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April 16, 2008
This is the Game that Never Ends

The Yankees take an 11-9 lead on the Red Sox in the bottom of the fifth. The Yankees scored four in the bottom of the fourth, the Red Sox came back with six in the top of the fifth, and New York just scored four more in the bottom of the fifth (and are still batting) to go up 11-9. With both bullpens thin, this could easily be the first game where both teams score 30 runs.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:40 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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I just needed to note that, in discussing the ridiculous story of Yankee fans forcing LaTroy Hawkins to change his number from 21 to 22 because "it's Paul O'Neill's number," Michael Kay said Hawkins must not have "understood the enormity of 21."

Hello? He wore it because of Roberto Clemente. Kay, and the fans who brought this on, need to reevaluate exactly who it is that doesn't understand the enormity of the number.

Posted by: dan at April 16, 2008 10:01 PM

Dan, I agree. It's certainly one of the more embarrassing moments for Yankees fans.

Posted by: David Pinto at April 16, 2008 10:07 PM

As a Yanks fan, I am horrified.

Posted by: tom yf at April 17, 2008 12:58 AM

I agree, and O'Neil himself is really being a ass for taking an ambigious stance on this whole issue.

and I fell asleep watching this one. after the first few innings everything became a huge blur and every pitch took forever. one sec i was waiting for Ohlendorf to deliver a pitch the next second I'm seeing a random Yankee running wild on the basepath.... and then I fell asleep waiting for the Sox pitcher to deliever a pitch too.

Posted by: RollingWave at April 17, 2008 03:50 AM

Couldn't care less about uniform numbers. And the Red Sox never scored another run after David Pinto's post.

I liked flipping back to this game on Extra Innings because there was always something happening. Too bad the Yanks won, though. I always root for both teams to lose in a Sox-Yanks game.

Sadly, the AL East standings have assumed their usual pattern: Boston and New York tied for first, Tampa Bay last, and Baltimore and Toronto somewhere in-between. Let's hope it doesn't stay that way.

Posted by: Casey Abell at April 17, 2008 08:14 AM

I'm a Yankees, fan and a Paul O'Neil fan. I'm embarrassed by the booing. Totally undeserved. I'm somewhat ambivalent on retiring #21. Paul's not in Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio territory. But then, neither are Jackson (based upon years w/ Yankees) or Maris.

Posted by: rbj at April 17, 2008 10:01 AM

To put an end to this, perhaps Jeter should wear # 21 for a day and tell the fans to back off his teammates.

Has Jeter ever really defended his teammates aggresively in public? Shouldn't a captain do this as opposed to letting them take crap from the fans?

He issues more bland comments to the press than Tiger Woods!

Posted by: rmt at April 17, 2008 11:16 AM

and the day after you posted this, they're REALLY was a game that never ends ;)

Posted by: RollingWave at April 18, 2008 04:47 AM
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