Monday, October 26, 2020

The Yankee hot stove is tepid

As the Dodgers close in, the Yankiverse offers little cud to chew.  Some juicy clods of turf: 

Suggested possible trades.  El Chapo to the Dodgers? Luke for a pitcher? Wouldn't it be sweet? Then again, doesn't LA already have a closer who blows big games? Do they need two? Sigh. A wish list that probably will not happen. 

Foreseeing the 2020 Rule 5 draft. Last year, we were picked clean. This year, we must protect players who never saw a pitch in 2020. Is this be the year we finally lose Kyle Holder? A look at the nobodies from Nowhere. (Note: This site has pop-up ad issues.) 

A call for the Yankees to spend big. Here here! Who doesn't want Halligator Arms Hal to spend his wad. This also raises the possibility of a strike next November. Interesting. The sad reality: We don't seem to get anywhere by spending more.

Didi says Gary Sanchez needs "a change of scenery." From mouths of babes. If the Death Star doesn't move Gary this winter, it means his value is Absolute Zero, which is not supposed to exist. Right now, I'm trying not to think about Gary. It has the effect of a jailer rattling my cage. Calgon Beauty Beads, take me away!

Rooting for Tampa to give us Game Seven. I still believe the best Yankee outcome is for the Rays to win... and then be expected to pay the talent, rather than trade it. 

Be careful what you wish for, Rays fans. 

9 comments:

HoraceClarke66 said...

Sadly, you're right as usual, Duque. We must root for TB, obnoxious as they are.

JM said...

Logical, but I want the Dodgers to win. They have a great team. They deserve it. Tampa is a bunch of plucky in-over-their-headers who need to be spanked.

Of course, with first and third and nobody out, the attempt to steal home shows that they are capable of spanking themselves.

We'll still suck, no matter who wins.

Alphonso said...

The Rays will be fine and they wont pay for the talent.

The Yankees will. At which point, the hunger ends and the days of strikeouts and errors begin.

Tampa has found a way

We have not.

We still think over-paying for past deeds secures victory. It just secures a race for the wild card, at an extremely high cost.

The Yankees can't win using the failed ideas and approaches of the past decade.

Pepetuating strategies of past failure results in the 2020 Yankees. Can't win. Can't excite. Just lose.

Have you ever tried swimming tied to a parachute? That's how the Yankees must feel about Giancarlo. Seven more fucking years. That is like a life sentence. All the " best years" of our talented kids will be wasted. Dragged into mediocrity.

That burden ( and don't believe the hype that the team is excited to have him ) wears you out, impedes meaningful progress and, ultimately, drowns you.

13bit said...

We all know by now that it's not how MUCH the Yankees spend, but HOW they spend it. One man looms large behind the CASH decisions. We all know who he is and we all know he must go.

HoraceClarke66 said...

I think those are some good points.

Much as I despise "three true outcomes" baseball, no matter what kind of ball the Yanks adhere to, they're going to suck as long as they don't have an organization that can adequately nurture talent, and make sure players stay healthy and improve as they mature.

That's what they've been missing for 20 years. That's what they will go on missing until the Brain retires. (He won't be fired.)

Anonymous said...

Our only hope is that Yankee fans go underground and not spend money on the franchise until Cashew is gone.
That may be happening anyhow. My older brother started getting season tickets in 1996. [nice timing huh]. Nice deal on 3 seats after the '95 strike season. The cost went up and up. He dropped one then moved back, actually in the shade under the overhang. After the new stadium opened he moved farther back and down the line. tThen had to switch to a "select package" ticket. The costs could not be justified, even through he gave most away to clients.
He clearly saw some great games back in the day, but he told me on Sunday that he is not renewing them. He will tell them why if they badger him and he thinks like us. I wonder how many others will do that, including Corp.'s which can't afford it anymore.
The Archangel

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