Yanx - Sawx: Take One

[Guest iramets]

metirish wrote: The guy that wrote the article I linked in the Imus thread said Omar is articulate,not sure if anyone here did though.

That's prolly what I was thinking of. My bad.

If Yancy will extend it past 24 hours, though, I can find someone and collect multiple nickels.

[Guest silverdsl]

MFS62 wrote: Have you noticed Jeter when the news shows clips of A-Rod's homers?He's been the first one to greet A-Rod after one of his homers, either at home plate or in front of the dugout. Last year, when A-Rod was having tough times, Jeter avoided him like he was a radioactive leper. "Oh Captain, Their Captain" is a front-running maggot, just like his fans. Later

I think Jeter greeted A-Rod after homeruns and stuff last season too, but there was a lot less good times on the field for A-Rd last season as compared to this season so far. IMO, both this season and last there's a degree of "show" there in relation to all their interactions on the field because they don't want to give the media or fans anything to speculate about regarding how friendly or not they are with each other.

And yes, no matter how awesome of a game A-Rod has, there's likely still some fan somewhere, who is cussing A-Rod for not winning another game for the Yankees. The unfortunate thing about him having such a hot start to the season is that some fans will expect him to hit like this all season which is impossible. He's going to get ripped as soon as he cools off at the plate which is unavoidable.

[metirish]

Jeter is top stepping it no matter what...

[Guest iramets]

is this a GREAT series or what? I literally could not turn off the TV last night, with the Sox up 7-4 in the 7th. I had someplace to be, other than my living room, but I stayed stuck to my chair because I knew that there was real danger of the lead changing hands, especually with A-Rod coming to bat again. As it happened, Papelbon took care of the Yankees in the 9th (getting Captain Clutch to make a weak out) and standing Rodriguez in the on-deck circle, knowing if he batted it would be with two men on and two runs down--great drama, even if he never faced Papelbon in that spot. I was totally jazzed by the two victories, and enjoyed them richly as fantastic baseball, whomever I was rooting for.

I turned up late at my event, and could not have cared less.

[Frayed Knot]

]That's prolly what I was thinking of. My bad. If Yancy will extend it past 24 hours, though, I can find someone and collect multiple nickels

That search bearing any fruit yet? ... Or do we just assume that the strategy is going forward is to hear something somewhere then pretend that "multiple" people here said it so as to set yourself up as the lone voice of truth howling against the uninformed masses?

[Frayed Knot]

Winning Friday was really the key to this series for Boston. It was the only game in which the Yanx had anywhere near an even pitching matchup, plus they had Mariano available while Papelbon was not. Then when Pettitte outpitched Schilling AND ARod continued his insane streak it was all set up for the Bronx boys until their pen collapsed late amid a couple of questionable choices by Torre.

Saturday started to look like a give-back when Beckett looked like he was continuing his awful pitching vs the Yanx from last year by giving up more runs in the 1st & 2nd innings than he had in his first 3 starts combined. But he straightened out after that while Karstens was even worse and the Sox eventually out-clubbed 'em even as they missed several chances to make it a blow out. The "other" Japanese pitcher for Boston - Hidecki Okajima - looks like he'll be a useful multi-purpose pen guy and got some big outs in both games.

Yanx are winless this season in games where ARod does NOT homer.

[Guest iramets]

Frayed Knot wrote: ]That's prolly what I was thinking of. My bad. If Yancy will extend it past 24 hours, though, I can find someone and collect multiple nickels That search bearing any fruit yet? ... Or do we just assume that the strategy is going forward is to hear something somewhere then pretend that "multiple" people here said it so as to set yourself up as the lone voice of truth howling against the uninformed masses?

Still waiting to see if Yancy will pay me a nickel for everyone who's expressed support of Omar's articulateness here, or if it's just in the last 24 hours.

But as long as I have YOU on the horn, what will YOU do when I identify those CPFers who have disagreed with my thesis that Omar lacks (relative to other MLB GMs) articulateness? Will you get in their faces, as you get in mne? Or is this just another chops-busting exercise, in which you make me track down positions taken and, then when I comes up woth those who've held those positions, do an Emily Litella and go "Oh, never mind"? How about promising to change your handle to Emily Litella and adopting a suitably embarrassing sig line for a year if I can find multiple miscreants who've defended Omar's ability to articulate?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'll give you the whole month of April.

[Guest iramets]

Okay, I had to go back to the end of March, so you're off the hook for the nickels, Yancy, but in this thread, we can see Nymr83 saying that he thought Omar's interview w/ M& MD (which I thought was a definition of "inarticulateness") was nothing short of "brilliant", KC asserting that "it was a fine interview," Soupy opining that Omar's interview was "excellent"--do you need more?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Nope. Nice job.

I'm glad I didn't extend the deadline back into March!

[Frayed Knot]

Game 3:
Yanx giving Andrew Dice-Kay a bit of a hard time; he's walked a few, hit a few, and given up a few hits as the Yanx took a 3-0 led.
Meanwhile, the Sawx were hitless against Chase Wright in his 2nd ML start until ... BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!!!! in the bottom of the 3rd when Manny, Drew, Lowell & Varitek went back-to-back-to back-to back and there was nuthin' cheap about any of them.

4 - 3 Sox in the 4th. Yanx have changed pitchers.

[nymr83]

that was a beautiful thing. i hope to see 4 straight homers against the yankees more often.

[nymr83]

jeter homer ties it. yankee fans may now ignore everything arod has done this year and point to this jeter homer as the most important hit of the year.

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx take a 5-4 lead into the 7th on that Jeter HR plus an RBI GO.

Andy Pettitte - in his 2nd relief appearance of the year so far - pitched the 6th.
Matsuzaka still dealing for Boston.

That was the [u:1176a89f40]2nd time[/u:1176a89f40] in MLB history that [u:1176a89f40]one pitcher[/u:1176a89f40] has served up 4 straight HRs. When the Dodgers did that crazy 4-straight thing in the 9th inning of a game last year it was 2 each off of 2 different hurlers.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Thank you, Scott Proctor, for taking our names off the back page of tomorrow's Daily News.

Sincerely,

Scott Schoenweis & Aaron Heilman

[Frayed Knot]

Proctor, Proctor give us the news
Sox got a bad case of smacking you

1B, 2B, 3R HR (Lowell) to Scott Proctor's first 3 batters of bottom 7th and it's 7-5 Boston.

Exit Proctor, enter Luis Vizcaino.

[Frayed Knot]

Jeez Coco ... You lay flat-out to rob DWright with a bases-loaded game-saver last year and now you let that pice-o-shit blooper land at your feet right after you're put in for defense?!!?
C'mon man, you're on national TV!

[Frayed Knot]

Papillion in to face the top of the NYY order and try to protect a 1-run lead:
- Damon - FO7
- Jeter - K Swinging (oooh, not so clutch this time!)
- Abreu - BB
- Rodriguez - FC 5-4

... and the sweep is complete!