By the by, Cone and Kay making much of how Wojo"s full last name ties the Yankees record for most letters in a player's name.
The other guy was Billy Knickerbocker, a reserve infielder in the 1930s.
Kay and Cone wanted to know what a "knickerbocker" is—somehow, neither had ever thought to ask—and they gave a sort of correct answer that it was a native New Yorker.
The term, in fact was popularized—and may have been invented—by the great Washington Irving, in his 1809 satire, "A History of New-York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker." Supposedly, a knickerbocker was a pair of baggy, wool pants, popular amongst our Dutch forefathers.
One of the earlier baseball clubs in New York was called the Knickerbockers. They came up with the "Knickerbocker Rules" for the game...which are, with some later adjustments, the rules under which baseball is still played.
Bill Knickerbocker played in all of 97 games, 1938-1940. He wasn't a bad player—hit as high as .317, one year for Cleveland—but the Yanks then barely used reserve infielders.
Nonetheless, some felt he was only on the Yanks as a living advertisement for Knickerbocker Beer, which was brewed on 92nd St. by Jacob Ruppert, and was the official beer of...the New York Giants.
This guy has NOTHING. Is his presence o the mound for the Yankees claimed to be a victory for the "scouting" camp, because it clearly has nothing to do with even simple arithmetic, much less advanced analytics. I guess that the guys who "watch the games" need new corrective lenses.
I don't think that Cashman actually consistently applies analytic methodology: otherwise, the Stanton and LeMahieu and Gardner signings would never have occurred, and Odor would not be on the team, along with Cashman's other dumpster diving acquisitions. The fact that they have a segregated analytics department should tell you all you need to know. The whole front office should be the analytics department.
Grampus had no business forcing him to slide. The corner outfielders are supposed to yield to the centerfielder. It was a pretty pulling of rank by an insecure veteran on his last legs.
I don’t miss Binder Joe but I do miss Sir DiDi. I also really liked Torreyes but they cashiered him too for some reason. Does anyone even know why? What happened to the Late Show?
Wezil, I have to say, I wonder if Stanton can actually see the ball from that weird, protective stance of his.
I have never seen a "power hitter" take so many straight fastballs down the middle. Whatever he's guessing, he's not up there looking to hit. He's not missing with that stupid, "bus boy's swing" of his. He's simply not swinging.
On another note, I really didn't like that they got Orange Roughy Odor. Thought he looked like a punk with the scraggly beard and the punch incident, along with three true outcomes offense.
Then again, he's had a few articles that he is actually a great teammate (caveat emptor), has actually bunted and gets happy when teammates do well. Plus, he's hitting lately in addition to the bunts.
You know what amazes me? It's what tender grapes these Yankees have on their roster.
Son, this is about your last time around. Come out and throw some fucking strikes. You get hit, that's how it goes. But all this ball, ball, wild pitch crap?
I am so so glad the Yankees didn't try to sign Bryce Harper when he was a free agent. Gee, what the FUCK WOULD WE DO WITH A LEFTY OUTFIELDER WHO PLAYS EVERY DAY AND WHO GETS ON BASE AND HITS FOR POWER!?!?!?
Boone is such an asshole. He'll be gone sooner or later, but Cashman is here forever and he is going to perpetually fill the manager role with assholes just like him.
Take a big, looping swing at a curveball and hit a weak grounder. Watch the ball rather than getting a good jump out of the box. Run hard for a few feet, then slow up well before you reach the base.
I dunno, but that would have earned me a talking-to from my Little League coach.
And this just after Gleyber had made a critical error in the field. Even Cone noted it.
