Frayed Knot

New pitcher, same result -- leadoff walk.

Dice doing very well to earn the up-for-grabs 'W' in this game. Hell at this point I'd just let him finish it. It would almost certainly designate him as out for the next two games but you'd save the rest of the pen in the process.

Y'know what really suxx about this long game? .... it's a get-away day. I hope they sent tomorrow's starter ahead to the next city already.

I don't know what Girardi's complaining about, the next called strike to Jeter this week will be the first.

... and you gotta be fuckin' kidding me (leadoff walk)!!!

End of five innings at 9:24 EDT A quick trip around the league finds that they are: - in the bottom 8th in Baltimore - top 8 in Philly (4-3 Angels) - bottom 8 in Toronto - top 9 in Cincy - and just behind our game (mostly in the 4th) are the 8:00 starts

Edgy MD wrote: That was a potential triple decker!! (You don't think that means they're sending Wheeler back out, do you?) I'd be making him clean the clubhouse right about now.

We just might Wheeler-proof this game yet.

And the thing is, this is NOT the Yanqui team of 10 years ago where they had eight guys deep in their lineup (and a few more on the bench) that would work a pitcher to death by taking pitches or fouling off close ones, etc. Wheeler's just missing more often than not.

4 innings in a crisp 1:52

Get him outta there! He doesn't deserve this win and if left in probably won't get it anyway.

Yeah, that's what you want to do after your team gifts you with two more runs - walk the leadoff hitter!

Edgy MD wrote: I figured Cone Or possibly Leiter or somebody. I don't see this booth at work much. Leiter's the other voice. [Aceves] quite the staller on the mound, too. It's the Yanqui way.

Edgy MD wrote: Yankee broadcaster just called Murray Chass a "great writer." You do realize that's Cone, right? And I think Chass WAS a great (or at least good) writer for a time. He wasn't always an old crank.

I think he got too much Yangervis on the ball which caused it to sail into the OF.

Zvon wrote: d' has looked August tired behind the plate. Too many getting by him. Especially too many that get by him after hitting his glove!

Does Wheeler have a swing and a miss yet tonight? I think I recall one (Kelly Johnson, 1st AB) OK, now he has 1-1/2

Granderson = .200 (26 of 130) Been a long climb son.

Think we can get this pitch count up to 50 this inning?

Granderson /= Bay

NOW DON'T SETTLE FOR JUST ONE RUN THIS TIME, BOYS!!!!

Yanqui pen news: RP Shawn Kelley, not to be confused with infielder Kelly Johnson, goes to the DL with a "strained lumbar spine". Reserve OF Zoilo Almonte is the call up. The 24 y/o (25 in a few weeks) Almonte got 106 ABs with the '13 Yanx [.236/.274/.302] and has an excellent chance to be the second best MLer named Zoilo ever.

Dose other guys: Gardner - LF Jeter - SS Ellsbury - CF Teixeira - DH McCann - C Alfonso - RF Solarte - 3B Johnson - 1B Roberts - 2B Nuno - P Beltran somehow hyper-extended his elbow yesterday and isn't starting and is questionable otherwise. Ichiro apparently isn't right and, as we saw last night, Teixeira can't run.

He also added that [u:1zz7e78w]SNY[/u:1zz7e78w] has removed their previous ban -- official or otherwise -- on the likes of G, K, or R appearing on FAN if so invited.

Matt Cerrone from the above link: ... the way I understand it, this is as much the Yankees doing as it is the Mets. I�ve been told by radio insiders that, as part of their agreement with WFAN, the Yankees must get more players and promotions on air than their cross-town rival, which is understandable. However, because of the draft, postseason hockey and hoops, etc., the Yankees haven�t had many opportunities to be on air, which means even less available air time for the Mets. That's probably all true but it's also a bit ironic in that FAN used to have all kinds of trouble booking Yanqui players, not because the Mets put pressure on the station not to but because the yanx simply couldn't be bothered. On slow days during the summer M&MD (or one or the other) would often go fishing for NYY interviews just to kill 10 minutes only to be told that; "oh no, [fill in player's name] is too busy getting ready for the game". The player, of course, who they often wanted was Jeter who somehow could never seem to find the time even on a Tuesday afternoon before some mid-August game against the Royals while the Yanx were 14 games ahead in their division. Aside from Torre and now Girardi who are of course paid for their appearances, I remember very few NYY players who 'stooped' to go on what was for a long time the only sports radio station in town. Mussina, IIRC, was one of the few. IOW - they didn't need FAN when they were on top of the baseball world but now they're strong-arming the station to make sure they're first in line. Hmmm, wonder what's changed?