Yankees vs Oakland going for 5 in a row.

A's 3rd baseman lost one in the sun and the Gardner did the same except it resulted on a double.

Keep it up, Big Mike!

Only a matter of time. He is so damn frustrating.

Just brutal! Just gave up two runs with 2 outs on a meatball
This guy is a joke. 3-2 Oakland

tex is just done. Tex will need to juice the last month of the year to gussy up his stats and hope he doesn't get caught. Unless he is satisfied with the 250 million he already collected and just retire

Unreal. He just cannot stop the 2 out and 2 strike failures.

hahaha . He is better off going to the plate without a bat

an infield single for our resident slugger with cinder blocks for feet. Wer are blessed

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Mike

But he had a great run with the yanks. Would you have preferred the yanks not sign him back in 2009? Tex is breaking down but you can't question the guy's heart or effort here with the yanks since day one. Oh wait you just did!

All some of you do is complain about how much money these guys make. Stop watching if it bothers you that much.

He is a mercenary who was going to sign with the Sox but at the last minute took the bigger offer from the Yanks. Good move on his part but I have no more allegience to him then he has to the Yanks.

His great run for the Yanks is a 250 average when he manages to play. His first year was excellent but after that not really. Don't knoew why he fell of the table the past years but I can't pin the juice on him

No run DMC

Nasty.

getting back on top. Who knows, maybe that crappy little hit will get Teix moving. His glove is indispensable, regardless.

fastball back.

In comment 12967139 xman said:

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He is a mercenary who was going to sign with the Sox but at the last minute took the bigger offer from the Yanks. Good move on his part but I have no more allegience to him then he has to the Yanks. His great run for the Yanks is a 250 average when he manages to play. His first year was excellent but after that not really. Don't knoew why he fell of the table the past years but I can't pin the juice on him

If you don't know why, you haven't been watching the games. He became a pure pull hitter as a lefty when he signed with the Yanks, and has been killed by the shift in recent years, and he's never adjusted. He probably loses 25-35 hits a year due to the shift, which is essentially the difference between him hitting .240 and .290

Back to back botched plays by Didi and Castro. Two errors in a row sets up 1st and 3rd with no outs in the 8th for the A's. Don't blow this.

Someone needs to chew the infielders out. WTF

Including Nose hair.

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Back to back botched plays by Didi and Castro. Two errors in a row sets up 1st and 3rd with no outs in the 8th for the A's. Don't blow this.

Didi had a bit of a bad hop, but should have had it. Castro didn't know how the attack that ball. He was going to get ahead of it then changed for the backhand and then botched it because he wasn't sure what to do - indecision. Blah.

my ass. His foot actually came down on the "line."

Nice 5 in row keep it up boys.

even though just A's still tough to do to get 4 game sweep

1 game below .500.

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So? You knew that?

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Does the sand in your vag itch really bad?

the shift has utterly destroyed him though, and the idea that a professional hitter who once had pretty solid spray charts can't do anything more than ground out feebly into the shift is frustrating to watch. Without him we don't win in 2009, but come the fuck on, you're telling me you can't make a meaningful ----ing adjustment in six years?

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the shift has utterly destroyed him though, and the idea that a professional hitter who once had pretty solid spray charts can't do anything more than ground out feebly into the shift is frustrating to watch. Without him we don't win in 2009, but come the fuck on, you're telling me you can't make a meaningful ----ing adjustment in six years?

Didn't Kevin Long call him out for that? I remember Long trying to make an adjustment to his swing and Teix wasn't able to become comfortable with it so he went back to his old ways

and he is coming off the DL Tuesday?

let Beltran DH and Ref in right

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let Beltran DH and Ref in right

Ref goes back to SWB when ARod comes off the DL. Hicks would be RF.
ARod does not play the field. The 1B experiment died last spring training without even getting off the ground.

He will heat up and maybe as Beltran starts to cool down be can pick up the slack. That's how it usually works in baseball. But what drives me nuts is his insistence to try and pull everything. Every now and then he does hit one the opposite way but only by accident.

I don't remember him as a pull happy hitter until he became a Yankee. I can understand middle in and inside pitches trying to pull. But on those pitches on the outside down and away whether it be a change up or sinker away he always tries to hook it and hits a measly weak ground ball in to the teeth of the shift. I don't understand why he can't just poke those pitches the other way. Drives me crazy.

Kenny Singleton always says the best way to get out of a slump is to take everything up the middle. Not Tex. it's pull pull pull. Rip shit or bust.

In comment 12967317 Semipro Lineman said:

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In comment 12967261 Dunedin81 said: Quote: the shift has utterly destroyed him though, and the idea that a professional hitter who once had pretty solid spray charts can't do anything more than ground out feebly into the shift is frustrating to watch. Without him we don't win in 2009, but come the fuck on, you're telling me you can't make a meaningful ----ing adjustment in six years? Didn't Kevin Long call him out for that? I remember Long trying to make an adjustment to his swing and Teix wasn't able to become comfortable with it so he went back to his old ways

He did. Teix has decided that he accepts a low-.200s average so long as he gets his 30+ dingers (prorated over his now injury-plagued seasons). Which is probably why he last hit 100 RBIs in 2011. Yes injuries, yes 84 in a truncated 2012, but with Ellsbury and Gardner in front of you 100+ should be in the realm of possibility.