Game 1: Blue Jays at Yankees
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- March
- 31
YANKEES
18 Johnny Damon LF
2 Derek Jeter SS
53 Bobby Abreu RF
13 Alex Rodriguez 3B
25 Jason Giambi 1B
24 Robinson Cano 2B
20 Jorge Posada C
55 Hideki Matsui LF
28 Melky Cabrera CF
40 Chien-Ming Wang RHP
BLUE JAYS
11 David Eckstein SS
4 Shannon Stewart LF
15 Alex Rios RF
10 Vernon Wells CF
35 Frank Thomas DH
17 Lyle Overbay 1B
2 Aaron Hill 2B
19 Marco Scutaro 3B
9 Gregg Zaun C
32 Roy Halladay RHP
Yankees vs. Halladay: Damon 22-67, Jeter 16-62, Abreu 2-12, A-Rod 13-47, Giambi 17-54, Cano 5-13, Posada 12-37, Matsui 7-34, Cabrera 4-15.
Jays vs. Wang: Eckstein 0-2, Stewart 1-6, Rios 3-15, Wells 6-16, Thomas 1-11, Overbay 4-8, Hill 9-14, Scutaro 1-4, Zaun 2-12.
Now that we’re in the regular season, once I post the lineup I’ll post any updates under it. So everything will be in the same place. This is what we did last year and it seemed to work out well.
UPDATE, 12:28 p.m.: * * * THE YANKEES HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THE START OF THE GAME HAS BEEN DELAYED * * * The weather is supposed to improve enough to play at some point this afternoon.
UPDATE, 12:50 p.m.: The lovely Yankees Chick is live blogging the game for AOL’s FanHouse blog today. So check out the wit and wisdom of Maureen if I get too boring for you.
UPDATE, 1:14 p.m.: The clubhouses are closed, so all we can do it wait at this point. The Yankees seem to believe they’ll get the game in this afternoon. The weather is supposed to be worse tomorrow.
I’ll let you know if I hear anything definitive.
UPDATE, 2:17 p.m.: Nothing definitive yet. But it sounds like they’re planning to cancel the game and play it tomorrow night. I’ll let you know once I hear something.
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LETS GO YANKEES
thanks. eh… what are the chances of this game being played?
Baseball Tonight just said there are rumors of a 2 oclock start
ESPN saying a 2 pm start
Leeeeeeeettttttttttssssss get ready for number 27!!!
Is the game going to be cancelled? Kim Jones was just talking on the field and it looked like it was pouring like crazy. I can’t see them starting in that kind of rain.
Let’s go Yankees!
Get em Wang!
is Chamberlain def the set up man?
Finally it’s baseball season againnnn…!
if game one gets rained out, i honestly may cry.
good thing it was scheduled for so early — they’ve got all day to get the game in.
crossing my fingers…
GO YANKS!!!
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
Pete you did a great job for all of us during spring training. continue your good work!!!
Wow, Cano has hit Halladay pretty well in the past. Keep it up Robbie!
And quiet down Mother Nature…I could deal with a 2pm start, albeit begrudgingly, but a rain postponment would obviously be immensely painful!
At least we know Moose won’t let Wang warm up until his high-tech, self installed laptop weather tracking system says it is safe. See, sometimes it pays to be anal!
It’s easy to get the impression that Kim Jones has been to the Captain’s penthouse at Trump Tower.
Two left fielders?! That should really help our chances!
I was wondering, does any one play fantasy baseball? If you do, any Yankees on your teams?
Interesting catch. I too thought I noticed a change in the dynamics there.
Does anybody have any suggestions on how to watch this game at work….?
just tellin ya, interesting catch. I too thought I noticed a change in the dynamics there.
Yah it’s an off day tomorrow.. So they can wait all day to play this game..
Tim, where are you?
2708.
man thank god I’m not there just the sight of John Kruk in Yankee Stadium may have made me throw a trey of food at him.
Game delay already.
Tim, mlb.tv if you want to pay if not espn and watch the dots
WooHoo! 1st game thread of the season. Positive vibes, guys. Remember, there’s 162 games in the season.
Looks clear to the west on the radar.
http://tinyurl.com/2ogpry
I’m in my seat here it IS kinda wet and the game is delayed for maybe an hour they say. I’m gonna hide under the loge for a while
With that lineup, I’m not sure why so many experts are high on Toronto this year. They are going to get minimal offensive production out of their C, 1B, 2B, SS, and 3B positions. If Wells doesn’t return to pre-2007 form, they will have a hard time scoring runs. Yeah, their pitching has potential, but their rotation has as many question marks as Boston and NY.
The new YES Studio is very impressive.
Well I guess an hour delay isn’t too bad. It may even help the Wanger, that way he doesn’t go out there with 2 much energy. I am sooo antsy for baseball tho, just about ready to start drinking!
UGH! This is what I hate about NY in April!!!
Don’t make me wait any longer old man weather!!!
Anybody know how long Scott Rolen is going to be out for the Jays?
The reason I asked Tim where he is, is because it is my understanding that you are blacked out of MLB TV if the game is in your market area.
A rain delay? On opening day? Take it away, Clay Davis.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-QNB4wMH3PU
I think that Rolen is suppposed to be out 3-4 weeks.
Sean…
I, living in the Redneck Backyard of Red Sox Nation (Historians and Geographers refer to it as the state of Maine), was mocked and teased in my work draft for my fantasy league.
I, in an effort to prove to them the Bombers would make the playoffs, took a Yankee wherever I could.
C Posada
1B Howard
2B Cano
3B Zimmerman
SS Tulowitzki
OF Ichiro
OF Eric Byrnes
OF Gary Sheffield
Util Johnny Damon
Pitchers even worse… Wang, Joba, Phil, Ian, Pettitte, Rivera. Non-NYY pitchers: CC, Hudson, Corpas, KRod, Percival, Sherrill, D-Train.
It was kind of like… a live by the Yankees, die by the Yankees fantasy draft…. I wound up with Lowell at 3B and Papelbon as my closer, but traded them a day after the draft for Ryan Zimmerman and K-Rod. Didn’t want a single Sox on my team !
