The Bronx deserves better than this tinkly music crap.

This is not a time for infighting.

Ninja Assassin keys to the game. Priceless.

Strike one.

I have complicated feelings about Abreu.

K

Bobby down on strikes.

Now you can postpone resolving them. Perhaps a Yankee fly ball to the warning track in right will help.

Swisher, dressed like a South Park character, sits Vladdy down.

Truth. Now let’s get Lackey.

I think Robbie Cano’s really into the whole “ninja assassin” sponsorship. That, or he just has the world’s coldest neck.

God, that’s not a scouting report. That’s some bullshit in a box.

Time for Damon to wear pitchers out and get on base again.

Run up that pitch count, Cap.

I’ve only been paying partial attention to the game, and am now heading out for the night (don’t ask, just know that it involves deviousness on the part of Red Sox fans). I’m sure someone will fill the bullpen-neurotic role for the evening.

Captain singles to start the game for us.

Leadoff man aboard. Fox broadcast crew predicts something correctly. Blind squirrel, stopped clock, etc.

Johnny!

Broken bat tw0-bagger for Johnny down the thirdbase line.

All of New York wishes Teixiera had that AB back.

A-Rod RBI.

Aybar, you dumbass. 2-0 NYY. Scocia’s gonna kick his ass.

HAH! Aybar-Figgins fuckup, run in.

I don’t wanna see that.

They even made eye contact. I’m amazed they didn’t shrug at each other.

seriously – fielding FAIL. Yeah, that’s not baseball as it’s supposed to be played.

1 down, NYY gets 2 free runs.

KK. Siddown Kendry.

KK for CC

Young Jeezy?????? Spencer, you had so many other options bro, like Empire State of Mine:

Anyway, Live feed of the game here, but it is not the Fox feed. It’s the MLB feed overall with Dave O’Brien and Rick Schucliff announcing.

http://www.thewholedelivery.com/2009/10/sports-thread-3-for-101609-2009-alcs.html

Sabathia, once again, throwing strikes early in the count.

And another two out hit for the Angles, this time, the talented Howie Kendrick right there.

Honestly, I thought it was too cliche, after we’ve been hearing it at the Stadium all ALDS (and, fingers crossed, beyond). It’s not for the Jeezy verse! It’s for Jay’s Yankee-checking lyric.

THAT’s that Robi arm.

Seriously, Robi, can we talk about the facemask?

I’ll bet Matsui is laughing at Cano’s get-up.

Torii Hunter is so good, always in position.

Second that. Gritty as hell.

McClellan’s strike call is some sort of prehistoric noise.

Swisher sweet.

…I’m never getting tired of that one.

3K for Sabathia.

As this game progresses, a key factor in this series is how the yankees defense response if the Angels speed gets on base? And certainly I think, if Lackey holds firm, that will be asked about in this game.

Unless Sabathia keeps them off base like that.

Joe Buck did NOT just say that the economic downturn had anything to do with last year’s free agent market.

KKKK.

KKKK, CC dealing.

I tried to excuse the politics right there.

Better he than Al Michaels, that’s for damn sure.

Tex knocks the hell out of that one so bad he can only get to first.

Abreu’s wall-itis actually enables him to make a play.

A-Rod definitely upsetting media narrative.

Holy shit! Ronen Tynen is an anti-semite!

Well, at least no more him, thank goodness.

But the Glee kids will sing at World Series Game 3!!!!!…..if that show couldn’t be forced down my throat anymore.

Chas Freeman told that to you?

Before anyone laughs at Tynen for saying old Jewish women are scary: anyone with a Jewish grandmother knows how spot-on that actually is.

Guerrero BARELY misses mashing one. 1-out double.

Morales singles in Vladdy. 2-1.

Kendry takes the first pitch he sees into LF for a ribby single.

That was a worrisome inning.

Swisher singles to the opposite field.

Closeup of Swisher’s eyes vaguely creepy.

He didn’t close his eyes, it was just the passion of the Swish.

3-pitch SO for Jeter.

Oof. Hard K for Lackey. Made Jeter look bad.

Just tuning in. One sentence recap of the game so far?

whomever scores next will win.

Yankees get two lucky runs, Angels earn one.

