, 5-1.

Sweet.

[metirish]

Great game tonight for the Twins, after being up 4 to zip the MFY went ahead 5 to 4, then the great Rivera blew it....Twins win....

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Just walking home, passed the corner bar, looked in the window just in time to see the Twins celebrating at home plate. Awesome.

[Guest Iubitul]

And the excuses continue...

]MINNEAPOLIS - Mariano Rivera struck out two batters last night, but it was the one he didn't that really bothered the Yankees. The Bombers were certain that their closer had whiffed Luis Castillo leading off the ninth inning and were furious when third base ump Ed Montague ruled on an appeal that Castillo had checked his swing on a 1-2 pitch. Given another chance, Castillo beat out a squibber just in front of home plate and ultimately came around to score on Justin Morneau's two-run, game-winning single with two outs. Joe Torre clearly was hot about the call. When asked if he had a bad feeling about the inning once Castillo reached on his dribbler, Torre frowned and said, "Once he got the extra strike." Did he think Castillo had swung? "You tell me," the manager said. Alex Rodriguez didn't hesitate when asked about the call. Standing at third base, he essentially had the same view as Montague and didn't think there was even a question. "I thought he did," A-Rod said. "From any angle, he clearly went (around)." Joe Mauer followed Castillo with a single to left that put runners on second and third (Mauer took second on the throw to third by left fielder Hideki Matsui). Rivera came back to strike out Rondell White and Torii Hunter, but then surrendered Morneau's broken-bat hit that ended the game. "The whole complexion of that inning changed when that (pitch) is not called a strike," Rodriguez said. Rivera did not want to sound as though he were making excuses, but said Castillo "definitely swung" at his 1-2 pitch and thought he might have struck out the following hitter, Mauer, on a pitch that was called a ball, too. He did not say anything to Montague or plate ump Jerry Layne, however, because he felt there was no point. "What can you do about it?" Rivera said. "That was how (Montague) evaluated it. He is calling the game. There is nothing you can do about it." This was the second straight night the Yanks had a problem with one of Montague's decisions. On Friday, he called Jorge Posada out at home in the fifth after the catcher tried to tag up and score on a fly ball to right field. Replays clearly showed that Mauer swiped at Posada but did not come close to tagging him as the Yanks catcher slapped the plate with his hand. If he had been safe, the Yanks would have tied the game at 2 and might have been able to do more off 24-year-old pitcher Scott Baker. Last night, they would have liked to have seen what Rivera could have done if Castillo had been rung up. "It sure looked like he had the first two guys struck out," Johnny Damon said. "They really got some breaks right there."

[Guest Rotblatt]

Would coulda shoulda.

If swings and misses weren't called strikes, Cliff probably would have hit 3 home runs yesterday and we would've won.