Yanx/Rangers ALCS IST

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: I've been listening to John Sterling for 20 seconds and I'm already feeling violent.

Most intelligent humans can only bear 10 seconds before they go into convulsions. Seek professional helps now!

[Frayed Knot]

Good God he's doing it again (bunting Kinsler after a Cruz 2B) ... OK now it's off after strike one.

[HahnSolo]

Frayed Knot wrote: Bunting with a runner on 2nd and 3-run lead with Ian Kinsler up? .... Really Ron Washington?

Mom, he's doing it again!

[Frayed Knot]

Now some folks may disagree, but I like triples more than outs.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Seven-one. OH, dear.

Sterling making cracks about what happens if the Yankees come back and win this game.

[Willets Point]

Maybe it's just me, but I'm feeling good about this game for the Rangers.

[Guest themetfairy]

Now it's 7-2

See what you've done Willets!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

See, I don't trust these jobbers to have closed anything out until they're in the clubhouse, giving boring quotes to the beat guys.

Nice change from Rapada, though.

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I'm feeling good about this game for the Rangers.

Oh so you're the one.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

See, this Darren Oliver in high-leverage, short-stint spots thing is a nice "for example."

Even excepting last night's shitshow... it sits about as well as week-old chili.

[Frayed Knot]

So not only is Oliver doing the walk thing again, but the Ranger bats have faced the chump part of the Yanqui pen and have 2 hits and 5 Ks over 3 innings after knocking the starter out after 4.

I've seen this movie before and I didn't like how it ended the first time.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And that's why I'm about to switch over to a great pitching matchup on Fox. Do let me know how this turns out.

[Frayed Knot]

OK, two outs from Darren mixed in with a walk.
At least that's two more outs than last night.



btw, well over 3 hours at this point and there's still an inning plus to go. Those FOX people must have been nuts to think that allowing just 3-1/2 hours between games meant they'd get a first pitch all to themselves.
AL baseball - lose it.

[Willets Point]

[Guest themetfairy]

The Yankees lose! The Yankees LOOOOSSSSSEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[metirish]

Listen from the sixth on to the Texas radio crew, pretty good.

[Guest Edgy DC]

How in the world does it take them five releivers to complete the game with a five-run lead?

The world has gone mad. MAD, I TELL YOU!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

How can a Met fan not love John Sterling?

Love him. L-O-V-E him!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: How can a Met fan not love John Sterling? Love him. L-O-V-E him!

Oh, it's only when they're winning that he's insufferable. Otherwise... hell, I flipped it to Team Sterling-Waldman for a few innings last night while driving, just to hear them try to be chipper.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's that they build the brand around his shit in the marketing. ("Is Swishalicious even a word?") It's like "We're the Yankees, and if what we have is bad, then it's good... because we're the Yankees. Got it?")

I guess I'd appreciate the short end of the stick he gives the Yankee fans every night if (1) the Mets season wasn't so utterly completely over, and (2) I hadn't really really soured on Howie and Wayne this season.

Who's his Dilton Doiley-voiced sidekick? It's like they diliberately hired a nasal milquetoast with a voice to contrast with Sterling's pushy, boozey baritone, and so make him out to be even more of an obnoxious boor.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Eh. I think the MFYs are secretly embarrassed at Sterling's schtick and probably wish instead for a self-righteous homer bully who pretends he's a journalist like, for instance, their TV guy, Michael Kay.

Sterling's partner is irritating former Broadway singer turned radio personality Suzyn Waldman. Her voice can kill, she rarely "times" her remarks properly and her reading of the starting lineup is the most torturous 2 minutes in radio, but I'd say 90% of the mainstream shit she gets is because she's a girl, and how do you say this? Not Ines Sainz or even Jenn Sterger.

I've softened my own take on Waldman while holding the above to be true. I think she occasionally can come up with an interesting perspective, and I feel kinda bad for her what with all the "ugly bitch" remarks she inspires.

[Fman99]

Waldman and Sterling stink. I listen to Michael Kay sometimes on XM, they air his radio show in the afternoons on XM 141 and I have a long drive. He's pretty useless too.

So is Wayne Hagin. He's contaminated Howie with his out-of-town stink.

[Guest Edgy DC]

There was a third person in the booth. Real nasally little squirty male. It was almost like his job was to keep feeding Sterling facts so Sterling could kick them aside with ex cathedra pronouncements. I dunno, maybe they're mic-ing the producer or statistician or somebody.

I fear for Ms. Waldman's future in the post-Steinbrenner world. Her presence seemed to be one of his novelties. On the other hand, firing her is like admitting they were wrong all along and they certainly can't give her a smaller on-air role.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

You were listening to the Daily News 5th inning, where the beatwriter for the Snooze (Mark Feinsand, I believe) comes in and chats for a bit.

I fear for Sterling's retirement.

[Guest themetfairy]

Yea Giants!

[batmagadanleadoff]

You people know a lot of stuff about the Yankees.

[G-Fafif]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: You people know a lot of stuff about the Yankees.

I know they got beat by Matt Franco in 1999. Thanks SNY!

[Guest Number 6]

I've been away in the Poconos for the past few days, and was forced to listen to the Yanks broadcast on the way up yesterday (my wife's a Yankee fan). Even putting aside Sterling's most hideously smarmy, schticky homerisms, he's one of the poorest technical broadcasters I can think of. He does nothing to elucidate the details of the game; pitch locations, defensive shifts... even how hard a ball is hit or how close a play may be. Whatever small morsels of detail may be provided are delivered after the fact, so you have to piece the action together well after its conclusion.

In addition, he clearly doesn't care to do his homework... he has nothing more to say about Jeff Francouer other than that he's a "righty with power," the very same description he uses for Jorge Cantu or Ian Kinsler (who, to be fair, is "a right-hander with power and speed"). For some of these players, it's not even that he hasn't done his homework, because he's seen them enough to know their strengths, weaknesses, and tendencies, were he at all interested or perceptive. Overall, may as well watch Gameday for your insight.

I don't deny that I've been coddled with above average Mets broadcasts on the radio and exceptional broadcasts on television (and formerly the reverse), but I've also been privy to the skills of other teams' broadcasters and, even when doing my best to put aside my anti-Yank bias, the Yanks' radio team still deserves to be canned. Sterling's got the job as long as he wants it though, I'm sure.

[Willets Point]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: You people know a lot of stuff about the Yankees.

I feel this way too. I barely know any of these players except for the ones who got famous on other teams (which granted is half the roster).

[Frayed Knot]

Well, it's not like they're far away or anything. They're in the NY newspapers, on NY TV, on NY radio and talked about around NY water coolers.
Oh yeah, and we play them six times a year.

Now if you're out of the NY orbit or are the type who cares about baseball only as it relates to the Mets then obviously things are going to be a bit different.