When Moving Through Kazmir: Yanks-A’s Gamer

Total scrub squad going today…resting up for BAH-sten???
Hip Hip is banged up again, heard anything on that IH???

Making Kaz throw A LOT of pitches so far…15 with 1 out. Sweet.

COME ON AJ!!!! BRING IT BROTHER!!!

Maybe not…K and then a line out to Shelley…2 outs.

K for Shelley, color me surprised. Not. I bet he would be good in the NL? Since he really is a AAAA player…

3 K’s for AJ in the 2nd…well awwwwright aawright…(channelling McConaughey)

Jeter GIDP. Man, we cannot do anything right. They really need to get their shit together and fast.

AJ with 35 pitches through 2 innings…need a quick one. I would assume the top of the Angels order will not oblige.

Aybar gets Figgy to 2nd…Fat Bobby up…

AJ got out of it…whew. Can we please score some runs at some point?

Walks Godzilla…1st and 2nd, 2 outs…

Tex gunned at home…lame. 2nd and 3rd, 2 outs for Cano. Automatic out in this situation.

cano, melky!!
i’m on gamecast..don’t trust what i can’t see…is it really 3-0?

Me too DC…it sucks. YES!!! 3-0 GOOD GUYS!!!

K #7 for AJ!!!! COME ON HAUS!!!

8 K’S!!!! Got through another inning unscathed!!! NICE!!!

thanks k…one of the gamecast refreshes had melky at 2nd after his double, but showed the yankees in the field…little timing glitch i’d say ;)
boy i hate to jinx it, but aj’s “looking good”…if you can “look good” on gamecast that is…

I just got home…another barnburner. Fast forwarded through the innings I missed. AJ is a headcase, period. It’s all in that empty space he calls a head. He wasn’t awful today but certainly not a solid #2 starter. I mean, he has to be the 3rd starter in the playoffs, right? I guess he could turn it on because he absolutely has the stuff, but…I don’t know. It is what it is.
Bottom line? Who’s pitching the 8th, can Hughes go again? 1 run lead in the 8th? This is a big couple innings for our heroes..let’s see what happens!!!
LET’S GO BULLPEN!!!

FREDDY!!!!! Steals 2nd on a pitchout…Napoli drops the ball. Sucka!!!
2nd, 1 out…need some insurance runs!!!

Nothing. Melky hits it right at the pitcher. I don’t like this at all…unless Phranchise is pitching the 8th.

Pena snags a liner at 3rd….1 out.
P.S. Jerry left the game with some kind of injury so Pena replaced him at 3rd.

IPK looks like IPK…garbage. 87 and wild. Cannot find the zone, if he does it’s going to get hit HARD!!!

I guess with the scrub squad lineup and AJ pitching I should be glad we are even in the game in the 8th, let alone in front…for now.

Molina drops the f-cking foul tip right in his glove…that is going to come back to haunt us. F-CK!!!

IAN EFFIN KENNEDY!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!

Jeter fouls one of his foot…man, so many dudes are getting banged up!!!!

ARod pinch hitting…time for some magic.

COME ON MO!!!!! FAT BOBBY IS YOUR BITCH!!!

K’s Hunter!!! 1 out.

Rivera vs Rivera…bring it.

See ya Angels. That’s one monkey off our back. It’s not October, but still – we played them to a .500 record this season and took a series from them in their house. Love it.
If the Sox lose today or tomorrow, then the yanks can clinch the division against them this weekend without sweeping.

and the Sox’s postseason prospects are troubling.
I must have missed the part where the Red Sox lost or had a key injury or something that would make me actually troubled about their postseason prospects.

That’s a good assumption, Ath. The question for the Yankees is what do they fear more: Joba/Gaudin starting a game, or facing Edwin Jackson twice?
Now, if the Detroit/Minnesota race tightens such that Verlander cannot start Game 1, then I think they choose the ‘B’ schedule, so as to not face him twice.

Um…the Yankees and Sox are going to play in the ALCS Andrew, it’s written in the stars! Unless we choke, which is very possible. The Sox are going to ass-pound the Angels due to their sorry bullpen. We just need to hold up our end of the deal…

All I’m saying is that things can turn very quickly in baseball. No team, including the Red Sox, should feel comfortable, no matter what John Kruk says.
And the division ‘fight’ was never closer than 5 games. All the worry was about best-case worst-case projection.

By the way, I was so confident these games were meaningless I sold my Friday tix on Monday…and for a 300% profit.

No doubt I’ll be upset if the Yanks lose and for weeks. And no doubt my emotion gets tied to the team during the season. But can’t everyone here agree that this week’s see-saw was even a tad bit…absurd?