Orig
trisha you are right looks like espn.com it is for him
TKinDC: Scott Rolen will be back April 21 at the EARLIEST!
“Rolen returned to camp in Dunedin, Fla. on Thursday with a soft cast on his fractured finger on his right hand. He was told by doctors that he will be out for four to six weeks which puts his return at the earliest April 21. “We’ll be optimistic and try to cut that down as much as we can in the right way, the smart way,” he told the Toronto Star.”
This game can’t start soon enough. To me, opening day should be a national holiday. Today we have new hope, excitement and much to look forward to.
For me personally, I will be a completely different person when this season is over as my wife is due with our first child, a son in late June. My only regret is that he won’t be able to remember games playes in the Current (soon to be called “Old”) Yankee Stadium. He will however be attending a game in utero on Saturday and he will be in attendance sometime late this year where lots of pictures and videos will be taken.
Anyway, good luck Yankees, let’s get number 27 already. Do it for the fans who will be seeing their last championship, for those seeing their first championship and for the other loyal fans in the middle. God bless the New York Yankees.
Could someone please tell me if theres still a way to listen to Gameday Audio w/ Windows Media Player instead of Silverlight? College PCs don’t let me install stuff…
I hate the rain
I actually prefer the new gameday to “watching” on ESPN
YAHOO! Baseball is here.
Peter, do everything in your power to make this game happen.
Game is going to start at 2 PM (according to WCBS Radio)
Rich: When I just logged into Gameday Audio, it prompted me to choose the old Gameday or use the new one and install Silverlight.
I, too, am a homer and a half when it comes to my fantasy roster. I take as many Yankees as possible (tho I don’t have quite as many as bomber 77, but not for lack of effort) and avoid saux at all costs. I even made a snarky comment when someone drafted Ortiz about do we get fantasy points for every cheeseburger consumed, lol.
My team this year (since we’re waiting out the rain anyway) -
C Martinez
1b Helton
2b Polanco (trying to trade for Cano)
3b Cabrera
SS Jeter
OF Crawford
OF Damon
OF Wells
Util Josh Hamilton
Pitching: Haren, Harang, Carmona, McGowan, Buehrle, Kennedy
Bullpen: Mo, Joba, Brandon Lyon (Tony Pena on bench), Isringhausen
Hey i know you guys use Sopcast to watch the games on your pc but is there anyway to get the radio broadcast on your pc without paying mlb’s website. It really is a ripoff considering i can listen to the radio at home for free but when i’m at work without a radio i cannot listen to John Sterling and Suzan Waldman.
I don’t know if this has ever been posted here before, but this radio station in Canada for some reason doesn’t block out the Yankee games (they will sometimes remove the link from their website so you can’t listen, but the link stays active and you can listen.) Whenever the Yankees play the Blue Jays, you can listen on this link. Just paste in Windows Media Player.
http://38.99.208.186/cjcl
Villone hooked up with the Cardinals. Red Sox asking Bobby Kielty to go to AAA while they try to trade Crisp. per Waldman.
Canada is cool like that. Raptors radio station broadcasts all their games for free too, I believe.
Ahhhh…first game thread of the season!
I hope the game threads can stay positive this year. Last season, during some of the low points in September especially, it got so bad on here that regulars would leave.
Great feature on Joba on BT
oh and Congrats on your impending parenthood, Jeff NJ. Your son will grow up in the Joba/Hughes/Cano era, how cool is that?!
what happened to SJ44…is he still around?
Westerner99,
Agreed. We need a “focus” word to get everyone back on track when they start losing it. lol.
GAME 1…..
It just doesn’t feel like opening day. Dreary and rainy, it feels like opening day for football.
Sucks that opening day is delayed.
Can I go back to something Pete posted earlier about Giradi removing candy and ice cream? I’m all for the guys keeping in shape and eating healthy. However, I also think that they need to be happy and have fun to be productive. This snacks removal thing seems a little heavy handed to me. I mean, these guys are grown men. They should know not to have 6 ice cream bars before or during the game. Can’t he let them be the men that they are and make the decision themselves?
Unhappy players = bad baseball. Just another thing for me to worry about I guess.
Weather not looking good for the entire series. They may eventually have to postpone all three games!
My first game thread!!!!!!! I didn’t find this place till after the season last year, but have thoroughly enjoyed it during the offseason. Hope the game starts at 2 (1 for me in Iowa). Took the afternoon off from work to watch opening day.
Hey thanks Josh! Hopefully that station will broadcast some playoff games as i hate listening to the guys on fox and espn!
Fact: New York City gets more annual rainfall than Seattle.
Why Mariners have a dome but not us?
Halladay is always a very difficult match up for the Yankees because he works in ways that negate many of the strengths of the Yankee’s offense.
The Yank’s primary approach is based being selective at the plate, forcing pitchers to come into the zone and make mistakes over the plate, being willing to hit with 2 strikes and accepting walks rather than swinging at bad pitches.
Over the course of a season that strategy works great. They generate absurdly high team on base percentages and quickly drive up the opposing pitcher’s pitch count allowing them to get into the other team’s bull pen early.
But that approach doesn’t work as well against a guy like Halladay who pounds the zone pitch after pitch. The yankees can take pitches but Halladay isn’t going to get behind in the count and he’s not going to walk people.
Halladay is 10-4 against the yankees and has only walked around 6% of all the yankee batters he’s faced. That is outstanding control, especially against a punishing team like the yankees.
I think this is part of the reason why the team has struggled in the playoffs offensively the past several years. Teams that make the playoffs in general are going ot have much better pitchers and pitchers that have better control Against better pitchers who really pound the zone (e.g. fausto carmona) the yankee’s patient approach gets partially neutralized and they are forced to score runs in a very different way.
It’ll be interesting to see how they do (hopefully they get the game in).
Thanks BBB. I personally don’t remember much about the Yankees until I turned 7 or 8, so I don’t know that he can count on Joba, Hughes or Cano in 7 years. It will probably be more the Tabata, Montero and Betances Yankees. Think about that!
