Oh, Hendo.
Keep the damn ball in the yard. I know it’s a joke stadium, but… seriously.
I dunno… I got nothin’ but crossed fingers tonight.
Scuttlebutt
Parkes puts on his tinfoil hat at Getting Blanked and does a fantastic job of breaking down the Sergio Santos situation, which there appears to be more to than the Jays are willing to admit– even if it most certainly doesn’t appear to be the case of a diabolical Kenny Williams trading away damaged goods.
Drew had some terrific analysis of the Jays shifty ways earlier, which was buried a little quicker than I’d hoped by additional content. Be sure not to miss it.
And in case you missed it, too, be sure to check out my series preview talk with Ted Berg of SNY.tv, which you’ll find at the bottom of today’s podcast post.
Lastly, for your between-inning viewing pleasure, here’s today’s edition of Getting Blanked…
TV: Sportsnet
And now the lineups, by way of the live box score at theScore.com. And for those of you who’ll be out and about, be sure to follow all the action on your phone with Score Mobile…
Toronto Blue Jays
B. Lawrie 3B
C. Rasmus CF
J. Bautista RF
E. Encarnacion 1B
A. Lind DH
Y. Escobar SS
K. Johnson 2B
R. Davis LF
J. Arencibia C
H. Alvarez RHP
New York Yankees
D. Jeter SS
C. Granderson CF
A. Rodriguez DH
R. Cano 2B
M. Teixeira 1B
N. Swisher RF
R. Ibanez LF
E. Chavez 3B
R. Martin C
P. Hughes RHP
Image via Tom Szczerbowski/Getty.
Need a big game from Alvarez today. I don’t love our chances with Laffey-Kuroda, but frankly Cecil-Sabathia might be the biggest long shot game all year!
Cecil was an idiot losing that fucking weight. Obviously lost a fair bit of muscle mass to go along with it and now he can’t touch fucking 90. Looks like a god damned cancer patient as well out there.
I’m disappointed that SNY covers the Yankees, for some stupid reason.
Anyway, this should be one hell of a pitchers’ duel.
Glad to see that Buck finally trimmed that mop. It makes him look much more…..ahh who the fuck are we kidding…the hair rocks!
Here’s a question for you all tonight:
You have the option of winning this game 1-0 or 15-9. Which would you choose?
1-0.
1-0 tonight but 15-9 the next two games lol
Its over! I’m outta here and, furthermore, I will not be back for the rest of the series. One more walk and I’m done for the year.
Seriously, Alvarez, all you need is one more out. Just one more out, and you’re out of this inning.
Over/Under for total runs today @ 12.5.
I got over.
Swishalicious – just keep watching Nicky
BOOM!!!
Im back!
LOL
GTFO!
But I’m back just for you!
But I came back just for you, Blueballz!
Good to see Lind scrap the giant elbow protection since he has been back. He looked like a fucking wrestler out there with it on.
suddenly i want a cup of tea.
BIGELOWWWWWWWWWWWW
FUCK….can we please free the man the call LunchBoxHero. please.
Fuck, at this point I’d be happy to see Thames over Davis…
Be careful what you wish for…
It’s All Over
buck: give lind the green light?
tabby: in big colours!
Ugh. This stadium is such a joke.
Wow what a joke that looked like a routine fly ball
CHEAP!!!!!
So what was that, a 280 foot “homerun”?
FUCK YOU CAPT”N!!!
BOOM!!!!
Im calling a Rasmus homer, he can pull balls that deep in his sleep. I’d be scared to think how many homers Bautista would hit in this stadium. Not that the SkyDome is some sort of pitchers park of course but still…
Damn, two feet short.
i dunno? that bobble head don’t look so accurate Lucy!
so….. what did you guys have for dinner?
two chicken burritos from Mission Burrito ” let’s change the way we eat, let’s change the way we think, let’s change the way we treat each other{“
his stroke is so what?
Buck and tabby talking about cano’s nice stroke already.. The love fest has begun
Alvarez is definitely getting squeezed, but he’s not getting the ball down enough at all…
more like robinson can-yes!
Whew, that was almost to the warning track in that shitbox…
Bautistas pop up looked deep lol
Seriously. You’re like a quarter of the comments tonight and precisely zero of them are remotely smart or funny. In summary, you suck balls.
That was to famousamazingtwat.