More curious is the bit you leave out – the Sox going from “invincible” on this site to SFs here not showing up all day yesterday following just two losses.
Don’t you guys get whiplash from the herking and jerking between elation and paranoia?
Posted by: Rob | Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM
Can’t keep away, can you Rob? Your trolling isn’t even clever or based on fact anymore. It’s just bad trolling.

P.s. There’s nothing passive about me. But yeah, if someone is going to tell me I was frightened because of one bad week within a great season, then yeah I’ll sound “more reasoned”.

AG – I have never thought you’ve attacked me. And sure criticize me all you want. I dish it out, I should certainly be able to take it. I can. Fire away.

I think most Sox fans are storing up all their baseball-related enthusiasm for the playoffs, which are now two weeks away. The fact that football season has started doesn’t help either.

I know why I wasn’t here these last two days, and it had nothing to do with two days of teaching, three work deadlines, and my kids starting two new schools and my wife and I having work engagements on two of the evenings, obviating solo parenting duties on those nights.
It was because the Sox lost to the Royals. Yep, that’s it.

> the constant interest in exterminating my opinions
That is a fallacy.

Dr. Nick had one of his operatives inject me in the base of the skull with an exploding capsule and a multi-purpose attenuated actuator which he can alternatively manipulate, and detonate, from his Secret Island Lair.
Weird, he gave me something he called, simply, “Lytta Vesicatoria”.

It’s all about me, Rob. Always has been.
How on Earth can you not recognize this?

Not by my estimation.
There are poll widgets that could easily settle these things.

Forgot Lar and dw(sf). Crap, I knew trying to do that off the top of my head was a bad idea.

“over” meaning “preferred to”

Were we actually having a discussion about the back and forth nature of fans and their hysterics without talking about Krueg? Not that I don’t love the guy — reading Yanks gamers when the score seesaws back and forth is one of the high points of my week.

“Fairweatherness” and living and dying with every game are not at all the same thing. They are not even in the same league.
Embarassing or not, during baseball season my mood is affected by how the Yankees play – not permanently or even all day long, but on a daily basis for alternating length of time that depend on how they are doing overall, against whom and in what fashion they won or lost, and whether another game is coming within hours to either wash away the bad taste or threaten to sour the good one from yesterday’s game.
I don’t think that makes me any better or worse of a fan than anyone else, but it is part of the joy I get out of following this team and this sport. It’s the only sport and team that effects me in this way.
Expressions of “I was confident all along” from fans usually strike me as fronts based in a silly conception of what it means to be a “real fan”, be macho, or whatever. But if it is a true reflection of one’s feelings, I don’t have a problem with it other than to find it uninteresting. Almost as uninteresting as hearing how much of a profit fans turn from selling their tickets to baseball games.
By the way AG – well done on the Zeppelin reference at the top…

No problem rbf – gerbils communicate through a pulsating high-pitched frequency detectable only to bald yankee fans.
and other species of rodentia of course

What??? What am I reading??? I’m very even keeled… ;)
YFSF is my therapy and you are all my therapists…and for free!

Just as there’s a simple test for knowing when an argument has gotten personal, there’s also a simple test for knowing when an argument hits upon some version of the truth: Do those who disagree wildly flail trying refute it?
Yeah, I’d say bringing up the Holocaust satisfies that test case.
Sure, a poll is error prone but at least that would represent some version of the collective truth rather than an opinion or two.
But instead, why not run a simple script to count all the comments and by specific authors. As you’ve pointed out we easily know where allegiances lie. You could even do the same for posts by moderator. That solution is simple enough if you care as much about balance as me hitting this nerve would seem to suggest.
You’ve got the data. Prove me wrong. And personally I’d love to know how much I’ve commented relative to others.

> simple script to count all the comments
krueg wins.

And like that Zeppelin classic, certain elements of this thread drag on and on.
Also like the Holocaust.
Actually Rob, I’d run that srcipt, but I have such full confidence that it would be meaningless to 99% of visitors that I sold it instead. And for a 400% profit! Woo-hoo!!

> bald yankee fans
gerbil is a proud member of that club, which gladly includes our bald baseball fans who happen to root for the sox (and any other baseball team) brethren.

Seriously, Rob, why in hell do you care? If there are more SFs than YFs – what does that mean? What point are you trying to prove? If SFs comment more when the Sox are winning and YFs comment more when the Yanks are winning? You get to be right about what exactly? I can’t believe for the life of me that ANYONE comments more than Krueg – Kruegsreincarnate probably comes in second.

Do I care? Not really. But there’s such a strong backlash to an off-hand comment, I must be onto something. And to me data is always interesting especially when used to settle arguments.
This one can easily, very easily, be settled.