BBB and BronxBomber,
I started playing Fantasy Baseball after the 2001 season.
The Yankees have not won a ring since 2000.
As a result, I have ceased my fantasy ball participation in the hopes that the Bombers will reclaim former glory in October.
Above all, I HATE the Red Sox and everything they stand for.
But good luck to you both!
Can someone please provide an address for me to send in my ‘man-card’ ?
I don’t know if its because of opening day or not, but that Joba piece on ESPN BBT just made me cry like a five-year old who fell of his bike, skinned his knee and dropped his ice cream cone in a puddle of mud !
“Weather not looking good for the entire series. They may eventually have to postpone all three games!”
only day it looks bad for is tomorrow, today we won’t get that much rain, most likely they play today tomorrow is an off day, Wedensday sun returns, Thursday same.
It’s a good point Laura, but I feel like these guys have been coddled for years under Torre. Some good military-esque discipline may be in order at this point.
Anybody know where to watch this game on-line. I don’t have a TV and MLBTV doesn’t broadcast ESPN games.
Thanks
Fact: New York City gets more annual rainfall than Seattle.
That’s only in inches. We get fewer rainy days but with higher amounts, Seattle gets more rainy days with lesser amounts.
Yu Con,
Are you sure about that? I lived in the Pacific Northwest for 2 years and was dumbfounded by how much rain Oregon got…Seattle gets even more. All I got to say is that rain in June is absolutely unacceptable. April and May, while it sucks, is a little easier to bare.
No candy or ice cream…you can’t treat these pros like children. I think Tom Coughlin would agree that involving team leaders in decisions leads to better morale, buy in and effort from the team. Hopefully Joe can learn that being the boss does not mean you always need to be heavy handed and police the team. You have to set expectations and trust that they will be met and when they are not is when you bring the whip.
HELP,
I am pretty sure MLB.TV gets ESPN games…if it doesn’t, I will be furious.
Clay “Better than Hughes, Kennedy, and Joba” Buchholz finishes the spring with a 10.03 ERA
HELP,
Ya, its definitely on MLB.TV.
MLB.tv doesn’t play ESPN games since they are nationally televised
Jeff NJ -
Congratulations! Take lots and lots of pictures of both pre-birth “attendance” and infancy attendance at the games. They’ll be among your most precious possessions, and your son’s!
Is it actually raining in the Bronx? Here in central NJ it’s fine mist to a slight drizzle.
New York doppler radar:
http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=OKX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
Bryan,
Spring means jack.
Having said that, Clay blows.
Anybody know where to watch this game on-line. I don’t have a TV and MLBTV doesn’t broadcast ESPN games.
There is no way to watch online. MLBTV has exclusive rights. Nothing wrong with listening to John and Suzyn.
Help:
Download sopcast and then try this link:
http://tinyurl.com/39zvyy
Yuck - they’ve left the YES studios are on “Rain Delay” mode. It’s the Yankees 1977 season.
I guess Adam just explained it.
Or is it the ‘78 season? I get confused. Sorry, The season where the Yankees were 14 games behind the Sox.
guys,
mlb.com is broadcasting all 14 games from today.
Thurm and Big Joe - you both raise good points. And while I do believe that this team needs to be rid of some of the coddling they got under Torre, I think you have to pick your battles and focus on the big ticket items. In my mind, ice cream just isn’t one of them.
In the end, we will see what effect this has on the players and if Joe G makes other changes that are cause for concern.
Until then, somebody tell God to chill with the water works so that we can get the game in!!!
“There is no way to watch online. MLBTV has exclusive rights. Nothing wrong with listening to John and Suzyn.”
you enjoy long naps
Thanks Doreen. Pictures will be plentiful that’s for sure.
I’m a bit bummed that ESPN seems to be blocked out here locally on DirecTV during the Yankee game. I was sorta hoping to get to watch opening day for another AL game.
Tuning in to the Detroit game @ 800K, but it’s lagging. Is anyone watching on 1.2M?
Hello guys, I have been reading this blog for quite a while, greetings to all, and lets hope the rain go away!
This bodes ill. Bad luck to start the season. We are all doomed. *joke
Rumor has it the batboy has a cold too.
I think the Yankees should move to a new stadium, one with a retractable roof. *grins
WCBS just went back to news.
just got here and didn’t read all the posts because i’m lazy, but any solid idea on the revised start time? good thing it was 1:05 game and they’re off tomorrow, so they have like all day to get the game in. i think they will wait until 4:05 before they postpone it, i thought i remembered hearing last year that that was regular procedure for a rain delayed 1 pm game.
Mel, i plan to watch on 1.2, hopefully it works. Just downloaded the NexDef thing.
Doreen - they are showing the 1978 season on YES. I was really impressed with the new studio. What did you think?
I hope I set the dvr for the right amount of time.
Why are they off tomorrow? Is it bad luck to play a game on April Fool’s day?
It looks like it is brightening up in mid town.
Hmm not that Im selfish.. But if this rain lasts a little while longer it might allow me to get out of work and actually watch the game today!
In terms of the Jays, how snakebitten must they feel with Ryan DLd again?
Jeff NJ, what a sweet post that was!
Hal, can you imagine anything much worse than me having to watch the NESN flippin broadcasts whenever the Yanks play the Dead Sox?
Mel - I have something you can use when things start to feel dismal - just say TRISHA SAID SO. That can be short for trisha is so sure the Yanks are going to get the job done that she will give baseball caps to the top 10 dismal posters here if she’s wrong.
Or just think of it this way. Imagine all the wasted energy Yankee fans would have put out if they gave in to fan depression every time something looked off. How about when we were 9.5 games out and tied for last with Tampa Bay? How about when we set the record for using the most starters in a season because everyone but me was out with a pulled hamstring? How about when Mike Mussina forgot how to pitch for a while there? But we always manage to pull it out of the fire because WE’RE THE YANKEES DAMMIT!
