Yanx/Rangers ALCS IST

[Frayed Knot]

metsmarathon wrote: ian o'connor is delicious this morning.

With fava beans and a nice chianti.

[Methead]

Wow. I haven't taken the opportunity to use the word "hyperdouche" in everyday conversation too often, but this seems like the perfect time. He's almost a caricature of himself.

[MFS62]

I wonder if the requests to Cablevision to add FOX Channel 5 (so Yankee fans can see the World Series) have declined recently.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Mr. Hyperdouche - as well as Mr. Hyperdouche's brother next to him - are quoted in this morning's NYDN that no one touched Nelson Cruz's glove









Ummmm, yeah, OK.

[Guest Edgy DC]

O'Connor does a great job, capturing the mood of the avalanche of Yankee fans rushing to jump off the bandwagon, flee the stadium, quit, and declare that they never believed in this team anyway, all the while decrying the team's lack of heart. It's a pretty spectacular performance by the "diehards."

He's dead wrong about the manager, though. The failure there is Burnett's, not Girardi's, unless you want to hang Girardi for having Burnett in there in the first place, which isn't what he's saying.

[Willets Point]

[HahnSolo]

^^^
In the gif, Check out fat guy in the quintuple-X World Series Shirt just randomly screaming out "F**k you, F**k you"

Edited October 20, 2010 by Guest

[HahnSolo]

Lotta chatter on my FB page from MFY fans that Ron Darling has been insufferably anti-Yankee. anybody who has been watching can confirm this?

[Guest Edgy DC]

HahnSolo wrote: ^^^ In the gif, Check out fat guy in the quintuple-X World Series Shirt just randomly screaming out "F**k you, F**k you"

Think he just walks around doing that?

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: He's dead wrong about the manager, though. The failure there is Burnett's, not Girardi's, unless you want to hang Girardi for having Burnett in there in the first place, which isn't what he's saying.

Um...everyone in the ballpark except Girardi knew it was time to go to the pen. It's the biggest managerial gaffe in the postseason since Grady left in Pedro. And Burnett's not as good as Pedro was.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Priceless!!


Tough day for ESPN radio guys Mike and Mike. They were almost forced to talk a little baseball between rants about NFL concussion prevention plans and Brett Favre's sexting.

They were still predicting Yankees would win it in six after the Lee game. Not so much today.


And last night I was driving in to work listening to Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, and the were going on about Josh Hamilton, and how he's not swinging well and he must be hurt and he must not be able to play in chilly weather. They were interrupted by Hamilton hitting his second home run.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Um...everyone in the ballpark except Girardi knew it was time to go to the pen. It's the biggest managerial gaffe in the postseason since Grady left in Pedro. And Burnett's not as good as Pedro was.

Maybe everyone else did --- though Lord knows who he'd go to after the performances by the Yankee pen --- but not O'Connor. He's decrying the intentional walk this morning, not sticking with the starter.

[metsmarathon]

HahnSolo wrote: Lotta chatter on my FB page from MFY fans that Ron Darling has been insufferably anti-Yankee. anybody who has been watching can confirm this?

well, he's not nose-deep in pinstriped short curlies like they're used to hearing whensoever their precious team is involved, but he's hardly anti-yankee. last night i heard him laud cano's play at second, declaring him the deserving AL gold glover for his position (which isn't entirely well supported by the numbers). it also didn't seem at all like he was disputing the cano home run outcome, and seemed to not be in favor of the umps missing the bases-loaded hit pantsleg, on swisher iirc, in the 8th.

at worst, it sounded like he was in favor of either team last night.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

HahnSolo wrote: Lotta chatter on my FB page from MFY fans that Ron Darling has been insufferably anti-Yankee. anybody who has been watching can confirm this?

That's hilarious. He's been about as fair to them as he is to the Mets. They're just likely unused to non-YES broadcasters who actually know enough about their team to honestly and fairly (if not altogether accurately) assay their chances, abilities and doings... and practicing bitching about something else, now that they will shortly be unable to bitch about an actual, still-playing baseball team.

[G-Fafif]

If last night proved anything, it's that Pettitte's a first-ballot Hall of Famer.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, that guy... that guy can stare.

[G-Fafif]

"Two champions...on a Sunday afternoon...A new one as a quarterback...An old one as a man."