It good to see Estevan in the Bigs. Even if we all know the Yankees will fuck up his career, he probably doesn't. He was Suzyn's Star of the Game last night. Aaahh, to be young and be a Yankee!
this from cbs sports: “ 5thw reds got Right-handers Caleb Cotham and Rookie Davis, along with infielders Eric Jagielo and Tony Renda from the yankees
The Reds nearly traded Chapman to the Dodgers earlier in the offseason, but after a police report surfaced that included allegations of domestic violence against Chapman,
Yankees closer Aroldis Chapman became the first player to be penalized under Major League Baseball's new Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse policy with Tuesday's announcement that he has been suspended for 30 regular-season games.
You know, who can get up for 162 games? I understand.
But at the same time, you can't charge everybody a small fortune for the game and have them keep coming back to this sort of performance.
The game has to move faster, and these guys have to find some way to stay motivated. If not, there's going to be a whole lot less money to pass around, very soon.
Ma Boone and the front office just marvel that these Railriders can play baseball at all instead of realizing that young players are the way the Rays and the Red Sux are putting their rosters together. You watch- they will send down all of them when they get a chance. Most will be traded or be left to rot down there until they are 32
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But tonight, we are starting Wojo from Barney Miller.
ReplyDeleteWhy? And why again?
By the way, Happy Buhner Day!
ReplyDeleteThis is the 33rd anniversary of him being traded for Ken Phelps.
Until his arm flies off from Boone's abuse.
ReplyDeleteCan we try Hal Linden now?
ReplyDeleteRon Glass?
ReplyDeleteWow. He actually got out of the first. Do you suppose he’s an opener?
ReplyDeleteAnd Stanton takes a strike, then swings through two, perfectly ordinary fastballs. Back to form, I see!
ReplyDeleteWhy, oh why is Stanton wearing pinstripes?
ReplyDeletesorry, that was a rhetorical question.
ReplyDeletethe good news? wojo’s went from 13.5 to 9.00 - now that’s progress!
his era, that is
ReplyDeleteBy the by, Cone and Kay making much of how Wojo"s full last name ties the Yankees record for most letters in a player's name.
ReplyDeleteThe other guy was Billy Knickerbocker, a reserve infielder in the 1930s.
Kay and Cone wanted to know what a "knickerbocker" is—somehow, neither had ever thought to ask—and they gave a sort of correct answer that it was a native New Yorker.
The term, in fact was popularized—and may have been invented—by the great Washington Irving, in his 1809 satire, "A History of New-York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker." Supposedly, a knickerbocker was a pair of baggy, wool pants, popular amongst our Dutch forefathers.
One of the earlier baseball clubs in New York was called the Knickerbockers. They came up with the "Knickerbocker Rules" for the game...which are, with some later adjustments, the rules under which baseball is still played.
But I digress...
Bill Knickerbocker played in all of 97 games, 1938-1940. He wasn't a bad player—hit as high as .317, one year for Cleveland—but the Yanks then barely used reserve infielders.
ReplyDeleteNonetheless, some felt he was only on the Yanks as a living advertisement for Knickerbocker Beer, which was brewed on 92nd St. by Jacob Ruppert, and was the official beer of...the New York Giants.
Don't ask.
Gardner pulled rank in a nasty way on that flyball--he could have caused a collision. That was Florial's ball to handle if he wanted it.
ReplyDeleteThis guy has NOTHING. Is his presence o the mound for the Yankees claimed to be a victory for the "scouting" camp, because it clearly has nothing to do with even simple arithmetic, much less advanced analytics. I guess that the guys who "watch the games" need new corrective lenses.
ReplyDeletewhoa - his era just dropped to 6.00
ReplyDeleteI don't think that Cashman actually consistently applies analytic methodology: otherwise, the Stanton and LeMahieu and Gardner signings would never have occurred, and Odor would not be on the team, along with Cashman's other dumpster diving acquisitions. The fact that they have a segregated analytics department should tell you all you need to know. The whole front office should be the analytics department.
ReplyDeleteGood thing Florial didn’t hurt himself making sure he didn’t run into Grampus who called him off
ReplyDeleteGrampus had no business forcing him to slide. The corner outfielders are supposed to yield to the centerfielder. It was a pretty pulling of rank by an insecure veteran on his last legs.
