huff was a punk out there today pumping his fists mocking joba. then after the games saying it wasnt a shot at joba, what? that was the least classy thing ive seen this year. but joba got the last laugh. GO YANKEES!!!!

Unfortunately, so are bullpen disasters.

The guy is giving us quality starts almost each time out. He has 1 walk the last 12 innings and I think that one was intentional. No walking batters is enough for me to vote for him everytime out. Remember last season?

That shit was Birdland.

so I voted Huff.

Also, two three run homers in two straight games is not to be underestimated.

For those who had the volume turned down at the end of yesterday’s thread, WE LOST THIS F*CKING GAME ABOUT FOUR TIMES— BEFORE THE BULLPEN GOPHER BALLS.

The scoring opportunities in the 3rd and 4th required serious effort to ignore. The hard-to-fan Brian Roberts strikes out on an 88-footer than bounces to the plate. Mr. Patient Hitter and Previously Successful Bunter Memlo decides “I am swinging at ANYTHING, I don’t care what it is!”— and sure enough, stretches full out to get his bat on ball four, succeeds, taps back to to the mound and then….well, because he’s, y’know, So Darn Angry about it, he searches furiously for the molasses patch between home and first, finds it and waddles down the line being Just So Angry at Himself that he manages to get doubled up despite weak throws on both links of the 1-6-3. Classic.

But c’mon. While that stuff’s barely credible, stop a minute: seriously— has anyone here EVER seen anybody THROWN OUT ON A WALK?!? And people want to complain about the bullpen?!?

OK, what the f*ck, let’s talk bullpen. On Yerkee radio Suzyn Wombat couldn’t stop apologizing for the two “hits” before the Johnny Jerkoff homer that ended the game. And the second, for that matter, only became a hit — according to Our Gal Suze, I haven’t seen a replay — because B-Rob didn’t throw as hard as he could to first, apparently thinking he had plenty of time “because it was the catcher running.” Turns out Cervelli is, in the words of John Sterling “not fast for a catcher, just fast.” If there’s even a grain of truth in that, what the f*ck does this loss have to do with the bullpen?

This Yerkee “victory” was one of those that are unique to baseball. In no other sport can a team be so wholly out of contention in the course of a single contest, having conceded the fundamental confrontation at the heart of the sport— pitcher vs. batter; Joba was terrible, with 9 H, 2 BB, HBP — and yet the score (3-1 in the instance) can still not reflect the state of play sufficiently to put the contest beyond “redecision” in favor of the losing team. With a lot of help from the refuse-to-take-yes-for-an-answer opponents, of course.

This can only happen in a sport in which very bad teams can and do win 40% of their games. Kinda nutty, yeah, but it’s part of the package that is baseball. Do you have to give Joba credit? Yep: the old saw about one sign of a great athlete is his ability to win when performing badly happens to be true. Oh, and is it also true that we f*cked our own damn selves Right in the Ear? You bet it is.

It’s all right officier, I’ll go quietly now.

Pie has a career day and nobody votes for him. Hmmph.

I mean, he took a walk from Mariano Rivera.

I say give him another 50 ABs based just on that.