And we're off to a great start for Joe Morgan: "I've watched Dice-K pitch several times on TV this year." Ummmm, really Joe? Because this is only his 4th start. Glad you understand the meaning of the word "several."

Four times is a few Joe.

"I think the Yankees are trying to win THIS year." - Joe. Uh huh, yep, I'm pretty sure that's the plan!

Jon and Joe go into a protracted discussion about the lack of base-stealers in the Yankee lineup, and how the team has yet to steal a base this season. Immediately, Johnny Damon steals second. Good times.

I'm enjoying these Baseball Tonight commercials with the guys being involved in historical baseball events. The one they just showed with Gammons yelling "he's bringing the heat!" to Kruk right before the "Shot Heard 'Round the World" was great.

"Manny can handle any pitch" Joe Morgan, moments after Morgan was saying Manny was a great hitter because he didnt swing at a pitch he couldnt handle.

I also enjoyed Joe explanation of Manny's career success against the Yankees: he's from New York, so he wants to do well against his hometown team. Uhh, does he know Manny Ramirez? Does that sound like something Manny would take into consideration? I love Manny to death, he's one of my all-time favorite players, but he's a guy who sometimes doesn't keep up with balls and strikes at the plate, what makes Joe think he would consider the notion of doing well against his hometown team?

Jon Miller says after Casey's ground rule double, "That's a home in run in any other ball park....380 feet".

Well I just checked the right field dimensions of all current baseball parks and come up with Turner Field (390 feet), Comerica Park (388 feet), Ameriquest Field (381 feet), and PETCO Park (387 feet) as being longer than Fenway's 380 feet..

Seriously, how many times are we gonna have to hear about the fact that the Sox traveled a lot the first couple of weeks of the season (with the map/graphic to go with it)? We get it, it sucked for them. They seem to have recovered, let's talk about something else.

that was a matchup made in japan right there...right joe

Can you feel one of these 4.5 hour 9 inning Red Sox-Yankee Games coming on? I can.

I wish Joe would have taken the opportunity of the DiceK-Matsui matchup to compare the flashiness or whatever of Japanese players to African Americans like himself.

"you get a feel for the game and thats what managers do...and at that time he didn't want to walk Manny..."

Joe defending Yanks manager Girardi letting Mussina pitch to Manny and subsequently lose the game on the very next pitch...that's why you don't manage anymore Joe

Umm, hello? Family Guy is on right now. Why are you watching April baseball?

"Damon does not have a strong throwing arm."

Woah there Jon, easy on the earth-shattering revelations tonight.

@Anon 9:19:

Family Guy was a rerun. Funny, but a rerun nonetheless.

How about the whole insane sliding head first vs leg first discussion when Coco stole the base..."you can't bend your leg you can your arm..." WHAT?

Joe has spent 10 minutes telling us how pitchers are pitching Ellsbury inside now, as opposed to last year. I get it already.

I predict another 3-4 references to this.

Shouldn't Molina be getting a little of the blame for being crossed up on two pitches, leading directly to two runs? He better be getting a talking to from Yadier and Benji later.

re: vhschola

Yeah, I have no idea what he was trying to say. I mean players injure themselves LESS often sliding with their feet. He's making it seem like its more dangerous for some reason.

This game is taking so long, ESPN's gonna cut to the first hand of the World Series of Poker before the final out is recorded. Either that or trick shot billiards.

We're gonna need a "mental health day" trying to follow every argument you & Joe make tonight, Jon.
Maybe Gary Thorne on ESPN Radio can make more sense.

"Roughly 210 minutes of award-winning broadcasting awaits."

I believe the proper term for this is "misunderestimating".

Gawd, Daisuke is frustrating. Dude has a 6 run lead and is nibbling and nibbling. Throw some strikes!

Joe decides he doesn't care what he's currently talking about so he starts talking about how much he likes Wang, Chien-Ming Wang that is. It would make sense if it had anything at all to do with the game. I think Joe might have a secret he's not telling us

hands... hands... watch this right here, hands...

Joe: "(Casey)'s got that chicken wing thing here."

I wonder whos brilliant idea to use the Tiger/Manny comparison. Would have been more appropriate if Tiger won Masters...scratch that! Never appropriate!!
SNB is truly painful.

"slide piece"? "funny pitch"?

Miller just said, "The Yankees are playing without David Ortiz, Big Papi, tonight..." and there was stunned silence until Morgan filled it with more meaningless divel.

