Game Thread Yankees@Twins 7/3 7:10PM

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Is anyone else watching/listening to the Yankees TV broadcast? They just said that they continue to be shocked that the Twins don't shift for McCann, and they talked to scout about it, and the scout said "They [The Twins] don't know what they're doing."

 

I won't editorialize.

 

Like I've said, if you've never played 6th dimensional chess, you have no right to question it.

[Squirrel]

oh crap

[JB_Iowa]

I guess whoever jinxed Worley also jinxed Hughes.

[Guest USAFChief]

oh crap

Which one?

[D. Hocking]

Sadly I brought some work home that I did not finish before the long-weekend. Even more sad is that I think it is going to be a welcome reprieve/escape from the game...

[aggies4]

Wheels fell off the cart that inning. Not hard to see coming when you have two base running gaffes in the first two innings. Going to be awfully hard to come back against tanaka.

[Guest USAFChief]

OK, seriously...that "Zelous Wheeler" guy is really Delmon Young, isn't he? You're not foolin' me, Mr Cashman.

[stringer bell]

Now score a couple off Tanaka.

[JB_Iowa]

Zuk making his AS case.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

there's a Suzuki on each team... So confused...

[Richie the Rally Goat]

I guess the Mitch Hedberg quotes don't work when I do them...

I was pickin up what you were puttin down. I love Mitch Hedberg

[howeda7]

Regression is beating the hell out of Hughes.

[D. Hocking]

there's a Suzuki on each team... So confused...

 

The Yankee's Suzuki does not have a Gardenhirization of his last name.

[aggies4]

Twins give that run right back. I think the steam has finally run out of our guys. Just not consistently clicking in any facet of the game in recent weeks. This will be twice in a week that a team on a long losing streak rights the ship against us. Hopefully they can split this series, but not looking good as our best SP exits the game.

[stringer bell]

There goes Hughes All-Star chances.

[howeda7]

Twins give that run right back. I think the steam has finally run out of our guys. Just not consistently clicking in any facet of the game in recent weeks. This will be twice in a week that a team on a long losing streak rights the ship against us. Hopefully they can split this series, but not looking good as our best SP exits the game.

 

With the way we wet ourselves against the Yankees a sweep is more likely. Then a 7 game road trip. Could easily be 12 under by the ASG. And we have what to look forward to for young players in the 2nd half? May at the most? Ugh. They may have to fire Gardy just to keep it from being a complete death march.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

Twins give that run right back. I think the steam has finally run out of our guys. Just not consistently clicking in any facet of the game in recent weeks. This will be twice in a week that a team on a long losing streak rights the ship against us. Hopefully they can split this series, but not looking good as our best SP exits the game.

 

You make a point though. Other yankee starters not named Tanaka are struggling right now.

[aggies4]

With the way we wet ourselves against the Yankees a sweep is more likely. Then a 7 game road trip. Could easily be 12 under by the ASG. And we have what to look forward to for young players in the 2nd half? May at the most? Ugh. They may have to fire Gardy just to keep it from being a complete death march.

 

i was hoping they'd stay competitive and shake off the long losing stretches of the past years, but this thing has started to snowball the wrong way. Without that one great series against the white sox, things have been really awful for several weeks. The Yankees are not very good, which makes this more frustrating.

[aggies4]

Yes, but other starters not named Hughes or Gibson have been struggling all year,

[Squirrel]

Which one?

 

At this point ... the whole game.

[howeda7]

Remember when there was all that 'Phil Hughes should be an All-Star' talk? Those were the days...

[Richie the Rally Goat]

"I went out to breakfast and the waitress asked: How do you like your eggs? I said Incubated, hatched, raised, beheaded, plucked, cut up and fried on a bun, but I don't have time... So Scrambled"

[aggies4]

Remember when there was all that 'Phil Hughes should be an All-Star' talk? Those were the days...

 

Eh, his last start was not as bad as the numbers say. He was left in for far too long against the rangers. He fell apart tonight.

[howeda7]

Eh, his last start was not as bad as the numbers say. He was left in for far too long against the rangers. He fell apart tonight.

 

He's not terrible, but his overall #'s are now much closer to advertised. Both he and Dozier are nice players. Neither are All-Stars.

[JB_Iowa]

• Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 8m View translation
  Phil Hughes over past 3 starts: 8.05 ERA, 19 IP, 27 H, 17 ER, 3 BB, 16 K.
   
   
  EEK!
   
   
  

[howeda7]

i was hoping they'd stay competitive and shake off the long losing stretches of the past years, but this thing has started to snowball the wrong way. Without that one great series against the white sox, things have been really awful for several weeks. The Yankees are not very good, which makes this more frustrating.

 

We now know that the literal peak of the season was in 5/22 in San Diego. The figurative one was probably when Gibson pitched the gem in Detroit. It's been all downhill since then, with a speed=bump against the White Sox.

[JB_Iowa]

FSN needs new sound engineers.

 

Other than Dick/Bert, their mikes don't work more than they do.

[aggies4]

We now know that the literal peak of the season was in 5/22 in San Diego. The figurative one was probably when Gibson pitched the gem in Detroit. It's been all downhill since then, with a speed=bump against the White Sox.

 

youre absolutely right about the peak of the season coming on gibsons great start in Detroit. What were they, 3 or 4 games out of first at that point? The next day they fell behind big and early, and then they had the Arcia circus in right field the day after that. It seems like the ship has been sinking further and further since that series.

[aggies4]

Oof, I forgot how irritating the Yankees commentators become when NY is ahead. They were quite somber before things turned around.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

• Mike Berardino ‏@MikeBerardino 8m View translation
  Phil Hughes over past 3 starts: 8.05 ERA, 19 IP, 27 H, 17 ER, 3 BB, 16 K.
   
   
  EEK!
  

 

Yup. Kevin Correia (of all people) has been picking up the slack.