Deletepetty
DeleteStanton is so obviously a guess hitter.
ReplyDeleteAnd not very good at guessing either. Do not stand near him at the roulette table
DeleteI don’t miss Binder Joe but I do miss Sir DiDi. I also really liked Torreyes but they cashiered him too for some reason. Does anyone even know why? What happened to the Late Show?
ReplyDeletedid you see didi’s relay home? I think it bounced four times. his arm is shot.
ReplyDeleteIn that case I think he just rushed the throw.
Deletea double steal?!?!?
ReplyDeletewho are these guys?!?!?
looks like Gleyber is finally waking up
ReplyDeleteMaybe Gleyber is waking up, but at 359 feet that was a routine out in any other ballpark.
ReplyDeleteBig Head was all excited “deep to right!” And we all know how deep is deep there. 314? Something like that
ReplyDeleteWezil, I have to say, I wonder if Stanton can actually see the ball from that weird, protective stance of his.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen a "power hitter" take so many straight fastballs down the middle. Whatever he's guessing, he's not up there looking to hit. He's not missing with that stupid, "bus boy's swing" of his. He's simply not swinging.
Maybe he wants a raise.
Hoss,
ReplyDeleteLate to the conversation, but my great grandfather worked for Knickerbocker brewing in Troy (or thereabouts).
Boone is TRYING to lose this game.
ReplyDeleterufus, why is tonight different than any other night?
ReplyDeleteSadly, it is not.
ReplyDeleteAs you astutely point out.
Nearly anyone could do better than the bonehead.
he’s just in over his head
ReplyDeletethough it’s good to see some enthusiasm from the kids - not booooones idea
ReplyDeleteLittle League is over his head.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, I did like him better as a talking head on TV.
Dick, is it OK to call you Richie?
ReplyDeleteRailRiders combined no hitter over Rochester. No matter what happens in the bigs, Cash makes sure Scranton performs.
ReplyDeleteStanton, going the other way?
ReplyDeleteMust have been a mistake.
I’m not really a dick, rufus, though some of my friends might disagree.
ReplyDeleteEek. We're winning.
ReplyDeleteI have 'friends' like that. They're just jealous.
ReplyDeleteOK, you're Richie from here on.
is it my imagination, or has david cone become a homer?
ReplyDeletethe real dick allen hated being called ritchie - he thought it sounded like a kids name
ReplyDeleteCone saying that Odor is "earning his pinstripes," by hitting .296 since June 8, and "he really has to play now, doesn't he?"
ReplyDeleteOh, Dave, poor Dave.
Do you really think guys on the Yankees get to start because they play well?
On another note, I really didn't like that they got Orange Roughy Odor. Thought he looked like a punk with the scraggly beard and the punch incident, along with three true outcomes offense.
ReplyDeleteThen again, he's had a few articles that he is actually a great teammate (caveat emptor), has actually bunted and gets happy when teammates do well. Plus, he's hitting lately in addition to the bunts.
Yeah, he's kinda growing on me.
OK, be a Dick if you want. And that's what I'll call you.
ReplyDeleteI've been called worse, by worse people than post here.
I know. I hate to agree, but it looks like the office boy may have found an effective and cheap lefty bat - they don’t come much cheaper than that
ReplyDeleterufus. -there are worse people than the ones who post here?!?!?
ReplyDeleteuh oh - boy genius is thinking again
ReplyDeleteDick, PLENTY worse. We call them Mets fans, and the even worse racist townie asshole bahstahn fans.
ReplyDeleteOh NO, not Nick Nelson!!!
ReplyDeleteCan Gleyber be moved permanently to DH. Move Stanton to SS, couldn't be much worse.
ReplyDeleteWilson didn't work at blowing the lead. Bonehead had to go to the next best option.
