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Game 162: Yankees at Red Sox

September
28

YANKEES (89-72)
Gardner CF
Cano 2B
Giambi DH
Nady LF
I. Rodriguez C
Betemit 3B
Ransom SS
Cabrera RF
Miranda 1B
Ponson RHP

RED SOX (94-67)
Crisp CF
Cora SS
Carter DH
Bailey LF
Casey 1B
Lowrie 3B
Van Every RF
Cash C
Velazquez 2B
Wakefield RHP

UPDATE, 7:33 p.m.: Mussina took the lineup out to the plate. … Sorry for the lack of stats but I have some newspaper stories to write and neither starter is going to be around very long.

UPDATE, 10:09 p.m.: It has now been a 13-hour day at the ballpark. This season just won’t end as Scranton faces Pawtucket.

UPDATE, 10:32 p.m.: Ah, yes, Jose Veras. This should get the game over with.

UPDATE, 10:41 p.m.: Intentionally walking the bases loaded with Jose Veras on the mound? You just know he’s going to walk in the winning run.

UPDATE, 10:46 p.m.: That’s your season, 89-73.

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601 Responses to “Game 162: Yankees at Red Sox”

  1. Phil - 27 in '09

    Look, a Pudge sighting.

  2. rbj

    Jeebus but that’s a spring training lineup.

  3. Braintrust

    The Giambino in his last game in Pinstripes! Go Stache!

  4. Say it ain't so

    What channel is this game going to be on?

  5. Knicks

    Mussina will pull a Brett Favre… he will try to come back when we already moved on without him.

    We say we are committed to Hughes in the rotation like the Packers were with Rodgers. The fanbase will be split. Cashman will alienate Mussina like he did Bernie. Then Mussina will request a trade. Teams like the Rangers and Brewers call but Mussina says he wants to stay in the division to spite us. Then he threatens to show up at ST if we refuse to trade him. Then the D’Backs give us a call and offer Moose to us. We give them permission to speak with Mussina and they give him a tour of the Phoenix area and convinces him they are a winning team. Mussina complies, we trade him. Hughes is on the DL again, Mussina leads the NL in ERA at the ASB. Our rotation is in shambles, D’Backs win the West running away.

  6. jennifer

    What time does it start?

  7. Joe from Long Island

    I’m not ready for winter.

    But I am ready to start making plans for ST next year.

  8. jennifer

    Mike was very touched by the Standing o’ from the team!

  9. Yankees Ben

    Yes pete just one more game and you’re done for the season, where are the stats( i really liked them), and when exactly do they plan to start? lots of people we gotta say good bye Ponson, Stache, Pudge, Betemit (? is he under contract?),
    Melky( will he still be around? although i didn’t gave up on him yet, he has shown he CAN play here. Etc..

  10. S.A.-Looking forward to 2009 and guess what: Santana is not coming here

    So this is it for the 2008 season. :(

  11. Oddessy

    Very nice to see the Cowboys lose on the same day the Mets are eliminated from playoff contention.

    Betsy, hopefully your Bears can pull it out tonight against the Eagles.

  12. Doreen

    Anyone see Posada’s Centerstage? Awesome. Must see YES-TV.

  13. R-Tek

    Was there anything more lame than the Shea Stadium ceremony?

  14. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Doreen: What did he say? I was eating dinner.

  15. ÆŽR (The Final Season)

    I just heard that Mr. Moose won 20 games. I didn’t think he had it in him. Nevertheless, I’m very happy for him, but still mad at that a*hole Carl Everett.

  16. jennifer

    Doreen I am, too funny. Especially when Jorge said that Stump told him he wasn’t playing than told him to go in the clubhouse and take his clothes off. Right after Jorge said it, he realized how it sounded. :lol:

  17. Angel - A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

    What channel is the game on tonight?

  18. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    how crazy would it be with Mussina come back out and get his 21st win?

  19. Doreen

    R=Tek –
    It wasn’t that bad. It’s not the Yankees, no, but it was fine. I liked how the players were shaking hands with the people in the stands.

  20. trisha - I am delusional, juvenile, and thoughtless...

    The game looks like it’s about to begin. I have it on NESN. I thought it was supposed to be on YES.

  21. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    it is on YES…

  22. Wilson

    Randy Johnson threw a CG SHO today and struck out 9 (though he did allow an unearned run so I guess it wasn’t a SHO)

  23. Doreen

    Angel –
    It’s on YES.

  24. mel

    As long as Moose doesn’t pull a Pettitte and go to Philly. :)

  25. ÆŽR (The Final Season)

    Go Mets! hehe

  26. nathan

    hopefully melky has a good game

    we might not see him next year if he doesn’t

  27. Angel - A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

    I can’t find it on my Extra Innings.

  28. trisha - I am delusional, juvenile, and thoughtless...

    Angel, try it out on mlb.tv then

  29. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Mike Mussina’s managing the game?

  30. Y26

    The ceremony itself was alright… but the fact it was after their 2nd consecutive collapse and the fact it was rainy and gloomy outside took a lot out of it.

    Whose dumb idea was it to schedule it after the final game?

  31. jennifer

    Who is managing?

  32. Terry #1

    Gardner on with Wakefield pitching…

    Ha!

  33. RalphieD (dont hate gardner)

    i think mussina just handed the lineup card in

  34. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Before the game began, Mussina gave the lineup card to the umpires.

  35. Betsy

    Oddyssey, thanks! I love Da Bears, but after blowing two games they should have won, I’m not holding out much hope.

