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So this is the game Danny Mac should’ve done a running diary on, but he didn’t. Come on Mac! Schilling vs. Pettitte. Obviously we wouldn’t have known that it would be a rubber match, but oh well. I’ll do it. Unfortunately, drama at the shoe store held me up and I wasn’t able to leave early for a baseball game. So I got home in the bottom of the second and my Yankees are up 3-0. Nice. Oh, and I’m watching the YES broadcast, if that matters. On with it.
4:52pm - Why is Doug Mientkiewicz still playing everyday? And does it piss anyone else off that it takes an extra two minutes to figure out how to spell his name correctly?
4:58pm - Jeter grounds to Lowell, who bobbles it and a run scores. Okay, I’ve got to believe that the only reason Lowell doesn’t get the error is because that hit allowed Jeter to pass DiMaggio on the all-time Yankees hits list. FIST PUMP!
5:00pm - So, I benched Matsui today, because as much as I hate Schilling, he’s a pretty good pitcher. And of course, I come home to a Matsui homer. Sweet. I’ve never been so pissed that a Yankee homered off of Schilling in my life.
5:01pm - Advice from Danny Mac:
HeyUmp47: have a blast....advice...dont try and get every little detail in
HeyUmp47: i did that my first time around and it sucked so i deleted it
lilchika63: hahaha
lilchika63: give me something good to put in
HeyUmp47: WILYS GOIN DEEP
HeyUmp47: thats all i got for now
5:04pm - I’m watching a few other games on TV. There’s a rookie catcher for the Braves named Jarrod Saltalamacchia. Jesus. You’d think they’d name him X with a last name like that. Could you imagine how hard it was for that kid to write his name in the first grade? Oh, and Wily Mo grounded out to Cano. Sorry Mac.
5:06pm - Request from Danny Mac to comment on the Pedroia-Rodriguez “dust up” from last night. All I have to say is that A-Rod runs funny. Every Red Sox fan knows that. Also, he likes to make friends with Red Sox players. BFF with Arroyo, Varitek and Schilling already, why not add Pedroia? He also has purple lips. Lay off.
5:12pm - Nice little “Yankees Suck!” cheer at the Stadium. Followed by a “Let’s Go Red Sox!” Followed by a double by A-Rod. Good stuff.
5:22pm - Manny hits a dribbler to A-Rod, who can’t make the play. I don’t mind too much, because I like Manny. He’s just so crazy. “¡Eh! ¡¿Como está?!” Also, Edgar Renteria is batting for the Braves on TBS. Some people just can’t play in Boston, hey?
5:30pm - In the middle of an intense conversation about steroids in baseball with Danny, Mientkiewicz hits a bomb. So much for that 1-19 slump. Still, I don’t really take MUCH of what I said about him back. Okay, I do. I’m sorry.
5:33pm - Manny conversation:
HeyUmp47: manny has no idea how he just got to that
lilchika63: oh manny
HeyUmp47: gotta love him
lilchika63: i absolutely agree
lilchika63: he's one of the few red sox i really like
HeyUmp47: u cant hate him....hes too retarded to hate....itd be like picking on an autistic kid
5:37pm - And there’s a hit for Wily Mo off a dribbler to A-Rod. Someone get the big guy an oxygen tank!
5:50pm - There are a million reasons why this girl is my best friend. Here is one of them:
mereDITZy: there is little more that i love than watching the yanks smash the crap out of curt schilling.
mereDITZy: that is all.
5:56pm - I love Manny’s head covery thing. Ahhh. And the YES announcers would like us to know that if you rearrange the letters in Lou Piniella, you get Paul O’Neill. Except you have to take out one of the “I’s,” so not really. And Manny decides to score running backwards and give Jorge a little love tap. Oh Manny.
6:14pm - Pretty boring last twenty minutes. And Mientkiewicz gets another hit. What burns me more than him hitting well is that I have to spell his name out.
6:26pm - I always wonder why they still use that warbly recording of “God Bless America” at the Stadium. You’d think they could’ve gotten a better version, or at least a better recording. Just a thought. No offense Kate Smith.
6:34pm - I wish I had benched Andruw Jones instead of Matsui. This is an announcement to all in my fantasy league: Andruw Jones is officially on the trading block. Make me an offer.
