***OFFICIAL ROYALS VS YANKS - OPENING DAY GAME THREAD***
 

AH, that's better....

Asteriks = I'm posting here.

Ponson starting off brilliantly.....

Over under for Ponson's ERA today? I'll set it at 9.0

Starting off predictably, you mean.

WTF? Callaspo you moron

That was, um, misplayed.

LOL. Jabba is already hurt.

Push.

5 in 5 is my prediction.

AC acting like he's never played 2B before...

God damn Ponson is fat. How can a pro athlete start off the season in such awful shape?

Mother****ing Ponson and AC.

THAT DUMB ****ING FATASS!!!!!

You have to field that. Are you kidding me?

Who didn't see this 1st inning coming?

Hillman and Moore and nobody else but them actually.

Mike Dorn at 1B.

40,000 there to open the new K, and there's ****ing Ponson. Brilliant.

We haven't scored over two runs yet? LMAO

Nah, its Mike Jacobs. That play was utterly Jacobean.

Best we can hope for is a tie now :(

Mike Dorn at SS.

Holy fuck.

Who'da thunkit?

Sidney Ponson can't pitch and Mike Jacobs can't field. Wow!

Those that don't learn from the past....

Come on Jacobs, get in front of the damn ball! Don't give me this "olé" bullshit!

And it begins...

Let's play it off the hip some more!

You know how some of us were complaining about the Royals having the worst defensive infield in modern times?

This inning is why we were complaining.

Well my afternoon might be free after all.

And this is an "improved" iteration, with Teahen in the OF.

And that is really sad... :shake:

JFC 2-0 already!?

well they swing the sticks so freaking well that it makes up for their gloves!

Um, that was a strike.

No sense wasting the pen. I'd let Pontoon pitch until he was thin.

LMAO ROFL

lol.

Well that was a crisp top half.

Fat 0-2. Walk. 3 defensive **** ups.

And down 2 runs.

Zack Greinke: You put snot on the ball?
Sidney Ponson: I haven't got an arm like you, kid. I have to put anything on it I can find. Someday you will too.

maybe we should rename the thread, the death of hope.

Next year!

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Nice play.

Crisp's swing looks good

Well this game is off to a great start!

Jacobs goes yard today

Final Score:

NYY 7

KC1

I am glad arod isn't in there. It seems like whenenver espn shows highlights of him all his HR's are off the royals

I like how Ponson gets on top of batters. This is a really helpful approach.

Mother****er.

Ponson has some good life on his FB

can someone give some play by play on what happens? **** IT doesn't really fill me in much

Jeter clearly nervous.

cant stand that fugger

Ponson with a scoreless second.

That was a nice pitch to end the inning, actually.

not bad

IDK if you're at work but IIRC you can watch it for free on MLBTV

Ponson hasn't been that bad. Very good movement, and is usually around the plate.

With a little defense....:cuss:

Should be a scoreless game. This is true.

I'm not going to hate on Aviles for that play, that was tougher than it looked.

No harm, no foul on that play. Jacobs, on the other hand, needs to be kicked in the man sack.

Jeter would have made that play..

game is blacked out - and you have to pay for that service, anyway.

We really need some help on offense. Hits, I mean.

Jeter is one of the few starting SS in the majors that plays defense as poorly as Aviles.

Time for Jacobs to make amends.

Jack one out please, sir. Do not strke out.

Yeahahahhaahahaha

lol Swisher Sweets

Jacobs flashing massive power.

LMAO eat it yankee scum

We are awful at making contact.

God, Olivo. You really want a homer, eh?

Shocked that Butterball was running hard off the bat.

what happened

He broke his bat on that; it was actually a small flashing of power.

We might take more embarrassing swings than any club in the league.

Swisher, playing RF, lost Jacob's pop fly in the sun. Butterball scored.

Sietzer is really making a difference!

sometimes it looks like we're playing wiffleball.

Jacobs hit a broken bat fly ball to the infield, but Nick Swisher can't play defense so he didn't catch it. Butler went first to third on the play, but Swisher decided to throw it home for some reason. The ball went somewhere far away from home and Billy scored.

It does seem that he is. You can tell, on the whole, I think. We've gotten a lot of men on base in the 1st three games.