    Ugh – can’t believe I missed Moose’s comments. Aww, a standing O for him in the clubhouse? How wonderful for him – he deserves it. He’s gotten a lot of grief over the years, if not from fans, then from the media because he’s a unique personality. Well, I think his teammates appreciate him and I, for one, love his sly wit.

  36. Angel - A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

    There’s no day schedule on the screen, just an InDemand logo.

  37. 38HotDogs

    Angel, don’t know if it helps but it’s on 729 on direct tv EI – NESPN feed

  38. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    The Mets didn’t have anyone on their team thanking their fans, did they?

  39. Nick in SF

    Let’s all be realistic here. Moose has given a number of indications that he would like to come back or would at least consider coming back. Moose has also given some indications that this is it. Anything—either way—is speculation as it’s highly likely that Moose doesn’t know what he’s going to decide.

  40. Fire Meachum

    So does Santana start game 1 in Wrigley on short rest or Pelfrey?

  41. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    I hope Hughes comes in for Ponson!!!

  42. Angel - A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

    Why would Extra Innings not show the last game of the year? Even if it was “meaningless” and postponed game.

    I pay enough for it! scowl

  43. Nick in SF

    “So does Santana start game 1 in Wrigley on short rest or Pelfrey?”

    Can we not talk Fantasy Baseball right now? There’s still a real game going on.

  44. Doreen

    Rebecca – No

    The current team wasn’t involved at all.

    The stadium announcer thanked the fans.

    Mr. Met pulled the countdown lever. It revealed “CitiField.”

    But the players coming out was nice.

  45. Sea Net

    Did the Mets do a march around the stadium after the game? With Schoenweiss and Ayala leading the march?

  46. Doreen

    Correction – the “old” players.

  47. Rob NY

    not sure why ( because the sound is off on the tv as I’m reading) but phil Hughes was tossing in the pen. Is he a possibility?

  48. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Doreen: wow.

    It’s amazing how two stadiums in the same city could be so different.

  49. Angel - A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

    My EI channels are all in the 300s. I guess I’m not getting it. They really piss me off when they pull this crap.

  50. Dave D

    I heard a rumor from my friend in Milwaukee that the Brewers are considering pitching CC in every game of the series against the Phillies, just to try and get the most out of their investment. Anyone else hear this?

  51. bigjf

    Pretty appropriate that Ponson is starting the final game of this season…good riddance.

  52. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Guys, Ponsanity is pitching. If we don’t see Phil I’ll be shocked.

  53. Nick in SF

    Very annoying that DirecTV is only showing the NESN feed.

  54. ÆŽR (The Final Season)

    Phil Hughes should do very, very well with this AAA lineup.

  55. sw

    Hey if the Yankees win they’ll have a better record than the Mets.

  56. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    even the B team is killing Ponson!! Where is Hughes?

  57. Angel - A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

    At least you’re getting the game, Nick.

  58. trisha - I am delusional, juvenile, and thoughtless...

    If any of you have mlb.tv, it appears that they are televising the game. I can’t get it because I am in the sux market.

  59. ÆŽR (The Final Season)

    “Nearly 30 minutes after Ryan Church made the last out at the stadium, most of the fans were still in their seats. They booed when Florida players came out to collect dirt from the basepaths. They booed every time the Mets announced anything over the public address system — “Our Shea Goodbye ceremony will begin in five minutes,” was particularly unpopular. And they booed Mr. Met.”

    Does the dirt from that old dump really have much sentimental or monetary value?

  60. jennifer

    I think they did cause that is the place where they knocked the Mets out two seasons in a row.

  61. mel

    IHWSFM.

    Prize to the person who deciphers that.

  62. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Mel: I hate Wakefield so f- much?

  63. mel

    I think they shouldn’t touch the dirt. It might have toxins in it.

  64. mel

    Argh. Gotta make it harder next time. Virtual bag of dumdums for you!

  65. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Mel –

    only Rebecca could figure it out. I was still figuring it out. hahas.

  66. jennifer

    wow He was OUT!! Even when we are out of it, the umps still find a way to get it wrong.

  67. Bronx Jeers

    Very Jeterian indeed

  68. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Mel: :D

  69. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Good shot, Rebecca. =)

  70. Josh

    I saw this great video of Wakefield pitching to Dave Roberts (of the Orioles). He struck out Roberts on a knuckleball and the camera zooms in on Roberts. He kinda drops is bat, takes off his helmet, turns to Wakefield walking off, smiles and clearly says, “I hate you.”

  71. Buddy Biancalana

    mel-

    You should know the only way to stump Rebecca is to ask about a 3 hour tour.

  72. Nick in SF

    I was going to guess “I hate when Sidney fails miserably” but the other one makes more sense.

  73. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    I posted this at the end of the Moose post but looks like all the die-hards are here tonight so I’ll propose this:

    Best Yankees free agent signings ever:

    1: Reggie
    2: Winfield
    3: Mussina
    4: Hunter
    5: Key
    6: Giambi
    7: David Cone* – came in a trade but i think he was a FA after the ‘95 season ended
    8: Brosius
    9: Mike Stanton
    10: Tommy John

    (not counting El Duque, Matsui, who I suppose were kind-of free agents)

    Anyone I’m missing? Thoughts??

  74. RalphieD (dont hate gardner)

    HEY PETE…sorry just want to get your attention…i hope you do your predictions for next year like you did last year…i really enjoyed it..no rush, just wanna make sure you remember!

  75. Bronx Jeers

    Tino?