Angels hurting themselves but recovering, CC excellent.

How’s CC look?

Completely dominant until last inning. Still good though.

Damon w/a leadoff two-bagger.

Johnny doubles. Let’s give CC some breathing room.

OHHHHHHHH TEX. Got to give Lackey credit for winning that battle.

That was a huge K. If Tex is on base, this A-Rod AB is totally different. Maybe they just take a bunch of pitches and hope to crack the bullpen?

*Biting nails for Matsui*

Cut down. Why did A Rod run through the sign?

Godzilla comes up big, but A-Rod makes an unnecessary out at the plate. Credit to A-Rod for coming home hard.

Matsui!

A-Rod is not tagged & their catcher A-Rod isn’t touching the plate.

I don’t think A-Rod was tagged, and I don’t think A-Rod touched the plate.

I’ll never understand baseball’s resistance to a challenge/replay system.

Tex off the bag?

Shorty got LOW! Teixiera’s toe leaves the bag after he catches that BULLET by CC.

What an amazing catch, though. Remember Giambi? That ball is in RF last year.

Guerrero looks dumb, again, thanks to CC. What an inning.

Six years of ballot lessons for little Mark pay off!

Okay, officially kind of psyched to see Ninja Assassin. Well done, marketing team.

I just made that joke myself. But seriously: Giambi was a merely sub-average 1B, not a terrible one. Oakland has all that foul territory; he did learn to snag the occasional bad throw. Obviously we upgraded, but G gets a rawer deal than he deserves on that score.

HA, and he just pulled his mask down.

Has Lackey moved to an all-curveball format for Swisher?

111 pitches and Lackey still in?

If you had the Angels BP, wouldn’t you leave him in?

Ohhhhh an overthrow.

Melk Man escapes jail, flees to 2B.

Jeter with RBI double, 4-1 NYY. GET LOUD.

Torii, wow. 4-1 NYY. That overthrow was HUGE. Scocia needs to yank Lackey now.

So yanked.

It’s a testament to how great the Twins defense was, and has been, this season.

A shocker from Torii Hunter there, absolute shocker.

So I’m listening on the radio. Breaks dominated by Bloomberg ads.

Lackey barked at Figgins and Izituris in the 1st inning. Amazing how karma catches back up, doesn’t it?

82 CC pitches. WOW. So economical.

That was deserved, a truly idiotic error.

KKKKKK

Six punchouts for Carston Charles.

Robi Cano dontcha know!

Robi, my God. Most second basemen watch that dribble into right.

CC at 97 pitches through 7? Amazing.

KKKKKKK.

GODDAMN!

Immense.

Unless he has a quick 8th, I don’t feel he can go all the way.

Napoli, who’s a dead fastball hitter, was always dangerous there…..and he handled him like a true ace.

Alex fooled.

What radio station tomorrow will bitch that he only had 1 RBI tonight?

Dear Joe Buck,

I would like to see you do anything physically demanding at 10:35 PM.

</3,
Carston Charles Sabathia

P.S. You are bad at your job.
P.P.S. I am not.

Two two-out walks, huh? Here comes Shogun Assassin.

That’s a nasty place to get hit.

The fact that the bases are loaded here hasn’t really registered.

If this game were closer, that Swisher SO woulda hurt.

And for good reason, apparently. Bad cut, Swish.

Uh, that’s a blimp, not Phil Hughes.

CC does it all!

How can they play that Angels blooper reel without yakety sax???

95mph because he knows he’s not pitching the 9th.

CC, take a curtain call.

CC dominant through 8, will they bring him back for the 9th? (Unlikely.)

Though he may able to pitch tomorrow

OK enough of this. Mo for the final three outs.

Already tired of the eyeball cam.

yeah – bring Mariano on.

That should have put Hughes in to start the inning.

Mariano not reaping the Mariano dividend on his pitches, or the strike zone just shrank.

That’ll do!

That Girardi/McClellan exchange was the best thing about this Fox broadcast.

One out away.

ALCS Game 1: ours. First time in five years.

Damn, but it feels good.

I heard Tim McCarver’s voice two years ago. I knew it just didn’t feel right.

The Angels scored one run. That doesn’t often allow you to win games.

In four post-season games the Yankees have allowed a total of 7