NibblyPig Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 This is a cracker of a game... Sox lead 8-7 in the 7th. Here comes another fat man for the Yankees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NibblyPig Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 ... and re: Tyler's daughter: me gusta! Edited terrible Spanish spelling... bah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2010 I must say I do like this new-look Yankee bullpen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 I must say I do like this new-look Yankee bullpen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2010 If the Red Sox win, Neil Diamond will be performing "Sweet Caroline" live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NibblyPig Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Not just if they win, Levi... Here he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2010 I got a queasy feeling about this... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2010 :oops: Normally I turn during the eighth-inning stretch to ESPNEWS to check up on the other scores... :oops: (if they bring the Standells out, then I have reason to be queasy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NibblyPig Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 ... and that my friends, is the second most karaoked song in America. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2010 I'm also ambivalent on the whole Sweet Caroline/Dirty Water thing... part of me thinks that Boston sports should never have more musical accompaniment than an organ. I've booed "We Will Rock You" (apologies to Pelle). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NibblyPig Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Come on, Pap... bring it home, son! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 5, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 5, 2010 The Yankees Lose! Thaaaaaaaaaaaaa Yankeees Lose! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NibblyPig Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Get there! Great game. Even better result. Well done, Sox. Good day for Boston sports (Celtics > Cavs; Sox > Yankees). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Heading to the jays home opener in a bid to extend my hundred percent winning record. Looking forward to this season, gona hit a shitload of games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 I turned it off and went to bed at 5-1 :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 10, 2010 VT Supporter Share Posted April 10, 2010 First chapter of Sox/Yankees a compelling story The Red Sox left town following Wednesday's extra-inning loss and headed for Kansas City, the Yankees down to Tampa, Chapter One of Six finally in the books. Over the first three games of the season, there were moments tantalizing (Dustin Pedroia's late-game home run off Chan Ho Park in the opener, Curtis Granderson's 10th-inning heat-seeker off Jonathan Papelbon in the finale) and tense (the claustrophobic walls of doubt closing in on David Ortiz after only 48 hours of regular-season play), but so much of "Sox-Yanks I" was mere sensation. While these two clubs probably shouldn't be playing each other so early in the year, watching the Superpowers feel their way around the first part of the season was not inherently useless. Baseball season is alive and the Big Boys started out of the gate by immediately marking territory -- seven batters were hit by pitches in three games -- and the two will meet again in a little under a month, May 7, again at Fenway Park for three more games. So, what did we learn? 1. Nothing that we didn't know. Both teams scored 13 runs over the first two games, proving the ability to slug if necessary before settling into a familiar, taut pitching duel Wednesday. The Yankees, already, possess the cool and easy look of a champion that knows its title was no fluke. Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui are gone and the Yankees have the weird distinction of having their outfield hit 7-8-9 in the batting order, but danger was all over the lineup. The two-hitter, Nick Johnson, went hitless in the series (0-for-9) yet essentially won two games by drawing walks that led to providing winning and insurance margins. Johnson doesn't have a hit this season but has a .400 on-base percentage. Had he been in attendance, Billy Beane would have shed a tear. Robinson Cano, essentially Matsui's replacement in the fifth spot of the order, left Boston hitting .417 and had even the Red Sox surprised at how much he has matured. "He probably won't, but he could hit 40 [home runs] this year," Sox manager Terry Francona said. Granderson -- replacing Damon and batting seventh, though checkered (he hit .183 versus left-handers last season) -- hit two home runs in the series, both off right-handers, but big-time ones, Josh Beckett and Papelbon, welcoming himself to the showcase. Meanwhile, the Red Sox did not exactly tear the cover off the ball but were every bit as dangerous in their home park. Two newcomers, Mike Cameron and Adrian Beltre, nearly won the finale in the ninth with big shots off the redeemed Park, and fourth-hitter Kevin Youkilis went 4-for-9 in the series. The games were long and anxious. The Yankees could have swept, but with a sustained rally in the finale the Red Sox could have won the series. 