  76. RhapsodyInBlue

    Maybe after the long Pennsylvania winter in Montoursville, he’ll reconsider.

    I’ve been through there a few times as a telephone equipment installer back in the early 80s, it really is beautiful country, lush green, rolling hills, farm country, lots of streams and rivers.

    Moose has found his niche, if you remember last season, he rarely got into the 6th inning.
    This season I can’t remember a game he pitched poorly in.

    I watched all his starts, there were so many early in the season his team sabotaged his efforts with poor defense or poor run support. I never thought he would make 20, but this team has played much better behind him the last 5 weeks or so.

    Speaking as a Yankee fan, it’s been awhile that we’ve had a pitcher who has been as consistently good as Mike Mussina was in 2008.

  77. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    Tino was a trade…

  78. ÆŽR (The Final Season)

    I want to see a Red S*x player get drilled, including and especially Tim Wakefield.

  79. S.A.-Looking forward to 2009 and guess what: Santana is not coming here

    Let’s get a hit now

  80. jennifer

    RhapsodyInBlue

    I was out there last year, more trees than people. :lol:

  81. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Goose Gossage!!!

  82. Buddy Biancalana

    Bob Shirley-

    Brosius came here in a trade for Kenny Rogers, he wasn’t a FA.

  83. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    at least we not getting no-hit no more!!

  84. GreenBeret7

    Ed – looking foward to 2009
    September 28th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
    even the B team is killing Ponson!! Where is Hughes?

    _

    A double by Crisp, who’s hitting .285 and 2 infield rollers for singles constitutes “really killing” him?

  85. S.A.-Looking forward to 2009 and Congrats to Moose on win #20

    thank you Melky

  86. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    Yes, Goose should be in there—probably fourth (see, I knew I’d forget an important one!)

  87. Nick in SF

    Please don’t get picked off or thrown out, Melky; that’s no way out of the dog house.

  88. RalphieD (dont hate gardner)

    melky and miranda!

  89. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    I could never live somewhere with more trees than people. I wouldn’t know what to do with myself.

    I’m a north Jersey kid through and through.

  90. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    GB7, Girardi could have had put Hughes out there against Sox’s B team. Hughes faced them in AAA and it has at least 12 Ks written all over it.

  91. mel

    That would’ve been a great bunt situation.

  92. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    good call Buddy – I know they re-signed him as a FA also but he shouldn’t count…

  93. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Robbie don’t bunt

  94. Pauly

    Pretty good list change-up. The only one I can think of off the top of my head would be Boggs. On top of helping the 96’ team, he was the guy who initially taught the team how to grind out at bats, make the pitcher work and get to the underside of the other team’s bullpen. Plus, it’s always great to take a great player away from the Sox!

  95. mel

    Nick,

    With all the rumblings & grumblings about Girardi, we haven’t heard ONE word about Melky’s treatment. Kind of gives you pause.

  96. mel

    Bob,

    I don’t see A-rod on that list. They’re going to kill you. :P

  97. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    when Robbie hitted the one out, I thought it was a home run or at lest a double.

  98. Buddy Biancalana

    A Rod was a trade.

  99. mel

    They call the “1st & 2nd & nothing!”

  100. mel

    That’s right, I forgot the Boston thing…

  101. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    At least Alex can’t opt out this year.

    Could you imagine how bad that’d be if we had to deal with that all over again?

  102. pat

    Bob

    How about Mo? He was a free agent last year.

  103. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    Pauly: Yeah, Boggs certainly deserves merit… Another reason I posted this is that very few of the most significant Yankees over the past 30 years have come this way… A lot of guys have gotten paid big $$$ through free agency, and more power to ‘em… But in the long run even “picking and choosing” one or two “key” FA’s hasn’t worked… going all the way back to Dave Collins and ending (so far) with Pavano and Farnsworth, et al…

  104. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    True on A-Rod… But he first came in a trade, and I guess technically he did the opt-out FA thing last yr, but did anyone else have the op to sign him, I forget…

  105. YankeeJosh

    Hughes should have started this game, even on 3 days rest, just to get his innings up. Ponson has no future with this team. That having been said, he was getting in his work in the bullpen, and I doubt we see him in the game now.

  106. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    Really mean to say free agents from other teams, but, yes, Mo certainly would be at the very top of the list…

  107. jennifer

    Hughes is already going to AZ to get his innings up.

  108. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Bob –

    how about Jimmy Key?

  109. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    Ed – I put Key fifth… But looking back, I think David Wells would be a much better pick there – Key really only had 2 good yrs with the Yanks, though I think he was a significant part of getting the beginning of the Dynasty going… Wells was great all four years in Pinstripes (both times as a FA)

  110. john

    I really enjoy this blog, especially the commitment from Peter and the Yankee fans who contribute every day. There were over 1,000 comments from game 1 today. I took a look at the Met blog. On the day of their most important game they have 6 comments. The dedication of both the author and the readers is amazing. I’m looking forward to the hot stove season and 2009. Keep up the great work.

  111. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    And Bob Shirley would probably not be in the top 100 ;)

  112. pat

    Robbie flashing the leather!

  113. Doreen

    Oh, Yogi was the Shea Goodbye,, and Al Leiter, Doc Gooden and Daryl Strawberry.

  114. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Wasn’t there one thread once where we got 2000 comments on one post?

  115. Doreen

    Rebecca –
    Probably had to do with ARod. :)

  116. pat

    Gooden got an amazing reception from the fans. That had to make him feel good.

