That was a big Yankee win.*
1. Once again, DJ LeMahieu for MVP. It's time to start chanting.
2. Big clutch HR for Aaron Judge. Folks were obsessing over his failure to pull the ball, but he was having other flops as well: The dingers he was donging weren't coming at critical moments. Yesterday, though...
3. Clint Frazier supposedly returning. No more Red Thunder. From now on, the Red Menace.
4. Ryan McBroom dealt to KC for Latino 16-year-old money. So ends, for now, the saga of Brigadoon Refsynder, who brought the Broomster from Toronto.
For now, Yanks have home-field advantage through the ALCS.
*All Yankee wins are big Yankee wins.
Judge has had several huge home runs this season. Bottom 8 against the rays with two outs and two strikes after the dearnaud debacle comes to mind.
ReplyDeletethat was sweet. Oakland was getting in my head, looking like those young teams that used to knock the Yankees out of the playoffs every year -- Tigers, Astros, even the Angels a long while back. They were just hungrier and seemed younger and faster at all facets while our guys all tried to hit 5-run homers. Truth be told, it might be in Yankees' best interests if Boston got hot and maybe knocked Oakland out of the scrum ...
ReplyDeleteNah. That's a bad idea. Give them no hope.
ReplyDeleteThe game had a wonderful ending. But: Is Dom a 5-inning pitcher from now thru Thanksgiving?
re Ref's end, it's truer than you know. Despite hitting over .300 in Louisville this year, Reds released Ref last week.
ReplyDeleteSWB is one game head in division with two games to play for getting into the playoffs. So I'm not sure if these guys are coming up so quickly...after all the Governor's Cup is within reach...
ReplyDeleteRe: Frazier
ReplyDeleteI'll believe it when I see it. Right now he's still "The Red Herring" as far as I'm concerned.
Re: McBroom
If his name wasn't McBroom would he have the traction he has here? Also, No disrespect but wasn't he kind of an anti-juju in the final analysis? Almost every time he was invoked we lost the sweep.
I'm glad that they got some international bonus money for him. There's this kid named Escoba who sounds pretty good. Maybe they can get him.
Quick note on yesterday's win:
Did anyone else notice how hands on Boone was? He gave the on the mound per talk to German and the was seen talking to him in between innings and then, even more impressively appeared to walk down the length of the dugout firing up the team. Way better than popping bubbles. Maybe he learned something this year.
Doug K.
McBroom is a metaphor, a symbol, a cleaning tool at McDonald's. It's not just the player, it's all he represents. The no chance minor leaguer, who should get a chance but never does. The hard-working guy who somehow never earns the favor of the Yankees brass, who would rather spend their time punishing Frazier. Sure, we haven't needed McBroom yet. But he may turn into a Buehner. Time will tell.
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ReplyDeleteThere's this kid named Escoba who sounds pretty good.
I see what you did there.
ReplyDeleteHey, didja see today's lineup (posted at MLB.com) -- ?? Guess who is batting 8th, as the DH
-- The Red Menace!
LBJ,
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Doug K.
What did he do there?
ReplyDeleteAnd much as I was praising Coops a post ago, McBroom is exactly the sort of dumb-ass dump he quietly does all the time.
ReplyDeleteA player developed to that level—who, for all we know, could beat out both of the Yanks' current first basemen—handed off money TOWARD picking up some 16-year-old of unknown ability?
That seems to me about the least you could possibly get for the guy. Why not at least bring him up with the expanded rosters, get him a few major-league at-bats, and see what he can do?
It's just a waste, along the lines of dumping Sonny Gray for nothing, when he still had value.
ReplyDeleteWhat did he do there?
The Yanks traded Ryan McBroom for "international" bonus money which, these days, means the money in question will be bestowed upon some very young Latin player.
The crafty Doug K. suggested that perhaps we should look at "this kid named Escoba who sounds pretty good".
Even if you don't speak Spanish, Google translate is your amigo.
My hat is always off to someone who goes for a joke that maybe 3 idiotic people will get...in this case, me and two other guys...
Here's a key fucking game, and we put in Ryan Fucking Dull. Why? Because he used to be on the A's roster. And he gives up runs. What the fuck are we doing? This is absolutely fucking bizarre. In the history of baseball, no team has ever won a World Series with a player named Dull on it. You can look it up...and on top of that...he's a Dull pitcher.
ReplyDeleteNow Not In A Chance Adams gives up a fucking HR. WTG Fucking Larry.
ReplyDelete#FYL #LarryManBoobs
Lovely...we somehow got 6 great innings from Happ and then they put in Dull, a player they should not have even signed because he was so awful all year elsewhere, and he promptly looses the game for us. And then they put in Adams right after to ensure there is no way of coming back. I guess they really wanted to rest the entire pitching staff by putting those idiots in instead of trying to figure out how to win another one over on the A's. F' them!
ReplyDeleteNow Flaherty and Kay are justifying this Dull pitching move giving us some corporate speak about saving the pitching staff instead of going for home field in the playoffs. That's right Cashman, you keep repeating the same thing over and over again...viewers start believing this shit.
ReplyDeleteOh, Hal, this game will not be a Yankee Classic. FYH.
Is this still going on? When the appropriately-named Dull gave up runs to the appropriately-named Noisy (whatever) I switched to the Houston/Toronto game and watched Verlander toss his 120-pitch no hitter, the third of his career (2007, 2011, and 2019!). He is only one of six who have achieved this. Let's hear it for the old guys who can still deliver!
ReplyDeleteRed needs to get on here.
ReplyDeleteNice job by Didi.
Sorry, Voit. Who whiffs on yet another questionable call.
ReplyDeleteGardy party!!!
ReplyDeleteOk...I take that part about not being Yankee Classic back..LOL
ReplyDeleteFord!!!!
There's a Ford in the Yankees future!!!
ReplyDeleteBelly to belly!
ReplyDeleteThat was a big Yankees win, no doubt about it.
ReplyDeleteYALDI! YALDI! YALDI!
ReplyDeleteAnd yeah, sure glad we didn't get that Verlander guy. Sonny Gray, he was the choice.
ReplyDeleteThe choicest!
ReplyDeleteVerlander's old. Sonny Gray still had years of control!
ReplyDeleteVerlander will get tired by the end of the year from throwing all those strikeouts. Who would want that?
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