- Ibanez with a nice diving catch that maybe saved a run, or at least a hit. What's he doing out in left field? He should be DHing. Unless they put my boy Matty Stairs at DH? Please let this be true.
- And now we get Jerry Hairston, Jr. instead of Nick Swisher. Hmmm, le'ts see. Swisher OPS = .869, Jerry Hairston, Jr. = .710. For you uniformed cretins out there, that's the difference between Jason Kubel and Orlando Cabrera. I'm not sure I make that switch, assuming similar defense, under any circumstances. Of course, Hairston is a light-hitting player who can play multiple positions well. Gardy would start him at bat him second.
- Burnett with a lot of movement on his ball tonight, so much so that Jimmy Rollins just missed a breaking ball by about a foot - and I'm not exaggerating. Must be because he has his fancy personal catcher, a catcher by the way who OPSed .560 this year, which is somewhere between Mike Redmond and Alexi Casilla, and even worse than Nick Punto. He's been benched for Jorge Posada, who OPSed .885, which is slightly better than Justin Morneau. So the Yankees have torpedoed their offensive two ways, one because of a completely overreatction and one because of a big crybaby of a pitcher. Nice job. By the way, Posada and Molina both threw out 28% of attempted base stealers. Nice job A.J.
- Wow. Walking Utley to face Howard? Wow.
- Well, he whiffed him. Point Girardi. Still think the Molina and Hairston moves are balls stupid.
- Pedro walks Molina. Nice job you jackass dominican or puerto rican or cuban or whatever. This sets it up for Jeter to be "a yankee legend." Or strikeout like the probably gay douchebag he is, hahahahahahahahahaha. Suck it, jeter.
- I want you people to stop for a minute and realize just how good Pedro Martinez was in his prime. Because I'm trying to watch the game online I don't really have time to do a ton of digging, so we're just going to use ERA to analyze him. More specifically, ERA+ which basically compares your ERA with the league average ERA in that season and gives you a numerical number, with 100 = league average. Well Pedro has the #1 ERA+ of all-time (since 1900) in 2000 when his ERA was 1.74 (league average was4.92). He is also #8 on that list. And #16. And #25. And #31. You know how good Zack Greinke was compared to the rest of the league this year? He was #30. Nobody else has three top 16 seasons. Only Walter Johnson also has four top-25 seasons, and nobody else has five top 31 seasons. Needless to say, he is the all-time career leader in that stat amongst starting pitchers (Mariano is the all-time leader). Make no mistake, this guy was absolutely, unfathomably, incredibly, untouchably awesome.
- And while I was typing that Texeira homered to tie the game. That only cost the Yankees $500,000 ($20,000,000 / 40 homers). Good lord.
- Oh, I forgot to mention, I looked it up and indeed Matt Stairs is the Phillies' DH. Not only that, but he has the Phils' one RBI tonight. That guy is so freaking awesome. I love that big crazy goofball.
- Do you watch The Office. Man, that was the best show for every year up until this year. Suddenly it seems they have no idea what they are doing with the characters or where they are going with any of the storylines. It still has it's moments, and it still has some really, really good episdoes (the wedding episode was awesome), but I'm just not sure what's going on here. Actually, The Office is really similar to Tubby's 2010 recruiting class so far. Kind of unimpressive, a let down from previous years, but still time to turn it around/show how I'm wrong and I completely trust the people in charge. Holy crap that's brilliant. I feel like Samuel Taylor Coleridge over here.
- We're watching Vampire Diaries right now. Well, the wife is. I'm watching the Phillies continue to look like fools against Burnett. Anyway, it's pretty much just like Dawson's Creek with Vampires and is nowhere near as good as True Blood, but it has the third hottest black chick I've ever seen, a grown-up and hot Maureen from Freaks and Geeks, and this hot chick named Nina Dobrev who was also in the criminally underrated movie "Never Cry Werewolf" starring Hercules. That was a lot of words so just shush and look at her:
- Well, Matsui just hit a weak pop fly to right field, but because this new Yankee Stadium is an absolute joke (think Sandlot in Dusty Diamond All-Star Softball), it somehow managed to clear the fence. Seriously, Pedro pitches a hell of a game, but now he's trailing because of that garbage? Shouldn't there be some kind of rules in place to prevent people from building these monuments to subpar power hitters? G. A. Y.
- Ibanez has almost an identical stance to Jim Eisenrich. And just got called out on a pitch that was both low and outside. I was waiting for the pro-Yankee umpiring to show up. Freakin' conspiracy man. Like the moon landing.
- Jesus this guy just called Stairs out on the same pitch. That pitch is nowhere near a strike. Might as well turn this game off right now, it's clear that MLB doesn't want the Yanks down 2-0.
- So I stumbled across a reference to a movie called "Tyrannosaurus Rex" coming out in 2013. Immediately you could have called me Hugh G. Rection. I was very excited, is what I'm trying to say, aroused even, if you will. Then I read the synopsis. It's about a boxer who gets caught up in an underground fighting ring. Shouldn't people be arrested for that shit? And not only for misleading me so horribly, but you know this movie is going to star Cam Gigandet.
- Back to back Yankee singles (including one by Hairston, dammit). That will do it for Pedro. Hell of a game. And they are going to Chan Ho Park. I'm going to assume they're writing this one off and are happy to go back to Philly with a split.
- Park had a 4.43 ERA and a 1.40 WHIP. There have to be better options. Also, who knew that asians could grow full beards? Other than Genghis Khan and that cult leader from Japan guy who tried to use Sarin Gas in the subway. Wait. So Park is a supervillian? Makes sense, since he just gave up a hit and another run. Totally worth it since "Mr Intangibles and Mr. Yankee and total clutch performer who can do anything" just failed to get down a sac bunt and struck out. Suck it, Jeter.
