Posted on 05/09/2006 4:03:54 PM PDT by misterrob
Great, here comes Juice-ambi...
He was until he threw that weak assed pitch to Pujols...
Beckett also wasn't getting the corner pitches tonight which hurt him. And, he doesn't have the maturity that he needs to be an elite player in order to shake that stuff off.
I am impressed with his heater and when his curve is right it's right. His make up is another issue though.
Sometimes your the bug and sometimes you are the windshield.
He needs a splitter or something that goes down with regularity.
He definitely needs a Lewinski pitch as well as something that tails in or away like Clement has.
yeah...
Clement hasn't been right since that liner got him.
Some pitchers just don't recover from that.
I think the game tonight is being played by little leaguers....
Yep, that's right... The Red Sox appear to be a bunch of squashed bugs right now.
RemDawg and Orsillo of NESN bored now and panning the crowds for celebrities... just saw Peggy Noonan sitting next to Steve Forbes. I believe they were wearing Yankee blue...
Oh, the pain...
Boston 3
Stats from over the past 4 years:
RED SOX 40-38
YANKEES 38-40
BATTING AVERAGE
Sox .283
Yankees.255
RUNS SCORED
Sox 453
Yankees 390
HOME RUNS
Sox 120
Yankees 92
SLUGGING PERCENTAGE
Sox .469
Yankees .417
ON-BASE PERCENTAGE
Sox.356
Yankees.334
TEAM ERA
Sox 4.63
Yankees 5.42
SAVE OPPS.
Sox 13-17 (76.5%)
Yankees 19-34 (55.9%)
I don't think this game is EVER going to end.....
2.5 hours and counting...
Wow!
Besides the fact that New York fans are "loud rude drunkards" (my wife's words), it was a fun game to watch. It was much harder to get into Camden Yards than when the Sox play there, as they really step up security and limit the number of gates that are open because of the low-lifes the Skanks have for fans.
Hey, we were there on Saturday (and Sunday) also. Drove down from Connecticut just to root against the Skankees (and we love Camden Yards). Sunday's game was more fun for us, for obvious reasons! ;-)
My husband wore a "Johnny Damon - Wanted for Treason and Crimes Against The Nation" t-shirt on Saturday. He got heckled big time for that after Johnny hit the game-winning homer for the Yanks. Nice to see former Sox Kevin "Pop-up" Millar hit a three-run homer for the Orioles on Sunday afternoon, though!
I have to say we had the opposite experience you had. I held my small backpack open for the security people, and no one even bothered to inspect it, both days. Of course we were wearing Red Sox clothing, and I had a small stuffed-animal Oriole Bird pinned onto my Red Sox hat. Maybe you're right... they didn't bother with me because I wasn't a Yankee fan... lol.
We found the Yankee fans sitting immediately around us to be fairly polite both days - not at all what we've experienced at Yankee Stadium during numerous trips there over the years... the "loud rude drunkards" (resembling Joey Buttafuoco in pinstripes) come to mind. We stayed in a hotel near Camden Yards chock full of Yankee fans... we got a lot of funny looks since we were wearing Red Sox gear, but overall the fans were oddly polite.
Well, there was this one loudmouth drunk who started hurling expletives when the Yanks were losing on Sunday. I said rather loudly: "Typical Yankee fan... resorts to profanity around children." He mumbled something under his breath, and slunk away. I got several laughs and "Yeah!" comments from nearby Orioles and Red Sox fans...
We've now attended several Red Sox and Yankees games at Camden Yards over the past few years. To us, the Red Sox fans definitely seem more exuberant (yet polite) and more "into" their team than the Yankee crowd. The Yank crowd seemed to only get their chants going when the Yanks were ahead, rather than throughout the game like the Red Sox fans. Except for the few "Let's Go Yankees" chants, the crowd seemed rather lackluster compared to crazy Red Sox-Orioles games. The Orioles fans seemed to be sadly almost nonexistent. I saw a lot of orange shirts, but they were awfully quiet. Just my 2 cents...
Wow... Mirabelli just hit a home run!
I'm SO glad I'm not at Yankee Stadium tonight...
I want to hear more! What restaurant? Could you hear what Damon was talking about? Thanks for wearing that hat and shirt, btw... ;-)
man, that was just painful.
NESN after game show is on. Eck is all over Beckett's case for how he did tonight.
The kid has talent but he tries to throw the ball by everyone and that doesn't cut it in MLB. He has to learn how to pitch. If they are sitting on the fast ball then work the curve and an offspeed pitch.
Indeed!
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