I never worry because I know our team is in very good hands. My pet peeve? Fans who knee-jerk with every damned pitch! Ya gotta sit back and enjoy the show, love our guys every minute of it, and always look at the big picture. Our road to #27 is a marathon and not a sprint.
And when all else fails just remember that we have now replaced green tea with Red Bull!
NO MORE GREEN TEA!
on one hand i’m displeased with the delay, naturally, but on the other hand it sort of works out because now i don’t have to have an interruption during the game, because i have a meeting at 1:50. now the game should start during my long break between classes.
Jake:
“Above all, I HATE the Red Sox and everything they stand for.”
You know whats funny Jake? For all the ‘Yankees Suck’ ra-rah and so on, the Red Sox (and their fans) have turned into what they despise most: they are a mini-version of the Yankees…. They have become Microsoft, Exxon and every other corporation they used to compare the Bombers to.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard: “The Yankees bought their championships…” yadda yadda yadda, I’d own the Marlins. Or the Nats. Possibly even the Orioles, though I’m sure Angelos would try to sell high, like a typical lawyer!
Next time a troll or a Sox fan comes at you, ask them how many home-grown players were on the Sox 04 roster (?). Aside from Trot Nixon, every player of importance on that team was brought in via trade or free agency. And Trot was an injury case that year…
Sure, they had some home-grown youth on this past championship roster in 07. But their payroll was pushing $140 mil. Thats the largest payroll team to ever win a WS, as far as I’ve researched.
The whole ‘lovable-loser’ term doesn’t exist anymore (unless you are a Cubs fan) for Sox fans. They turned in that card, IMO, when they began dropping $160 m on guys like Manny, or $75M on JD Who, or (LMAO!) $36M for four years of Who-leo Lugo. Not to mention $51.1111 M on the right TO TALK to Dice-K.
So the whole, woe-is-me, ‘we can’t compete with The Empire’ nonsense is ridiculous.
They have become what they fear most… They are worse than the idiot, belligerent (sp?) Yankees fan (not to be compared with any of the sound, polite, intelligent, sabermetric loving fans that come to and post on this site!).
They (Red Sox Nation–lol) are a loud, obnoxious breed of fan that believes everything is OWED to them, that they don’t have to earn anything.
The fact that their football team (the Pats) also won a slew of championships during their little, ahem, dynasty*, just adds to it.
Trust me, I live among these lunatics!
“Nothing wrong with listening to John and Suzyn.”
you enjoy long naps”
I actually find John worse than Suzyn.
Brian,
Yeah, still debating whether to go monthly or annual. They’re letting me watch 800K for free though.
Miggy making the adjustment to the AL. Fielding error.
bronxbomber77, what an excellent post. You are dead on.
Jennifer - they are replaying the game on YES tonight so if your DVR cuts off you can watch the game later.
BTW, to the Chinese/Taiwanese, the number 4 is extremely unlucky. I think Wang should ask for a different number - preferably one containing the number 8. May then He’ll do better in the postseason.
mel
i think i’m monthly. i don’t actually know for sure because my mom pays for it. (it’s my birthday present every year to get my mlb.tv subcription because i have a mid march bday. i’m not just some spoiled college kid…or am i?)
What’s the over and under on whether Torii Hunter gets a warm reception from Twins fans? I think he gets cheers.
Mel
Is MLBTV really broadcasting all the games today? I know that they normally don’t broadcast nationally telivised games (ESPN, FOX, etc.). Are they making an exception for today? Where did you read this?
This would be great news.
Thanks
I just crunched all the numbers, in presidential election years in which the opening day rain delay exceeds 45 minutes, the GOP always wins. Always. So you Hillary/Obama fans had better root for a quick play ball. You McCain fans start humming “Raindrops Are Falling on My Head”.
By the way, if you’re looking for an event to link to your wacky GOP/NYY curse theories, look no further than the illegal campaign contributions that the Big Stein made to Richard Nixon. Yikes! I’m sure Hal and Hank are clean as a whistle, though, so we have a clean karmic slate in ‘08!
Hobbs,
6 & 8’s are very popular. You’ll see license plates with all kind of combos. I wonder if they’ll let him where 868?
Fran, check this out. I can’t get the game replay on YES because MLB doesn’t allow it if you are out of market! Do you know that I can’t watch Yankeeography on YES either because it has MLB content? Talk about a piggish freakin organization!
When YES first went on the air I used to be able to get the Replay plus Yankeeography. No more. The perils of living out of the Yankee market.
Blackout
it will be on as far as i’m concerned- the only ESPN games that aren’t on are the ones that ESPN has exclusive rights to. You can tell if it’s gonna be blacked on on MLB.TV depending on whether it’s also on YES or not. If YES is also showing it, chances are so is MLB.TV. Usually, Sunday Night Baseball are the only ESPN games that get blacked on on MLB.TV.
Yankees win 10-2. Remember, you heard it here first.
Blackout
I am watching the Tigers on ESPN and when I went to try to watch it on MLB TV I got the blackout message…
i wish it was not raining.
Which brings me to my next point, why didn’t they put a retractable roof on the new stadium? The weather in New York sucks in the spring…after 85 years you’d think they would learn!
Rain delay, good start to the season.
because the place already cost a billion dollars
… and so it begins… or not!
10 Funny things that happened today..
1) Melky and Robbie were not carpooling in a bright orange hummer, they both have gas money this year..
2) Arod was looking for someone to stretch out his new jock-strap for him
3) Jeter beat Joe G at chess and won the ability to create todays line-up
4) Kyle Farnsworth forgot his spikes and asked Reggie Jackson to run down to Sport Authority
5) Wang was exhausted after having a late night at the hospital last night due to priapism and all the american wh0r… hotties hiding in his condo closet.
6) Mariano was practicing whistling metallica with perfect pitch
7) Phil, IPK, Joba were busy looking for the missing easter egg from the family egg hunt at the stadium. Rumor has it, it’s a magic egg.
9) Matsui was practicing his spanish telling everyone, “mis pantalones no caben” (my pants don’t fit)
10) Everyone was cracking up at the garbage joe torre left in his desk for Joe G..
