It must kill Singleton to announce Yank-Orioles games. He's a consumate professional, but you know it's probably eating at him to root for a team of bastards like the Yanks.
So it looks like they brought up Cervelli, Pena, Ramirez and Dunn or was Dunn already here? I never heard any mention of it last night but I missed parts of the game. The only way I can tell now id by looking at the active roster.
Pretty funny and this comes from Boston.com no less. http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2009/09/02/the_other_evil_empire/ "That’s exactly the thing you people would worry about - your precious team’s precious soul. Don’t worry. The Red Sox aren’t the Yankees. The role of the Yankees is still being played by the Yankees, 6 ? games ahead of the Red Sox, as I write this, and breezing. But those of us outside the Red Sox-Yankees axis have come to despise your team, too. The Yankees are still the worst, and always will be. But as a Baltimore Orioles fan who once regarded the Red Sox as a likeable (unless Roger Clemens was pitching) divisional neighbor and the enemy of the enemy, I have come to see the Sox as only slightly less oppressive. Where there was Uncle Joe Torre, now there’s Marshal Tito Francona. What the Red Sox most resemble, here in 2009, is some unholy amalgamation of the postwar Brooklyn Dodgers and the Grateful Dead. The Dodgers have been mythologized by fans like Doris Kearns Goodwin - not by chance, a vocal member of Red Sox Nation - as lovable underdogs, but in their day they were neither underdogs nor lovable. They were simply the second-biggest bullies in baseball, a rich and successful franchise that could be counted on to beat up the rest of the National League and to get beaten up on by the Yankees. The 18- or 19-game war of hype and attrition against the Yankees is just for show. The Sox will gladly be the footstool to the Yankees’ regular-season throne, as long as they both get to October. They’re in this together."
Did anyone notice the Yankees have 5.5 more wins than the second best team in the MLB? AMAZING!!! :beer:
BAHAHA CC made him look like a fool awesome, I love how like the pitch landed and Molina just like walked off
CC's looked pretty damn good since the second inning. How about helping him out with some runs, please. It is the Baltimore bullpen, after all.
Sabathia's held up under a heavy workload the last few seasons, but he's eventually going to break down. Over 250 innings in 2007 and 2008, and barring injury, he's going to exceed 250 this year as well. Had he pitched better in the playoffs and had his teams advanced deeper into the playoffs, the numbers for the past two seasons would be even higher. 2nd and 3rd and no one out after a Swisher double. Set up for A-Rod.
I don't think CC is in danger of topping 250 this year. Wait, are you including the playoffs? You must be... because he "only" had 242 in the regular season in 2007. Still, he'll likely be at 200 innings after this game. He might have five starts left. And I could see them taking it a bit easy on him down the stretch if they continue to have a sizable lead. Plus, some guys are just freaks.
