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Seen some crazy stuff over the years, but 15 unanswered runs are crazy even for this rivalry..
I don't know. Still early in the year, early in everything, no one wins the world series in april..
What Measure A Good Team? Yanks-Sox Gamer II
"We're a good team. We're just not playing good baseball," first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. "It's frustrating the way we're losing." I'm not sure what Gonzalez is on about here. I doubt there is any way to lose that ultimately proves less frustrating. Fewer balls pitched by the rotation that w...
I didn't watch the beginning (came in at 9-0).. was it really that much of Bobby V's fault?
What Measure A Good Team? Yanks-Sox Gamer II
"We're a good team. We're just not playing good baseball," first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. "It's frustrating the way we're losing." I'm not sure what Gonzalez is on about here. I doubt there is any way to lose that ultimately proves less frustrating. Fewer balls pitched by the rotation that w...
I was obviously rooting for this, but man, this must be disheartening for you SFs..
What Measure A Good Team? Yanks-Sox Gamer II
"We're a good team. We're just not playing good baseball," first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. "It's frustrating the way we're losing." I'm not sure what Gonzalez is on about here. I doubt there is any way to lose that ultimately proves less frustrating. Fewer balls pitched by the rotation that w...
Man, I'm such a fan of Bobby V.. now I have to hate him, haha..
Bobby: "I Hate The Yankees"
"I don't want to waste valuable time talking about the Yankees." Bobby V then went on a bit longer not talking about them by saying how he talked to Joe Girardi and used to love the Yankees before discovering his hatred for them, then moved onto other topics not Yankee-related. This is gonn...
Just not meant to be, I guess. Plenty of opportunities, outscored them in the series, but not clutch.
ALDS: Tigers-Yanks Gamer V
For the marbles. Comment away.
Ya, I have tickets to game 2 and is still waiting for them to announce it.. weird..
Play To Win: Yanks-Rays Gamer
At least a little bit. Comment away.
Another way to put it is, the win probability of Rays down 7-0 and the win probability of Rays down 7-6 with 2 outs are not independent -- you can't just multiply those!
Just Desserts
We come at this a bit uninformed: we didn't watch a single pitch of any of last night's action. But we have read up, and we did follow (in cursory fashion) the action of the month of September. All we can really say is that the Sox are right where they should be, on their way home to clean out th...
I have much respect for Nate Silver and what he's done, but his math on that "1 in 278 million" is awful.
If the Sox's playoff odds was 99.7% at one point.. then the chance of what happened with 0.3% of the time, or 1 in 300, roughly. Sounds about right.
If you want to use the independent events of the 2% - Paps blowing it and Dan Johnson hitting a HR, then it's a simple 0.04%, or that at that particular moment, Red Sox had a 99.96% chance of making the playoffs. Or what happened had a 1 in 2000 chance of happening. Also reasonable.
None of this 1 in 278 mil bullshit.
This is pretty fundamental probability 101, I don't know how he could get it so wrong.
Just Desserts
We come at this a bit uninformed: we didn't watch a single pitch of any of last night's action. But we have read up, and we did follow (in cursory fashion) the action of the month of September. All we can really say is that the Sox are right where they should be, on their way home to clean out th...
What a ten minute sequence for the Rays/Sox fans..
Play To Win: Yanks-Rays Gamer
At least a little bit. Comment away.
I think that's okay, the unwillingness to use Mo, at least in the regular season.
Nearing the Light at the End of the Tunnel
The Yankees are in the midst of a brutal 33-games-in-32-days stretch including their just-completed final West-coast-swing of 2011. They've lost 5 of their last 8 games, including three one-run losses in extra innings (one of them at 2:00 am) and a fourth one-run loss on a bottom of the 9th sac...
Yes, there's always a risk involved, but in real life, you do something wrong, even unintentionally, you might get picked up by the law. Just hit Ortiz and move on.
Bloodlust?
Hyperbolic as the title of this thread may be, there is an interesting discussion happening downstream at the site regarding the plunkings of the Yankees last night and how best the Yankees might respond. We thought it worthy to split this out, as this is an ages-old baseball debate - what to do ...
I don't know if it's an insult, but hitting too many HRs thing just means the team as a whole might have a high volatility, which in theory pulls them toward .500. But who knows.
Get-A's-Way: Yanks-Athletics Gamer III
Gio Gonzalez tries to end the A's skid against the Yankees. AJ Burnett tries to not help him. It's an early west-coaster as the Yankees get a day off tomorrow before facing Anaheim this weekend. Comment away.
The Yanks close one. Another day of excellent pitching.
