The construction should be “is the fact that Phil Hughes nor David Robertson could keep it close” or “is the fact that Phil Hughes and David Robertson couldn’t keep it close”. Double negative the way you have it.

Yeh, it’s 7:01 am and I am obsessing over grammar. Only because your making a mistake in regular English syntax is so rare - the intelligence revealed in your sentence construction is one of the pleasures of reading your stuff. It’s amazing as well, considering the hour at which you must usually write ATH, and that the other items must be written between the cross-eyed headaches that come from digesting legal briefs.

Your slang is also impeccable, by the standards of slang.

I will shut up now, and for the rest of the day.

Your opening line, “Cliff Lee looked like Neo on top of the building at the end of the Matrix” ...is the best description yet, of what I saw last night.

TC: I, three, love grammar. But more than that, I love when people make simple mistakes while pointing out when people make simple mistakes while correcting another’s usage. I’ve parsed Chris’s sentence six times and I can’t find the your/you’re error. I assume I’m missing it. However, just in case I’m not missing it, I’m going to guess you’re referring to the bit where he says “your making a mistake in regular English syntax is so rare.” The “your” there is the correct usage; “making” is a gerund in this case, functioning as a noun and the subject of the verb “is” (“is so rare”), not a participle, as would be the case if Chris said, “CC, you’re making a mistake in English syntax.” “Your (making a mistake) is rare” functions exactly as would “Your (intelligence) is remarkable.”

Anywho, I don’t actually love grammar. What I love is bacon. And I hope we can agree on that.

Your “neither/nor” is fine, Craig.  The pairing acts as a single negative.

Wake up, get to work, begin lifting the morning fog with a double espresso, start reading ATH and slide back into the nightmare of my 10th grade grammar class. 

This is not going to be a good day.

Cliff Lee knows there is no spoon.

@Moose - The Yankees still lost last night and Pedro is going tonight. I know it’s not 2003, but he’s not facing neither a juiced Jason Giambi nor (presumably) a ‘roided A-Rod tonight. Revel in that, if you will.

The game slowed down for everyone, not just Cliff Neo.  3:27?  For a pitchers duel?

Tonight will top four hours, mark my words.  I expect neither Pedro or AJ to have great stuff, and I expect both teams will come out swinging (off foul balls).

Haven’t heard a thing about whether George was there last night, but if he was the line-up today will be Jeter-Damon-Jeter-Damon-Jeter-Damon-Jeter-Damon-Jeter.

@Wooden - As a Red Sox fan I certainly take pleasure in seeing the Yankees lose and almost a perverse pleasure in seeing them lose in the WS.  Having suffered several WS/one game play-ins collapses as a fan I know how painful it can be to get so close and lose and I kind of want Yankee fans to suffer the same torment I did for decades

I can still hear the 1918 taunts and cannot utter (or type) Bucky *&$@^% Dent without adding the qualifier and a part of me wants to hear Yankees fan refer to Dave Roberts the same way.  I know it is irrational, childish and less than becoming but in this one area of my life I feel more like the vengeful Inigo Montoya than a loving Gandhi. 

Is there a counselor in the house?