  117. Doreen

    pat –
    I hope it did. It made me feel good for him.

  118. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    Agree with John – it’s the last game of the first playoff-less season in 14 yrs and there are more than 100 comments an hour into the game… Great dedication, all! And a thanks to Peter for making this possible (some writers really hate doing these kinds of blogs but Peter really seems to enjoy it)...

  119. #9

    “That had to make him feel good.”

    And that’s a guy that knows a thing or two about ‘feeling good’ ;-)

  120. Christina

    Doesn’t Wakefield have an interesting type of contract structure. Its like a one year deal thats worth the same money every year that the Red Sox just continuously offer him?

  121. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    I don’t know about you guys, but I’m not ready for the season to end.

  122. pat

    #9

    He knows more about the opposite end of that spectrum too though.

  123. Viking Coach

    Hey Pete,

    You are the best baseball writer in NY, but today in your article where you gave out you end of season awards you missed the boat big time on the AL Rookie of the Year. You at least could have mentioned Concordia’s Mike Aviles, I remember you wrote a feature article on his college team when they went 44-10, Mike led all major league rookies in batting .325, 10 hr’s, 51 RBI, he is the Royals nominee for the Hank Aaron award. Pete you missed the boat.Give the local guy some love

  124. GreenBeret7

    Interesting thing from Kay…Wakefield asked for the ball to end the 5th inning, possibly his last career start/game?

  125. #9

    “Best Yankees free agent signings ever:”

    Goose Gossage

  126. asdrubal

    “Meanwhile, you can make a heck of a case for CC Sabathia for NL MVP. Who has been more valuable to a team than that guy?”

    Well, for starters, Albert Pujols and Tim Lincecum and Lance Berkman.

  127. Viking Coach
    • Mike led the majors in batting avg. for rookies….Longoria deserves to win, but Mike merits a mention
  128. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    #9 – Yes, Goose was big omission, should be third or fourth, maybe second if you go on impact alone…

  129. Joe from Long Island

    GB 7- Did Kay say that? Sounds like it if that’s the case. I had thought that Wakefield had maintained that he would come back to the Sox on a year-to-year basis, if they wanted him. If this is true, then something must have changed in his life. Hopefully, nothing bad. Wakefield is supposed to be a good guy.

  130. ray (sox fan)

    Yes, Wakefield has a year to year option that is in the neighborhood of 3-4 million I believe.

    GB7, it will be interesting what the Sox do with Wakefield in the off season. In the second half of the season he alternated between being very bad and being very good. If the knuckleball is going right it is very hard to hit, otherwise it is a homerun derby simulation!

  131. Nick in SF

    Cano is a hit machine now.

    Memo to Joe Girardi: bench Cano again right near the end of Spring Training in ‘09 and tell him he needs to get his act together.

  132. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    asdrubal: I agree that Pujols should get it, but the difference is the Brewers are in the playoffs and the Cardinals are not.

  133. mel

    It’s a team option that extends a year each time it’s picked up.

  134. trisha - I am delusional, juvenile, and thoughtless...

    Rebecca, I don’t know I’m kind of exhausted with all of this! Of course is might hit me tomorrow and the next day when I go to turn on YES and there are no games or postgames to watch!

    If I don’t get to say this again tonight I just want you all to know how much fun it’s been hanging out with you. The interaction really helped get me through this strange season. Expecially being pretty much isolated in Sux country, it really helped to be able to emote and debrief with people to whom I never had to explain any particular feeling or reaction. Pete makes the blog possible but it was really the camaraderie with all of you that kept me coming back. I really have to get some stuff in order for work so I am using tonight’s game more as background than foreground!

    I will definitely be stopping by for hotstove.

    :)

  135. Christina

    Thats what I thought. Kay didnt make mention to that though so I wasnt sure

  136. RalphieD (dont hate gardner)

    “I don’t know about you guys, but I’m not ready for the season to end”

    i feel the same way rebecca…but the offseason ( trade/fa signings, AFL, HWL, petes jokes,hanks crazy comments) should be fun and entertaining

  137. Bronx Jeers

    You guys ever check out the lohud Met blog? There’s no one there. ever.

  138. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Ralph: Indeed this blog remained quite lively even last offseason and given that this one is going to be oh so much more entertaining…

    Bronx Jeers: Yeah, but the Mets have other blogs that their fans go to. Just not the LoHud win.

  139. Timmy Lupus

    Rebecca, not only are the Brewers going to the playoffs they wouldn’t be there without CC. You could say the same thing about Manny in LA. Both players have put up god-like numbers since their respective trades.

  140. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    I’m watching ESPN’s MLB 2008: An Epic Season right now. It made me realized that Josh Hamiltion could be the next A-Rod. It amazing that he haven’t reach his peak yet and putting up numbers like a vet. who knows what kind of numbers he would put up when he reached his prime? It would be crazy..

  141. GreenBeret7

    Joe From LI, yeah, Kay brought that up in the top of the 6th inning and they showed wakefield asking for the ball from the umpire. Curious, but, if the Sox believe in Buchholz and or Masterson as starters next year, he’d really have no spot except in the bullpen.

  142. RalphieD (dont hate gardner)

    wasnt miranda known for having no glove…kay and ken seem to think he is great over there..i guess since he hasnt done anything to make them think otherwise

  143. Nick in SF

    I think this guy posts to the Lohud Mets blog sometimes:

    http://tinyurl.com/3vqejc

  144. S.A.-Looking forward to 2009 and Congrats to Moose on win #20

    Mr. Met is very sad in that picture

  145. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    OMG Ed, they’re doing the All Star Game and I’m getting chills again.

