Final home opener at American Stadium postponed
The beginning of the end module have to wait. The final opening period at American Stadium was postponed because of rain Monday, pushing back New York?s game against the Toronto Blue Jays. Buy ticket for that game at Ticket Solution It was rescheduled for 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday, previously an off period in the series. Yankees right-hander […]
The beginning of the end module have to wait.
The final opening period at American Stadium was postponed because of rain Monday, pushing back New York?s game against the Toronto Blue Jays. Buy ticket for that game at Ticket Solution
It was rescheduled for 7:05 p.m. on Tuesday, previously an off period in the series. Yankees right-hander Chien-Ming Wang and Toronto ace Roy Halladay remained slated to pitch.
?It?s obviously a lowercase anticlimactic. You poverty to intend the first one in,? Alex Rodriguez said. ?Just have to wait.?
New royalty owner martyr Steinbrenner showed up around noon for the 84th opening period at American Stadium, but history was put on hold by steady rain and a dewy forecast that clean away batting practice and the planned festivities.
The tarp was still on the field when the game was called at about 2:30 p.m. after a retard of approximately 85 minutes. Players never got introduced, and Joe Girardi?s entry as Yankees trainer was postponed.
?I?m cautious about tomorrow, too,? New royalty GM Brian Cashman said. ?Tomorrow night is supposed to be dry, tomorrow period is supposed to be similar to what we meet had.
?It?s obviously not the artefact you poverty to start. You?d same to have opening period instead of opening night. But you do what you?ve got to do. It?s still feat to be opening day.?
Next year, the Bronx Bombers module move into a $1.3 billion new American Stadium, under cerebration meet across 161st Street.
?You see the new stadium, but it still seems same that?s eld away, even though it?s only one,? Derek Jeter said. ?Just 100 yards away? That?s not too far for the ghosts to go.?
The Yankees have won 10 serial home openers, the best run in franchise history and the daylong active streak in the majors, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Other Sport Tickets buy at Ticket Solution
ESPN’s Featured Comment Of The Day [Talk Is Cheap]
ESPN scoured its message boards this morning to find its cleverest, boldest, most enlightening comment, and chose this one above all others …
• “The Hornets have prefabricated me a believer. From what I’ve seen, I’m more than impressed.” — ballaticionjb11
Previous ESPN Featured Comment of the Day, plus a Featured Deadspin Response or two …
• “Turco had this countenance that he wasn’t letting anything past him.” — drew2576
• Tebow had this countenance same he’s not letting any foreskin intend past him - shanoff — millensdraftskills
• The Bridgekeeper had this countenance same he wasn’t feat to permit anyone past him, unless they answered him his questions three.-BraveSirRobin165 — Steve_U
• Turok had this countenance that he wasn’t letting any dinosaurs past him - drewn64 — Camp Tiger Claw
Annoying Superhuman Lawyer-To-Be Makes Life More Difficult For The Rest Of Us [Superman]
This weekend, we went to a Derby Day party and a friend’s 30th birthday, ate artefact too much food and category of spent our Sunday afternoon on the seat watching old episodes of “Lost” and trying to recuperate. (We’re still not quite there yet, and it’s Tuesday.) Weekends same that are ground people same Dan McGrath are so annoying.
McGrath is a second-year accumulation student at Notre Dame, and an occasional task runner. Well, perhaps “occasional” doesn’t quite counterbalance it. This weekend, he flew home to Long Island to run the Long Island Marathon … won it … and then got back to South Bend in time to take a Jurisprudence final at 9 a.m. Monday morning.
Guys same Dan McGrath honestly ruin it for the rest of the planet. Be a superhuman, be a attorney … meet pick one, man. The rest of us can’t ready up.
Hottie Runner Wins Long Island Marathon, Nails Jurisprudence Final [Ladies …]
NBA Playoffs: A Tuesday Night Viewer’s Guide [NBA Playoffs]
Ah, sweet Tuesday…still 20 percent better than Monday. Basketbawful is here to help you celebrate that fact and disentagle all those thoughts you thought you had about tonight’s Cavs-Celtics game.
Cleveland versus Boston: Game 1
LeBron James. The King shut up his critics — which consisted mostly of DeShawn Stevenson and the rest of the Wizards — by prevention his first-round foes under his royal boot. The Wiz did their best to rough him up and beat him down, but he still averaged a near triple-double (29.8 PPG, 9.5 RPG, 7.7 APG). Can LeBron pull the sword from the stone against Boston? (Yeah, probably.)
The Boston defense. The league’s best regular season accumulation struggled, at times, to include Joe President and Josh Smith. Now they have to try and include LeBron. Yeah. Good phenomenon with that, guys. My suggestion would be stop everybody but LeBron. Even if he goes off for 50, the Celtics would still win, like, 98-57.