> Prove it.
Oh my goodness, what a horrible, tiring request. You want to know? Hit previous on the the posts and look it up yourself. If you are really ambitious, read the threads from a couple years ago. I guarantee there was not a more prolific commenter than attackgerbil, especially on Yankees posts, but on Sox posts as well. It’s how I got this job. (Plus, I paid SF off in the only currency I know, alfalfa tablets). And what does that mean? Jack shit. Krueg comments in volume, and I love it. So does Ath, and so do others. It doesn’t mean that their comments slant the site one way or the other. It is just passion for baseball, plain and simple. Enjoy it. Or not. I don’t give a fuck.

Got me Rob. God this is so much like the Holocaust I can’t believe it.

Of course, from the data we could also see if and how the slant of the site has shifted over time.

What is pissing me off about this is that Rob keeps interrupting a perfectly fine conversation about IH losing his virginity to Scott Kazmir.

> the data
This line of discussion is closed.

“their old, bald ways”
Loved that.

I know why I wasn’t here these last two days, and it had nothing to do with two days of teaching, three work deadlines, and my kids starting two new schools and my wife and I having work engagements on two of the evenings, obviating solo parenting duties on those nights.
It was because the Sox lost to the Royals. Yep, that’s it.
Duh, SF, don’t you know that you should be living and dying with this ballclub and not attending to your job, wife and children. How dare you have a life???!!
Of course, I’ll be working late again tonight (second in a row), and after that spending another two hours on the book I’ve started writing (third in four nights), but yes, it’s obvious that we’re just fair-weather fans around here… when we’re not exterminating people’s opinions.
And, yes, this rebuttal is at least four hours too late. It’s because the Sox only won by six runs last night, and I was too embarrassed to show up until now.

No offense, AG & IH, but step aside. Let me show you how this is done:
My son: You like my brother more, I have proof.
Me: Yes, dear.
Him: You text him more often than you text me.
Me: I do not
Him: Hand me your phone, I will prove it to you.
Me: No.
Him: See? It must be true. I bet if you counted the number of texts, you probably already have, you know you text him more. Proves you’re biased against me.
Me: I am not hand you my phone to count number of texts.
Him: It’s so easy, why won’t you do it?
Me: Because, you nitwit, the number of texts won’t tell you anything.
Him: Yes, it will – it proves you love him more. Go ahead, do it, count them. It’s so easy, why don’t you just do it.
Me: If I count the number of texts and you don’t like the numbers, you’ll tell me to count the words in each one, or the number of positive things said in each one or how many in the last two weeks, or how many in the month of August when the Sox sucked, or some such thing. And then I’ll spend the next two weeks correlating data and that would be a violation of the oath I took when I got my MIT degree – no stupid tricks with data. We don’t want them to take it back, do we? Now, go to your room.

That was kinda awesome parenting…if I ever have kids, I’m going to SG for advice. No doubt.

Krueg –
Unfortunately, I don’t think my methods will work for you. The only advantage to being in an all-boy household (which is like living in a locker room) is that my “no” answer has three explanations:
they will take away my college degree (see above)
they will take away my mom license (letting you build a bike ramp in the driveway)
they will take away my girl credentials (compete in the all-house armpit fart contest).

Just decided: starting a musical trivia post theme effective now on every post I write. no cheating. or cheat away. I don’t care. There’s no prize. If there’s a lyric in the title, it will have a ~ << tildé in the header. First correct answer wins the undying affection of gerbil nation, population: me.

No, there are many of your posts here, disagreeing with virtually everyone. What they finally did was say, “Now, go to your room.”

Yeah, Hannity never insists on the last word. Never.

Got a bit redundant there. The point is I am personally asking you to disengage this site for the time being and dialogue with the authors.

In a thread that thoroughly entertaining throughout, I think soxgirl is the winner. Great stuff!
This is quite something to wake up to. Can you do something like this again.
I’m a bit confused about something. Does all of this mean that Victor Zambrano fits into IH’s love life somehow? And why no mention of P Diddy. He re-imagined the Zep song and made it hip hop. The point is that we haven’t begun to examine the number of ramifications here.
You guys rock! Thanks for my morning reading.

What is pissing me off about this is that Rob keeps interrupting a perfectly fine conversation about IH losing his virginity to Scott Kazmir.
Woah now, I really need to keep up with these threads while they’re occurring, and not two days later.
Nick, I fully support a Krueg-related website. I read the Yankees gamers for Krueg alone most days!

So far in this thread Rob’s engagement has been likened to that of a cockroach (by him and then SF), a man who farts repeatedly in crowded enclosed spaces (by rbf), and an annoying parasitic insect (by dc).
The Holocaust, Stalin’s show trials, and the cultural revolution have also been invoked.
Just wanted to catch anyone up who might have missed the highlights. Also very sad to see this thread seemingly closing. Too much good comedy here…
Glad to see you come in dc. And also that we can all agree on one thing: having insight into krueg’s fan-dementia is a real joy for yfs and sfs alike.