I watch Yanqui games so you don't have to (MFYs 2015)

[Lefty Specialist]

Blue Jays going all in at the trading deadline looking like a good decision right about now...

[dgwphotography]

Idiot Yankees Fan Throws Back Home Run Ball, Hits Brett Gardner

[MFS62]

dgwphotography wrote: Idiot Yankees Fan Throws Back Home Run Ball, Hits Brett Gardner

If that fan had a decent arm, he'd be signed to take C.C.'s next start.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

dgwphotography wrote: Idiot Yankees Fan Throws Back Home Run Ball, Hits Brett Gardner

Teixeira briefly mixed it up with a fan today too. He objected to being bumped while leaning into the stands behind 1st for a foul ball.

Blue Jays going all in at the trading deadline looking like a good decision right about now...

Only one loss in 12 games since the Reyes/Tulo trade. Now just 1.5 games out, were 8.0 back on July 28

[metirish]

That second Wild Card really has changed the dynamic of the trade deadline ......MFY stood pat ....good

[metirish]

That second Wild Card really has changed the dynamic of the trade deadline ......MFY stood pat ....good

[HahnSolo]

Re: Smoak's grand slam on Saturday. Daily News per Elias says that is the first grand slam by a Blue Jay in the Bronx...ever. Which seems unbelievable.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jays win, MFYs tied 4-4 in the bottom 14th in Cleveland. Bases loaded, 2 out for Yan Gomes

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Onto the 15th.

MFYs went up 4-2 in the 10th but Miller blew the save.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I didn't make it to the end but happy to see the MFYs lost in 16, and the Nats were shut out, another day of Triple H for us.

[Edgy MD]

[Lefty Specialist]

Those were two nice baskets of candy to wake up to this morning.

Nats fans are eating their own these days. The Matt Williams hatred is palpable. And they're convinced that the Rockies are lying down for the Mets after getting up for the fearsome Nats.

One of my faves:

sportsfan882 on Yesterday at 09:35:20 PM

The Rockies' bats are gutless. Harvey serves up homers like no other and the Rockies crush RHP but they looked disinterested again tonight. Harvey was featuring his B/C level stuff tonight and they didn't come close to scoring.

[HahnSolo]

Harvey serves up homers like no other

Fun fact for sportsfan882:

Matt Harvey vs. Washington in 2015: 27 2/3 IP, 0 HR allowed.

[dgwphotography]

Harvey serves up homers like no other Fun fact for sportsfan882: Matt Harvey vs. Washington in 2015: 27 2/3 IP, 0 HR allowed.

Another Fun fact:

Harvey's better...
Clap clap clap clap clap...
Harvey's better...
Clap clap clap clap clap...

[Edgy MD]

Better than Yankee losses, I guess, are Yankee losses that toast their bullpen.

[Frayed Knot]

Introducing your second place New York Yanquis
Blue Jays went from 8 games out to 0.5 ahead in 15 days/14 games.

[MFS62]

While we're talking about NOT watching MFY games, my #1 reason for not watching (even recaps) is not having to look at Sweeny Murti.
How ugly can one person be? He looks like the result from a union between Bobby Jindal and E.T.
And that's on his good days. It was ok when he covered the team for WFAN. But watch him?
If anyone ever had the "face for radio" its good ol' Sweeny.
EEESH.
What a meeskeit.
Later

[HahnSolo]

HahnSolo wrote: I have very small hopes. Toronto NEVER wins in New York. And Price and Buerhle are about a combined 2-145 in their careers against the MFYs.

Blue Jays still haven't lost since this awesome bit of prognostication.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Introducing your second place New York Yanquis Blue Jays went from 8 games out to 0.5 ahead in 15 days/14 games.

Wait a minute... that beats losing seven games in 17 days.

[Benjamin Grimm]

True! It's just that collapses have more dramatic impact when they come at the conclusion of the season.

The Yankees will have an opportunity to recover. The Mets didn't.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

What would be even sweeter is if the Yankees recover, and then collapse again. MWAHAHAHAAHHA

[Gwreck]

I'd just rather a prolonged slide to mediocrity. Also (and this is not "rooting" for injuries), I expect that some of their 35+ year old players are eventually going to turn into pumpkins/get hurt.

[Frayed Knot]

If the Yanx want some extra pitching maybe they could pick up Joba Chamberlain who was just dropped by the Blue Jays.
They had picked him up three weeks ago after the Tigers dropped him but he never pitched for them on the big league club.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Joba Rules II: Electric Boogaloo

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Christ, I just checked, and Chamberlain is only 29. It feels like he's been around forever.

[Edgy MD]

Could you imagine the shower of shit that would pour down upon the Mets if they had a prospect whose arm they so explicitly prized � whose future they so wholly believed in and banked on � that they set up a list of highly publicized rules that applied exclusively and arbitrarily to him? Only to abandon that plan just as arbitrarily, moving him from the rotation to the bullpen to the rotation as per announcements not by the manager or pitching coach or even the GM, but the managing partner/heir?

To end up damaging himself anyhow, initially with rotator cuff problems that the team first declared to be temporary but later acknowledged had a lasting effect, and then to finally go under for the Tommy John surgery? Finally? Did I say finally? After the guy wrecked his ankle on a trampoline, in the Yankees real home town of Tampa, doing recreational trampoline activity during spring training � could you just imagine?

And ultimately, the guy ends up not a prized asset at all, but just another journeyman pitcher trying to find himself? Did they even get compensation when the Tigers signed him away? To be ultimately left with a Yankee career measured in holds and painful lessons learned? Could you imagine?

[Gwreck]

Don't forget the DWI.

[MFS62]

Gwreck wrote: Don't forget the DWI.

Many people (including major leaguers) have been cited for a DWI. In my mind, it is one of those unforgiveable offenses.
But it takes a special kind of idiot for a 250 pound professional athlete to injure himself on a trampoline. And from the time he first came to the majors, we knew Joba was kind of special.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Blue Jays salvage the final game so the net result is the Yanx going from 1/2 game down to 1/2 up.
Seven more games in September between the two.

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx starter tonight Bryan Mitchell struck in the face by a liner back to the box.
"Nasal fracture" is the early word.

7-7 vs Twins in the Bronx, bottom 10.