The LeBronnaires. Look, no man, no two men, no army of men or the undead can stop LeBron James. The question is…who else is feat to step up for the Cavs? Zydrunas Ilgauskas? sap Szczerbiak? Delonte West? Boobie? It’s gotta be one of those guys or nobody. My best guess? Nobody. But then again, Kendrick Perkins may be the only center in the NBA who moves more slowly than Ilgauskas, so you never know…
Kevin Garnett. He’s filling up with so much kinetic energy that he has officially become the first player since Alonzo Mourning in 2006 that I think might actually explode during a game. It’s called spontaneous human combustion, people, and it happens, okay? That’s science fact. Personally, I hope KG survives his own personal Chernobyl. Barring that, I can only hope one of the Boston fans saves me a piece.
Cockiness. The poorest alteration inflicted on the Celtics by the Hawks was Boston’s newfound vulnerability…be it real or perceived. As Cleveland’s Devin Brown put it: “They category of had that arrogance about them all season by success so some games that you were category of not wanting to face them. But after seeing what we saw, I think we’re ready to go.” Unless I’m criminal - and I’m never criminal - that quote is on a bulletin board in the Boston compartment room right now. Right next to a post-it note asking the question “Now who’s Devin Brown again?”
Paul Pierce versus LeBron. With all due respect to DeShawn Stevenson, the King’s first-round rival didn’t really stand much of a chance. He can take on a fancy nickname and acquire a worn beard, but that doesn’t attain him not DeShawn Stevenson, you know? But LeBron’s second-round rival…now, he’s on a lowercase more equal footing. What? You didn’t undergo the Pierce and saint were rivals? Oh hells to the yes. There’s some serious history there. Now let’s hope that Truth can do more than meet have hard fouls and trash talk.
Lookin’ over the shoulder. Barring the unforseen, the Pistons are feat to attain relatively short impact of the Magic. (How’s that for a reverse stat curse?) So, in theory, whoever is mitt standing after the Cavs-Celts series would be at a tactical separate if it went six or seven games, right? Both teams are feat to poverty to finish this soon. And you undergo Cleveland is feat to go balls-out to steal this first game in Boston.
Anderson Varejao. What can I say? Stuff like this cracks me up. I think it’s the hair.
Pistons, 19th Century Technology Defeat Magic [Nba Closer]
The NBA Closer is cursive by Matt McHale, who’s fascinated to see how the Celtics plan to stop LeBron tonight. (He suggests napalm and well-trained attack dogs.) When he’s not making ferocious anti-LeBron plans, he can be found relieving his NBA bladder at Basketbawful. Enjoy!
Mmmm…more home cookin’. The city Pistons had the Orlando Magic over for a lowercase playoff dinner, and Stan Van Gundy’s team is still choking on the poop they got served at the end of the third quarter. The game clock mysteriously froze at 4.8 seconds, which gave Chauncey Billups the extra time he needed to hit a momentum-changing three-pointer with “0.5 seconds” left. The three-that-wasn’t-a-three gave the Pistons a 78-76 advance feat into the fourth. Here’s some recording of the refs effort it wrong. Here’s some recording of the TNT broadcasters proving the refs got it wrong. And here are some reactions from both sides. Guess which side was not okay with it?
Said Van Gundy: “They had to estimate how much time (was left) and they estimated 4.6 seconds. I mean that’s…that’s almost funny, I mean you know. How daylong did that play take? Well, you know, I don’t know, 4.3, 4.6, I mean 4 or 5 seconds right? I mean they estimated 4.6. What can you do?” The answer rhymes with “bend over and take it,” Stan.
Lead official Steve Javie, uh, declined interpret after the game. But in all fairness, his hands were tied because the league’s replay rules don’t allow for reviewing a play to figure out when the shot clock started, should have started, etc. Because king Stern likes to squawk things old school.
All that poop aside, it was an entertaining game. The Magic fell behind by 14 in the first half, fought their artefact back to regain the lead, had that advance unrightfully taken with them, but still could have tied the game in the final 20 seconds had Rashard adventurer (20 points, 5 rebounds, 6 turnovers) not missed a running scoop, or had Dwight Howard (22 points, 18 rebounds, 5 turnovers) not missed a putback. And, of course, they might have had another shot at it if Hedo Turkoglu (12 points, 7 assists, 6 turnovers) had managed to clutch the offensive rebound off of Superman’s miss. Oh, and it would have helped if Orlando’s Big Three hadn’t kept throwing the shit ball away.
Billups led the Pistons with 28 — although it should have been 25 — patch Rasheed insurrectionist and Tayshaun Price added 17 each.
Defending chumps. Okay, um, wow? I knew the Hornets were pretty good, and I also felt that Chris Paul should have been named the association MVP, but … well, wow. I don’t think anybody expected them to manhandle the Spurs in Game 1, much inferior do it again in Game 2. But that’s exactly what they did in a 102-84 conclusion that — according to my thesaurus — fell somewhere between stunning and unthinkable.
The Spurs actually led by a point at halftime before effort ripped 36-18 in the third quarter. The beatdown was effort so out of hand that Gregg Popovich sent a lowercase “Get yer heads out of yer butts” message by benching his starters in favor of roster consisting of Ime Udoka, Brent Barry, Fabricio Oberto, Robert Horry and Jacque Vaughn. And you undergo what? Those guys inexplicably prefabricated a lowercase run. Pop eventually hustled his boys back in for one terminal fissure at it, but CP-MVP turned it up a notch and the Hornets won feat away. For the second straight game, in case you skipped ahead.
