Jacoby Ellsbury Pushes Joe Girardi One Step Closer to Working at Home Depot:
With the bases loaded and JD “Everybody Hurts. But Especially Me.” Drew at the plate, Ellsbury gets a little antsy on third. Without warning, he darts toward home while Old Man Pettitte goes into the wind-up.
Before we even know what’s hit us, Ellsbury has swiped home. “Holy f@#k!” echoes throughout the Nation as a million girls realize that their boyfriend isn’t quite cool enough.
Dustin Pedroia, who seems to love a good “f@#kin’ with the man,” indicates his approval of the theft.
As does Tito, who, after delivering two World Series titles in five seasons, still looks like he’s in the middle of a job interview during every game.
Mouth agape, Pettitte is briefly revisited by the ghost of that HEB Meats commercial he cut with Roger a few years ago.
Girardi, meanwhile, contemplates life behind “Register 6.”
“Well, coach, pretty much the only thing left to do to the Yankees at this point is give ‘em all a wedgie on their way outta town.”
“Shhh. We got Timlin hiding out in their locker room for that very purpose.”
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What more can we say after a game like that? An exclamation point to a brilliant sweep of the 500 million dollar Yankees. The winning streak intact and now at ten games. A bullpen that currently leads the majors with a 2.38 ERA (watching Michael Bowden strike out Jeter in the top of the seventh was a thing of beauty). And the bats that I’d feared dormant back to life and giving ‘em hell.
Tonight we roll… to Cleveland. Dare we think another win?
I was wondering what 7 red X’s and one half-loaded picture of Ellsbury were gonna look like…
Needless to say, that play was fucking awesome.
Also, JD Drew taking those 3 strikes looking was one of the saddest moments in sports.
nice post admin!
The Jet steals home!
great post, but only took 16 tries for the pics to load. #$^*(&%$@ new site.
Taking content from Surviving Grady now? Smart move.
Where’s the Manzo post about the series?
also, is it me or do the comments post in backward chronological order when you look at the “seconds” time stamp?
yeah pics are screwed up. not on our end. trying to fix
YEAH!!! only 8,000 more games until the season ends…. god i hate baseball and the 162 games in 180 days….i’d rather watch el pres hairline recede more than a baseball game.
way to be unoriginal. i’ll just start going directly to survivinggrady. i bet their site at least loads properly. fuck man.
What happened to Jacoby on that steal? Did he get caught between sliding feet first and trying to score standing up? Either way he stumbled and it was an UGLY face first plant into the plate.
Where is the picture of Drews reaction..or lack there of…place is goin banana’s, dugouts fired up, jon millers fired up…and Drew acts as tho he just took ball 2 at a spring training game.
Drew acts that way because there’s two outs with men on base and rather than trusting him, Jacoby steals home. HUGE slap in Drew’s face (but very much deserved).
I hate the Sox, but I have to say, that was one of the most impressive things I’ve seen. Posada was ASLEEP!
Agent 47 may I suggest killing yourself? Baseball is the greatest sport in the world.
Unbelievable. Like the Timlin comment, too — nicely done.
But what the hell was Joe Morgan’s problem last night? He was arguing with everyone and gave us a million “Well, I did better in my day” kind of comments throughout the telecast. The other two dudes finally called Morgan on it during the play when the Yanks’ Berroa could’ve picked off a Sox runner at second (I forget who) on a routine ground ball and he instead committed a throwing error. Morgan continued to argue that Berroa could not have seen how far the Sox runner was from second — even when the instant replay proved this to be untrue. And they showed the replay about 6 times and Morgan seemed to get more and more pissed off with each showing. It was a train wreck in sports broadcasting!