2. What happens between these two teams is indicative of nothing. Red Sox-Yankees is the equivalent of a microclimate, unaffected by the surrounding world. In the offseason, the Red Sox signed John Lackey to a five-year, $82.5 million contract and following the opener, Beckett to a four-year, $68 million contract. When Daisuke Matsuzaka returns from injury in May, the Red Sox's rotation -- Beckett, Jon Lester, Lackey, Matsuzaka and Clay Buchholz/Tim Wakefield -- will be as formidable as any team in the league, rivaled only by the Yankees. The Yankees, meanwhile, signed former Yankee Javier Vazquez to give them a pitching foursome of CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Andy Pettitte and Vazquez, with Phil Hughes in the No. 5 slot. In this series the six starting pitchers produced six no decisions, each game a classic Red Sox-Yankees bullpen battle. In the finale, Lackey-Pettitte was merely a continuation of last year's ALCS between the Yankees and Angels -- Lackey was even replaced by old Anaheim teammate Scott Schoeneweis -- but on East Coast time. Throughout his debut, Lackey pitched with the solemn toughness of his trademark, throwing first-pitch strikes yet finding ways to land in three-ball counts, but coming away at the end of most at-bats victorious. He gave up three hits over six innings and yet couldn't shake Pettitte, who walked the tightrope all night. "That's his history," Francona said of Pettitte. "He gives up hits but not a lot of runs." Just like the glory days of 2003-05, the two circle each other, either purposely or inadvertently. The Red Sox have their hard-throwing bridge guy in Daniel Bard, the Yankees theirs in Joba Chamberlain. The theater was certainly fun, but it was obvious since Sunday that the American League -- at least until the ALCS should these two teams rematch -- will not be settled by head-to-head matchups. 3. The pressure is already on. Would the David Ortiz Story ratchet itself to Code Red had the Red Sox opened up with, say, the Royals? Absolutely not. Ortiz drove in Boston's only run of the game Wednesday with his first hit of the season, then struck out against Park on three pitches to end a nervous eighth. Ortiz hit .091 for the series, has already had one outburst and at 1-for-11 has not yet enjoyed the kind of sustained night he will need to keep doubt at bay. The Yankees can do that. As Francona said before the game, "The season is seven hours old, but against the Yankees, that means it's nine hours." Nevertheless, these games provided fewer clues and more confirmation that these two teams are quite ready for the summer, already, quite ready for each other. The real test won't come in their second meeting a few weeks, or the third, the first at Yankee Stadium, but instead during that nearly two-month stretch of summer when they don't play each other and the real questions -- whether the Red Sox can win on the road this year, if Vazquez is any more American League ready than he was his first go-rounds in New York and Chicago, if Matsuzaka will be an impact player and if Mariano Rivera will ever slip, even a notch -- will actually be answered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-dub Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Last night was the lowest attended game in the short history of Citi Field (25K and change in a park that seats maybe 45K). Don't know what the attendance was tonight but it looked like it may have been even less. True, mid-week night games early in the season don't typically draw well, but trust me, Mets fans have been in revolt all winter and the empty seats are telling. It's going to be an ugly season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Last night was the lowest attended game in the short history of Citi Field (25K and change in a park that seats maybe 45K). Don't know what the attendance was tonight but it looked like it may have been even less. True, mid-week night games early in the season don't typically draw well, but trust me, Mets fans have been in revolt all winter and the empty seats are telling. It's going to be an ugly season. It can't help that your avatar is upside down, Dub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-dub Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Last night was the lowest attended game in the short history of Citi Field (25K and change in a park that seats maybe 45K). Don't know what the attendance was tonight but it looked like it may have been even less. True, mid-week night games early in the season don't typically draw well, but trust me, Mets fans have been in revolt all winter and the empty seats are telling. It's going to be an ugly season. It can't help that your avatar is upside down, Dub It's been my little "protest" the past couple years. (Ya know, like those protesters back in the day who would display the American flag upside down.) When the Mets actually win something--or the Wilpons sell the team--I'll flip it back over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted April 10, 2010 Share Posted April 10, 2010 Last night was the lowest attended game in the short history of Citi Field (25K and change in a park that seats maybe 45K). Don't know what the attendance was tonight but it looked like it may have been even less. True, mid-week night games early in the season don't typically draw well, but trust me, Mets fans have been in revolt all winter and the empty seats are telling. It's going to be an ugly season. On the bright side, at least I'll be able to get a ticket when I'm over there.. Still crazy that we can only get 25k for a game. What's the transport connection to the stadium like, is it really awkward to get to or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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