Mark Teixeira is back in the line-up, but Johnny Damon is out with the flu, which buys yet another day for Joe Girardi to tell Xavier Nady that he lost his starting job to The Swish.
Aside from the title, the words to the song aren't all that relevant to the game, but Q-Tip does drop right in with a baseball metaphor:
Drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting, drifting...
The deadly venom, let me start from the beginning,
We always hittin, so yo, there'll be no extra innings,
As I send the mic out the park like Reggie Jackson,
You be the minor leaguer who sees no action.
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Rays announcers are fucking brutal. They are acting like that missed call on the hit by pitch is a season changing call.
ReplyDelete"You hate to see such a terrible call in a game like this"
"These are the time you wish they had replay"
"How can me make that call from 1st base? Does he have X-Ray vision?"
What?!?!?!
That is pretty terrible... How come you are listening to them? You can't get the YES stream?
ReplyDeleteAnd "Jolly Old St. Nick" is the official John Sterling home run call for Swisher. As long as he keeps jacking them I don't care.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to abduct Swisher and take him to Massachusetts so I can marry him.
ReplyDeleteSwisher Sweet is such a better call.
Nope, with Extra Innings a lot of times you only get one set of announcers. Brutal
ReplyDeleteLove me some Swisher! Right after he gets brushed back!
Beautiful pitching to Longoria.
ReplyDeleteWhy no bunt?
ReplyDeleteBought time someone on the Yankees besides Joba brushed someone back.
ReplyDeleteSterling has mentioned the no-hitter about six times... and it's only the 5th inning.
ReplyDeleteSwisher Sweet is Smoking should be the call, for example:
ReplyDelete"Swisher Sweet is Smoking, now for your NYS Smoker's Quit Line Trivia Question..."
OK, now it is serious. 77 pitches. Not bad for 8 Ks.
ReplyDeleteWay to work in the promo there. How could they turn that down?
ReplyDeleteFuck, "Nick Knocked One" is better than a Santa Claus reference.
Joe - Yeah, if I wasn't still at work I'd be getting pretty excited right now.
ReplyDeleteAnd there goes the no-no...
ReplyDeleteI BLAME STERLING!!!!!
When it rains, it pours...
ReplyDeleteFuck the Rays fans...they are booing and chanting and shit...where the fuck have these assholes been for the past 10 years.
ReplyDeleteBlowing dudes, thats where.
I am a little confused as to how Rays fans can honestly boo a guy who comes into their house and shuts down the defending American League Champions for 6.0 innings. Granted he gave it right back, but let's be honest, all those folks at Tropicana Rink, rather, Field, we're busy buying Cubs hats this time last year to replace their Red Sox hats, but then decided that Iwamura was more fun to say than Fukudome. But honestly, who are they kidding.
ReplyDeleteAstroturf and exposed "in play" catwalks should be reserved for strip clubs...not "ballfields."
Ahh we should have went for 3.
ReplyDeleteAnon - Agreed. Rays fans haven't been around along enough to be classy. And dome teams in general are kid of a joke. I don't even like watching games in them cause the turf looks so shitty. You shouldn't have to worry about losing the ball in the roof of it hitting off a catwalk.
ReplyDeleteNow come on Teix!
Don't hate on the 1980s Astros, Jay. OG shit, fiz.
ReplyDeleteHahaha.. all due respect to the old school 'Stros. Those uniforms were siiiick.
ReplyDeletelet's get Mo some breathing room
ReplyDeleteYESSSS... nooo... but still yes!
ReplyDeleteIs that enough room, Anon?
ReplyDeleteJeeeettaah!