At this moment at Yankee Stadium, the score is 20 to 2, going into the bottom of the fifth inning. Wang gave up eight runs in the second inning, was pulled, a relief pitcher was brought in, and he promptly coughed up another six runs. Fourteen runs on thirteen hits, a franchise record.
The all time record for runs given up in half an inning is sixteen, in case you were wondering. However the all time modern record for runs given up in a single game is thirty. And it’s only the fifth inning.
Considering the Mets have been patchy at best so far, I’ll take my amusements where I can.
PAD
• 
I caught part of the scond inning (the grand slam) and have been checking now and then. I think another red sox jersey was buried.
Sometimes I think Met fans take more delight in the Yankees losing than the Mets losing. I’m a Yankee fan, but have no malice toward the Mets, even in ’86. Maybe it’s because I have half of them on my fantasy team. 🙂
Meant “Mets winning.” Never type real fast and hit submit!
Wang is not a good pitcher. He could be but he is not. He goes out there and throws batting practice. I don’t know why it is taking the Yankees so long to realize this.
Eh. Doesn’t hold a candle to the earlier this month Eastern Kentucky – Kentucky State baseball game. Originally scheduled for a doubleheader, the first game was called in the fifth inning with the score 49-1 in favor of Eastern Kentucky. They decided not to play the second game. Per reports, Eastern wasn’t trying to run up the score.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/02/sports/s173725D20.DTL
It’s not just Mets fans who enjoy watching the Yankees flail. I think it has partly to do with the Whole evil empire and that their payroll probably beats the five lowest teams put together.
You know you’re not going to win the Cy Young when your ERA heading into the game was 28 and it goes up.
On a completely different note. I’d love to hear Coyboy Pete’s reaction to Terminator: TSCC finale
You know what’s the absolute best thing ever about this early couple of weeks in the ’09 MLB Season? The Toronto Blue Jays have one of The Greatest Records in all of Major League Baseball. 9-4. Percentage wise, they’re almost at .700.
AJ Burnet jumping ship from the Jays to the Yanks caused his stink general bad karma to waft over to that team. Since the Yanks are in the AL East like the Jays, I’m all for that.
Yet another reason to hate the Yankees: Whenever someone in any TV show or movie or whatever is portrayed as a baseball fan, some lazy producer just slaps a Yankees hat on them. It’s like Yankees = baseball for instant recognition. Ugh. That’s downright chilling.
Can you throw a game in baseball? I’m from a very Football oriented part of the country so I’ve never enjoyed it much. In football you can stop a game if the score becomes rediculous. They also have several tiers of players they can bring in.
The final score was 22-4! 😀
While I acknowledge and honor their history, have not been a Yankees fan since Stienbrener took over.
Having a big pay roll ($) does not always pay off.
Look at how much money the Yankees spent on their new stadium compared to the Mets.
I’m sure they’re missing Joe Torre now, although he certainly isn’t missing them.
which team currently (well… as of 9 PM last night, at least) has the best record in the Bigs? Florida Marlins, who also have the lowest payroll in the bigs.
I know this is off topic but I just read your new Star Trek New Frontier book Treason, and it was top line brilliant! I read it in one sitting, couldnt put it down! I am just sad I read it and now I have to wait for the next one…now I am going to read it again!
On Thursday night I watched the Nationals, the losingest team in baseball who hadn’t won a game yet this season, collect their first win — against the world champion Phillies.
Truly, we live in extraordinary baseballing times.
Last season, the Royals were blown out in similar fashion. As per the Eastern Kentucky game, the Tigers weren’t trying to run up the score — KC’s pitching and defense couldn’t *buy* an out.
By the eighth inning, and down by twenty, the bullpen was literally exhausted, and so they turned to shortsop Tony Pena, Jr. Who proceeded to pitch a 1-2-3 inning, including rushing off the mound to field a short ground ball and gun the ball to the first baseman to record an out.
That inning gave an otherwise completely miserable night for the fans and the team something to smile about. And it gave Pena a lifetime ERA of 0.00.
To think I thought I found some of your quaint colonial political practices obscure… 🙂
–
In sheer self defence:-
–
The Ins and Outs of Cricket:
–
You have 2 sides; a team that’s in and a team that’s out.. two men in the team that’s in go out and when one of the men who’s in is out; the next man goes in until he’s out. When they are all out; the side that’s out comes in and the side that’s been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
–
When a man goes out to go in; the men who are out are trying to get him out; and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decided when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out; and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game.
