Gameday Thread: Orioles @ Evil Empire, 08/14

Jim Brower. LOL. effing LOL.

BTW, who believes 5 runs is safe?

I can tell you one difference between the Yankees and the O's. He'll be released immediately instead of trotting out there almost nightly.

Bring in Bell or Shuey to pop someone.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Yankees are used to blowouts at home, just not this way.

After observing a pregame moment of silence in memory of Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto, the Yankees were taken out of the game early by Daniel Cabrera and the Baltimore Orioles' bats...

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Look, they got beat, and beat bad. RIP Phil Rizzuto, now presumably in the Great Money Store in the Sky, but I don't see how his passing figures in sentence two of a wire service story. (If the Yerkees had lit Daniel up, would the story have run "Inspired by the memory of..."? Please.)

NB: Rizzuto was a very good player (though not Hall caliber, of course-- but let's not start), an interesting (idiosyncratic) play-by-play announcer, who for better or worse spoke his mind, and by most accounts a decent man in the bargain. I assume he'll get more recognition than last evening's nod-- maybe a commemorative Day at the Stadium -- and I'm all for that.

Meanwhile, and speaking of idiosyncratic, D-Cabs
does his Good Danny thing, with just enough BoBoBoBoBoBad Danny to remind us of his signature Achilles heel. (How you sign anything with your heel is a mystery to me, but D-Cabs does it.)

And now, live from Canada, this series victory is brought to you by BUH DARD BUH DARD BUH DARD.

On y va! Go O's!