NashLumber

Being snubbed for awards like this can sometimes be a motivating factor to prove the "powers that be" wrong the next time a player suits up. I kind of see Mateo being affected this way (seems more emotional, like with calls at the plate) than Adley. Adley seems more stoic. I remember Tom Burleson being overlooked for the ACC First Team in '74 and he went on to have stellar performances in the ACC and NCAA tournament. Of course, I'm sure it feels better in the short run (and in the long layoff till spring) to be at least nominated.

I have the sound muted and am listening to The Flamin' Groovies. They tend to make a lot of things at least bearable.

Wife just now: (note, this is heavy sarcasm on her part) "Great, now I'll have to pull for the Astros." She only hates the Yankees a little more than Houston. It took 50 pitches and two pitchers for CLE to get out of the first inning. Blood bath.

My family rock trio was making our Athens GA debut at Flicker Theatre. As were packing up, I had a nice talk about the postseason with REM (and Baseball Project) bassist Mike Mills. He’s disappointed by The Braves, but has also hoping Cleveland does well. We’re in Atlanta tonight at Smith’s Old Bar.

Gunnerson. I love that nickname! It totally works.

I was dismissed in a game thread about two weeks ago when I expressed that I thought the O's could pull off 82 wins when they had to win 6 of the final 16 games to break .500 for the season. While truly frustrating us by losing the games / series they are "supposed to win" (Reds, Tigers, Boston), don't we know enough about this team (no longer a small sample size) that they sometimes win some no one though they'd win? Two of three in Yankee Stadium with all of that Judge hoopla going on? Taking the season series vs. Houston? It's hard to nail this team down, but never, never count them out. When they play with heart, it makes my fandom all worth it. Damned proud of this team. And as Tom Petty sang (who died five years ago today) ... "I won't back down".

Good point. My current stance is I’d prefer them to share the 61 record for a few more seasons.

Go O’s! Made my year “I won’t back down”. 5th anniversary of Tom Petty’s death.

I knew early in our dating that she was a keeper. Once during a Yankee series years ago, she was saying "frick" every time something bad happened in the game. I told her "you know, you don't have to hold back. Frick sounds like Fricke, a baseball commissioner from the last century." Later in the game, something went the Yankees' way and she yelled at the TV, "Pig F**ker!" Me: "That's more like it."

As my wife just told me, for all the booing Yankee fans who think the O's are not pitching to Judge, imagine the shoe on the other foot. Like they would pitch to an Oriole and do them any favors. Oh, "Go sit down giant!" - Laura.

Double pump leg kick with no runner on. Deceptive but legal. Almost a Tiant finish, ie. not his regular wind-up.

Donaldson still irritates me after all these years. It doesn't help that he plays for teams that disgust me on a regular basis. Oh, man. Stanton skies one. Ugh.

I would like to see The Giants sign Judge. It only fits his physical stature. And gets him out of the AL East. I can't take credit for the Giants part. That's the wife.

Umps seem to disagree with Adley a good bit lately on called strike three. And Adley's usually right. But still an out frustratingly.

Just the way it was drawn up and played right into our little scheme. Oh, and for good measure ...

Yankee go home!

Bautista cheering on the O's to inspire them from the bench like David Thompson in '74 tourney. I had a Willis Reed image ready had he come out to pitch, but I'll go with this one with Hall in.

Probably finishes with Judge and decides he's really hurt. Tension.

Lord help us. Bautista tweaked something.

Hit him in the rump.

Imagine if the catcher had a unibrow. That would have taken forever. Paging Andy Etchebarren.

Odor: " I can't hit during the wave, man."

The current Yankee Stadium has some nice design features and all (I have only been there once and it was an ok, but sterile experience), but from that opening shot to the 8th inning, it looks like a court house. Just weird. I didn't dwell on it too long and I actually spent more time standing on that bridge looking down onto the area where the Polo Grounds used to be and trying to imagine it. Still hard to believe those two were within sight of each other. I did walk down that staircase at Coogan's Bluff.

I'll be washing my hair during that segment.