Damn these beautiful thumbs of mine.
Ugh, this pitch to the scoreboard nonsense again. You DEFEND to the scoreboard but anyone pitching to it would be out of a job in a heartbeat.
Just an excuse that Weaver gave for pitching a shitty game…
“Bailed out by the offense? Nah, I just wasnt trying! “
Maybe Buck and Tabby should just MARRY the Yankees.
I suspect Tabby would treasure one of Jeter’s gift bags.
+1
Or maybe it’s not the Yankees “experience”. Maybe they read up on Hendo and know he loves those no movement pitches just off the plate.
i know right!?! i just realized that with disqus gone i no longer have to think about my comments anymore. no longer am i shackled to the precious “like” system that kept my whacky and hair brained personality at bay.
now i can truly be me!
now i can finally fully channel myself thru the art form which is the comments board on a blog site. i’m gonna do it!
+ 1,000,000 for yammering like a moron. Now stop typing and kill yourself.
that’s not kind.
Yeah I feel bad for FAG…
Whoops!
(disclaimer for PC types: not a homophobic comment, just a jest)
Red Sox are a lock for a wild card spot in my mind.
Minus 1000
I don’t like it, but I would put money on it.
Yay! We get to take advantage of the crappy (illegal) ballpark!
There it is.
Adam Lind!
I’m just not ready to believe quite yet, but I can see it from here.
I keep pleading with him to give it a month or two, but my dad won’t let me hear the end of Lind’s recent success. He called me immediately after that home run.
I *want* to believe!
hey, at least your dad takes the time to break your balls.
Well, they’re ovaries, not balls, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Can we get FamousAmazingGuy a hug, you guys?
You just know that Lucy is going to jerk that football away, just like she always does.
He’s taking really good swings, he’s walking and not striking out a lot and he’s spraying the ball all over the field…
His approach LOOKS like the Lind of 2009 again…
Man I hope he keeps it up…
I can’t. Lind is just cock teasing us again.
BOOM!!!!!
I want the 2011 Yescobar back.
Are Hendos splits vs the AL East more t
…the product of the way the Jays schedule is with him simply not playing the AL East much when he was hot early on?
That was a solid inning from Henderson… Albeit against the bottom of the order, but still… small victories, right?
Well not giving up a HR to the worst hitting C in the league is an improvement
the jays will prevail.
tonight is guaranteed win night!
At least Adam Lind is more interesting to watch than the automatic out he was before he got sent down
Now we have Davis. Yay!
They’re called role players.
Hm, is this a LARPing thing?
/dated reference
//I actually don’t know what they can do with LF what with Snider’s current numbers.
Having Davis as the everyday LF is rapidly becoming completely inexcusable… Francisco is probably better at this point…
davis to NL small market team for supplementary pick!
book it!
Alright, let’s see if Lawrie can actually show a bit of patience here…
There’s a rare Arencibia walk. They have been rumoured to exist, but I don’t think I had ever seen one.
God Davis looks lost at the plate; he’s a one-tool wonder…he can steal and that’s it
If they’re going to call that 3rd pitch to Lawrie a strike AND squeeze the shit out of Alvarez it’s going to be a fucking LONG night…
See we never get these calls in the Rogers Centre.
I’d be okay with home field calls if everyone got them. I’d be okay with even calls everywhere if everyone was treated that way.
i love Votto, but that contract was silly.
Lawrie hasn’t really squared anything up in awhile.
charlie is getting stonger.
I really liked Alvarez’s approach in the Granderson AB there… Challenged him, but didn’t really let him square anything up. You have to give these guys something they think they can hit or they’ll just take all day.
agreed.
Alvarez with six Ks so far.
Which I believe doubles his season total.
This ballpark is a JOKE. That had no business being anywhere NEAR gone…
6 K’s tonight, 4 in 5 innings the last start. Maybe, just maybe that change is starting to become more of a weapon.
we often forget that this guy is still developing.
CAN-0_CORN
Something firm and it was up.
“Something firm and it was up.” – Tabby.
Things are really heating up in the broadcast booth.
There’s something about Swisher and his shit-eating grin that rubs me the wrong way, all day every day.
I feel that way about most of the yankees
I don’t know if he’s just like a kid out there (TM) but all I see is smug.
Alright Lind, pop fly to right and we’re in the lead!
Hell of hustle Jose, thought that was going to be a tight one
BOOM!!!!!!!
