Orioles - 101 001 100 - 4 9 2Byrd was Byrdesque (7-7-4-1-4, 84) and the Red Sox (finally) broke through against Olson in the sixth for some breathing room.
Red Sox - 020 004 01x - 7 8 0
Byrd allowed three home runs -- Adam Jones in the 1st, Juan Castro in the 2nd, and Kevin Millar in the 7th -- but they were all solo shots. Beyond those, he allowed only one Baltimore baserunner past second, when he got Luke Scott on a fly out with the bases loaded to end the sixth.
Olson walked the bases loaded in the first, but escaped trouble. Boston got two runs in the 2nd on back-to-back home runs from Jason Varitek and Jeff Bailey. Then the Red Sox, trailing 3-2 in the sixth, batted around against two Orioles pitchers.
After Kevin Youkilis lined to left, Jason Bay hit a ground-rule double to right-center. Jed Lowrie's double to left scored bay to tie the game. Varitek grounded to short, but Bailey walked and Coco Crisp knocked a single to center, scoring Lowrie. Jacoby Ellsbury's infield single behind second loaded the bases. Dustin Pedroia singled down the right field line and two more runs scored. After David Ortiz was walked intentionally, Yook hit into a fielder's choice.
The Red Sox got another run on a bases-loaded walk in the eighth. The run was scored by Pedroia, who had his AL-leading 54th multi-hit game of the season.
After two strikeouts in the ninth, Jonathan Papelbon allowed singles to Millar and Jay Payton -- and a Varitek passed ball moved the runners to second and third. Pinch-hitter Oscar Salazar battled Bot through an eight-pitch at-bat, but grounded to FY to end it.
Also: Cleveland beat the White Sox 5-0, dropping Chicago into a tie with Minnesota in the Central. Both teams are 77-60, 3 GB the Red Sox in the WC. ... And in a game with no playoff implications whatsoever, New York beat Detroit 13-9.
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Garrett Olson (6.38, 69 ERA+) / Paul Byrd (4.55, 97 ERA+)
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Out-of-Town: Yankees/Tigers at 1 and White Sox/Spiders at 7. Rays and Twins are off.
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NYY: 44
DET: 1
Piffle.
Update in Motown:
NYY: 44
DET: 28
Hmmm.
i love this yankee bullpen.
going to the bullpen when they had an 11-2 lead in the 4th.
HAHAHAHA
QUESTION:
why does suzyn "rawgah cullemens" waldman
always sounds like she has a cold?
its truly fucking gross and annoying.
Jacoby Ellsbury, RF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 3B
Jason Bay, LF
Jed Lowrie, SS
Jason Varitek, C
Jeff Bailey, 1B
Coco Crisp, CF
Jacoby Ellsbury, RF
Dustin Pedroia, 2B
David Ortiz, DH
Kevin Youkilis, 3B
Jason Bay, LF
Jed Lowrie, SS
Jason Varitek, C
Jeff Bailey, 1B
Coco Crisp, C
THANK GOD!
You didn't get into another crash, did you Tim?
Koby Clemens and a couple of his minor league teammates were arrested in Salem, VA outside of a restaurant. Clemens was arrested for disorderly conduct. One teammate is being charged with assault and battery.
haha gagne shit the bed again today vs the mets!
haha gagne shit the bed again today vs the mets!
Did he really? I was listening to the first part of his inning on WFAN when I was sitting in the car in a Walmart parking lot. The signal wasn't good, but I could hear it. When we got going I turned it back to the Yankees game which had a much better signal. WFAN in New Hampshire during the day... bit statickey.
yeah came into the 8th inning with a 1 run lead and gave up a 2 run dong to delgado .
Yankees shitting the bed + Mets winning = FUN!
...
No Jays tonight = NESN on Rogers!
NESN just came to the game at 0-2!!!
I guess it was the Rogers feed, not NESN?
Oh my. Wish they had come in later. :<(
opponents hitting olson at .310
go sox go
NESN almost missed the first pitch of the game. They came back from commercial during Byrd's wind up.
O'B: "One thing Youk won't have a problem with, with this flu bug, is sweating it out."
FY scored 33 runs in August... most for ANY major leaguer in ANY month since Rafael Furcal scored 35 in 2003.
Walking the ballpark...
Let's go Jail Bait
thou shall not squander, jed.
Olsen having a Matsuzaka inning.
Nah, I have to correct myself. Matsuzaka gets to 0-2 and then walks them. Olson just can't throw a strike.
And, while I was writing that... Shit.
Captain Dong!