  146. GreenBeret7

    Ray, it would be a bit of a shocker, huh? I haven’t even seen the hint of that possibility. Is his knees and back giving him that much trouble, that he’s going to shut it down and go home? I’d think that he’d make somebody a really good pitching coach or minor league traveling instructor. The man can pitch and he knows all sides of baseball on the field.

  147. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Rebecca –

    LOL, You not the only one. I’m so wtih you, so not ready for the season to end. Starting tomorrow, no more Yankee baseball till March. =(

  148. Christina

    What am I going to do without baseball.. I really enjoyed the many months of procrastinating my homework to watch ballgames. Any suggestions Rebecca?

  149. Nick in SF

    Don’t get picked off, Melky! I wasn’t kidding.

  150. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Christina: I don’t know if you can do this, but I did it last year and don’t regret it a bit—-

    Go up to Cooperstown on a random day in January or February.

    There’s snow everywhere, it’s freezing, and the place is empty.

    It’s the best time to visit the Hall of Fame. You can get right up next to everything, all the exhibits (and they have cool ones) and all of the plaques.

    It’s like magic.

    I actually really want to do it again.

  151. #9

    “Mr. Met is very sad in that picture…”

    Any picture with Mr. Met is very sad…

  152. Terry #1

    GreenBeret7
    September 28th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
    Interesting thing from Kay…Wakefield asked for the ball to end the 5th inning, possibly his last career start/game?

    I can’t see why the Bosox wouldn’t bring him back unless he was ready to retire.

    On another note, another interesting thing from Kay and Singleton tonight:

    Someone asked Ted Williams “Why didn’t you eject?” when his plane got shot up in Korea.

    To which Ted Williams answered: “And I looked at my knees and I knew that I was going to break both my knees if I ejected and never play baseball again”

    Guess who Teddy Baseball was talking to…

    John Mccain.

  153. #9

    “What am I going to do without baseball.. ”

    Ask Carl Pavano – he should be chock full of ideas…

  154. Christina

    I actually did that last year. I luckily am quite close to the hall of fame. We would always go there for field trips and such. The only thing that stinks is that it is a small town and not much parking… Just a note of advice. If you go to cooperstown, NEVER EVER EVER use mapquest.

  155. Doreen

    Nice way to stick with the play, for Cody Ransom. Nice arm, too.

  156. For $13 I'll be a Macadamia Nut

    nice throw there Betty!

  157. Doreen

    And then, there’s the next play …

  158. #9

    Rasner relieves Ponson.

    Nope – not going to miss 2008 at all.

  159. GreenBeret7

    Terry #1
    September 28th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
    GreenBeret7
    September 28th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
    Interesting thing from Kay…Wakefield asked for the ball to end the 5th inning, possibly his last career start/game?
    I can’t see why the Bosox wouldn’t bring him back unless he was ready to retire.

    On another note, another interesting thing from Kay and Singleton tonight:

    Someone asked Ted Williams “Why didn’t you eject?” when his plane got shot up in Korea.

    To which Ted Williams answered: “And I looked at my knees and I knew that I was going to break both my knees if I ejected and never play baseball again”

    Guess who Teddy Baseball was talking to…

    John Mccain.

    _

    Well, since Williams was 6’4”/6’5”, the chances are that it wouldn’t broken them, because in one book he said that his legs were so far under that instrument panel, being fired out of that cockpit, it would have taken off both legs at the knees.

    Another note on Williams in Korea, John Glenn said Williams was the best wingman he ever had.

  160. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Christina –

    I remember last year after burden myself with homeworks and projects till after the semester was over. When the semester was over, I worked and pinned myself to the computer and finding out the team’s hot stove (during and off work) until January when class starts again. Then I burdened myself again with homeworks till Spring Training. It actually worked for me. Such a life for me last year, LOL..

  161. Doreen

    This game was moving along nicely.

  162. Terry #1

    Christina
    September 28th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
    I actually did that last year. I luckily am quite close to the hall of fame. We would always go there for field trips and such. The only thing that stinks is that it is a small town and not much parking… Just a note of advice. If you go to cooperstown, NEVER EVER EVER use mapquest.

    Well, you can’t go wrong following the big green signs after you get off I-87.

  163. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Christina: I just looked at the directions on the HoF web site!

    You can see my entry on it here.

    Swords are involved.

    No, seriously.

  164. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Note to Betemit: You are NOT A-Rod, dont play 3b like him.

  165. jennifer

    Melk man is going to get his butt kicked. He keeps making like he is going to throw the ball into the stands, and holds onto it.

    Very immature. He still has somethings to learn.

  166. YankeeJosh

    Wow, Melky trying to curry favor with Yankee fans? Looked like he fake tossed the ball to the fans at Fenway then held the ball and ran in with it. Getting booed pretty heavily too.

  167. pat

    Here’s hoping a Giambi/Timlin face-off this inning breaks the tie and saves us from Michael Kay saying ‘bonus cantos”.

  168. mel

    Yeah, that’s pretty ballsy of Melky, considering he doesn’t have his friend Shelley backing him up.

  169. Terry #1

    Ack, I meant I-88.

    I-87 gets me to NYC.

  170. Bob Shirley's Changeup

    Has Timlin gotten anyone out this year? Talk about someone who needs to hang it up…

  171. Christina

    haha sounds good to me.. I can’t wait til school is over. I am so done with homework. It will be nice to watch games in peace without knowing I am once again procrastinating.