He seriously called that ball at his fucking ankles a strike?
Motherfucking umpires need to go.
Can’t fault Adam Lind with swinging on that breaking ball. He could have bowled the fucking ball to home plate and he would have called it a strike.
Yeah, can’t blame Lind for that AB. First pitch strike was bullshit.
First pitch to Escobar was clearly a ball as well… This guy is fucking BRUTAL and he’s BRUTAL in one direction…
Come on Lind, got to run that out
Those are the kind of things that make you question his attitude…sigh!
Actually I question his intelligence
EE=alert; Lind=brain dead.
Baltimore trailing 7-0 in the first to Minnesota. I think they’re officially imploding.
jays 12w-4L against yanks moving forward!
book it!
I was watching the Jays feed and Buck and Tabby were washing the balls of every Yankee. I’m now listening to the Yankees feed and they’re washing the balls of every Yankee.
I’m honestly not sure which would piss me off more actually…
If I have to hear that bullshit “see ya!” home run call ever again I might yell impotently at the TV or something…
I’m starting to dislike the NESN coverage more than the YES coverage.
Ibanez runs well for a man in his 50s
How the fuck does this ump have a job? I mean, objectively he’s calling the zone to favour the Yankees…
FUCK YEAH, GREAT DOUBLE PLAY
I like EE at first. Never thought I’d want to see him with a glove.
His glove was always OK. People forget that his throws to first were his undoing.
Yea I know it was his throws, but I just didn’t see him as a competent fielder in general.
You’re still fucking terrible Rajai… 1 for the last… 26?
i haven’t seen s many games as i would have like since EE started playing 1st full time, but i haven’t seen him botch a scoop (throw in the dirt). am i missing something? or is he quietly good at that?
His glove has never been his problem, its the throwing arm
i realize that. but because he kinda traps the ball instead of the overbay style scoop it doesn’t look as pretty. but the job gets done even time i’ve seen him play.
Ok Davis, don’t fick it up with bad base running
davis slides like a karate man!
Hughes hasn’t looked good today, and the Jays have really bailed him out (with a MASSIVE assist to the home plate ump… I really want to see PitchFX after this game…)
I guess it’s indicative of how far Lawrie has fallen that I have no faith in him to get Davis home. Please prove me wrong.
I really have no faith at all in anyone but Edwin.
Nothing like throwing “the new guy” Beck into the fire.
no oliver, gotta save casey and the little guy who takes forever to pitch.
Times for the bullpen to cough up some runs.
*Time
Lawrie Is 4/27 in his last 7 games including tonight.
yeah he’s going through it right now.
Lawrie is starting to do the jumping swing again, Needs to dial the redbull back half a notch
Rasmus isn’t much better, at 3-29.
Should have sold high on Rasmus. Fucking Ken Rosenthal was right!
Colby is still hitting the ball hard though, twat
Good start Becks
Beck sure looks like he knows what he’s doing.
That was a good inning, for sure… Definitely seemed in control the whole time.
In light of just how old Jeter has looked tonight, I will post this again:
“Jeter deserving of serious MVP consideration”
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120714&content_id=34924238&vkey=news_nyy&c_id=nyy
NY baseball hype machine still humming along. 65 years + and going strong.
compare the top two mvp candidates from the following link
http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/awards_1947.shtml#ALmvp
How many fucking times this game have we see the Jays just watch a fucking meatball down the heart of the plate?
Christ, Colby never catches the breaks
Holy fuck did Rasmus ever get robbed…
I thought he’d STOPPED hitting into shitty luck for the year.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck…………
Bautista is out for the season.
AHHH FUCK US ALL IN THE ASS!
Fuck me…
Oh for the love of fucking fuck mother of god fucking hell god no fuck.
+1. What leads am I going to blow now?
Hey, watch it! There are men on this threat.
Umm… That could be the season right there…
If Joey Bats hits the DL any slim chance at the post season would be gone…
It was over long before that one.
Broken forearm it looks like.
Say it ain’t so Joe.
Holy crap! The worst injury curse I’ve ever seen.
what…the…..fuck
CHRISTPUNCH!
he’ll be fine. chill
This is a career-ender.
Hate to say it but jose being hurt is good for the future.
Are those faggot bandwagon fans REALLY chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!”?
Man, respect those morons even less than before…