Item 1: Manual on How to sleep with your eyes open
Item 2: Manual on How not to be Billy Martin
Item 3: A variety of chicken pot pie recipes
Item 4: skeletal remains of a championship (steroids were found in the DNA)
Item 5: miniature baseball figures of every team and every player
Item 6: dynamite
Item 7: A go *BLEEP* yourself to the Young Steinbrenner Memo
However, not so funny was envelope with a peculiar white powder.
Trisha - that’s pretty crummy. So you can only get the actual game and no other baseball content shows?
Tigers/Royals on mlb.tv. This 1.2m feed is NICE.
trisha, thanks for the suggestion. How about 162 or 173?
Blackout, checkout the homepage of mlb.com.
I don’t think it was a money issue, I think it had more to do with trying to replicate the antiquity of the old Stadium while making it state of the art internally. That’s my guess anyway.
Fleas (Hillary Clinton is as plastic as Mitt Romney)
everything about that post made me feel as if brain cells were being murdered with each completed sentence.
Late getting out of work, just blew in the house, hoping I didn’t miss anything and lo and behold, it’s a…..rain delay.
Oh well, at least I didn’t miss anything. Now let’s get this baby rollin’.
I feel your pain trisha. I have to deal with the same freaking thing. The worst part is, I’ve been able to get other team’s replays in the past, but not the Yankees. Talk about freaking anti-Yankee bias!!!!
Jay, sorry I mentioned you pinup model “Hillary Clinton”
Does anyone have an official start time yet for the game? Have tix for today, am stuck at work, delay is helping me for now. Will they definitely play? Leaving Nassau in 5 mins to stadium….want to them play today!!! No cancellations!
Elizabeth. the 1.2m feed IS nice. Awesome stuff. MLB.TV gets better every year. the only thing is it looks a tad strange…don’t know how to describe it really but their motion looks kind of animated or robotic, lol, but it’s not delayed with the sound so that’s good.
Trisha- I’m not getting blacked out of the Tigers game.
Miguel Cabrera just had his first tigers AB and flew out to shallow center- the whole stadium was freaking out like it was gonna be gone.
bronxbomber,
well spoken my Yankee brethren.
too true…it is interesting to consider the lacking home-grown talent on that team in 04. Too funny.
wonderfully, however, is the fact that I am now noticing a lot of people talking down on the Sox that used to be the subscribers to the “loveable loser” theme you mentioned.
error, fly out.
Welcome to the True Big Leagues, Miguel Cabrera.
fran exactly. Doesn’t that suck. I can get Yankees Classics for some reason, but nothing else except live broadcasts. It kills me that I can’t watch the damned Yankeeographies!
Going back to market blackouts, can you imagine not getting to watch YES broadcasts of the Yankee Dead Sox games and that I have to watch and listen to the Red Sox perspective when those games are on? That’s enough to give you nightmares for a while! I HATE IT.
come on now!!! Its barely raining here in Manhattan.
2 PM but that probably won’t stick.
P.S Obama and Clinton are the same.
I only live about 80 blocks from the stadium and it’s barely misting here…that’s got to be some kind of positive sign.
Anyone have an update on a start time yet? Still 2pm? Tigers/Royals on ESPN right now. Shagglio thinking “GTFO of my way, Inge, you’re a 3b masquerading as a CF” on that last flyout he caught, lol.
Brian, you have it on MLB TV? Wow, they have me blacked out of it for some reason. I do have it on ESPN.
Pride, Power, and Pinstripes airing AGAIN.
So true about Cabrera. Even the announcer was getting excited.
Didn’t mean to bold the whole thing. Sorry!
mel I like 173. Wanna make it official?
Guillen just smoked that double. Just a rope. Anyone watch the Nats/Braves game till the end last night? What a fitting ending to the first game in their new park. Their face of the franchise (Zimmerman) hits a walk-off jack in the bottom of the ninth with two outs. Just an outstanding way to start the season.
Trisha - that really stinks. Makes me appreciate living in NY even more.
According to Bob Lorenz the situation could change but still no start time announced. It is still raining here in Queens.
GO ROYALS!
Fran -
Love the new Studio. Very blue!
The Top Ten Reasons Peter Abraham’s Blog is the Best Yankees Blog…
10. The players actually talk to him… (ahem, Mike Kay)
9. He’s better looking than Kat O’Brien
8. The paper he works for doesn’t have the word ‘Post’ in its title
7. The man loves Bruce Springsteen
6. And he used to talk about The Sopranos from time to time
5. Cashman felt so comfortable, he swore during his interview with Pete
4. He, like the rest of us, loves Yankees Chick
3. He, like the rest of us, hates #45
2. The man can admit when he’s wrong, a tough thing for any reporter/writer worth his salt to do (see post- Super Bowl post)
1. He’s taken care of both his loyal readers and first timers better than any other blogger in the ’sphere. AND, his regulars in here remind me of ‘Cheers’ on a crowded night. All we need is McLovin to walk in so we can all scream in unison “Close the Door!”.
Its stupid, trust me, I know– but I’m trying to stay busy while waiting for rain out to end!!! Sorry if anyone caught ‘dumb’ from this entry !
Fran I envy you living there. Everything here is so provincial, i.e. Red Sox and Patriots. It’s sad really.
Doreen - and very high tech looking. I love the stadium behind them.
Wow– Gil Spahn Meche, no? This guy lives for opening day!
Define unfair. I’m way out of market. I pay whatever a month for an XM radio subscription. However, I can’t listen to the games at work because XM blacks out the gameday broadcasts for online content. So now I’m forced to pay an additional amount for the MLB gameday audio.
Suggestions?
Who can I sue?
I wish the game would start…
Lol. I laugh at the fella who thought the Jays cant hit. They had an off year last year, but thats one of the scarriest lineups to pitch against if everyone is healthy. Rolen should be gold this year, and with Eckstein gettin on base, Rios and Wells should do well with RBI’s.
Favorite Baseball movie:
61 > Field of Dreams > Naked Gun > Bad News Bears > rest
Thanks for the nice words Trisha.