  172. Christina

    bonus cantos, baby

  173. jennifer

    Damon managing?

  174. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    AHAHA Damon managingg, brilliant

  175. GreenBeret7

    Terry #1
    September 28th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
    GreenBeret7
    September 28th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
    Interesting thing from Kay…Wakefield asked for the ball to end the 5th inning, possibly his last career start/game?
    I can’t see why the Bosox wouldn’t bring him back unless he was ready to retire.

    On another note, another interesting thing from Kay and Singleton tonight:

    Someone asked Ted Williams “Why didn’t you eject?” when his plane got shot up in Korea.

    To which Ted Williams answered: “And I looked at my knees and I knew that I was going to break both my knees if I ejected and never play baseball again”

  176. Nick in SF

    If Timlin tries to retire, Giambi will lead an intervention.

  177. Christina

    Terry: Since when do you take 87 to get to the hall of fame? Unless you are coming from downstate in which you take 87 going north, but you still have to cut through Albany, which then you have to take 90 or 88. Which if you know those routes, there are about 8 exits that say Hall of fame and you have to decide which to follow. I followed mapquest, which took me to a very random town in the middle of nowhere. I found a gas station and the lady was like, let me guess- mapquest. We get more people then u can imagine here because mapquest leads then astray.

  178. Tom

    If anything I would like to thank the Yankees for allowing me to finish my doctoral dissertation in a timely fashion.

  179. Yankee Trader

    Question?

    Whom do you think will finish the season with the higher BA?

    Giambi or Cabrera?

  180. S.A.-Looking forward to 2009 and Congrats to Moose on win #20

    Here comes Timlin’s biggest fan

  181. GreenBeret7

    Board is really slow on sending the posts and copying…disregard the last partial post.

  182. Tom

    GB, Yeah that happens to me all the ti

  183. jennifer

    This is very evil. Shows the class or lack their of they have in Boston.

  184. Peter Abraham

    Green Beret:

    When I was working in Connecticut, I went to see Sen. Glenn speak at the Coast Guard Academy and I had a chance to ask him about serving with Ted Williams.

    He said Ted had the best eyesight the USAF ever tested and that all of the pilots in that squadron liked to have him on their missions because he could spot enemy MIGs coming quicker than anybody else.

    Glenn said that had Williams been a career pilot, he would have been one of the best there ever was, his hand/eye coordination was that good and he had great courage.

    It was fascinating to talk to Sen Glenn, a great American in his own right, about another one. One night I’ll never forget.

    When I was a kid, I attended the Ted Williams Baseball Camp. He had the loudest speaking voice I ever heard. He scared crap out of all of us. He only showed up one day a week and he would gather everybody around and tell us how to hit. I can still remember him saying, “The key to hitting is getting a good pitch to hit, damn it!”

  185. DYNASTY IS DESTINY!

    Evening, all!

    Congrats to Moose on his 20 wins! Hope we see him again in Pinstripes…

    Amazing how well the Yanks have played these last couple of weeks…things might have been different…

  186. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Pete, that comment’s a post in itself. Amazing story.

    ***

    Bag of DumDums says this game goes to extras.

  187. Christina

    Rebecca- I read your blog about the hall of fame- gotta love the sword haha. Its beautiful there in the summer. I actually have a bunch of pictures on my facebook when I went- I probably will head out there sometime this winter- its not too expensive and the area is beautiful.

  188. pat

    Now would be a good time for Cervelli’s first hit.

  189. Terry #1

    Terry: Since when do you take 87 to get to the hall of fame? Unless you are coming from downstate in which you take 87 going north, but you still have to cut through Albany, which then you have to take 90 or 88. Which if you know those routes, there are about 8 exits that say Hall of fame and you have to decide which to follow. I followed mapquest, which took me to a very random town in the middle of nowhere. I found a gas station and the lady was like, let me guess- mapquest. We get more people then u can imagine here because mapquest leads then astray.

    See my comment @9:17.

    I live alternately in Schenectady and Binghamton BTW.

    The exit I take has an underpass. It’s either 17 or 18.

  190. BBFan

    “Moose is finished” so says the guy who claimed Mariano’s shoulder was so mangled he needed surgery and Girardi was lying so bad about how f’d he was.”

    Pete, you have to take it like a man and hopefully you learnt your lesson and be a little more responsible in your criticism of Girardi next year. Do not make up things, wait for the facts and do not call Girardi a liar without proper evidence.

    Other than that your blog is the best.

  191. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Christina: I’d ask for your facebook but I don’t want to make you to give out your name on an open forum.

  192. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    at least Cervelli is making Timlin work..

    and..LOL, on Pudge’s pointing that way to cervelli.

  193. jennifer

    Did Timlin always have a gold looking glove?

  194. Angel - A tale told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

    That was an interesting story, Peter. Thanks for sharing.

  195. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Like I said.

    Bag of pops says we go extras.

  196. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Oh Cervelli, that was ball 4.

  197. Christina

    Terry- Gotcha. I am actually very close to there

  198. Dave D

    Extras in the last game of the season with the ST lineups in… not exactly the most desirable outcome.

  199. DYNASTY IS DESTINY!

    Rebecca,

    Nice HOF pics! I’ve been there too a couple of times…the place is just something else…the town was cool too…

  200. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Rebecca –

    Speaking of facebook, the new layout is really confusing. are you having trouble using it/confused by it?