Ride, Captain, Ride on your mystery ship!
And Gumball Dong!!! B2B Dongs!!!
GUMBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!
bottom of the order dreck donging tonight
Slugfest.
PC
PByrd: 8-9-13 = 30
Olson: 23-18-12 = 53
byrd - 40 thru 4.
looking good, except for the dongs.
Heidi's off tonight.
Wonder if she'll be waiting for Tek tonight. Maybe with some candles lit... etc.
coco sux
NYY: 44
DET: 28
Actually,
NYY: 443 002 000 - 13 17 1
DET: 110 610 000 - 9 13 3
coco sux
lower-case sucking ain't much sucking at all.
4 innings played in under an hour!
my friend who is at the game tonight just texted me that jeff baileys at-bat-song is led zeps 'moby dick'
AWESOME!
Every AB????
grr. stuck without a TV. still 2-2? im pulling up gdgd now.
couldn't he find a better lz song?
redsock said...
Every AB????
APPARENTLY, YES!
p.s. fu coco
or maybe he's a drummer.
nix, it's just not the same in lower case.
moby dick is awesome
Gumball can play 5 seconds of MD for each AB and by the end of the season, he'll have played the entire "song".
here we go... ads for stephen harper. he's running "pre campaign" ads before the spending limits kick in.
asshole.
5-pitch inning??? fucking sox.
moby dick is awesome
hell of book, i agree.
awesomely boring, that is.
Do I know a different version of Moby Dick than you, RS? The one in 'II' is not a long song at all.
How long is the LP version?
I must be thinking of the 30-35 minute live versions.
It's very long live.
When I saw Zeppelin, a big thing was to come home from the show and brag about how long the drum solos were. zzzzz....
4:21.
And 30:35 would only put it at number 5 in length in my playlist... hmmm...
LP version is 4:25.
Just seems like 45 minutes.
booo
Hey, the Ramones can play 3 whole LPs in that time. :)
The thing about long drum solos is that they're only good if they're amazing. And even then, it has to be live.
The thing about long drum solos is that they're only good if they're amazing. And even then, it has to be live.
I totally agree.
And these days, for me, that will almost never happen in rock. Maybe in jazz. But I feel like I've heard any rock solo anyone can come up with, and they're all boring.
For me. Not boring as an objective fact. They bore me.
I do love Zeppelin, tho. I used to be a huge Jimmy Page fan.
I would be totally cool with this inning ending NOW.
Yes. That would be fine.
Houdini
I would like to thank all those who contributed to the end of this inning.
I do love Zeppelin, tho. I used to be a huge Jimmy Page fan.
I had a big shock moment when an 18-year kid in Cincinnati that heard I was listening to "Rock & Roll", and said "Oh, it's the song from that Cadillac ad". I said "no it's not, it's Zeppelin". And he asked "Who?"
Very sad.
I MET JIMMY PAGE, WHAT? 5 YEARS AGO? OOPS MAKE THAT 10! ;)
And also the fake "old" Zeppelin shirts they sold at Walmart. The faded 1971 tour ones, actually manufactured faded... Horrible, just horrible.
i hate that shit
lowrie, trying to outsuck coco, needs to come thru here.
I love that sound!
One more of the many reasons not to shop at Wal-Mart.
I'm glad I've never seen such a thing. YUCK.
Nice avatar, Nix.
yeeba!!
was payton really decoying? or did he just not see it?
payton may just suck at lf.
rally tek????
thanks l-girl. i love the shining.
You know, Jose Melendez made a good point today (as always). Why do they still call it instant replay? The instantaneousness (instantaneity? hehe) is not exactly a marvel of technology anymore.
So, I've got tickets to wednesday's day game. Dice-K is the expected pitcher. I went to a game against the MFY earlier this year. Dice-K was the pitcher. Went to one game last year. Dice-K was the pitcher.
nix, do you know the VU boot known as the "guitar amp tape"?
Great movie, but I'm just happy to not see you-know-who anymore.
OK COCO< YOU LITTLE BITCH. TIME TO MAKE ME STFU. YOU LITTLE, LITTLE FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS LITTLE BITCH!
Nick, that's weird. But a Weds day game in early September. Sounds beautiful.
OK, Ococ, tell Nix what you think of him.
coco missed games cause he was at the salon gettin' his hair did.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, NIX!!!!!
Nix 800,010
Ococ 8
oh dear, does nix really have to STFU?
I dig Ococ's braids.
I'M COCO CRISP, BITCH!
