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Ok if you mean he's been injured from that point then I might agree, I thought you meant he was injured just recently in the playoffs. The guy has been having a lot of arm problems for years, no reason to think he isn't having more.

How is he obviously hurt? He's pitched poorly since he joined the Red Sox, and I would say that he didn't pitch very well before he joined them either, although his ERA didn't reflect it as much. This is the real Eric Gagne.

They keep putting in Gagne because Terry Francona is very loyal to the guys he likes. It has worked out well with Pedroia, who looked overmatched last season and the start of this one, but blossomed wonderfully. It has worked in past years with Kevil Millar, Bill Mueller, etc. However Francona has to realize that this is the playoffs and waiting around for a guy to blossom is not something you can do when every game counts for so much.

Was there some problem handling the relay? It looked like the ball made it to the relay man in plenty of time to beat the runner at home, but the throw to home seemed to take a couple of more seconds. I couldn't see what happened on the replay, a botched glove to hand exchange? Edit: At a Pizza place near me in Mass they have a sticker on the wall that says "Gagne is a Yankee spy."

Youkilis' at-bat is adding another half-hour to the game by itself.

Or just stay up...it's Saturday night.

The announcing is terrible though. "He might have saved the game!!!" What the hell, they are up 2 to 1 in the middle innings. The catch might have saved a run but worst case scenario, an inside-the-parker, the game is far from lost. Making that catch tied in the bottom of the 9th would be saving the game. That was just a great catch.

Pretty good game so far.

News flash: Gagne isn't good. Still, look what Torre did for the Yanks. Up by a bunch he brought in Joba and Rivera, ensuring that the next day Joba wasn't available at all and Rivera might be tired but available. If you have a guy on your roster who isn't that good, you either throw him out there with a huge lead or a huge deficit.

Stephen King just burned Fox, lol.

Doctor Doom FTW.

Oversliding the bag with two outs in the 9th for the final out, down by 4? The hell? It really doesn't matter what base you end up on, you're down by 4 with 2 outs...single, double, triple, homer, doesn't make a difference.

Silva's knees in the clinch are literally twice as fast as most other guys, it's insane how much faster those knees are. Anything can happen of course but Silva has to be the heavy favorite here. It's not clear to me that Rich has any advantage striking outside or on the ground and Silva has a huge advantage from the clinch.

Yanks today have a bunch of pitchers that are both inconsistent and injury prone, at least young guys have a chance to improve. That's been their MO for years, old guys past their prime and constantly breaking down, or else injury-rehab projects who are a total roll of the dice. The strange thing about these Yankee teams is they are always scrambling for parts. Always finding some stop-gap reliever or starter or first baseman. Compare that to the Red Sox, who are remarkably consistent. They have their front-line guys and then a handful of steady backups who can step in when needed. With the Yankees it's "ZOMG who is going to pitch, catch, play first and right field today? Quick find somebody!!" Yanks have way too much money tied up in guys who can't stay on the field. One fragile vet is fine but a whole team of them is not.

Yeah pretty much. NFL coaches are very very conservative and risk averse. That isn't even the correct term. NFL coaches will purposely do the wrong thing to avoid criticism, that is what I really mean. The NFL is weird that way, I don't see that in other sports, except for maybe in the NBA draft.

It's just fun to poke King. He's eXtreme!

No. What is this "crowd" you speak of? I'm still waiting to hear why the Coach having to throw a flag is a bad idea. I'm sure you have a hundred great reasons for how that would absolutely ruin football as we know it, so let's hear them. Or are you too much of a giant raging cunt?

I'd like to see Pettitte back. No to Clemens, the last thing they need is another overpriced fragile pitcher. Rivera depending on price. Posada for sure, a catcher than bats .330? Come on! Abreu no thanks, another year older and becoming more one-dimensional, another guy ripe for the logjam at part-time DH as he ages. I think with this team it's reasonable to expect you will make the post-season, so you have to build to accomplish something in the post-season. That means guys who can field and guys who can pitch, not 5 different DHs. First base is a big hole. They either have a guy who can't field at all or a guy who can't hit at all. Outfield is a mess, with a bunch of guys who are DH-candidates who don't field well. Individually the Yankees look fine but when you put them together you have too many guys who don't fit in the field and an overall poor defense on many days.

What do the words "time out" actually mean? That was my point. Calling it a "timeout" is kind of silly since nobody actually took time off from the play. If you can call a timeout without having it affect the timing of the play in any way maybe the name should be changed to "secret play-invalidating signal to be revealed later" or "time continuation as if normal." Is it really hard to understand that when a "timeout" occurs the play is supposed to stop? Very difficult concept I suppose. I'm sure though that having the coach make a signal that the players can see and react to would somehow ruin the game of football and make it totally not worth watching anymore. God forbid that players know what is going on in the game they are playing and the fans know what is going on in the game they are watching, that would be just terrible. Next I'll be saying that the camera should focus on the play and not on the blimp above the stadium. Crazy! In that case the ref should consider letting the players and fans know instead of keeping it to himself. Novel thought.

Make the players on the field call the timeout to an official on the field. Problem solved. Or have the coach throw a red timeout flag onto the field. The problem is not that timeout is called. The problem is timeout is called in such a way that it is impossible for the players (the only people who actually matter) to know about it. If a coach calls timeout and none of the players know about it and the play continues exactly as normal then calling it a "timeout" doesn't even make sense -- nobody actually took time out. Edit: The main reason I'm against it is that as a fan it's really stupid to think an exciting play happened and then for some donk to say "Psych!!! That play didn't actually happen because the coach whispered in the refs ear .5 seconds before the ball was snapped!" It sucks for the fans.

Ha ha fuck you Bills. This timeout shit has got to stop. Someday somebody is going to get injured on one of these last-minute timeouts and then everyone will look really stupid. If nothing else it's really lame that you can force the kicker to kick multiple fields goals, theoretically you could tire them out by forcing them to kick 4 in a row.

No surprise. Yankees need to stop loading up on offense that can beat up on bad pitching and start loading up on pitching that can beat up on good offense. The Yankee pitching staff has been a mess all year, I fully expected this sort of outcome. Also their lineups are really awkward, they constantly have to choose between guys who can't hit or guys who can't field. First base is a mess as is the outfield a lot of the time. Sometimes it seems like they have 5 DHs.

Hmm..a call actually went the Yankees way for once. Nice play Jeter. Now score some fucking runs. Edit: Hafner: when you swing down at a 45 degree angle you are going to hit the ball into the dirt, the catcher has nothing to do with that.

The Yankees problem is personel and has been for years. If there is someone to blame it is a combination of Cashman and The Boss. Yankees pitching imploding happens way too often. It seems like it is always the same story, in some critical game the pitching just shits the bed and takes them out of it. That said, in this game the Indians have been very lucky and the Yankees very unlucky.

His first at-bat was terrible, he swung at an OK pitch, then didn't swing at a fat pitch right down the middle, then did swing at a high pitch. It does seem like he randomly decides before the pitch is thrown, which is especially absurd when facing a guy that throws 80. I know that in baseball you can have a good at-bat and get bad results but he is just not having good at-bats, he is having really bad at-bats. He just looks terrible. Whatever the opposite of "dialed in" is.