6:43pm - Poor Greech. My poor little Celtics fan got his heart broken yesterday when the C’s got the fifth pick. The fifth pick with Doc Rivers. It’s gonna be a rough year. Greech’s official reaction:
DAwwG275: my reaction: almost puke, try not to cry, decide it was too dangerous to drive to a bar in the shape i was in, lie in bed and not sleep all night
6:46pm - Honestly, all this talk about a win tonight putting the Yankees back on track in the AL East is garbage. This is not REALLY a must-win, because now we’re only 9 1/2 games back. ONLY! FIST PUMP! Seriously, I love my Yankees, but let’s be realistic here.
6:51pm - Lowell just flied out to Damon, and when Johnny threw it back in he actually got it all the way to the pitcher’s mound in one throw. Too bad he was supposed to hit one of the middle infielders and missed them both. Farnsworth almost pulled a hammy trying to stop that ball from bouncing away. Oh and tomorrow is Clemens Night on YES.
7:00pm - Someone should pick up Doug Mientkiewicz, the way he’s been swinging the bat. I swear, it’s a hot streak. (Talk about “what have you done for me lately.”)
7:03pm - Okay I’m only commenting on this because it’s the 483rd time I’ve seen it (and if things go well, this will be the last time tonight), but when you’re watching a game on MLB.tv, they don’t show you commercials. They show you the same ad for Dick’s Sporting Goods everytime, then it goes into the equivalent of phone hold music. Anyway, the commercial has a whole bunch of fans in their team’s MLB jerseys and hats and whatnot talking about what baseball is to them. The Red Sox fan says, “It’s about never giving up. Never ever!” The Yankees fan says, “It’s about tradition. It’s about doing what it takes to win.”
Okay I agree with the Yankees one, but the Red Sox one - come on. This commercial better have been filmed before 2004, otherwise I’m gonna be pissed. YOU ALREADY WON! STOP WHINING!
7:07pm - Wily Mo with a leadoff double. PICK HIM UP ALREADY DANNY! I hear he’s a really good clubhouse guy.
7:12pm - Great exchange between Michael Kay, John Flaherty and Paul O’Neill about C.B. Bucknor, the home plate umpire. He has quite the intense punchout call, including a very intense check-swing-yeah-you-went to end the game on Coco Crisp. It’s like he’s taunting you with that called third strike. Player of the game goes to Bucknor. Game over.
So, we’ve closed to 9 1/2 back of the Red Sox. Sigh.
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I'm taking a week off from work, so I've basically been sitting around my house doing nothing. And I'm getting paid! I must admit, it's getting a little boring, and it's only been two days, but I think I can manage.
I've set a reminder for every baseball game airing in Vancouver for the next five days. I've also watched the first two episodes of "The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll" about eight times each. They're reruns obviously, but I loved that show, and have no problems watching it again. One of my girlfriends Jade summed it up best. These "bands" like Pussycat Dolls and Danity Kane are slutty, and we like it. Anyway, I have to say I'm a little pissed that Asia won, because my girl Melissa R. had a way better body and was more suited for PCD, but I digress.
Did you know Andre Ethier of the Dodgers has "Forgot About Dre" as his entrance music? Hah, it took me a few seconds to put two and two together. Ahh, this is just beautiful. Red Sox fans will absolutely empathize with Dodger fans right now. The Dodgers were just getting creamed 8-0, so Grady Little pulled a bunch of his starters. Now it's the bottom of the ninth, and the Cardinals are up 8-4, two outs, bases loaded. It should be Jeff Kent that's up, but he's already been pulled. He probably could have pinch hit someone else, but his bench was practically empty. Oh Grady.
In one of my leagues, one of the more lame scoring categories is complete games. I finally got my first, thanks to Matsuzaka, and I went up 4.5 points just from that. That's ridiculous. You don't get one home run and go up almost 5 points, at least not in the middle of the season. One guy gets 13 points just for having three complete games. Three guys still don't have a single complete game. Mikey, you can't kick me out now, but what a bad decision.
It's too bad that Conboy had Matsuzaka on the bench today. I'm sorry buddy, but you're not doing much to convince me that you're a better fantasy player than Mac thinks you are. I'm pretty choked because I lost a lot of points today, and I've only got half a point up on Greech. I'm getting a little nervous.