  201. GreenBeret7

    Peter Abraham
    September 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
    Green Beret:

    When I was working in Connecticut, I went to see Sen. Glenn speak at the Coast Guard Academy and I had a chance to ask him about serving with Ted Williams.

    He said Ted had the best eyesight the USAF ever tested and that all of the pilots in that squadron liked to have him on their missions because he could spot enemy MIGs coming quicker than anybody else.

    Glenn said that had Williams been a career pilot, he would have been one of the best there ever was, his hand/eye coordination was that good and he had great courage.

    It was fascinating to talk to Sen Glenn, a great American in his own right, about another one. One night I’ll never forget.

    When I was a kid, I attended the Ted Williams Baseball Camp. He had the loudest speaking voice I ever heard. He scared crap out of all of us. He only showed up one day a week and he would gather everybody around and tell us how to hit. I can still remember him saying, “The key to hitting is getting a good pitch to hit, damn it!”

    __

    Thanks, PA. I got to see Williams late in his career in Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland, and close to him, Billy williams and Stan Musial, they had the prettiest swings I’ve ever seen. I used to see the Ted williams Baseball camp ads in Boy’s Life, Sporting News and Baseball Digest growing up. I wanted to go so bad, but, never could get the 3-400 dollars for it. He and Bob Feller also used to travel to american Legion posts everywhere and give the greatest speaches and somewhere I still have those autographs.

  202. Christina

    Rebecca- hmm maybe email it or something?

  203. Nick in SF

    That was a very nice story from Pete, but I think he buried the lede.

  204. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Dynasty: It was actually the third time I’ve been, but the first I brought my camera and didn’t go in the summer.

  205. jennifer

    http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/nyy/photos/im:urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,ap:20050301:mlb,photo,b12484ae87374c95ac858bddf8fdc03b.yankee_stadium_farewell_baseball_nyy110:1

    LOL

  206. gayle

    robbie not liking sweet Caroline so much tv probably really didn’t want to show that unless I misread his lips

  207. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Ed: I’m annoyed by it.

    Christina: If you want to, sure—rebecca@puristbleedspinstripes.com

  208. Terry #1

    GreenBeret7
    September 28th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
    Board is really slow on sending the posts and copying…disregard the last partial post.

    Yeah, I looked at the response with the cut-off. Didn’t see the COMPLETE response till just a second ago. Knew something happened there.

    He said Ted had the best eyesight the USAF ever tested and that all of the pilots in that squadron liked to have him on their missions because he could spot enemy MIGs coming quicker than anybody else.

    Ted flew with Glenn and I think he was flying when Ted brought his fighter down for an emergency landing. Crash & Smash Team was on their game that day.

  209. jennifer

    Mike wouldn’t consider pitching in the NL.

  210. mel

    gayle,

    Maybe doesn’t like the pedophilic history? (Is that story even true?)

  211. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Rebecca –

    I’m still trying to figure out the new system. lol. there are rumors that you could get the old layout back.

  212. Christina

    new facebook = sucks

  213. mel

    Sigh, does Rasner not know that walking Crisp is like giving up a double.

    Kind of would hate to lose this game and waste Ponson’s gem.

  214. Christina

    But he would considering Toronto

  215. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Ed: There are ways to, but I’m lazy.

  216. gayle

    new facebook doesn’t bother me takes some getting used to but once you do very simple

    Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond admitted last year was written about Caroline Kennedy

  217. jennifer

    Who Mike? No way, the manager there. HATES! and I mean Hates Mike.

  218. Nick in SF

    I am going to go out on a limb and say that Mussina is either a Yankee or a gentleman farmer next season.

  219. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    Rebecca –

    LOL oh…I don’t blame you. hahas

  220. jennifer

    Agreed, Mike is either a Yankee, or a little league manager.

  221. BBFan

    I think Mussina will come back for one more year for the thrill of pitching in the new Yankee Stadium. In fact, if he comes back, I would not be surprized if he is the starting pitcher for the opening day in the new park.

  222. gayle

    By the by did anyone watch the Centerstage on Jorg between games it was really good but really disjointed I thought in terms of flow.

    I think to me more than anything re-inforced how much the team missed him not only on the field but more importantly in the clubhouse

  223. mel

    Sigh again.

    The first word I think of when I see Rasner is “toil”

    The second word is “futile”

    Please put in someone to get out of this inning.

  224. sunny615

    is anyone actually watching this scranton vs pawtucket rematch?

  225. sunny615

    rasner walks cora. CORA!! grife.

  226. Christina

    Mike said that Toronto and Detroit are teams he would also consider based on their location.

  227. jennifer

    Come on DAMON take HIM OUT!!

  228. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    You know, maybe if the Mets blowpen had some rhythm a la Boston…

    ...

    nah.

  229. Doreen

    gayle

    I watched most of it, but my MIL called in the middle, so I have to rewatch. I loved it. Really telling that he thought (thinks?) there are players on that team who didn’t think losing was such a bad thing. I think that’s the line that should have gotten the press – not so much the Joba stuff. Coming from Jorge, I take it seriously.

  230. Brandon (THE METS BULLPEN IS GANSTA !)..."Keep Manny away !"

    Good lord Rasner pitching relief.

  231. mel

    So now Mike sounds like he’s negotiating.

  232. Christina

    Not that he would sign with them- I didnt realize he didnt get along with that manager. I would assume the yankees would want him back- given he wants to return. And wow, for a literacy major, my grammar has been horrid lately.

  233. Terry #1

    Come on RASNER strike him OUT!!

  234. Doreen

    Absolutely painful to watch. He’s working far too slowly.