That was from NFL Films' Super Bowl III highlight film, their begrudging acknowledgment of Joe Willie and then shunting the AFL punk aside to idolize Johnny U.

The O'Connor piece made me think of that, and I'm sure that if (if) the MFYs don't advance but show any kind of pulse in the process of not advancing, we'll read variations on this, and how in the end they did themselves proud, because when you get right down to it, it's not who wins a single series that's important, it's who's won dozens of them.

[MFS62]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: They're just likely unused to non-YES broadcasters who actually know enough about their team to honestly and fairly (if not altogether accurately) assay their chances, abilities and doings

As the add says on ESPN radio - you can't spell Yankees without K-A-Y.
Later

[Fman99]

MFS62 wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: They're just likely unused to non-YES broadcasters who actually know enough about their team to honestly and fairly (if not altogether accurately) assay their chances, abilities and doings As the add says on ESPN radio - you can't spell Yankees without K-A-Y. Later

You can't spell H-A-C-K without Michael Kay either.

[MFS62]

Fman99 wrote: MFS62 wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: They're just likely unused to non-YES broadcasters who actually know enough about their team to honestly and fairly (if not altogether accurately) assay their chances, abilities and doings As the add says on ESPN radio - you can't spell Yankees without K-A-Y. Later You can't spell H-A-C-K without Michael Kay either.

I'm expecting my usual 10% of the proceeds for teeing that one up for you.
LOL!
Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

For the The Yankees to recover, they need to play like the Mets.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And speaking of recovering, future ALCS MVP Josh Hamilton, on the tense atmosphere before last night's comeback:

Buster (Olney): What was it like as Bengie Molina(notes) comes to the plate in the sixth inning? Hamilton: Uh [laughs]. From a line in "Anchorman" � "It was a glass case of emotion." Making the reference even funnier, Hamilton briefly put up his hands as if simulate being "trapped" in a phone booth like Ron Burgundy was.

Out of an officemate or friend-of-friend who just. won't. stop... annoying.

Out of someone who just. won't. stop. hammering MFY pitching into submission... delightful.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: Um...everyone in the ballpark except Girardi knew it was time to go to the pen. It's the biggest managerial gaffe in the postseason since Grady left in Pedro. And Burnett's not as good as Pedro was. Maybe everyone else did --- though Lord knows who he'd go to after the performances by the Yankee pen --- but not O'Connor. He's decrying the intentional walk this morning, not sticking with the starter.

Yeah, O'Connor is arguing against the IW and doing so on the basis that Molina is clutch, an RBI guy, and has it in his bloodlines. It's an arguable point but ya gotta do a little better than that dude.
I personally had no problems with the IW that got rid of the LH hitter in favor of Molina. Whether Burnett should have been the guy to pitch to him (esp after almost throwing away one of the pitchouts during the IW) is a separate issue. Joba was warmed up and ready to come in at that point although when he did finally get in the following inning he went 2B - BB - 1B to the first three batters he faced so it's not like there's a guarantee that bringing him in would have gone smoothly either.

Lotta chatter on my FB page from MFY fans that Ron Darling has been insufferably anti-Yankee. anybody who has been watching can confirm this?

The fans of every team complain that network announcers are skewed against their guys - usually simultaneously. That Darling is a 'Mets' guy only adds fuel to the fire because they're convinced he comes in with a bias. Met fans might be almost universally convinced that the likes of McCarver and Morgan do nothing but suck MFY dicks all day but I haven't met a Bronx fan yet who didn't think both of them were more anti-Yanqui than Hugo Chavez.
It's the nature of the business.

[Centerfield]

Texiera's post-season is over.

Terrible news for the Rangers.

[Guest Edgy DC]

You fear Berkman too?

[Centerfield]

I was referring more to Texiera's 0 for October.

[Vic Sage]

good hitters hit good.
the longer Tex played, the more likely he was to have an impact for the yanks.
s'long tex, and thanks for all the fish.

[bmfc1]

"The Immortal" Chris Majkowski is the Engineer for the Texas Rangers radio broadcast while they're at YS.

[HahnSolo]

Maybe 3 straight wins in the Stadium was too much to ask?

3-0 deficit for Texas bottom 2.

[HahnSolo]

Reading off the espn game cast, three runs scored on 2 walks, 2 singles, and an error by Francoeur ("A superior defender"--Ron Darling).