Ha. Matzusaki. did anyone catch that one?

Foul ball lands about an inch away from Peter Gammons. Joe and Jon start to jokingly bust on him for not trying to catch the ball
Gammons shoots back that he has bad/frozen hands. Joe puts on his player cap to remind those of us that haven't played the game
that it was a good idea not to catch it because "the ball hurts". They don't show Gammons when he responds but his tone says it all
"I know that" roughly translated "I would kill you if ESPN let me"

I was listening to the ESPN Radio broadcast and Gary Thorne is continuing his tailspin into senility.

"Dice-K Matsui delivers the 2-0."

Apparently, Gary Thorne refers to all Asians like a soldier in the movie "Platoon": they're all the same.

My hope is that one day Peter Gammons screams "I can't take this anymore, YOU'RE AN IDIOT JOE MORGAN!!!" live on the air.

There's no way he'd get fired. He's a legend, and all of America would stand and applaud. If the WWL did try to fire him, there would be such an outpouring of support for Gammons that they'd just solve the problem by firing Morgan. Oh how I can dream...

Dave Campbell on the ESPN Radio side says "slide piece" all the time. Speaking of...

Thorne on the Ortiz jersey "flak": "Why did the guy say something so early? Why didn't he wait until the stadium was finished?"
Campbell: "Just like they did with Hoffa?"
Thorne: "Oooh!"

Joe and Jon are obsessed with stolen base talk tonight: the Yankees don't steal bases anymore, the Red Sox used to not steal bases but they do now, Dave Roberts stole a base, a Maury Wills reference and a Davey Lopes discussion.

How have we gotten this far without discussing Dave Concepcion's 41 stolen bases in 1974?

Jon reminds us that Johnny Damon was a key contributer in the 2004 Red Sox World Championship team. Reeeeaaalllly?

whats the count for Jon Miller getting the teams confused? My count is at four for times he's said Yankees instead of Red Sox

I thought I was drunk when I heard that, too, wishmewell; Jon: "The Yankees won the World Series in 2004, the...Red Sox won."

Miller talks to his audience like they have never seen a baseball game before. It's really, really annoying.

sounds like joe morgan has a thing for mrs. robinson. coo-coo-c-choo!

I thought Jons earlier asian racism with Matsuzaki was taking over when he started his call of the bottom of the 7th with the line "that was the song I'll be lovin' you long time by Mariah Carey" and then I checked it out and it's a real song. Reeeeeaaaaaaalllllllly?

Jon then said "The album's gonna drop April 15th." Word.

miller just mixed up matsuzaka and okajima. what a loser.

A shot of Faneuil Hall, Jon Miller: "Is that John Adams? The second president of the United States. That's John Adams...no we're being told that's not John Adams. It's Samuel Adams"

Joe Morgan: "John Adams is a movie on HBO right now"

Classic. And it reminds me, why the hell am I watching this still?

Did Joe Morgan really just utter the phrase, "Ya know, get some amnesty."

He's said plenty of shit much dumber in the past and tonight, but for some reason that really got me.

We need running tallies of the number of player and team names that Jon Miller mistakes/reverses. Its rampant at this point.

Did anyone hear Joe Morgan's piece on the steroid crap?

SCENE: 2016 Presidential Debates
"Senator Morgan, how will you deal with rising crime?"
"Well, I don't think we should be focusing on the people who are living the wrong way, but we should be patting the people who aren't committing crimes on the back."

(And don't get him started on crime statistics. You know who'd be a great attorney general? Davey Concepcion.)

"Double Play!" Well I'll be damned. As a Broadcaster in a rinkydink market this gives me motivation to keep on keepin on...to get better at what I do on a daily basis. Effin Hacks, these two are!!!

"Struck him out...oh wait, he fouled it off" - Miller

That was a painful reminded that Jon Miller does not actually watch the game

I want to repeat exactly what wishmewell said, only this time it's top of the 9th, two outs.

Miller: "He started off shakily."

On ESPNRadio, Gary Thorne and Dave Campbell have the following conversation:

Dave Campbell: "..and they have to go to Tampa to face the De...the Rays. See, we finally got it right."

Gary Thorne: "We blew the devil."

Same time, Wednesday night? Joe's gonna be there.

Did anybody hear them call Molina "Varitek"? Wrong team guys.

Hilarious.

But "Matsuzaki" was hilariouser.

Thorne called Dice-K "Matsui" about 5 times before i just HAD to turn it off...