Yanx v Sawx -- Act ... whatever

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I hat baseball. The Sox absolutely buried us back in June. We absolutely buiried the MFYs in May. That the Sox failed to bury the MFYs between May and June sucks swollen duck scrotum.

And they're getting embarassed by Orosco on SNY right now.

[Frayed Knot]

I don't want to say that the pitching's been bad in this series but 3 hurlers who have appeared this weekend have already been released:
The Sox have dumped starter Jason Johnson & reliever Rudy Seanez off their roster, while the Yanx DFA'd starter/reliever Sidney Ponson

[metirish]

Here we go again....this MFY team wears out pitchers....if the Sox can take two that will be big.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

The heavens are having trouble with the concept of the Red Sox lead - it's raining, with hail expected.

[metirish]

Just what the Sox didn't need, if the delay is for a while then will they go back to Schilling?,surely the Sox pen is shot....or at the least they should be shot.

[metirish]

During the delay John Kruk is doing colour commentry for the sports highlights....brillaint..Kruk knows golf.

[MFS62]

If you want to know how bad the Red Sox have been, just look at what happened in yesterday's game. Yankee catcher Jorge Posada had both a triple and a stolen base.

Posada may be the slowest creature to inhabit the Planet Earth. There are mollusks that move faster than Posada.

So, in case you missed this, let me repeat it.

Posada had both a triple and a stolen base in yesterday's game.

Man, the Red Sox are bad.

Later

[metirish]

Ortiz with another monster blast to take the Sox to a 5 to 4 lead...was that Johnny Pesky that Ortiz hugged in the dugout after he came back...very cool if it was.

[metirish]

My bad, it's 4-3 Sox.

[seawolf17]

It chafes me to say this, but congrats to the MFYs on another freaking division title.

[metirish]

Craig Hanson got sent back to Pawtucket today,that's four pitchers the Sox either demoted or designated for assignment since Friday afternoon.

[Centerfield]

If they win today, they'll only be 4.5 out with ten days left in August. I know that's plenty of time, but I can't see how they recover from this weekend.

[MFS62]

Even if Torre or one of the Yankee players makes a public "Are they still in the league?" kind of comment, I doubt the Sox could recover from this weekend.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sure they could. Come on. They recovered from a three-game defecit in three games in the 2004 ALCS.

I still think the Phillies were phleeced in the Abreu deal, but, if the Yankees win another division in 2006, it's enough for me to know that the Braves will not.

[Willets Point]

I think there's too much overconfidence in the Mets here.
Braves can still win the division, especially with the Mets falling to pieces.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Even if he did wind up giving the lead back (Thanks to Cap'n Clutch's AMAZING jam-shot, duck snort of a flare that fell infront of Gabe the Body), I'd have to say Papelbon is one of my favorite non-Met players. That 8th inning was insanity.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Willets Point wrote: I think there's too much overconfidence in the Mets here. Braves can still win the division, especially with the Mets falling to pieces.

Forget about it. The Mets are in the playoffs.

[Frayed Knot]

Hansen & Timlin absolutely killed the Sox out of the pen this weekend. Seanez & Tavarez did too but it was kind of expected from them. Timlin's been a big part of that pen for a few years now and Hansen was expected to be after being widely rumored to be 1st round draft bait for both local teams last year (local boy and all - Glen Cove, St Johns) but both crashed and burned.
More than a few columnists worte how the Yanx "blew it" by not selecting him last year as they assumed that his path to shut-down closer/set-up man was only a matter a weeks or months away.
Now, 14 months later, he's struggling to even establish himself as a ML player.

[MFS62]

In case anyone's interested in Monday's game, its 0-0 after 2 1/2.

Later

[MFS62]

Tag. Someone else take it for a while. Yahoo is all screwed up.
The Yanks had runners on first and second with nobody out. A-Rod grounded into a DP, then Cano (batting fifth against a lefty) grounded out to end the inning. Then the site refreshed and it showed tow on with A-Rod coming up again. Maybe they want to give him another chance.

Later

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

The result of this game hardly matters. The Red Sox is dead. My dream of the Mets in the playoffs and the Yankees at home will have to be deferred another year.

I'm so tired of having to count on the Red Sox, all the way back to 1978 and Bucky Dent. I'd love to see the Blue Jays or Orioles get it together and become a power in that division.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Yahoo IM sees White Sox as a spelling error, but not Red Sox.

It likes Yankees and Expos, but not Mets, Phillies, or Dodgers.

[Centerfield]

Red Sox looking dead as they are being no-hit by Cory freakin' Lidle.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Let's not sell them short: Ortiz had an infield single in the 1st.

Of course Offense is the last thing wrong with the Red Sox, even tho Coco suxxxxx.

[Centerfield]

My mistake. ESPN Game Update says no hits for the Sox.

No hits, no chance, no hope.

[Willets Point]

This sux. This season had so much promise but it seems to be heading back into a rerun of the late 90's, early oughts.

[metirish]

Both teams are heading out West, Sox to play LA,Seattle and Oakland, Yanks play Seattle and LA,Boston better wake up.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Lopez reaches on an error by Green (because the Yanks are too politically afraid to let Rodriguez even be a backup shortstop) and Peña singles.

[Guest Edgy DC]

But Lopez continues the kind of disastrous season that makes me appreciate Piazza more every day.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rally fizz.