November 21, 2024

254 thoughts on “ALCS Game 1: Yankees (0-0) vs. Guardians (0-0) Monday, October 14, 2024, 7:38 PM EDT”

  1. I hate that Aaron Boone has had 3 hours to absorb what Dave Roberts is doing in LA and think about ways he can incorporate it into tonight’s gameplan.

    1. He does not need help in stupidity. He’s got more than enough on his own. Just look at #4 and #8 in the betting order.

  11. There is nothing gonna be more predictable than Cobb coming out 1-2-3 on eight pitches and putting Rodon back on the bump before he can even take a piss in the clubhouse.

    1. As much as I won’t miss Bad Gleyber, there is almost no reason not to offer him a QO.

    2. It clearly changed the entire at-bat, because Judge was now suddenly having to guard against the ridiculous call, and instead got a rough call on the OTHER side of the plate. Absurd.

  37. Nice fielding. But this game has been completely unfair.
    I mean, those called strikes were not as awful as some we saw in the previous series, but so many of them, and they changed everything.

    2. Both.
      The best umps suck.
      The worst umps suck more.
      We’ve seen a good deal of both.

    1. Sickening. I can’t help but wonder if something Boone does makes them afraid to fail and consequently choke.

  50. Soto forgets it’s the postseason.
    Good thing Gleyber made out, otherwise Soto would have been up with men on base and they wouldn’t have a run.

  57. Wells 411 OPS in September, 311 in the playoff, ,worst on the team and he’s batting cleanup. Even someone as stupid as Boone should realize how dumb that is.

  61. Well, so now they’ve done all they can do. Any more, and they’d have to score (with men in scoring position!), so that’s it for this inning, unfortunately.

  102. By the way, to answer an old question, the play-by-play guy for this series is the great Brian Anderson, one of the top announcers around. Jeff Francouer and Ron Darling are the color guys. They’re not as good, but Anderson is outstanding.

  120. The Manfred Man, btw, is obviously and anti-Yankee conspiracy.
    How can the Yankees EVER win an extra-inning game if they start every inning with a man in scoring position?

    1. He’s a rookie who hasn’t hit in months. What kind of asshole would he have to be to be insulted by being moved one spot down in the line-up? Or more? Or if Trevino got more playing time? Really, how entitled can he possibly feel?

  169. Hill looks like the one uncle who asks if he can have a bottle for his dip and your mom tells him he can’t do that in the house and he just tries to casually lean down down at dinner and spit it into a poland spring bottle he found on the side of the road and totally thinks he’s pulling it off.

  173. A fascinating dilemma: to advance on a wild pitch, knowing that you are entering scoring position and thereby condemning the batter to a .000 average; or not to advance, knowing that subsequent wild pitches might provide your only chance to score at all?

    1. Wait… if you DO advance, wild pitches are your only chance to score.
      DON’T advance and you could score on an XBH.

  182. They can’t replace injured players during a series right?

    If kahnle is injured, that just sucks. But if Rizzo is injured, that’s just a self inflicted wound

    2. So what? It’s not like he was lounging around setting up JW.
      Also, Goose did it all the time.
      What did he throw, 24 pitches? That often ONE inning.
      I’m not worried in the least.

    3. Alternatively, he needed to re-up on opioid analgesia during the game and it made him a little sluggish. Oxy is typically dosed q4h (though there’s a long-acting form, you might not want to deal with 12 hours of side effects), NSAIDs can be dosed q6h. He probably took a combination of tylenol, ibuprofen, and oxycodone before the game, and the oxy would have worn off first.

      Toradol (another NSAID) is super effective for pain and lasts six hours, but pharmacists generally advise against taking it on more than 5 days per month, on account of elevated risks of heart attack / stroke (rare but significant), kidney injury (more common), and GI ulcers (more common). If he’s willing to exceed that recommended limit despite the risks, and if he finds a doctor and pharmacist who are willing to prescribe and fill such a longer course (perhaps having him sign some sort of waiver), then he might be able to get Toradol through a couple postseason series. But I wouldn’t go with that plan, even as a Yankee fan who would love to see a championship this year. If my patients need something that strong for more than 5 days, then they’re usually on many other agents.

      Now, as long as Rizzo doesn’t have any renal late effects of the chemotherapy he received in 2008 – and I wouldn’t expect any, since ABVD was already the standard-of-care regimen for limited-stage classical Hodgkin’s at that time – then Toradol should be a reasonable option for most of one playoff series…

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