  235. sunny615

    holy crap rasner… it’s not ortiz you’re pitching to

  236. mel

    That’s three sighs now.

  237. Nick in SF

    Does anyone know how batting averages are rounded from the 4th digit?

    Arod is batting .30039 right now. If he were to pinch hit and make an out, his average would drop to .20080. Would that be rounded up to .300? I can’t see them risking another at-bat if there’s a chance he finishes at .299.

    And Jeter I think would not appear regardless, but his average is .30030, so his would drop to .29983.

  238. jennifer

    Well Christina, if Mike reads this, he will never go to Toronto.

    Riding the elevator up to the press level here at Rogers Centre, I was standing beside Jays GM J.P. Ricciardi and the friendly elevator operator. He turned to J.P., points to Mike Mussina’s name on the lineup sheet that was taped to the wall and said, “I don’t like this guy.”

    He isn’t alone. It’s no secret that Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston isn’t a fan of Mussina, and that’s putting it lightly. Earlier this season, when asked about Mussina—tonight’s starter for the Yankees—Gaston said, “Mike Mussina can kiss my [posterior], and you can tell him I said that,”

    Today, when told that Mussina might never win 20 games in a season if Toronto won tonight’s game, Gaston smiled and said, “Man, I wish I was playing.” There were laughs all around as Cito left the dugout. Gaston’s dislike of Mussina dates back to the 1993 All-Star Game in Baltimore, when the manager didn’t use the pitcher in his home city.

    http://mlbastian.mlblogs.com/

  239. Nick in SF

    make that .29980 for Arod’s potential new average.

  240. sunny615

    hard to believe this guy pitched in over a dozen games for the yanks.

  241. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    better not screw this up, Rasner!!

  242. Yankee Trader

    Here comes a hit

  243. pat

    Nick

    Are those numbers before or after this afternoons game?

  244. Nick in SF

    Awwwwwwwwww Rasner. Very sad.

  245. Jeff NJ

    well I guess 89 wins is good too. Who’s closing for the Sox in this game?

  246. daver

    Nice job Razzle Dazzle. I hope Rasner enjoys pitching in Pittsburgh next year.

  247. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    who will close out for Boston since Papelbum was used earlier?

  248. mel

    This will be a crappy way to end the season.

  249. sunny615

    good job razz… go back to the nationals.

  250. S.A.-Looking forward to 2009 and Congrats to Moose on win #20

    Rasner.
    Not cool

  251. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    That was kind of painful.

  252. jennifer

    Well it won’t be Paplebon. :)

  253. 86w183

    Start rounding forward from right to left… if the number is five or higher, raise the next number to the left up one and so on. However if you get to a four you stop right there.

    THUS

    .29983 would be .300

    .29948 would be .299

    There will be a test and no slider rulers allowed.

  254. mel

    3 walks and a single. JFC.

  255. Doreen

    Yuck.

    Well, no extra innings, anyway.

    90 would have looked really good; 89’s not terrible. But the truth of the matter is, it doesn’t matter either way.

  256. Nick in SF

    pat, I hadn’t thought of that, I just looked up the numbers on Yahoo sports from the team page. But after your question, I clicked on the box score from the first game and it shows Arod’s average as .302 after going 2 for 4, so I’m guessing that the numbers I gave before were before the game. Making my question moot.

  257. Terry #1

    jennifer
    September 28th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
    Well Christina, if Mike reads this, he will never go to Toronto.

    Nice to have the last laugh… ;)

  258. jennifer

    It still would have been nice to sweep them, heading into the post season. ;)

  259. James (let's play 2!)

    I mean this with all do respect..

    DARRELL RASNER SUCKS!

  260. sunny615

    don’t worry people… Betemit, Ransom, and Melky will get us back in this game asap…!

  261. Clint

    Why didn’t we use Veras or Edwar?

  262. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    so anyway….can’t wait for Yankee Hot Stove next month! can’t wait!!

  263. jennifer

    terry- What is the saying, he who laughs last, laughs hardest?

  264. jennifer

    Less than 150 days till P&C

  265. Brandon (THE METS BULLPEN IS GANSTA !)..."Keep Manny away !"

    Suzyn just said “very unlike Rasner walking the basesloaded”

    Did she watch the games this year or just reach under the table for the 115 % proof ?

  266. sunny615

    Why didn’t we use Veras or Edwar?

    because then it’d be 15-1

  267. Nick in SF

    Yes, incorporating today’s game, Arod’s average is .30196, which rounds up to .302.

  268. yankeenate

    Only fitting that we close out the season with Rasner on the mound

  269. BBFan

    I was really hoping that Yanks would end the season with 90 wins.

    Rasner blew it. We will not see him next year any way.

  270. t-rock

    So, unless we have a late rally in us, we split the season series 9-9. We were 5-4 in Fenway.

  271. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    its Johnny!!!

  272. jennifer

    Damon just woke the crowd up. Joe still wants to win the game. :lol:

  273. Nick in SF

    Upshot: Arod can pinch-hit without risking dropping his average below .300.

  274. sunny615

    damon will homer… bet my bottom penny on it.

  275. Rebecca--Optimist Prime--Real baseball fans vote

    Man, when you look at some of the stats, it’s amazing the Yankees aren’t going to October.

  276. Ed - looking foward to 2009

    didn’t we pound this guy on Friday night?

  277. Terry #1

    jennifer
    September 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
    terry- What is the saying, he who laughs last, laughs hardest?

    He who laughs last, laughs BEST ;)

  278. vtred