–
Cheers.
The best explanation I ever heard of baseball was in a very early episode of “Bewitched.” Samantha, who is gamely developing an enthusiasm for baseball (mostly to accommodate her husband) proceeds to explain the game to her mother. Endora just sits there with growing incredulity as Sam gives a pretty accurate explanation of how baseball works that nonetheless makes it sound completely moronic (probably because it WAS pretty accurate). And Endora listens in silence to the whole thing and when Samantha concludes, says with the sort of glorious disdain that only she could summon, “You MUST be joking.”
.
PAD
A reviewer in “Rolling Stone” (i think) began a review by sayoing “Saying hard rock is sexist is like saying that baseball is boring. Both perfectly accurate statements, both completely irrelevant for fans of the genre.”
.
As to Mets fans’ view of the Yankees – a bumper sticker once popular in Atlanta (before division re-alignment) said “My two favorite teams are the Braves and whoever is playing the Dodgers.”
I’ve got a t-shirt that says “I support two teams: The Red Sox and whoever beats the Yankees.”
.
I always chuckle at one of the Honor Harrington books, the one where she starts setting up Harrington Steadhold… when she’s driving along the road and sees 9 guys “with clubs” heading into the park… and then 9 more coming from the other direction… and thinks they’re gonna start fighting. And then she and her bodyguard start trying to find a common sport for comparison and fail utterly. Cracks me up every time.
.
And now I wanna find that ep of Bewitched and watch it…
That reminds me of the rules for Brockian Ultra-Cricket:
Rule One:
Grow at least three extra legs. You won’t need them, but it keeps the crowds amused.
Rule Two:
Find one good Brockian Ultra-Cricket player and clone him off a few times. This saves an enormous amount of tedious selection and training.
Rule Three:
Put your team and the opposing team in a large field and build a high wall round them. The reason for this is that, though the game is a major spectator sport, the frustration experienced by the audience at not actually being able to see what’s going on leads them to imagine that it’s a lot more exciting than it actually is. A crowd that has just watched a rather humdrum game experiences far less life-affirmation than a crowd that believes it has just missed the most dramatic event in sporting history.
Rule Four:
Throw lots of assorted items of sporting equipment over the walls for the players. Anything will do – cricket bats, basecube bats, tennis guns, skis, anything you can get a good swing with.
Rule Five:
The players should now lay about themselves for all they are worth with whatever they find to hand. Whenever a player scores a ‘hit’ on another player, he should immediately run away and apologize from a safe distance. Apologies should be concise, sincere and, for maximum clarity and points, delivered through a megaphone.
Rule Six:
The winning team shall be the first team that wins.
“Rule Five:
The players should now lay about themselves for all they are worth with whatever they find to hand. Whenever a player scores a ‘hit’ on another player, he should immediately run away and apologize from a safe distance. Apologies should be concise, sincere and, for maximum clarity and points, delivered through a megaphone.”
–
I think this takes us back to “political practices”, so mega-points for squaring that circle… 🙂
–
Cheers.
George Carlin had the best explanation of baseball ever.
As for the Yankees…any time they get their collective butts handed to them…I’m a happy Red Sox fan!
Then it will be interesting to see if the Yankees bother to show up this coming weekend for their series against the Red Sox at Fenway.
Today’s game is currently 3-0 in favor of the Indians right now in the bottom of the 4th. It makes me giggle. 🙂
Chien Ming Wang’s stats for the year so far are just plain scary:
6 IP, 23 hits, 23 Earned Runs, 6 BB 2 K.
I’m not sure any major leaguer can be that bad, without there being some kind of injury. IMO he has to be hiding an injury. I almost hope he is.
As almost no one mentioned it… it was indeed the Cleveland Indians laying down a whuppin’ on the New York Yankees.
The Tribe went 2 – 2 in the opening series at New Yankee Stadium (I don’t know what the dámņëd thing is called… I didn’t see a good reason to get rid of the old one, except to have a reason to raise prices and spend money New York City really can’t spare) and we’ll take a moment of pride in knowing that the first game played at N.Y.S. had a score of Indians 10, Yankees 2.
As for Saturday’s game… I still have ‘t stopped giggling.
Eric L. Sofer
The Bad Clown
x<]:o){
GO TRIBE!
and Grady Sizemore, Cleveland Indian, had the first GrandSlam in New park. ha.
whoo hoo!! Go Tribe!