On the bright side, YES is playing their season preview show which I hadn’t seen yet. Hopefully this game starts soon. I’m ready.
Ha, the Detroit announcers just dissed the saux - said Meche was more nervous for Opening Day this year than last year when he beat the saux, cause this time he has to go against a monster lineup. heh
Tmattsmooth…
I’m down… Lets start a class action against blackout games, etc.
Trisha,
You hit a nerve with the blackout comment. I have been ranting about this since moving to FL three years ago.
I am blacked out on the Rays games and I live 240 miles from St Petersburg!
So I miss 15 games or so a year of the Yanks because even though I pay for the MLB extra innings, in market games are blacked out because FSNFL carries almost exclusively Marlins games.
Dumb doesn’t begin to describe the current group of MLB owners.
trisha -
About being out of market, my brother-in-law, BIG Yankees fan, moved to South New Jersey a couple of years ago. Was ASTOUNDED by all that you posted. South Jersey is considered Phillie country!
It was one of the factors when they decided to move back to Central NJ.
Looking at the National Doppler radar, it looks like the precipitation is slowly sliding past New York.
Meanwhile, it’s also raining here in Northern Iowa, which is better than the sleet or snow that’s coming later this afternoon and evening.
61 >>> Major League >>> Field of Dreams
the only blackouts that REALLY piss me off are the FOX blackouts on saturdays. they buy the rights to ALL the games on saturdays until like 4PM i think, then throughout the course of the season decide which games to show on any given saturday. then, even if they don’t choose to show a particular game, its STILL blacked out on MLB.TV. it’s total BS.
Living outside of the Yankees market absolutely sucks, and is one of the main reasons I’m moving back to Jersey as soon as I graduate, which is not much longer now!
CB,
your halladay analysis is pretty obvious but you put it in good context and said it well.
It will be interesting to see if Girardi and Long recognize this and have the team ready to adapt when necessary.
I felt like some teams were scouting the Yanks well last season and knew when they could stroke a fastball down the middle with the first pitch to get ahead in the count and when they couldn’t. The Yanks can keep teams off balance and still maintain a philosophy of patience and plate discipline.
i hate philly, and most people from philly, but i used to love living in Mercer County, NJ, because we’d get the NY stations and the Philly stations… on Sunday, you’d wake up and watch football from 1230pm all the way thru the rest of the day.
tmattsmooth unfair = monopoly, and MLB sure as hell has one! We used to actually check out every opposing team’s radio stations (meaning stations around the locale of the opposing team) and then use streaming audio just so we could get to listen to the game somehow. Then MLB caught up with that too! If you have the energy there may be a few stations around that still broadcast local games and use streaming audio.
oh yeh The Naked Gun >>> Field of Dreams
The natural?
rain rain go away..
Its inevitable that at some point I will come out of pocket for the MLB gameday audio. It just makes me furious.
Last year I think they gave me six weeks of Sports Illustrated for free when I signed up. Maybe I can hold out until they have a special offer this year.
Field of Dreams, Major League, The Sand Lot.
Worst, Fever Pitch. Saw it on flight home from my honeymoon and walked out.
gaaaaaaahhh this game needs to hurry up and start already!!! I am so losing patience!!!
I think Kim Jones is pretty, in fact I missed her this winter. Though I heard her jaw locks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull#Misconceptions
This is great, I thought I was set cause I dont have YES at the hotel I work at but I get ESPN, then I found out that ESPN is blacked out cause of YES, but cause of the delay I may get home in time to not miss much, if at all.
Clear it up around 3-3:15
WCBS just said that “the forecast is no longer promising.”
What’s the skinny on Mo Vaughn ? Anybody heard ? Mets again ?
I’m upset at the weather too, but at this point if it means I get to actually watch the game today, I wouldn’t complain if it starts an hour or two later.
Okay, guys when people start going crazy on a play by play basis over ABs or innings, the focus number is 173*.
It’s the internet equivalent of a paper bag. When you chicken littles see it, take a deep breath, calm down, and remember, there’s at LEAST 162 games in the season. Hopefully, at least 173 for the Yankees.
173*
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I just bought MLB gameday, for my AT&T cellphone. It has gameday, gameday audio, player tracker and Baseball Channel for $8.99 a month. I think its a decent investment.
LOL @ Ummfada…
Her n Rachael Ray could have the biggest mouths in showbiz
Also, the Tigers have 999 runs to go to meet everyone’s expectations…
“Worst, Fever Pitch. Saw it on flight home from my honeymoon and walked out.”
Wait…, What? How do you walk out on a plane flight?
HA HA HA HA HA!
GO BACK TO THE DUGOUT YOU FOOL ORDONEZ!
Has anyone considered that it is not raining and that the water drops falling from the sky are the tears of Ruth, Mantle, Gehrig, and DiMaggio?
After Alll the anticipation - a rain delay - we are being tested
The Bad News Bears
Stealing Home
Pride of the Yankees
Field of Dreams (already mentioned)
Where’s SJ44?
as Pete said, the weather will be even worse tomorrow.
it would suck to have a doubleheader on opening day (Wednesday)… pretty much guaranteed a boring split.
uuuugh still raining at the Stadium
:( 
meanwhile nice throw by Jose Guillen to gun down Shagglio at the plate but I can’t even bring myself to care…I want the Yankees dammit!!! *bangs fist on table*
so is the game still going to start at 2?
William Buckner –
That movie (Fever Pitch) is hazardous to your health. The only reason I saw it all was because it was on an airplane, as well. I figured I could handle it, and I do enjoy Drew Barrymore (who was good). But at one point during the movie, when my husband got tired of me ranting, proving I obviously could NOT handle, it, he told me to just shut it off! I will NEVER be able to watch that movie again. EVER.
Maybe I’m mistaken… Or maybe I just don’t understand…
Al winter, all I heard out of The D was how much weight Miggy Cabrera lost, how he worked out hard all season and is in great shape.
Ummm….
