Tampa Bay Rays @ New York Yankees GameThread, Apr 4, 2008 7:05 PM EDT

Game #4 - Tampa Bay Rays @ New York Yankees

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 6:00 PM EDT in Game Threads

Tampa Bay Rays @ New York Yankees

Tampa Bay Rays

Akinori Iwamura, 2B
Carl Crawford, LF
Carlos Peňa, 1B
B.J. Upton, CF
Cliff Floyd, DH
Dioner Navarro, C
Eric Hinske, 3B
Nathan Haynes, RF
Jason Bartlett, SS

Andy Sonnanstine, RHP (6-10, 5.85 ERA in 2007)

New York Yankees

Johnny Damon, CF
Derek Jeter, SS
Bobby Abreu, RF
Álex Rodríguez, 3B
Jason Giambi, 1B
Robinson Canó, 2B
Jorge Posada, DH
Hideki Matsui, LF
Jose Molina, C

Ian Kennedy, RHP (1-0, 1.89 ERA in 2007)

Jorge Posada is back in the lineup as the DH tonight but his stiff shoulder does not feel well enough to start behind the plate.

Speaking of not feeling well, Joe Girardi will sit out tonight's game with an upper respiratory infection and a high fever. Rob Thomson will be the interim skipper.

Tyler Kepner reports that both Melky Cabrera and Shelly Duncan have dropped their appeals to reduce their 3-game suspensions to two games apiece. Cabrera will serve his suspension tonight and tomorrow while Duncan will serve his on Sunday and Monday.

Ian Kennedy is 1-0, 1.29 ERA in one start (his first major league win) against the Rays.

Andy Sonnanstine is 1-1, 3.14 ERA in 2 starts against the Yankees.

Yankees' career numbers vs. Sonnanstine can be viewed here. Rays' career numbers vs. Kennedy can be viewed here.

Finally, here's an interesting tidbit from Ed Price in today's Star-Ledger:

"Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Posada are the first trio of teammates to play together 14 straight seasons since Jim Gantner, Paul Molitor and Robin Yount of the 1978-92 Brewers and the first ever for the Yankees."

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Any word on the weather?

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 6:29 PM EDT 0 recs

Looks like the weather men

didn't have a clue that they were talking about. No rain expected until late tonight.

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 7:07 PM EDT 0 recs

it looks icky but it's fine for baseball

but it's cold

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 7:08 PM EDT 0 recs

For those of you watching at home...

how's IPK's pitching look?

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 7:19 PM EDT 0 recs

he's struggling a bit

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 7:23 PM EDT up 0 recs

Missing the spots?

Wild? Tentative? not a good beginning, that's for sure.

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 7:25 PM EDT up 0 recs

just missing it seems to me

not wild but he's walking them and a bit off...and almost up to 30 pitches in the first

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 7:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

Eiland was just on the mound

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 7:25 PM EDT up 0 recs

Mini-Moose in effect.

I think he should move his locker.

by bronxbound on Apr 4, 2008 7:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

you know I just thought that same thing

because the other night Moose was either on it on completely off it. Ike threw a nasty change up and then the next pitch just sucked.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 7:27 PM EDT up 0 recs

I want to see this offense

to explode tonight. It's overdue.

by bronxbound on Apr 4, 2008 7:33 PM EDT 0 recs

Who does this guy's motion

remind me of? I can't place it.

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 7:33 PM EDT 0 recs

Hmmm...

Was that show-boating by the young fella?

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 7:36 PM EDT 0 recs

wow

is Ian getting squeezed here?

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 7:42 PM EDT 0 recs

he looked much better this inning

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 7:43 PM EDT 0 recs

Gutsy

by IPK. It's good to see he can come back from down in the count, but I'd rather he get ahead.

YCL- I'm listening to the radio, you'll have to tell me.

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Apr 4, 2008 7:43 PM EDT 0 recs

yeah

looks like it, if you ask me.

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 7:45 PM EDT up 0 recs

BJ

looked good on that play

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 7:47 PM EDT 0 recs

44 pitches after 2 innings...

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 7:47 PM EDT 0 recs

Sweet play by Cano.

by bronxbound on Apr 4, 2008 7:53 PM EDT 0 recs

wow

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 7:53 PM EDT 0 recs

Robbie

did everything right there

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 7:53 PM EDT 0 recs

Wow

umps not giving him anything. Where does he want him to put it?

by bronxbound on Apr 4, 2008 8:06 PM EDT 0 recs

Man

he is getting squeezed

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 8:07 PM EDT 0 recs

Now

even John Sterling is saying IPK's been squeezed.

Prediction: who ever comes into the game is the one sent down to activate Pettitte.

"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."

by jscape2000 on Apr 4, 2008 8:07 PM EDT 0 recs

No question

It's Albaladejo.

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 8:08 PM EDT up 0 recs

lord ... there were 2 pitches in that at-bat

that could have gone either way.

by .ryan on Apr 4, 2008 8:08 PM EDT 0 recs

yeah

he was not getting the benefit of the doubt

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:10 PM EDT up 0 recs

jscape ...

are you in Sterling's head or something?

by .ryan on Apr 4, 2008 8:10 PM EDT 0 recs

what else is on television?

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:12 PM EDT 0 recs

It would be one thing if he was squeezing him

on the corners alone, but he was also calling pitches tough high and low. Well that's baseball.