ReplyDeleteI'd hate to see Stanton's zone rating (or whatever the ANALyticals call it) at SS. To negative infinity, and beyond!
ReplyDeleteWhy the living fuck Nick Nelson is still on this roster?
ReplyDeletejiminy cricket - we might lose this game without chapman breaking a sweat
ReplyDeleteSo, Gleyber gets one run with his bat...and gives up two with his glove. Just the sort of player he has become.
ReplyDeleteAnd not only are we pitching Nick Nelson, but he's it. NO ONE up in the pen.
One run lead in the 8th.
ReplyDeleteIs flop-sweat warming up yet?
Boone blows.
ReplyDeleteWe're just handing the game to them on a platter...someone have a prop bet for runs Nelson is giving up this inning?
ReplyDeleteAnd why is it again that, in July, we did not have a starter?
ReplyDeletefuck
ReplyDeleteCan Stanton pitch?
ReplyDeleteCan't be worse.
No, Rufus, no one's warming up. A pretty critical game...and it's all in the hands of Nick Nelson.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's planning.
And we're trying to make the playoffs?
ReplyDeleteAt least now there's an empty base when he walks Realmuto.
ReplyDeleteWow.
ReplyDeleteYou know what amazes me? It's what tender grapes these Yankees have on their roster.
Son, this is about your last time around. Come out and throw some fucking strikes. You get hit, that's how it goes. But all this ball, ball, wild pitch crap?
Asshole manager.
ReplyDeleteAh, good: we have the all-important, righty-lefty match-up for their best hitter!
ReplyDeleteletting nelson pitch to a lefty with a righty on deck?
ReplyDeleteRanger, Karnak says NO.
ReplyDeleteLOL Rufus...
ReplyDeleteI am so so glad the Yankees didn't try to sign Bryce Harper when he was a free agent. Gee, what the FUCK WOULD WE DO WITH A LEFTY OUTFIELDER WHO PLAYS EVERY DAY AND WHO GETS ON BASE AND HITS FOR POWER!?!?!?
ReplyDeleteWinnie,
ReplyDeleteThey would rest him when he gets hot. In an important game.
Boone is such an asshole. He'll be gone sooner or later, but Cashman is here forever and he is going to perpetually fill the manager role with assholes just like him.
ReplyDeletethanks gleyber - nice hustle - looked like robbie the jogger on that one
ReplyDeleteCan't anyone throw a strike anymore?
ReplyDeleteI'll say, Dick Allen!
ReplyDeleteTake a big, looping swing at a curveball and hit a weak grounder. Watch the ball rather than getting a good jump out of the box. Run hard for a few feet, then slow up well before you reach the base.
I dunno, but that would have earned me a talking-to from my Little League coach.
And this just after Gleyber had made a critical error in the field. Even Cone noted it.
and who is going to pitch the ninth? or god forbid - the tenth?
ReplyDeleteLooks like Rolaids...
ReplyDeleteoh no - it’s going to be sweating time again
ReplyDeletethis was supposed to be a lights out bullpen?
ReplyDelete11 walks tonight
ReplyDelete11 walks and 1 hit batter by the Yanks' crack pitching staff tonight.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the team has a 3-man bench tonight, and yet has had to rely on Nick Nelson for the 8th inning.
ReplyDeleteHow the fuck do you possibly come up with that bad a roster? How do you have no bench AND no bullpen?
I know, I know: it's the magic of Brian Cashman!
Ah, like every other Yankee now, Chapman has his excuse: a bad fingernail.
ReplyDeleteExpect two more walks and the long ball.
that was a nuke laloosh!
ReplyDeleteEl Chapo must be able to afford a manicurist on his salary. Spent it on booze and women and wasted the rest.
ReplyDeleteIt good to see Estevan in the Bigs. Even if we all know the Yankees will fuck up his career, he probably doesn't. He was Suzyn's Star of the Game last night. Aaahh, to be young and be a Yankee!