Mac tried to trade me Clemens, who he picked up twenty minutes after the announcement, for Alex Rios, who just happens to be one of my best outfielders. I offered him Rios for Cole Hamels a week ago and he agreed at first, then declined. Hmmm. Well, once again, someone's trying to play me as the stupid girl. I quote, "Figured I could get you to bite on Clemens, being a crazy Yanks fan ... I wish you were dumber so I could exploit this."
As for the actress who will play me when Greech and Mac become famous, I’ve been thinking. If Greech can have Matt Damon (!) play him, then I’m going with Lucy Liu.
Probably gonna have more than the standard one post a week, since I have nothing better to do. Prepare yourself for some deep thoughts.
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A few days ago, Curt Schilling went on a rampage against Barry Bonds. Everyone is joking that Schilling must be some private investigator, but I have a different take. Basically, Barry won’t tell the media anything about himself, but he has no problem confiding in BFF Schilling. Well, now we all know that Schilling is nothing but a big, big blabbermouth when it comes to keeping secrets. He would have totally been booted out of the tree house by my group of girlfriends when we were seven. That is just something you do not do to your girlfriends. Now all Bonds has to do is think of something really, really mean to write about Schilling in his burn book. Duh.
Officially, Schilling claims that Bonds admitted to adultery, tax evasion and cheating on the game. Officially, Bonds has never admitted to any of it. It would be really sweet for Bonds to hit the record breaking homer off Schilling. Unfortunately, when the Red Sox play the Giants, they plan in Fenway. There is no way that the Giants would let Barry hit 755 or 756 anywhere else except San Francisco. Could you imagine what happened if that ball landed in the bleachers at Dodger Stadium? I mean, honestly, that ball is that fan’s ticket to a life of luxury, but I wouldn’t put it past some stupid fans to just freak out and throw it back.
I’ve been thinking about the controversy surrounding Bonds. I’m wasn’t 100 percent sure how I felt about Bonds breaking the record until one of my guy friends let me know his take on it: Why care if Bonds breaks Aaron’s home run record, because A-Rod’s just going to break it as well? And yes, the guy’s a Red Sox fan. It makes sense. Rodriguez has 100 more home runs than Bonds did at the same age (31). Even though Barry went on a suspicious tear after he turned thirty, A-Rod is showing no signs of slowing up. Give him at least another nine seasons after this one, and he’ll be 40.
Okay, let’s say Bonds finishes this season and does one more, probably finishing with about 780 home runs for his career - another 35. A-Rod would then need 301 homeruns from today on. (I’m typing this as a Yankees game is playing, so maybe he’ll get a jump on my analysis.) In nine and a half seasons, he’d only need to hit an AVERAGE of 31 a year. Anyway, I won’t get into the math, because I majored in sociology (but in my defense, I wasn’t that bad - I attribute it to being Asian). Tim Kurkjian of ESPN has a nice little article about the 500 home run club.
Moving on, Josh Beckett just won his seventh game of the year. I am crying myself to sleep over this, and not just because he’s helping the Red Sox end my Yankees run of AL East titles. One of my more misinformed guy friends is convinced Beckett will win the Cy Young. Okay, he’s been pitching well, but he’s not even the best pitcher on his team (that would be Papelbon or Schilling), let alone the best pitcher in the AL. So, I gave him 50-1 odds on Beckett vs. the field. I think I’ll be okay, but every time I see Beckett put up another win, I get a little more worried.
Lastly, I’d like to respond to Greech’s comment on my last post. First, yes I want my certificate - you know my address, D. Second, I lost all respect for Danny Mac’s team when he accidentally dropped Jake Peavy. I still haven’t gotten a chance to figure out what the hell happened, but if he didn’t have a higher waiver order than me, I would have Peavy. Third, it was just a matter of time before Clemens signed. We all knew it.
One more thing: good on Stahl for figuring out how to dominate in several categories in our league. We all have Conboy to thank for not putting a cap on waiver acquisitions, so Stahl has been dropping and picking up different pitchers everyday. Of course he’s killing in innings pitched, strikeouts and wins, just because he has more chances. Whatever, I still want my certificate.
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A month of baseball season is done. What? You want to know what I think? Okay!
