NYC's Weak Sisters, 2007 (part III)

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Torre just left him there to waste, but that's too bad since he started losing it pretty rapidly after 50-some pitches.

Bedard and 2 relievers held the MFYs to 5 singles. 4-zip O's is your final.

[Gwreck]

1-3, 5.32 ERA. Nice investment there by the MFYs.

[Benjamin Grimm]

For those of you with primitive jinx aversions, this is NOT the beginning of a countdown, just a notation:

As of this morning, the Yankees tragic number is 76 for the division title, and 79 for the wild card.

Meanwhile, the Mets have a magic number of 83 for the division title, and 86 for the wild card. (The wild card leader, Arizona, has a better record than the Phillies do.)

Still a long way to go.

[Willets Point]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: (The wild card leader, Arizona, has a better record than the Phillies do.)

Of course they do, that's why they're the Wild Card leader. The Diamondbacks also have a better record than the Mets.

[metirish]

Newsday reporting that yankees and Angels are in talks that would see Shea Hillenbrand going to the Bronx....apparently he's to be cut by the Angels anyway.

Hillenbrand said that he was told he would be designated for assignment as soon as today.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Hillenbrand isn't a whole lot better than Andy Phillips.

[seawolf17]

The great thing about Hillenbrand is that he has a reputation as a strong clubhouse guy. He's not the type of guy who would act like a douche because he's not in the lineup, or who would refuse to sit in the dugout, or write stupid shit on the clubhouse billboard or anything. And it's not like any of his former managers have tried to physically kick his ass or anything.

Oh wait, yes he is all those things. Now that's a True Yankee™!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Things are just coming apart for the MFYs. They had a 4-2 lead in the 7th tonight before Wong started getting whacked around (triple by Millar, 2r double by Gibbons). Corey Patterson then tries stealing third and Posada wings the ball into left field and he scores.

[Elster88]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Posada wings the ball into left field and he scores.

LOL. Great description, I can see it in my mind's eye. I've been making some good money betting against the Yankees lately, teams have been running on Posada a lot more than they ever ran on Piazza.

[metirish]

Why was this game suspended and not called like the Mets and Cards game the other night that Glavine pitched?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think it's because the Yankees' runs came in the top of the inning, and the Orioles didn't get their "last licks."

I would have thought that the four runs the Yankees scored in the top of the 8th would have been erased, and the Orioles would have ended up winning based on the score at the bottom of the 7th. But I know there was a recent rules change, and that may be the old way of doing things.

[Frayed Knot]

That was the old way of doing things (wiping out runs in a non-completed inning). I remember the Yanx losing a game like that to the Oreos a whole buncha years ago. After a deluge that delayed the game for a long while, it stopped raining but the umps were inspecting the field to see if it were playable. So Earl Weaver is following the umps around the field making sure to not only step in every puddle he could find but to really STOMP in them so as to create the biggest splash possible. He eventually got his way and the NYY top-inning runs were wiped out handing Balmer the win.


Last night some of the Os players looked pissed. The game had already been stopped once, then restarted. It was during the restart that the Yanx took the lead and it was re-stopped right after Jeter's RBI single (he's so clutch) put them ahead. I'm not sure if they were mad that they stopped it too early or too late, but it was bad timing for them either way.

[Batty31]

I was confused about this as well and this is what I found on MLB's site today about suspended games.

Weather, if a regulation game is called while an inning is in progress and before the inning is completed, and the visiting team has scored one or more runs to take the lead, and the home team has not retaken the lead

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Look at our old pal Bryan Hoch on the MFY beat. I guess [junk] = "shit" though it'd be funnier if Hoch made us think that maybe Proctor said "I'm throwing like ass," only replacing that word with [buttocks] .

Anyway, if you need to be reminded the MFYs got Scott Proctor in a trade for... Robin F. Ventura when he briefly was a Knight in Satans Service. Remember that? (We got David F. Justice whom we traded to Oakland for Tyler F. Yates). They had this coming.