Nix 800,010
Ococ 8
Poor Coco. He's been at 8 for something like a week. It should be around 17 now, if we were really counting.
Sarfate needs some LASER surgery!
nix, do you know the VU boot known as the "guitar amp tape"?
IVE HEARD OF IT BUT DONT HAVE IT, DO YOU???????!!!!!!!
Pedroia, hitting second most of the year, in front of low-OBP leadoff men, has not had a lot of RBI opportunities.
Time to change that.
i have a bunch of velvets boots, but none of them are labeled. whats it contain?
a Weds day game in early September. Sounds beautiful.
sure does. I'm actually not sure who I'm going with. Had a couple of friends who were top of the list, but neither can.
Emma's been asking me if there's a chance she could see the Red Sox this year. It'd be fun to take here, but... it's the 2nd day of school, she gets bored 'round the 3rd inning, and she can't split the cost with me.
You'll have it on Thursday!
oh - and stop yelling at me.
:>)
Poor Coco. He's been at 8 for something like a week. It should be around 17 now, if we were really counting.
It's true! I always forget what my last score was. I'll give him more next time.
Official scorer that I am.
It doesn't sound like an Emma moment. I sure wish I could go. I'd pay for both our tickets if you can pay my air fare from Buffalo.
LASER SHOW!!
FUCK YEAH!!!!
goddammit. I am going to have his children!
FUCK YEAH
it's a boston show from early 69. guy set his mic pretty much inside lou's guitar amp, so that's all you hear. vocals and other instruments are barely audible.
eating pasta and broc, be back in a sec!
HAHAHAHAHA!
There is NOTHING quite like pulling up GDGD just in time to see Dustin Pedroia facing fresh meat with the bases juiced. I SO knew he would get a hit.
(Almost expected a grand dong)
I'd pay for both our tickets if you can pay my air fare from Buffalo.
It's a deal (you've got the return air fare covered, right?).
granted I still come out behind on that equation..but it'd be fun.
Two tickets for two air fares (RT), seems pretty good. JetBlue, it's cheap!
Just got here to see the cabin dong. Dammit.
Stupid Rogers, we missed how long Paul Byrd waited! We heard Don say "...wait for Paul Byrd."
Another dong???? Fucking cabin. Fucking Byrd.
Kevin Millar has 20 dongs this season. WOW.
No car accident ish.
Did someone say Airfare?
(Best site ever)
Was browsing thru my fav. record store earlier today, in the vinyl rack. (No, I'm not looking to start that conversation again, it's just where I was at) Saw a nice looking copy of VU - shit, brain fart now, the one with the banana, anyway, I thought "hey ths is.....50 bucks that's what it is"
It went back.
Fidel at the dish I see
Byrd has come pretty much as advertised. 6IP, 3-4 runs, and hope for a good game for the offense.
i miss pitchers rolling those balls to first base.
ok, I realized if I go out in the backyard (backyard!) I can get internet....sure is dark back here. Byrd gave up a dong in the time it took me to find a network?? Come on.
hooray for backyards!
hey jere! hope the house is awesome
Way off topic:
I just saw that amy goodman (Democracy Now!) has been arrested at the RNC. I'm sure more'll come. here's a short youtube clip.
vu & nico w/ banana cover.
and congrats on the house and wirelessly-wired backyard!
Oo, good for her. At least she made it there, they've been arresting people pre-emptively all over town.
Amy Goodman--is that the one who got Bells Palsy? (the house is indeed awesome. In my opinion.)
thanks, Nick. I'll also be at Fenway Wednesday, as I think you know.
The one who got Bells Palsy? That I don't know. She's very well known from Democracy Now and other writing online.
I haven't been able to keep up with all the reports of ridiculous police-state actions around the RNC. caught some of the initial reports, but have fallen far behind. between that, gustav, and the bizarro world of McCain's VP pick, labor day actions, war resisters, and on and on, I'm on extra info overload.
i just checked--it's her. a year ago (?) her face suddenly didn't work on one side. I assumed Bells.
Oh, I'm not keeping up on any of it. I just read some wrap-ups people sent me, and posted a bit of it.
I thought you were going to tomorrow's game. didn't realize wednesday as well.
does nix get un-STFU?
i just got the shit scared out of me. sitting in the dark, i see a creature walk right under my feet and under the steps i was sitting on. if it was a skunk, it didn't spray. must've been a possum or something.