ReplyDeleteDidn't El Chapo shoot up a garage too??
ReplyDeleteKriske Kreme is warming up...we better win it now....
ReplyDeleteWow what a blunder....
ReplyDeleteFloral has overall shown good plate discipline and a good rate of contact so far. Don't fuck this up, Cashman
ReplyDeleteI believe it was he shot up the garage in an attempt to intimidate his wife, as to say "This is what'll happen to you."
ReplyDeleteit was because of him a hooting upa garage that the intern was able to acquire him so cheaply
ReplyDeleteYou'd think that with all the ceramic pastes and such the Yanks should have fixed up Chapman.
ReplyDeleteThey have to have more outs due to baserunning miscues than they do team RBI's
ReplyDeletehe allegedly choked his girlfriend, fired a gun in the garage in domestic incident in 2015
ReplyDeleteGoing on contact. The Yank's epithet.
ReplyDeleteFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm ready to go into the garage and fire a few clips off.....
ReplyDeletethis from cbs sports: “ 5thw reds got Right-handers Caleb Cotham and Rookie Davis, along with infielders Eric Jagielo and Tony Renda from the yankees
ReplyDeleteThe Reds nearly traded Chapman to the Dodgers earlier in the offseason, but after a police report surfaced that included allegations of domestic violence against Chapman,
What Kevin said.
ReplyDeleteThat and boone sucks
ca$hman sucks worse
HAL sucks all
and then, a few months later:
ReplyDeleteYankees closer Aroldis Chapman became the first player to be penalized under Major League Baseball's new Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse policy with Tuesday's announcement that he has been suspended for 30 regular-season games.
less than four games per bullet
ReplyDeleteHow do you possibly NOT bunt Odor in the 9th? The guy's just demonstrated—twice!—that he can do it.
ReplyDeleteWhy, why, why, why not go for it there? Why do you possibly want to leave the game up to Brooks Kriske?
horace, you expect boooooone to be thinking?
ReplyDeletelike a real manager?
Dumb strategy by Girardi. You have to shoot for two runs with the ghost runner. One run is just ho lb. Doing serve.
ReplyDeleteHolding serve
ReplyDeleteomg - another bunt?!?!?
ReplyDeleteYankees win!
ReplyDeleteLamarre is not wearing a buzzer....
ReplyDeletewell, at least they didn’t fuck this one
ReplyDeleteLamarre
ReplyDeleteIs a star
Oh shit. Seven year contract for LaMarre to be announced first thing in the morning.
ReplyDeleteHeddy! I mean Headley!
ReplyDeleteNice to see someone who wants to be there, and wants to play every day.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they should think about that Judge trade?
ReplyDeleteWell, all's well that ends well.
ReplyDeleteBut I gotta say...for much of this game I was most aware of the funereal background noise from the Stadium.
Games like this—sloppy, full of distracted players, endless walks, 4 1/2 hours to play 10 innings—are going to be the death of "MLB."
Thank goodness for the call-ups.
HC 66, that pretty much describes every MLB player. Of course a career mediocrity is even more desperate to hang on.
ReplyDeleteYou know, who can get up for 162 games? I understand.
ReplyDeleteBut at the same time, you can't charge everybody a small fortune for the game and have them keep coming back to this sort of performance.
The game has to move faster, and these guys have to find some way to stay motivated. If not, there's going to be a whole lot less money to pass around, very soon.
Ma Boone and the front office just marvel that these Railriders can play baseball at all instead of realizing that young players are the way the Rays and the Red Sux are putting their rosters together. You watch- they will send down all of them when they get a chance. Most will be traded or be left to rot down there until they are 32
ReplyDelete@Wezil1....+100
ReplyDeletePaging Mr. Park, Mr. Park;
ReplyDeleteSir your limo to Scranton awaits.
No sir, you are driving it.
The Archangel