]Yankees' frustrations boil over 06/30/2007 7:15 PM ET By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com NEW YORK -- His temper already smoldering, Scott Proctor set off an inferno near the Yankee Stadium infield following Saturday's 7-0 loss to the A's, torching various items of his equipment in a smoky blaze. Perhaps the hot-tempered Proctor hoped to excise some of his recent struggles, lighting a small bonfire a few feet from the top step of the Yankees dugout. He then watched from the railing for several minutes as the contents grew charred and unrecognizable. Saturday marked the latest of Proctor's continuing struggles, and that of the entire Yankees club as a whole. New York managed just one hit in the defeat, which featured Proctor allowing three runs -- including a two-run double to Nick Swisher -- in one-third of an inning of relief behind starter Kei Igawa, leaving the field to boos. "I'm just throwing like [junk]," Proctor said after the game in an expletive-laced rant. "I can't expect to throw the ball over the middle and expect to get an out of it." Though the 30-year-old Proctor started the day in a calm demeanor, petting and playing for about 15 minutes with a bomb-sniffing dog in the Yankees clubhouse, the canine interaction was just a momentary diversion. The reliever's frustration has intensified of late, beginning when he surrendered Barry Bonds' 749th home run last week at San Francisco. Proctor suffered losses in a June 23 effort against the Giants and on June 26 against the Orioles, offering a bases-loaded, ninth-inning walk in the latter appearance before turning in yet another ineffective showing against the Athletics on Saturday. Asked about the dual struggles of Proctor and left-hander Mike Myers, who allowed a hit and a walk to follow Proctor, pitching coach Ron Guidry leaned back in a folding chair, his right leg crossed over the left knee, and sighed. "I wish I had an answer," Guidry said. "Maybe they're just dead tired. We abused them the first month and a half of the season. Maybe they're tired. They were in there almost every day. I don't know. I'm sure we're probably going to talk to them tomorrow and see if there's anything. We've got to make sure they're OK." In particular, Proctor became a favorite of manager Joe Torre's last season, when he led the American League with 83 appearances and gritted through the heavy workload -- even ignoring a slight clicking sound in his right elbow late in the year. Lately, though, Proctor has had reason to be hot under the collar. "He just needs to get his act together based on the fact that he needs to be able to get ahead in the count and locate his pitches," Torre said. "He hasn't been able to do that." "I know he's frustrated because it's not working," Guidry added, "and sometimes that's a problem -- when you get frustrated -- because you lose all train of thought. You forget what got you where you were." Torre said he used Proctor over reliever Luis Vizcaino, who later appeared and wrapped up the three-run Oakland seventh inning by recording the final out, because he wanted to get Proctor back into a game after the ninth-inning meltdown on Wednesday at Baltimore. Proctor said he appreciated the gesture. "You always want to get back in the game," Proctor said. "You never want to be sitting in the bullpen. You've got to get outs. I've got to get his trust back." Asked if he believes he has lost Torre's trust, Proctor replied, "I don't know. Only he can say that. But I wouldn't trust me right now, the way I'm throwing. It's pretty pathetic." As he spoke, Proctor must have wondered what could cleanse such a scenario. Maybe he found it. The flame growing hotter as reporters looked down from the press box of the empty Stadium, Proctor eventually had seen enough, grabbing a large jug of spring water and dousing his self-made blaze. Minutes before Proctor trucked his belongings down the runway from the home clubhouse and added fire to the equation, Guidry -- correctly, it turned out -- said he'd decided to keep his distance from the struggling fireman. "I don't think he's in any frame of mind to talk," Guidry said. "But he'll be different tomorrow. I'll talk to him tomorrow and see if there's anything we need to talk about."

[Guest Rotblatt]

What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?


I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump


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[Guest Edgy DC]

Andy Pettitte's afternoon:

IP: 1.2
H: 9
R: 8
ER: 7
BB: 0
SO: 1
HR: 2
ERA: 23.625

[nymr83]

nice.

[Guest cleonjones11]

Tony Soprano whacks Torre tonight and coronates Girardi as a made man.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Clemens goes eight and wins number 350 tonight. But A-Rod gets hurt.

Or as Cynthia would say, A-Rod gets fucking hurt.

[Frayed Knot]

"A-Rod gets hurt"

Which'll improve the team according to many of their fans.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I'm sure they'll win a few in a row at some point completely unrelated to Arod's absence which Michael Kay will explain by reminding us Miguel Cairo "plays the game right" at third base.

Just as the absense of Giambi explained their great winning streak of a few weeks back.

[nymr83]

whoever was on wfan around 1130 today (it was a guy and a girl filling in for evan and joe, who in turn filled in for mike and chris) said that arod wont participate in the HR derby because if he does and doesnt come out of the allstar break on fire he'll be eaten alive by the new york media calling him selfish for ruining his swing, etc, etc.

[metirish]

OK,this really has nothing to do with the fact that I hate the MFY'S and I especially loathe this fella but Paul O' fucking Neill is the worst,have you listened to him,his ahh shucks voice is so fucking annoying.....I could at least tolerate games when Jim Katt was doing them..not now,not ever.

[Guest iramets]

metirish wrote: I could at least tolerate games when Jim Katt was doing them.

I never knew you were a closet MFY sympathizer, irish.

Where did the hate go?

[metirish]

I'm not at all ira,Katt at least had a clue,in fact he was quite good.

I do turn over to ctach the score now and then....hoping they are getting beat of course.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Five errors today for the Yankees. Miguel Cairo, who plays the game right, made two on one play in the 13th to put the Yankees down one. In the bottom of the inning, Jeter ended the game with the tying and winning runs on.

[Frayed Knot]

Cairo actually made 3 errors overall, and Jeter GiDP'd in the 9th
inning of a tie game in addition to that game-ending force-out.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mota is foul line jumper also.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Edge you're having a bad posting night.

[Guest Edgy DC]

You caught that fast, bitch.