"You play the game to win the game, and not to worry about what's on the back of the baseball card at the end of the year." - Paul O'Neill

by yankee come lately on Apr 4, 2008 8:13 PM EDT 0 recs

Oh well...

tonight is one of the lumps Yankee fans should expect from the kids this season.

He'll come back and pitch well at KC.

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 8:14 PM EDT 0 recs

I was the last of my friends to turn 16

and I was the first to fail my driving test (stupid NY and stupid parallel parking).

I know how Ian Kennedy feels.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

Ah, Denis Leary as the voice over for MLB 2K8

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 8:15 PM EDT 0 recs

Did Bill Hicks do a routine for MLB 2K8 too?

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:17 PM EDT up 0 recs

Not sure about that

I just heard Denis Leary's voice on that commercial and it was clearly recognizable. I love his show Rescue Me.

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 8:19 PM EDT up 0 recs

I love the show too.

I was a little disappointed with last season though.

by bronxbound on Apr 4, 2008 8:20 PM EDT up 0 recs

First two seasons

were incredible. It started slipping halfway in the third. Once they offed the chief last year, I stopped watching.

by docgonzo on Apr 4, 2008 8:21 PM EDT up 0 recs

I'm a huge Rescue Me fan too, but

much of Leary's standup is at best borrowed from Bill Hicks, who died a while back.

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:20 PM EDT up 0 recs

almost all

of Dane Cook's material comes from Louie CK

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:21 PM EDT up 0 recs

Dane Cook flat out sucks.

Not funny, and not at all original.

Plus he grew up in Arlington, MA, where I used to live - he's like a god up here...but man, is he not funny.

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:23 PM EDT up 0 recs

out of

all the places in MA that I have lived, Arlington was definitely my favorite.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:25 PM EDT up 0 recs

Where did you live?

I was across from the HS - great apartment, and that town has some great restaurants.

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

I think it was called Arlington Heights

is that a place?

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:30 PM EDT up 0 recs

Yeah, on the Lexington border.

Not a bad area either, but the center's got the good restaurants, the library, the supermarkets, and the historical stuff.

Every Patriots' Day, they'd have the parade go right down Mass Ave in front of my building, shooting muskets the whole way. i actually miss that.

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:33 PM EDT up 0 recs

I was in graduate school when I lived there

I went to a little school in Cambridge that you probably never heard of so I wasn't home a lot. I had a craphole in Cambridge the first year and moved to Arlington the second year

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:35 PM EDT up 0 recs

which school? Lesley?

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:36 PM EDT up 0 recs

no

the never heard of was facetious

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:37 PM EDT up 0 recs

Oh sorry...there are a lot of small schools there.

Are we playing down going to Haaavaaard?

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:39 PM EDT up 0 recs

I try not to be

an ahole about it but I'm the exception rather than the rule

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:40 PM EDT up 0 recs

I try to take it on a case by case basis

As a teacher, I have about 6 or 7 kids a year that end up going there...they usually keep their heads unswelled when they come back to visit

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:42 PM EDT up 0 recs

I have to say

people who don't go there are much more impressed than people who do. With me it was well they let me in, how great could they be?

Groucho Marx I don't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member thing.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:43 PM EDT up 0 recs

yeah, based on some of the kids I've seen go there

I've lost a little of my starry-eyed sense of the place.
But it's still a lot better than Brown, as far as I'm concerned

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:45 PM EDT up 0 recs

Interesting

Looks like we have some smarter people than me on this blog.

I'm just a lowly Purdue grad.

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 8:45 PM EDT up 0 recs

but you have psychic powers

the rest of us do not.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:46 PM EDT up 0 recs

his standup is still his best

"I want coffee flavored coffee"

"Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig disease. How the hell do you not see that coming?"

"Cigarettes are bad for you? I thought they were full of vitamin C!"

And The Ref was good too.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:20 PM EDT up 0 recs

The Ref

fantastic movie.

by bronxbound on Apr 4, 2008 8:21 PM EDT up 0 recs

Last season was a little weak

I've got high hopes for next year though...
and The Ref does rock - very underrated movie

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

Ah, yes

No Cure for Cancer. I actually bought that CD after it came out. That was back in the early 90s.

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 8:22 PM EDT up 0 recs

I bought it in 95

I'm not sure when it came out but I was in graduate school and someone stole it from me.

"The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided." -Casey Stengel

by bxgrl1 on Apr 4, 2008 8:23 PM EDT up 0 recs

Bastard!

Who could forget this song. Good stuff.

by anaconda on Apr 4, 2008 8:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

Like I said, Bill Hicks did a lot of that stuff first

and then of course, died of cancer...

but seriously, if you get a chance, dig up some of Hicks's stuff. If you like Leary, you'll love Hicks.

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:24 PM EDT up 0 recs

On the other hand

Leary's rants for MTV were great - lots of stuff involving Cindy Crawford, as I recall. And yes, that song....that was a good one.

by mrljdavid on Apr 4, 2008 8:27 PM EDT up 0 recs

Since the game is out of hand..

Back to Rescue me... the way they presented the last season, I'm beginning to think Tommy actually died on 9/11. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

by bronxbound on Apr 4, 2008 10:10 PM EDT up 0 recs