Detroit’s Battery Motors Past Yanks

Well  the Yanks couldn’t pull off the “extremely important” series win, the one Joey Day Care said they had to have, no problem,  Joey just kicked the Yankee Bandwagon into  4 wheel  drive and said “it’s not what  we wanted but we have to  turn the page and put up  a win tomorrow”.

Normally you blow past a Girardi  presser, he’s taken the YES oath, you do know they  hold a Baseball cliche boot camp  every February spearheaded by Randy Levine,  the head Bomber Honcho in charge of the cash register making that Ca-Ching sound. Levine requires all of the YES in game announcers, plus Bryl-Cream Curry, Bourbon Bob, and the Brickhouse to show up at the 2 week  camp

They  don’t have to  worry about card board cutout NyQuil Nancy, they  dose her up with the good stuff, flick on the TelePrompTer, and the glassy eyed girl reads the propaganda  to YES’ adoring fans like a teacher reads top  selling Pre-School Story Book The Foggy, Foggy Forest to her room full of 5 yr olds

“We tell our people if you want to be bipartisan and fair, don’t work for YES,” said team president Randy Levine

Not even Girardi  believed what he was saying this time, his head hung low, his eyes making more contact with his feet then the glaring TV lights. I will  admit the one scenario  we sort of wait for after every excruciating loss, and there have been way more of those then  we ever wanted to  witness, is Joey Day Care finally snapping at  the moronic questions Brickhouse Marakavits asks after every game

If you want to  look up the meaning of vexatious, look no  further then our very own Brickhouse’s body of work.

How does it feel  to  lose a game this big?

What’s going through your mind when you lose the ball in the sunlight and the winning run scores?

Is that  a technique you learned in Japan where you jump up with no  clue  of where the ball is  and hope the baseball  fairy sticks the ball in your glove?

Why wasn’t Betances in the game instead of Kelley? Was it because you pitched him in a 5 run game the day before?

Did you think  that foul ball  was a HR, and how upset were you when you finally struck out to end the 9th inning with the go ahead run on 3rd base?

What situation was more debilitating not raking a hit with men on 2nd and 3rd in the 4th inning or the 9th inning punch out?

What’s going through your mind  when their catcher came up  with the clutch  hit and you didn’t?

Do  you give much thought to  the fact the Yankees owe you $68M for the next  4 years and your pretty much stealing money from their coffers?

Yesterday you pounded David Price, is there any rhyme or reason why some kid they just  sent back to Toledo, pitched better then Kuroda (2 earned runs, Lobstein 1 earned run)?

What  are you thinking when you walk Don Knotts Kelley, then throw a wild pitch, and give up  that base hit to Rajai Davis their 3rd string center fielder to  tie the score?

What  does K Long tell these hitters to  do  when Lobstein shuts down the last 8 batters he faces, then Hardy  and Gas Can Chamberlain shut down the next  8 in a row before Teixeira walks to  finally get on base?

Does anybody on this team ever think about hitting against  the shift or is everybody trying to justify their grossly over paid contracts by hitting HR’s in a ball park bigger then the Grand Canyon?

How bad do  we want to see Little Beaver slam that  Gatorade bucket over Brickhouse’s head?

Toronto Room Service Tempo

Was there an appointment you all had to keep in Toronto the reason you didn’t grind AB’s vs Lobstein or anybody?

23 pitches in the 1st two innings, 12 pitches in the 5th with  7 coming from 18 Wheeler, 9 pitches in the 6th inning from 2-3-4 in the line-up, 14 pitches in the 7th on 2 soft ground balls and a 7 pitch  strike out from Headley, 14 pitches in the 8th inning

When the dust finally cleared Kuroda got no  run  support again, Joey Day Care said they hit the ball  harder vs Lobstein then Price, but they hit them right at people.

“That’s baseball”, which is a cliche that is running neck  and neck in overuse with we just have to  tip our cap  to  the other pitcher.

Not even Joey the Spin had the stones to  tip his cap  to Lobstein who has given up 174 hits in 149 innings, has a .299 BAA, a 1.48 WHIP, a 4.07 ERA at AAA this season, his 6th season in the minors

The good news is the Tigers look like toast with Miggy banged up, Sanchez probably out for the season, Verlander in Kate Upton dreamland, and the team make-up being top heavy in stars with not much  depth so they  could be caught

Seattle on the other hand has Cano  and King Felix, their GM just  got resigned and they can pitch, plus they have a 3 game handicap with no head to head games on the Bombers schedule

As Davidoff wrote a few days ago, this Yankee team shows no signs of being much more then a tad better then  .500. but they’re surprisingly 6 games over the mediocre mark  with 30 left to play.

21 and 9 gives them a 90 win season

7 left with Toronto, 6 with Boston, 8 with Baltimore, 3 with KC, and 6 with the Rays

Lets fill  the glass half empty and start the countdown tonight toward  that must have, to be safe, .700 winning percentage down the stretch

They  could have been 1 game closer if Detroit’s battery of Lobstein, Hardy, Chamberlain, and Coke, didn’t hold the Bombers to  5 hits and 2 runs, and their catcher the .220 hitting Alex Avila didn’t club in 2 RBI’s, the second one came at  crunch time…. I guess that’s just baseball

the Whole 9

Lots of fuss over Jeter batting 2nd

the AL  league average for the #2 hole hitter is .260 .319 .389 .709

Jeter’s line  .265 .313 .317 .629

Gardner’s line .268 .343 .431 .774

Prado’s line  275 .305 .484 .789

Beltran’s line .245 .303 .430 .732

Anybody got any suggestions?