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Jun. 10th, 2005 09:33 pmI think the good people over at YES have lost their everloving minds. After the Cards scored five runs in the third from some wicked errors from the Yankees, the commentators spent the entire first half of the fourth inning discussing three subjects:
1) Jeter is superpissed. They spent an entire at bat ignoring Sheffield entirely in favor of talking about how angry Jeter was. I am not even kidding here. Jeter was angry, though. Know how I can tell? The YES camera crew just about shoved a camera up his nose, that's how I can tell. So instead of, I don't know, watching Sheffield take pitches and eventually get walked, we got to see Jeter seethe. Which was hilarious, but hi guys, game going on. YOUR GUYS UP. Focus. (AHAHAHA, now they're talking about Tino getting booed, and how "rare" that is at Busch Stadium, like hi, Edgar RenterÃa might want to argue with that.)
2) The Yankees suck at life and they don't care about anything and we hates them we hates them WE HATES THEM preciousssssss!
3) But it's totally not their fault.
Awesome.
While on the subject of the New York media: The Astros won the game against the Mets in extra innings last night. They did it by scoring not one, not two but three runs in the eleventh inning. Final score 6-3. Astros win the series. This is their second consecutive road series win and seventh road game win. Yay Astros! I am so encouraged by this hitting thing they've been doing. Scoring actual runs helps. I find myself wondering if, maybe, they'll even get Clemens his second win in a row tomorrow. Am I being crazy?
Anyway. The headline on the back page of the Daily News today was so great I ended up buying a copy. The Mets pitcher in the eleventh was Heath Bell, so of course they've come up with a pun.
"BELL RUNG
Heath rocked in 11th as Mets fall to lowly Astros"
There's just something about the use of "lowly" there that is fabulous. It's like, sure, make with all the condescending adjectives you want, won't changed the fact that we kicked your team's ass.
In terms of badness for today, Red Sox lost to the Cubs 14-6 and the Tigers . . . oh god . . . got shut out, 2-0, BY THE ROCKIES. I'm not sure which is more bleakly hilarious. I came home from work and turned the Sox game on. "Wait, Halama's pitching already? WAIT, it's 7-1 Cubs in the fifth? *pause* Bronson didn't have it today, did he?" I kept it on, of course, and it just got more and more absurd, until I started giggling at every Cubs run. It was just that ridiculous. We got a Bellhorn homer, though, and two from Ortiz, so it wasn't all crap. Tigs I didn't watch, I'll admit it; there was a rain delay, so I got sidetracked, and by the time it occurred to me to check if the game was on, it was halfway over and I was in no mood for baseball.
Astros started a series against the Blue Jays tonight, and fuck if I know why I thought it was the Orioles. *checks schedule* Oh, because it's the Orioles after this. Sigh. Anyway. In spite of the fact that the starting matchup was Ted Lilly vs Wandy Rodriguez, we appear to be ahead by 4-1 in the seventh. And my boys have gotten three homers thus far. Too bad I missed them because I was under the impression that they were off today. Man, I suck at the Astros schedule. I won't pull the game up now, though, they're doing just fine without me.
1) Jeter is superpissed. They spent an entire at bat ignoring Sheffield entirely in favor of talking about how angry Jeter was. I am not even kidding here. Jeter was angry, though. Know how I can tell? The YES camera crew just about shoved a camera up his nose, that's how I can tell. So instead of, I don't know, watching Sheffield take pitches and eventually get walked, we got to see Jeter seethe. Which was hilarious, but hi guys, game going on. YOUR GUYS UP. Focus. (AHAHAHA, now they're talking about Tino getting booed, and how "rare" that is at Busch Stadium, like hi, Edgar RenterÃa might want to argue with that.)
2) The Yankees suck at life and they don't care about anything and we hates them we hates them WE HATES THEM preciousssssss!
3) But it's totally not their fault.
Awesome.
While on the subject of the New York media: The Astros won the game against the Mets in extra innings last night. They did it by scoring not one, not two but three runs in the eleventh inning. Final score 6-3. Astros win the series. This is their second consecutive road series win and seventh road game win. Yay Astros! I am so encouraged by this hitting thing they've been doing. Scoring actual runs helps. I find myself wondering if, maybe, they'll even get Clemens his second win in a row tomorrow. Am I being crazy?
Anyway. The headline on the back page of the Daily News today was so great I ended up buying a copy. The Mets pitcher in the eleventh was Heath Bell, so of course they've come up with a pun.
Heath rocked in 11th as Mets fall to lowly Astros"
There's just something about the use of "lowly" there that is fabulous. It's like, sure, make with all the condescending adjectives you want, won't changed the fact that we kicked your team's ass.
In terms of badness for today, Red Sox lost to the Cubs 14-6 and the Tigers . . . oh god . . . got shut out, 2-0, BY THE ROCKIES. I'm not sure which is more bleakly hilarious. I came home from work and turned the Sox game on. "Wait, Halama's pitching already? WAIT, it's 7-1 Cubs in the fifth? *pause* Bronson didn't have it today, did he?" I kept it on, of course, and it just got more and more absurd, until I started giggling at every Cubs run. It was just that ridiculous. We got a Bellhorn homer, though, and two from Ortiz, so it wasn't all crap. Tigs I didn't watch, I'll admit it; there was a rain delay, so I got sidetracked, and by the time it occurred to me to check if the game was on, it was halfway over and I was in no mood for baseball.
Astros started a series against the Blue Jays tonight, and fuck if I know why I thought it was the Orioles. *checks schedule* Oh, because it's the Orioles after this. Sigh. Anyway. In spite of the fact that the starting matchup was Ted Lilly vs Wandy Rodriguez, we appear to be ahead by 4-1 in the seventh. And my boys have gotten three homers thus far. Too bad I missed them because I was under the impression that they were off today. Man, I suck at the Astros schedule. I won't pull the game up now, though, they're doing just fine without me.
