Billy Crystal will bat leadoff today

[markvid]

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2008/news/story?id=3291089

For those of you who have it, it will be in HD on YES at 1 ET.

 

[hockeybeat]

Poor Paul Maholm. He's in a lose-lose situation.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Not if he ear-holes Crystal on the first pitch.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Will Billy Crystal slide spikes up? Is this now the Yankee way?

 

[PeteyPirate]

I see Crystal as more of a 5th or 6th in the lineup type of player. I've got to wonder what Girardi is thinking here.

 

[markvid]

I see Crystal as more of a 5th or 6th in the lineup type of player. I've got to wonder what Girardi is thinking here.

Maybe he's thinking get Billy in and out before he breaks a hip?
A 60-year old on the field is an insult and a joke.

 

[hockeybeat]

Not if he ear-holes Crystal on the first pitch.

Guaranteed, if Malhom dumps Crystal with the first pitch, there will be a columnist who rips him.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Maholm? Damn.

I wanted Crystal to homer off Matt Morris, or at the very least, hit him in the nuts.

 

[markvid]

This is how I'd like to see Billy's graphic read his 1st time up

Billy Crystal
Tool who doesn't belong here

 

[friend of a friend]

Not if he ear-holes Crystal on the first pitch.

If I had a HOF ballot, Maholm would be a lock.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Not if he ear-holes Crystal on the first pitch.

Guaranteed, if Malhom dumps Crystal with the first pitch, there will be a columnist who rips him.

Now that just depends on how hard he hits Crystal.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Billy Crystal will clog up the bases.

 

[markvid]

That got me thinking...might be fun to hit him with a 30-MPH palm ball, then when the outrage starts, just say, hey, he's a comedian, he can't take a joke?

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

I object to Billy Crystal being referred to as a comedian.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Flip him!

-- J. Brosnan

 

[JR]

Billy Crystal in the lineup for a spring training game isn't as big a joke as spring training.

Nice revenue streams and something to keep the snowbirds amused for a few weeks but give me a break.

 

[markvid]

Not in HD on DirecTV, but is in SD. I don't get it.

 

[BYH]

YES is in mid-season mode when it comes to spin control.

Michael Kay said, presumably with a straight face, that Shelley Duncan didn't mean to spike Iwamura near the nuts b/c he looked surprised when he got tossed. Ooooooooooookay.

 

[BYH]

and if there's a more pathetic, lame, wannabehangeron sight than Crystal jogging with Derek Jeter, well, I've never seen it.

 

[BYH]

Crystal gets ahead 3-1 and then flails lamely at the next two pitches. Then he gets a standing O. Christ.