- Double play after Howard catches the ball in the air or doesn't or something. Honestly I couldn't even tell on several replays if he caught that or not. Then again, I'm a little drunk.
- I know I'm talking about TV alot today, but shut up it's my blog. Get your own if you don't like. Anyway my point here is that I stopped watching Heroes. The first season is still one of the best seasons of all-time of any show, for serious, but it has totally lost it's way. Not only has the writing petered off and become it's own little SyFy original movie script, but they can't kill anybody off. They have killed like, ten people on that show, only to have each and every one of them (somtimes multiple times each) come back to life, not really be dead, or basically find some back way to get them back on the show. That's all fine and dandy for a kids show, where you can't expect children to deal with death and all that jazz, but this is ridiculous for an adult show, and specifically a science fiction show. Even Vampire Diaries just killed off a major character with a stake through her hot boob. I just can't do it. I'm out.
- Phils down two and will now have to face Chamberlain and Rivera. Not lookin' good here.
- Whoops, nevermind, we're going with Mariano for two here. I don't know if I agree or disagree in this situaton, but mostly because the Twins have never had a manager who can think outside of the "closer for the ninth" box, despite the fact that Captian Dumbshit
- A huge walk to Rollins in an 11-pitch at bat and a single by Victorino passed "gold-glover" Texeira and we're in business.
- Shit. Utley grounds into a double play, mostly the umpire called anything within a foot of the plate a strike so he had to hack around. Seriously, this is some of the worst balls and strikin' I've seen in a while. Also, thanks for cutting to a replay of Jeter pumping his fist as you go to commercial, Fox. Lord knows we don't see/hear/read enough about him already.
- Mrs. W just asked me who was winning the game and when I said the Yankees she made a very nice noise of disgust. So at least I got that going for me.
- Ibanez doubles in the bottom of the ninth with two outs. It's now up to Matty Stairs. I think I'm in heaven.
- Nevermind, he strikes out. That wasn't very exciting. Oh well, a split is what you had to hope for. The Phillies are in pretty good shape, and Yankee fans are all douchebags, and don't let Ashley Tisdale tell you differently.
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Has Leonardo DiCaprio ever made a bad movie? We are watching the Basketball Diaries and it's just so good.
Even if you hated Titanic, and there are plenty of reasons to, it's not a bad movie, just girl-centric and sappy, but still well done.
He was even in Poison Ivy. Guy is just brilliant. Has to be the best actor of our generation, no?
I was thinking watching the game last night that there must be a different, larger plate for Yankees pitchers. The worst part is they would show the overhead came that would show the pitch 3 inches outside, and those dipshits Buck and McCarver would pretend it was on the corner.
And speaking of Tubby's 2010 recruiting class, Cory Joseph is visiting this weekend and will be at the Gophers football game. If we see him at the game, I am going to see if Mrs. Snacks will flash him or something. That should help brighten his visit. Probably not as much as whoever Devoe gets to blow him, but still.
Since I'm such a couch potato, curious if you watch Parks and Recreation, Flash Forward and/or Modern Family. All quickly have become new favorites of mine (even though P&R is in it's second season). I thought the Office had been tailing off the past couple of years but this year has been hilarious. Maybe I've been drinking more?
I hope the Yankees plane crashes on their way to Philly. I've never hated a team more.
I'd go down on Leo if he asked. One movie that was less than stellar he did - The Beach.
Todd, I know you can't read, but the book The Beach was much better than the movie. It really lost something going from the book to the movie.
I second the 'The Beach' nomination for 'Movies by DiCaprio that suck.' Are we really going to sleep well at night with our flagship being DiCaprio? Previous generations had the likes of Deniro, Nicholson, Pacino -- even the likes of Kilmer or Cruise (even though he turned out to be a nut job) seem to be far better. But who else is there?
I got it. Matt Damon usurps DiCaprio from our generation. Even though his middle name is Paige, thank you IMDB. Honorable mention goes to Vince Vaughn.
Todd - I like Parks and Rec and enjoyed the one episode I saw of Modern Family. But if you aren't watching Community, you are really missing out.
Also, good call on The Beach everyone.
But I don't think there's anything wrong with him being the best actor of our generation, he's incredible. Damon is very good too, but Vince Vaughn? I don't think you can be considered a great actor if you play the same character in every role.
John Depp is better than Leo, unless you are a 14 year old girl.
Deadspin has excerpts from former NBA referee Tim Donaghy's book, the book the NBA is trying to keep from getting published. If even a shred of this is true, it's pretty damning and incredible.
http://deadspin.com/5392067/excerpts-from-the-book-the-nba-doesnt-want-you-to-read?skyline=true&s=x
Community is pretty solid, but took a bit to grow on me. The Halloween episode last night was great.
I read that Deadspin article the other day. I've always hated the NBA but wow, what a sham that league really is. You couldn't pay me to sit courtside at a Wolves game. I'd rather paint.
That was Cottage Grove's own Jeff Nelson on the plate, and you gentlemen are complete ass-hats if you don't think he's the shiz-nit on balls and strikes. The plate was identical for both pitchers--Pedro was on as well, boys--and Jeff was on that game as the second-ranked blue in the majors, fourth year running. Otherwise, funny posts, but the rants about Mr. Nelson were retarded.
What did translate well from book to movie was the smoking hot frechcy Francoise (sp?). The movie also had Leo tapping that ass but in the book he just beat off into a coconut.
No, he ended up knocking the bottom out of it in the movie too.
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