Jean Chretein has Bells Palsy
nick, i'm going Weds, not Tues. It'll now be the tie-breaking game (all-time consecutive sellouts). But I'm also going to the record breaker on the 8th, which in a sweet coincidence is my birthday.
we were out at dinner the other night (last thursday) in a backyard cafe of a restaurant -- and a raccoon climbed down the tree right next to us and scampered off.
Alex Cora, defensive replacement. Oximoron (oxigenius? Nah, bad joke)
oh yeah, big racoon! toronto is full of them.
this was a little smaller than a coon. i my self scampered away, and then went back trying to use my laptop as a flashlight, but i never saw it again.
Oxigenius :)
If it's a bad joke, I'm guaranteed to laugh at it.
raccoon was coming down the other side of the tree like he was climbing down a ladeer and every few steps, he'd peek around at us.
Probly not a squirrel, so low down. I wonder what it was.
So cool you guys have a house now.
now i'm hearing bats squeaking above me in the drak. this is by far my scariest game thread.
You'd be surprised how many wild animals scamper about in amusement parks at night. Skunks, raccoons, rabbits... In the park I worked in in Cincinnati there were sometimes deer walking around one of the wooden coasters at night. Crazy.
REDSOCK (YES IM YELLING!)
DO YOU HAVE "THE AUDITORIUM" BOOT, OR THE "ACETATE" WITH THE ALTERNATE TAKES OF THE VU & NICO?
im sure you do, but just wondreing if you need one or both.
not a squirrel. it was just casually strolling by under me. i think possum. (or opossum, whichever one lives in the northeast.)
Jere sounds like the city boy out in the country. All the scary noises in the quiet.
probably have the nico stuff - what is the auditorium? is that a fairly newly-surfaced nyc show? i think i got that last year. i can email you a list of what i have.
also just d/l'd a 3-CD set called "searching for my mainline", which is assorted live shit.
there also exists a bit torrent site that is all VU and VU-related stuff.
yes i believe the AUDITORIUM is the one from last year
The Cincinnati amusement park--is that the ones the Bradys went to that time? I know they went to one in Ohio because dad had business there--and they had to do a big relay race to get dad's plan's back to him or something.
Lopez with an OTT
Well you know that it's a shame and a pity
You were raised up in the city
And you never learned nothing 'bout country ways,
Ah, 'bout country ways.
Ofer, where are you now, what city?
I love city bats. Gives the neighbourhood atmosphere.
Would you believe I've just heard Sweet Caroline for the first time? They played a bit of it on WRKO.
a little over a decade ago I was watching a video with some friends on a hot summer night with the doors open for cross ventilation. Looking down, a skunk had wandered into the house and was between us and the TV.
"Jere sounds like the city boy out in the country. All the scary noises in the quiet."
Ha, except I'm really a rural boy who lately lives in cities. I'm cool with sitting outside at night, I mean, I love it, but we have no light back here and add the fact that I'm staring into the bright laptop screen, I'm totally blind when I look up. I have found a good spot where the connection isn't cutting out, though.
Charlotte, NC. Home of the... something
Charlotte, NC. Home of the... something
And tomorrow I'll go to Myrtle Beach, and stay there a week.
I have a close friend who is terrified of bats. We were once hanging out upstate NY, and I saw how frightened she got. And she's a real tough cookie. I felt really bad for her, it was so intense, and totally involuntary.
actually its not the auditorium, its the gymnasium. stupid me.
i grew up with that fun thing of walking into the kitchen on a summer night to find a raccoon lazily eating out of the cats' food bowl.
Looking down, a skunk had wandered into the house and was between us and the TV.
!!!
Were you around for the skunk gamethread? Our dogs got skunked a few weeks ago. Everyone was relating dog/skunk stories.
i heart free baserunners.
I went for a short jog tonight (short like, a quarter mile before my lungs gave out) out with the bats flying around right above me.
Today I felt a little tickle on my leg, shook it, and I looked down and it was a wasp at my feet. Close call!
looks like the White Sox are gonna fall into a tie with Minny. Down 5-0 in the 9th
Jere, that's cool, I would have thought you grew up more suburbs.
So now you and Phil both live in Providence. You can fill each other in on all the good vegetarian restaurants.
What the fuck is up with fuck yeah and the steals? He has more than Ococ!
only partially around for that. I thought about relating it, but didn't.
bwahahahaha!
anyhow. A couple of folks jumped up on the couch and I had to call for instant calm. I slowly got to the other side of the skunk and we did a step, step, step, dance to the door.
now i'm hearing the scariest creature of all--a small child, sounds like she's speaking in tongues.
What the fuck is up with fuck yeah and the steals? He has more than Ococ!