Paul finished with a really-shoulda-won-MVP-like 30 points and 12 assists (with only 1 turnover). king West struggled mightily (10 points, 2-for-11, 10 rebounds), but Peja Stojakovic (25 points, 5-for-7 from three-point range) picked up the slack. Tyson Chandler had 5 points, 11 rebounds and 2 blocked shots, but he was restricted to 27 minutes because of foul trouble. He still got in his quota of alley-oops, though.
Timmy Duncan played a lowercase better (18 points, 6-for-11, 8 rebounds), but Tony Parker (5-for-14), Michael Finley (2-for-7), Bruce Bowen (1-for-7) and Manu Ginobili (4-for-10, 5 turnovers) were so awful that all the flopping and eye-rolling in the concern couldn’t save them. If it wasn’t for the ageless gunning of Brent Barry (14 points, 4-for-5 on threes) the Spurs probably would have forfeited by 30.
Memo to Steve Kerr and the Phoenix Suns: Remember how you went out and traded for Shaq so that you could slow things down? Because you thought that was the only artefact to beat San Antonio? Well, here’s the thing … they are very old. And it turns out that runnin’ and gunnin’ actually was the artefact to beat them this year. That’s the sound of painful humor slapping you upside the face. Like Bill Simmons said, R.I.P. to the Seven Seconds or Less era.
Fun fact: Danny Glover really is effort too old for this shit.
Yeah, substantially don’t intend too smug, Tigers’ fans. Considering that you started the season 0-7, and you couldn’t beat a wildly off-target Daisuke Matsuzaka on Monday, losing 6-3 — your fourth straight expiration — I wouldn’t be mocking the Lions too loudly. It may not be daylong before your fans are act paper bags on their heads. But I banter Tigers’ fans. Um, Fire Millen?
Daisuke-K (5-0) surrendered eight of Boston’s 10 walks, but Mike uranologist (!), Kevin Youkilis and king Ortiz all hit homers for the Stockings, who won their fourth straight. From AP: “Matsuzaka had coldlike symptoms throughout the period and didn’t feel good.” Awww … intend out there and pitch, mama’s boy. But I banter Dice-K, who lasted five innings, with Dancin’ Jonathan Papelbon pitching the ninth for his 10th save in 10 chances. By the way, thanks for the photo, Sox and Dawgs. Also, Sheffield batting sixth? And playing left? Is this permanent, Mr. Leyland?
• Rock On. Which Santana is better? The Angels’ Ervin (6-0) or the Mets’ Johan ($137.5 million through 2013)? Discuss. Quiz: Which one was born in Venezuela, and which was born in the Dominican?
• While On The Subject Of The Mets … Matt Kemp — he’s the NL Player of the Week, you undergo — had a home run to advance off the game as the Dodgers beat Oliver Perez and the Mets, 5-1. That’s nine wins in 10 games for Torre’s squad.
• In Case Of Fire, Use Stairs. Well, that didn’t meliorate Ozzie Guillen’s mood any. Matt Stairs’ home run was the only meaningful offense in Toronto’s 1-0 intend over the White Sox, which featured a enthusiastic pitching duel between Dustin McGowan and Javier Vazquez. Toronto closer B.J. Ryan walked the bases unexploded in the ninth, but Pablo Ozuna grounded into a 1-2-3 threefold play to end the game.
• Go To Bed Old Man! One period after being mocked by this illustrator as being old enough to have fought the Nazis alongside Indiana Jones, Jamie Moyer threw my text back into my face, outpitching Arizona’s Max Scherzer in an 11-4 Phillies victory. Moyer, making the 558th start of his career, went seven innings. Although with 11 runs, I could have lasted five. Moyer also doubled.
• Eric The Half-A-Bee. Larry Brown Sports makes the case against the Brewers sticking with Eric Gagne as their closer. Making the case for Gagne module be the actual Larry Brown.
White Sox Locker Room Is Not A Safe Environment For Women, Real Or Inflatable [You’ve Got To Push]
Ozzie Guillen and the White Sox are now in the midst of being criticized (again) by some sports writers and the Association For Women In Sports Media for their fictive blow-up doll, slump-busting shrine. The Association said said the shrine creates an “uncomfortable” environment for female sports writers in the compartment room. Via the National Post, comes this statement of the shrine which featured two female blow-up dolls:
On Sunday, the bats were circled around the two naked female dolls, one of whom had a bat inserted in its backside to prop it up. Each wore a sign over her breasts, one saying “Let’s Go White Sox” and the other reading “You’ve Got to Push,” the National Post in Toronto reported.
Guillen, of course, defended the shrine, saying “I’m sure it wasn’t finished to substance anyone. . . A aggregation of worsened things happen in the clubhouse. . . If people got their feelings hurt because of that . . . they don’t really undergo much about baseball.”
Duly noted. He is right about that. There was a time when struggling baseball teams used real springy women in the compartment room as slump-busting shrines. You’ve got to push…
White Sox Doll Blow Up [Chicago Sun-Times]
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