He’s listed at 240. If it wasn’t for the six, scraggly, lonely hairs on his chin, I wouldn’t be able to tell where his chin ends and his neck begins. The kid (he is 24) has no jaw line. Zero tone or definition.
Where did he work out… Hardee’s? Jack in the Box? Cody’s Roadhouse ?
Or is he on the Jared Fogel Subway diet?
Mike: Not necessarily. Our bench is now an asset for double headers.
I seriously doubt they’d do a doubleheader Wed. even if today does get rained out…since the Yanks and Jays play ea. other so many times, I’m sure they’d find a date to play the makeup later in the season.
Yanksrule57
March 31st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
“Worst, Fever Pitch. Saw it on flight home from my honeymoon and walked out.”
Wait…, What? How do you walk out on a plane flight?
LOL- Dude was so upset, threw on a parachute, ripped open a cabin door and jumped from 30K feet !!!
I thought “The Natural” was too long.
“Major League” is hard to watch because the Indians beat us for the pennant.
Better picture, though sad, “Bang the Drum, Slowly”
LC-nope. From the YES and ESPN updates, it’s still raining rather hard and the tarp is still on the field. And it’s 2 ET now…guess it’ll be another hour or more to wait.
damn Gruz
anyway and MCab also had an error at 3B
I actually watched Fever Pitch (at a friend’s insistence) between games 4 and 5 of the 2006 “Boston Massacre” - much easier to digest when you knew the team was in the process of falling apart…
Doreen,
My girlfriend is a Jimmy Fallon fan and I told her once when she was mad at me that I would watch the movie with her. I made her promise that she would never again make me watch that movie or watch it while I was in a 5 mile radius. After watching that trash, I’m happy to report that I brought her over to the evil empire!!!!!
Radar makes it look like the rain will be moving out shortly and the rest will stay north.
mel, I’m definitely down with that. Let’s just hope that everyone remembers to breathe when they see that number!
I’ve actually thought about a class action suit against MLB for all of their crap, but I’m thinking that MLB’s antitrust exemption would make a suit like whistling in the wind. Hey maybe between me, Jimmy 27, motown and rmb (?) - I know its 3 initials - we can get some kind of suit going! Wouldn’t that be a hoot. I would welcome any comments from those guys and anyone else who may have some insight into whether the antitrust exemption covers all of the stuff MLB pulls.
tmattsmooth
“Last year I think they gave me six weeks of Sports Illustrated for free when I signed up. . .”
I broke down and paid for the audio last year as well. Except I am STILL getting Sports Illustrated. They should just give the audio for free, skip the magazine.
I am trying to restrain myself and NOT buy the audio this year, despite the fact that I like to listen to it at work.
I live in southern NH where summer sports reports on the every radio station are comprised solely of what the Sox did the day before and Yankee/Sox games on ESPN are blacked out because of NESN. It’s a very unique sort of hell. So grateful for lhblogs.
Did someone use the words Mo Vaughn and skinny in the same sentence?
Thats why I had to walk out… J/K.
Also bad baseball movies, Summer Catch, remake of Bad News Bears and Major League 2 and 3.
Jimmy you gotta throw in Bull Durham, its not right without Bull Durham…
I work about 5 miles from the stadium. It’s not pouring right now. I don’t know if I can really call this rain. It’s more of a misty weather with occasional rain drops. It’s been like that for about an hour now. It looks like it’s gonna come down heavy again around 7pm.
Darn… I can’t work. The wait is killing me.
Everytime I watch The Natural, I fall asleep. Always after the train scene. So, to this day I don’t know what happens. I’m going to have to rent it. My question is, why Glenn Close?
THey are evaluating the situation.
I just realized the Tigers-Royals are on channel 723 (or 722 non HD) on DirecTV.
thanks Steph
At least none of you live in Iowa where we’re blacked out of 6 teams. Talk about a screw job.
Most underrated baseball movie is “Eight Men Out”…fantastic movie.
Just a couple of thoughts…
A roof, retractable or not, is something of an abomination and should really never be considered for a baseball stadium. I live in Florida and having seen the hovel the Devil Rays -oh wait… sorry, RAYS- have to play in, well, it’s just unAmerican.
UnAmerican I tell you!
I’m with the whole Opening Day as a National Holiday. Having to work on Major League Baseball Opening day is , like playing under a dome, decidedly unAmerican.
In fact, its down right Communist!
curiously, what happens to ticketholders if there is a rainout? I’m sitting here with two tickets for today’s game…
trisha,
Bad idea on the lawsuit. I’m pretty sure that you’ve already broken the Terms of Service Agreement. All 36 of you.
Bull Durham was an excellent baseball movie featuring Susan Sarandon and her large natural….rosin bags.
Jeff NJ, only if you have Extra Innings, I would imagine.
We hear it every year. Why do so many
teams that play in domed or warm weather venues open up in cities that stand a good chance of bad weather ?
As expected, the next team to visit the Stadium is yep …. the Rays.
How to goof up a pitching rotation in one easy lesson courtesy of Mother Nature and stupid scheduling by Selig’s office.
Every team plays 81 home games and 81 road games. Would it have hurt if the Yankees opened up in Toronto ?
Quote Homer Simpson:
“What are you kids laughing at? ”
“If you say Jimmy Fallon, I’ll know you’re lying…(shaking fist)”
For those in Comcast regions, MLB Extra Innings is free this week - if you order the season by 4/6, its $159 - after that, jumps to $199 - Yanks will be on Ch. 629 if game ever happens today
‘cool on your island,’ i feel your pain - i can’t do sports radio during the summer up here - get the MLB/Comcast package - it rocks
Crossing my fingers that this game will actually be played and soon! I’m goin crazay here!
Meanwhile, Cabrera looks pretty bad defensively, and Billy Butler just got picked up off in whatever precious few fantasy leagues he was still a FA in. That was ungrammatical, but I don’t care. This Yankee game really needs to hurry up and start!!!!!!!
The makeup game is tomorrow.
mel
He he he he he!
Hey nobody told me I couldn’t use it in multiple locales! And you know what the current legal decisions are on the fine print in a contract? If the print is too fine, the consumer wins!