FU, COCO!
scary skunk story! no stink, I guess.
bay = bum
yeah, when I was in Nebraska and told people I lived an hour north of NYC, they thought I was basically in part of the city. But Ridgefield--man, I had cows a half a mile from my house. we were 20 minutes from any store. We were in the Styx.
no stink. unlike that K.
Jere, I'm reading your book now, will blog about it soon.
Can't help but wonder if a shitty strike call like that effected the rest of the AB - Bay swinging for strike 3 on a borderline pitch that could've went either way.
lowrie gets the bad news
DRINK
JED ZEPPELIN
BB ribeye. Love it.
"Jere, I'm reading your book now, will blog about it soon."
sweet. Ever since you said one of your fears is not liking something made by a friend, I've been so nervous for you! Like, what the hell are you gonna do if you don't like it? I hate that I may be causing you pain by writing this book... (you can put that in your review, ha.) But I had one blogger actually put the book down because we spoke positively of Amalie in like the second chapter. Would not read it!
I grew up in the Styx too, but it changed to Burbs when I was about 10 or 11 y/o. All the farmland was houses by the time I was in HS.
Jere. where are you located wednesday's game? I'm in section 16.
DRINK
I think I'll have myself a beeerrrrr
/baseketball
"I grew up in the Styx too, but it changed to Burbs when I was about 10 or 11 y/o. All the farmland was houses by the time I was in HS."
I understand that's going on in my hometown, too....
oh and the reason I mentioned the blogger who wouldn't read my book--if you've got any negatives, I can take it. Because at least you read it!
Oh shit, Jere, that's so nice of you. I never thought of that. It's very good! I was never worried.
Wouldn't read it, because of Amalie? That's nuts.
Scratch that. I forgot about the tea I made like 10 min before.
Tek bases loaded. Fack.
TypicalTek.
Ofer - You're actually near me. I believe this is the closest I've ever been to a fellow JoSer.
Charlotte is home of the Charlotte Knights, White Sox AAA Team, and the NFL Panthers. Also the Hornets but we don't count them. Myrtle Beach has the Pelicans, Braves A team. They're in the Carolina league with our Warthogs, and kicking ass again this year.
I'm in Winston-Salem, about an hour away from Charlotte.
Nick--my parents are coming up, and we ended up with three separate seats. SO we'll probably be in standing room so we can be together.
10BB today for the Sox. 2 of them intentional, one of them run scoring.
"Wouldn't read it, because of Amalie? That's nuts."
There's a line when we introduce her--"wunderkind of the Boston Globe." That one was my mom's, and I just remember thinking, "oh, heh, that's cool." Because I like Amalie. Now, maybe that could be considered too strong a word, I guess, but this dude hates her so much he stopped reading at that point. His girlfriend picked up the book and read it, and did the review on his blog for him. So that was nice of him to put it up anyway.
I'm in Winston-Salem, about an hour away from Charlotte.
Winston Salem? That's tobacco country, ain't it?
I had one blogger actually put the book down because we spoke positively of Amalie in like the second chapter. Would not read it!
You gotta tell me who that was.
oh and the reason I mentioned the blogger who wouldn't read my book--if you've got any negatives, I can take it. Because at least you read it!
I don't know (yet) if I'll write a review as if I don't know you, which would include some criticisms - all books have weaknesses - or if I'll write a "this is my friend's book and it's really good and this is why" review with no crit.
I mean, either way I would say I know you, but the first one would be a more in-depth, serious review, the second one would be more like a PR plug.
Either way it would be positive with pull-quotes. :)
Winston is the #1 cigarette brand among Israeli 15-year olds.
Avatar change. Nick, yours reminded me of the big lebowski for some reason. So...fuck it, dude.
"You gotta tell me who that was."
The non-reviewer of Dirty Water was the write of the blog... Dirty Watah.
Yeah, we get that a lot. This whole part of the country is tobacco country, but since RJR moved HQ's we aren't the capital we once were.
I believe that would be Richmond now.
wunderkind of the Boston Globe.
I read that this morning on the train on the way to the Labour Day parade.
Is there a reason she is referred to by her first name, and the male sportswriters by their last name? It doesn't seem like you.
Shomer FUCKING Shabbas!
Of course Phillip Morris was nice enough to NOT name their 2 most popular brands after their home town. We are forever locked into that identity now.
Yeah, we get that a lot. This whole part of the country is tobacco country, but since RJR moved HQ's we aren't the capital we once were.
I believe that would be Richmond now.
Richmond= my former two-week home town.
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