Man, the recent run kind of remind me of the good old days. The obvious question is whether they can keep it up..
Get-A's-Way: Yanks-Athletics Gamer III
Gio Gonzalez tries to end the A's skid against the Yankees. AJ Burnett tries to not help him. It's an early west-coaster as the Yankees get a day off tomorrow before facing Anaheim this weekend. Comment away.
Line drive double play, a mark of luck. Will take it!
Get-A's-Way: Yanks-Athletics Gamer III
Gio Gonzalez tries to end the A's skid against the Yankees. AJ Burnett tries to not help him. It's an early west-coaster as the Yankees get a day off tomorrow before facing Anaheim this weekend. Comment away.
Alright Joba giving up back to back singles. Let's not blow this.
Get-A's-Way: Yanks-Athletics Gamer III
Gio Gonzalez tries to end the A's skid against the Yankees. AJ Burnett tries to not help him. It's an early west-coaster as the Yankees get a day off tomorrow before facing Anaheim this weekend. Comment away.
The Yanks actually lead the league in.. first order wins, second order wins, and third order wins, which is to say they have been slightly unlucky in *actual* wins, though if they had just won those two against Seattle, they would've been as expected, or much closer to it.
Tex actually hasn't been as good as advertised, though he puts up great traditional numbers. Mostly his batting average is down.
Get-A's-Way: Yanks-Athletics Gamer III
Gio Gonzalez tries to end the A's skid against the Yankees. AJ Burnett tries to not help him. It's an early west-coaster as the Yankees get a day off tomorrow before facing Anaheim this weekend. Comment away.
But the Yanks did not capitalize on that one. Just one run.
Wednesday Getaway: Jays-Yanks Gamer
Jo-Jo Reyes throws for the Jays, Freddy Garcia for the Yankees who take a day off after today's game to travel to the Emerald City and visit Garcia's former team. Comment away.
Reyes is challenging them with 90-mph fastballs, hoping either to sneak them by, or the Yanks to get them out. If that's all he has, with his other pitches not really spotting, this might be a quick day for him.
Wednesday Getaway: Jays-Yanks Gamer
Jo-Jo Reyes throws for the Jays, Freddy Garcia for the Yankees who take a day off after today's game to travel to the Emerald City and visit Garcia's former team. Comment away.
And sometimes things stack. Aaron Hill with an error.
Wednesday Getaway: Jays-Yanks Gamer
Jo-Jo Reyes throws for the Jays, Freddy Garcia for the Yankees who take a day off after today's game to travel to the Emerald City and visit Garcia's former team. Comment away.
28 RBIs for Granderson batting 2nd. That's pretty insane.
Wednesday Getaway: Jays-Yanks Gamer
Jo-Jo Reyes throws for the Jays, Freddy Garcia for the Yankees who take a day off after today's game to travel to the Emerald City and visit Garcia's former team. Comment away.
*hope.
Grandy drives in Jeter with a double, I guess that was a nice pitch to swing at, even at 2-0.
Wednesday Getaway: Jays-Yanks Gamer
Jo-Jo Reyes throws for the Jays, Freddy Garcia for the Yankees who take a day off after today's game to travel to the Emerald City and visit Garcia's former team. Comment away.
Reyes is wild in the early going. Let's up the Yanks do not help him out.
Wednesday Getaway: Jays-Yanks Gamer
Jo-Jo Reyes throws for the Jays, Freddy Garcia for the Yankees who take a day off after today's game to travel to the Emerald City and visit Garcia's former team. Comment away.
8-4 now. Is this a game yet?
Let's Not Do That Again: Royals-Yanks Gamer III
Tonight can't be as bad as last night, right? Right?? It's up to Ivan Nova and the all-or-nothing Yankee bats to make sure it won't be. They face off against the scrappy Royals, who send reliever-turned-starter Sean O'Sullivan to the mound. O'Sullivan has gone 1-1 with a 2.16 ERA as a starte...
Logged in just in time for this. Nice. Just in time for the Red sox series.
Let's Not Do That Again: Royals-Yanks Gamer III
Tonight can't be as bad as last night, right? Right?? It's up to Ivan Nova and the all-or-nothing Yankee bats to make sure it won't be. They face off against the scrappy Royals, who send reliever-turned-starter Sean O'Sullivan to the mound. O'Sullivan has gone 1-1 with a 2.16 ERA as a starte...
Here we go again, bah.
Hump Day: Megagamer
Today is hump day, and funny enough the name of the day is what the Sox are doing to their season night after night. Chat about all action here.
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