MFY/Tigers Series

[A Boy Named Seo]

Whoops! Throwing error on the number 8-hitting third baseman. Guy's a scrub.

[MFS62]

Error by A-Rod sets it up for I-Rod to drive in the fourth run for Detroit.
4-0 Tiggers.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

]Basically the fans are saying they should go back to the "basics" of the 96-00 Yanks, the paitence at the plate, doing "the little things," ect. Which makes sense, especially since looking at that vaunted 1998 roster, only Jeter and Mariano are No Doubt Hall Bound*

This is more a discussion for a post-mortem thread rather than just a 4-run lead still kinda early in the game ... but it's also nonsense.
This team doesn't do anything LESS well than the '96-'00 teams except pitch! (and probably some 'D' a several spots).
Jeter, Abreu, Giambi & a healthy Sheff all have "patience" and .400+ OBAs. "Little things" aren't being ignored and fans who think what's missing here is a few sac bunts then that's their problem. This era just doesn't automatically have the better of the pitching matchup 4 games out of 5 like they did back then.
There's also a lot of luck involved in ANY good streak and to expect that to continue is foolhardy.

[Valadius]

Four more innings of baseball left.

[Frayed Knot]

"Oh boy, is this great!"

[Guest OlerudOwned]

This is a beatdown now.

Maybe Jeter will cry again.

[Frayed Knot]

Man, I wouldn't have bet a plug nickel on Magglio Ordonez coming back to be a productive player.

[metirish]

Sorry to the Tigers that I doubted you guys...

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

This is pornography for Metfans. Hardcore porno.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sox fans too.

Ho-lee crap.

Things I could've better spent my 300 million on...

[metirish]

What's Bonderman's pitch count...like 26 or something.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Nice post-season effort Abreu. Come on.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I just came home from a day out with the family. I turned on the TV to see how the Yankees-Tigers were doing. It was in a commercial break, and as I was waiting for the game to resume, I said to my son, "Come on, let it be Tigers 7, Yankees 0..."

And a moment later, it was exactly that!

Am I psychic? Or just plain awesome?

Either way, I'm pretty satisfied with the score.

[Theoldmole]

What I love about this game is that the MFY's are not just being beaten, not just being eliminated...they're being humiliated. And not just humiliated...the humiliation grows deeper every inning.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Zumaya will pitch one day for the Yankees. He's just making too much of an impression.

Lyons will one day announce for the Yankees. He's just too much..

[Guest Edgy DC]

That croissanwich commercial just pisses me off.

It's interrupting the porn.

[metirish]

I loved last night how Joe Morgan was making excuses for himself after proclaming this yankee team the greatest hitting lineup EVER...

[Valadius]

FUCK!!!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Scrappy Cano!

Enjoy it for what it's worth, Yankees. Those are few and far between today.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Valadius wrote: FUCK!!!

What would cause that reaction? A six-run homer?

[Valadius]

Breaking up a perfect game against the MFYs is what.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Am I psychic? Or just plain awesome?

Please don't dis the power of the beards.

[smg58]

Geez, the Yankees can't even hit it hard enough to get a double play...

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

="Valadius"]Breaking up a perfect game against the MFYs is what.

I didn't realize it was a perfect game.

That would have been nice, but it's not important. It merits a Fiddlesticks, and nothing more.

[Frayed Knot]

That was ARod's series high-light: NOT hitting into a GiDP

[Valadius]

You know that if the score holds, retards will be calling up the FAN for the next year pounding A-Rod's performance in the post-season when everyone else in that lineup choked as well. Not to mention their pitchers.

[Valadius]

Holy crap! Sean Casey came to the plate, and I swore it was Mark McGwire.

[Theoldmole]

Every play, every inning, twists the knife a little more.

[dinosaur jesus]

In a Schadenfreude sort of way, this is as much fun as I've had watching a ballgame.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Somewhere, Chris Shelton weeps to himself.