Damn it!!! I’m ready for baseball all ****** ready
Derek
Oh sure - Bull Durham and the Natural, bang the drum
Fear strikes out, the Stratton story
The Rookie
Mr 3000 - not bad
Summer catch - is a guilty pleasure
William Buckner - really the Bad news bears remake?
That would tops on my Worst list - to each his own though
The original is a masterpiece - me thinks (writen by Burt (Moonlight Graham) Lancaster’s son
Alan,
You have a good point about trying to open the season in domes or retractable roof stadiums, or even in the south as much as possible. The fallacy of your argument is that it assumes someone with a reasonable amount of intelligence is in charge of MLB.
Speaking of tickets. I have two tier box mvp seats for Saturday. Near home plate. Face $60 each, but feel free to make me an offer.
Verlander throwing a no-hitter. Thank goodness he won’t go 9, I don’t think I could stand the ESPN love that would follow.
Funny thing, Brandon Inge is still with the Tiggers. I heard he wanted to be traded b/c they wanted to make him catch. Well, he’s been bumped to the outfield.
Opening Day Contrasts
1960
154 game season, opened on April 19th - played (get this) 19 double headers.
1961
League expands schedule, for first time, to 162 games.
Season opens on April 11th - played 23 double headers.
2007
season begins on April 2nd - played 3 double headers.
conclusions
Season starts in bad weather, due to expanded schedule and the elimination of scheduled double headers.
mel,
i agree about 173.
however, every game does count. winning the division, making the playoffs… these more often than not come down to winning just a couple more games than the next team.
i know what you meant, and you’re right, but the yankees will need to win the close games this year (cmon bullpen) if they are going to play more than 162.
2708!!
Alan-I agree. The teams in the East that normally have bad weather should either open in a city with a dome or somewhere in the West, where it’s a lot less likely that they’ll get rained out.
What about Field of Dreams and Pride of the Yankees?
Some blue jay players are warming up out in the outfield.
Cash and Joe G were on the field checking conditions
Maybe it won’t be long
Jimmy 27-
good catch.
Bad News Bears was written by Burt Lancaster’s son. It was a reflection of his relationship with his father.
Jimmy Fallon’s a cutie & Susan Sarandon is an old hag. (Though she was good in Lorenzo’s Oil. Do you guys remember that movie?)
YES! eight men out - great
FoDreams:
Is this heaven?
No it’s Iowa.
Trisha, no its a free preview on DirecTV today, channel 722 and 723. I don’t have extra innings, they are trying to incent me to get it. And they are convincing me.
anybody have a weather update or est. start time?
Ty Kepner has posted on his blog the game has been rescheduled for tomorrow. What should I call in sick with tomorrow?
Today it ‘must have been the take out food we ordered last night…’
Any ideas on tomorrow? Should I try a new illness, or roll with the stomach issues? Pull a Giambi and try and tell everyone I have a parasite from the Take-Out Tex Mex from last night!?!?!?
man this sucks
My mom is there and Halladay is long tossing right now on the field, that has to be a good sign.
That’s a lot of Yankees you took, bronx and bbb. My starting roster looks like this…
C Geovany Soto
1 Ryan Howard
2 Chase Utley
SS Orlando Cabrera
3 Alex Rodriguez
O Melky Cabrera
O Corey Hart
O Hunter Pence
O B.J. Upton
Util Adrian Gonzalez
(Shelley Duncan is on my bench)
Fausto Carmona
Phil Hughes
Ian Kennedy
Francisco Liriano
Bobby Jenks
Francisco Rodriguez
Javier Vazquez
(Mussina is on my bench)
7 total Yankees.
solid AB for Inge… unfortunately.
is it too early to be rooting against the Tigers?
“Susan Sarandon is an old hag. (Though she was good in Lorenzo’s Oil. Do you guys remember that movie?)”
Did anyone see her in Atlantic City (very early 80’s movie). Great scene of her rubbing lemons all over her breasts.
mel,
The Tigers say they tried to trade him. He has a big contract and they probably didn’t want to eat most of it. Granderson got hurt and so Inge, instead of being their super-sub is now starting in CF. Inge should just keep his mouth shut. If he hits Leyland will move him around and get him his AB’s. It’s better than starting in some baseball no man’s land like KC IMO.
bronxbomber,
i heard the weather is supposed to be worse tomorrow. why would they already reschedule if there is a chance to play today and less of a chance tomorrow?
hope they play today.
UPDATE, 2:17 p.m.: Nothing definitive yet. But it sounds like they’re planning to cancel the game and play it tomorrow night. I’ll let you know once I hear something.
I hope its at night.. then I don’t have to use anymore PTO sick days!
Pete has an update about potentially rescheduling for tomorrow night…
Boston Dave,
Total agreement.
We shouldn’t sweat the little things, but wins are very important. I’m always upset after a game. Then I count my blessings and it’s all good.
Girardi sat in the booth and watched the Yankees and the ol’ catcher in him plotted how he would do it. They need to get off to a good start irregardless of injuries and what not. No excuses.
Why call it when you have the whole day to play it?
to Pat:
unfortunately, i was at a game a few years back and halladay was long tossing, and they postponed it
hope this is different tho
“old hag”?
please, the bathtub scenes were smoking hot.
Bummer..
I think its suppose to be even worse tomorrow..
NH-Yankees
You’re right. I use Direct TV here, but I think they have a similar package. MLB Extra Innings? This weekend Direct TV had a free preview sports package which included YES. Had no real interest in the other channels. Wish I could subscribe to YES a la carte.
Boston Dave,
Obvious or not I think that is a central issue for the yankee’s offense this year, especially in the playoffs.
When a pitcher’s strength negates the fundamental orientation of a team’s offense it’s hard to underestimate how major a factor that is.
To put the effect that a pitcher like Halladay has on neutralizing the yankee’s offensive approach compare Halladay’s control against the yankees to his control against one of the least patient teams in baseball - Tampa Bay.
Tampa serves as an interesting control group for the yankees.
Throughout it’s history Tampa Bay has been fill