We are so bored of excellence we are now only concerned with the marital travails of our GM - The 2012 Yankees thred

featsing on the BRS; going 13-5 in interleague

grandyman just made a pretty great catch to rob trout

thank you michael kay for the obligatory "how often do you see it -- guy makes a great play in the field and he's leading off next inning"

Darnell McDonald, DFA'd, cleaned up for a handful of at-bats.

Tonight Kuroda is pitching and Ichiro is playing right - gambate!

#6 org

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2012/0723/mlb_a_ichiro99_cr_576.jpg

Fans at Safeco Field gave Ichiro a 45-second standing ovation when he came to bat with one out in the third inning. He doffed his helmet and bowed twice to the crowd before hitting a single and stealing second base.

According to High Heat Stats, the Yankees are the first team since the A's of the late '20s to have three players on their roster with 2500+ hits. Between the '39 Pirates (Waner, Manush) and '73 Angels (Robinson, Pinson), no team ever had more than one; since then, a number of teams have had two.

http://www.highheatstats.com/2012/07/ichiro-and-2500-hit-teammates/#more-5154

It'd be neat if they had a shot at three 3,000-hit guys, but Ichiro's chances must be edging toward 0%.

and one of em now a Broken Hand-Rod

way to go, Felix

It'd be neat if they had a shot at three 3,000-hit guys

fuuuuck that, all we need

You'd have been so much fun in 1941, Morbius, making fun of us saps getting caught up in DiMaggio and Williams.

Wait a minute, how come I didn't know about any of this:

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/32999/video-ichiro-comes-to-america-in-1995z

joba is rehabbing in double-a! i thought he was dead

Trampoline inspections every 3 weeks.

I didn't know about this:

When he broke George Sisler’s single-season record for hits, in 2004, the Hall of Fame presented Suzuki with a replica model of Sisler’s bat: all 36 inches and 46 ounces of it. Suzuki felt a kinship with Sisler, who set his record in 1920, and visited his grave site in St. Louis before the All-Star Game in 2009.

The next year, before a series at Yankee Stadium, Suzuki visited Calvary Cemetery in Queens to see the grave of another Hall of Famer, Wee Willie Keeler. Suzuki had broken Keeler’s record of seven consecutive 200-hit seasons, which had stood for more than century.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/sports/baseball/ichiro-suzuki-takes-his-all-star-act-to-new-york.html

Derek Lowe with the save

cant freaking believe eric chavez has a .900 ops.

Derek Jeter passes Nap Lajoie for sole possession of 12th place on all-time hits list at 3,253 with a single in 4th.

joe girardi used four pitchers in the fifth inning tonight

Nick Swisher Expected To Seek $100MM-Plus

haha

DO THE COLLAPSE

so...this jeter contract is actually kinda working out, wow

Jeter is so underrated among stat dudes. His fielding sucks, so what.

Girardi erupts against a ChiSox fan ... wow. and I really love Joe too. But he's just wrong tonight

Wow first Melky and now Colon start doing testosterone after leaving the Yankees. It must be such a downer to not be able to play for them that this is some sort of coping mechanism.

High Heat Stats has a Jeter chart today triggered by "allegations" that were made yesterday. So I looked into the allegations, and it's just a couple of guys yelling at each other.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/8294309/derek-jeter-laughs-skip-bayless-ped-use-insinuation

really clem, linking to sumthin that has both s a smith & wally matthews involved

Nova on DL w/ inflamed rotator cuff

6 1/3 innings, seven yankee pitchers

eight

five this inning, with one out

Yankees postseason odds down 4.0% in a week, to 95.6%

down 3.5% on Monday!

are you using that BP Prospectus odds visualizer? such a great tool. does 0.00% mean infinitesimally small chances below 0.01% or mathematically out of it? thought you might be know the answer.

I suspect that until a team is eliminated, it's an infinitesimal figure above zero.

i kinda want to see the 1-in-1000 scenario in which the royals make the playoffs

I would think the Red Sox and Braves got pretty close to 100% last August.

;_;

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1351047/NickySwish.jpg

robneyer ‏@robneyer
Ah, that Yankees magic ... they're 0-53 this season when trailing after 8 innings, only team in majors that's winless in that situation.

i wonder how many teams have finished 20 games over 500 and never had a comeback win of that sort

people can come up with statistics for anything, kevin.
forfty percent of all people know that.

RIP Five o'Clock Lightning

(OK, midnight in the modern AL)

Mark Simon ‏@msimonespn
Yankees P CC Sabathia 96+ MPH pitches by yr-- 2009: 348, 2010:211, 2011: 240, 2012: 2

I miss Mangione Swish.

http://cakerockstheparty.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/kylbgje7.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/66/Feels_So_Good.jpg/220px-Feels_So_Good.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_in_to/7997101156

sorry, wrong thread

ichiro hit the ball into jerrod parkers shirt

ichiro now 13 for his last 18

this game

raul in the 13th in the rain