1. First of all, I’m in first place in one of my pools. Wow. Thanks to a little drafting help from one of the boys in my other pool, I’ve managed to steal first place from Dennis' possibly better team, but it’s by the smallest of margins. Not sure how long it'll last, but at least I won a month! Really, I think it’s a two horse race, with maybe a couple other teams pushing it (and that does include your team Danny, but only because you have Roy Halladay). Really, I do know my baseball, but I definitely won’t get started on making that trophy. It’s a long season.
2. The Yankees are in last place. LAST PLACE! Jeter said it right when he talked about how it’s not Joe’s fault that our pitching staff couldn’t pitch in the Little League World Series. Well, he didn’t say that exactly, but I like to infer. And the one game we win against the Red Sox in the past two weeks, we lose ANOTHER pitcher. Then Phil Hughes is throwing a gem, and he pulls a hammy. Carl Pavano’s DL party claims more victims. Either way, I doubt Torre will be fired during the season, unless this ungodly slide continues (which it won’t). Eventually the Yankees will regroup and probably limp into second in the AL East. I’m not sure they’ll make the playoffs, but hey, it’s only May and they haven’t thrown $100 million at Clemens just yet.
3. Speaking of Clemens, if he won’t pitch for the Astros, how can one be so sure he’ll pitch for the Yankees? The analysts keep saying that the Astros need to get their asses in gear because Clemens won’t pitch for a last-place team, but last I checked, the Astros aren’t in last place. The Yankees are. Oh man, I better start saving for that vacation.
4. So I may be in first place in one pool, but I’m definitely a cellar dweller in the other pool. It’s really hard to have a consistently good team in a league of thirteen. And I didn’t know how to draft at that point. Also Manny has been absolutely terrible for me. Plus I'm the only girl! (Funny how that doesn't hurt me in the other league, but minor details.)
5. The Red Sox have a really good team. And they have a really good rotation. Sox fans can stop whining about Tavarez being terrible because 1) he really hasn’t been and 2) he’ll be going back to the bullpen soon anyway when Jon Lester comes back, which is even scarier. It’s sad because the Sox haven’t even had Manny play that well. And their middle relief is terrible, but it doesn’t even matter because their middle relievers are rarely used. Papelbon has officially taken over Mariano Rivera’s spot as the most intimidating closer in the game. Nobody sneers at a batter like he does. Did I mention I hate Curt Schilling? (Don’t take this paragraph as a white flag from a Yankees fan, because it’s not. I’m simply stating that the Red Sox had a crazy April.)
6. Alex Rodriguez has fourteen (14!) homeruns. Of course, he slowed up a little at the end of the month. I think it’s kind of indicative of a typical A-Rod season: red hot at the beginning, ice cold at the end. Oops, I mean, A-Rod has done a terrific job. Keep on keepin’ on, A-Rod.
7. Moving on to another sport, did anyone notice the NBA Playoffs are on right now? This is the first season in a while that I haven’t been really into basketball, and I know it’s because the Kings aren't in it and that breaks my heart. I did get to see them play in Boston, but a slightly crappy team playing against a really crappy team does not equal a good game. The problem with my Kings is that they weren’t playoff material (and even if they were, they were first-round exit material), but they weren’t extremely bad, lottery bound material. Unlike Celtics and Grizzlies fans, I couldn’t even hope that my team would lose!
8. The NFL draft just finished. I probably know the least about football, but I do know that the Patriots drafted that guy from the U who was stomping on people during the Miami-Florida International brawl. Speaking of athletes with sparkling records, that guy who was kicked off Boston College’s basketball team, likely for drug use, should still be drafted in June. I wish I could make millions of dollars and still be a degenerate.
9. Apparently Tom Brady bought Gisele a Cartier bracelet for being so supportive of him throughout the Bridget Moynahan pregnancy media circus. Could you imagine if your mother was Bridget Moynahan, your father was Tom Brady and your step-mother was Gisele? I think they should set aside money for therapy bills instead of college.
10. And the Canucks just lost Game 4 in OT, when they were up 2-0. Now they go back to Anaheim, down 3-1 in the series. Goddamnit. I will drag myself out of bed tomorrow, sick or not, for post-game drinking. We’ll either be celebrating as the Canucks stave off elimination, or crying into our beers, like we did Tuesday night. I hear beer is really good for sore throats.
More later.
