I fear we will look back on these glory days (without defaming Springsteen’s lyrics as in an earlier post) as one brief shining moment (“Camelot”?) when we were free – free, I tell ya! – from the chains of pornographically long contracts, thanks to COVID-19, and gave the next generation a glimpse of what awaits them, most likely in any uniform but certainly not one with pinstripes.
Those straggling back from the IL – from a variety of categories – are about to send the heroes of the last days back to Scranton or to whatever better contracts they may have legitimately earned.
Just look at the best plays of the Phillies games. Think you’re gonna see these young, fit, intelligent men in August? Or September? Certainly not October ...
Dream on.
We will welcome back the walking wounded with great fanfares and … oops! … sag back to fourth place as we are trounced by the great mixtures of youth with just enough seniority of Boston, Tampa Bay, and Toronto. (Sorry, Gardy: I have loved you for so many years, you are just making my break with you as painful as any dame has ever shredded my heart.)
The lesson – blindingly obvious to anyone except Foodstamps, the Brain, and Boonie – is that we can only succeed as a 27-time-world-champion team – and finally surpass that record – is with a new generation.
Clear the benches! And not because of shenanigans in a dugout. Cleanse the House that Ruth Built!
Kindly stop abusing the name of Hedy Lamarr: SHE WAS A GOOD WOMAN!
Seriously: just have a look at her amazing bio on Wikipedia: not only was she famous for being one of the first naked women in films (“Ecstasy” 1933) as well as Tondelayo, she was, during WWII, an inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems.
And she looked damned good on film through 1958 (“The Female Animal”).
Long Gerrit Cole interview on the TV broadcast. When he talks, I can't tell if it sounds more like he's just sucked on a helium balloon or if he's permanently trying to suppress a belch.
Great hitting by the vets. Gardy gets hit by a ball he swings at and misses. The Gleyber strikes out on a pitch a foot outside. Stanton seems to have disappeared again.
Thought the same thing Steve. I saw it happening and turned to watch Miami Vice.
I just don't understand how Cessa cruises through the heart of the order on 5 pitches and this total asshole Boone doesn't send him out for the 9th. Also, who the hell was the guy pitching in the 10th? Has that celebrated bullpen fallen so low they had to go to a guy that doesn't belong in Low A ball?
Everything feels so hopeless because no matter what happens, Cashman stays.
Brooks Kriske...what a joke. So is Boone. Every other manager on the planet walks the bases load for a force at home or a DP. Once again, Boone proves what a shit head manager he is.
This is ALL on management. Kriske blew chunks all over the place, for sure. But he did NOT put himself in...and he did NOT keep himself in. One hundred percent on Boone.
For Chad Green, as I have said before, after awhile it comes down to character. The man lacks any.
Even though it's nice to see the enthusiasm of the kids, it's truly amazing how bad they're trained.
Estevan Florial has been playing professional ball for 6 years now...but he still can't make a read on a passed ball or not make a flat-footed throw to the plate. Awful...
And yeah, Brooks Kriske. Four wild pitches in less than an inning. I thought I was watching Jim Eisenreich again for a minute.
Also, what a game from our remaining stars, huh?
Yeah, yeah, I know: Stanton got a bloop hit to drive in a run, and Gleyber hit a sac fly that, Michael Kay assured us over and over again, would've been a home run "in 20 out of 30 major-league ballparks."
Right, because Fenway Park is known for its vast open spaces, and how hard it is there to hit a home run.
Jm: Higgy is still on the Covid list. But why bat Brantley Sixth. Because he's a lefty stick. But he can't hit. Remember when Genius Cashman picks up all the stiffs that he does and sticks them at Scranton. They might be called up. And they play to the back of their Baseball Card.
Boone is, I think, as inarticulate as he wants to be.
The alternative is to say, 'Hey, my idiot GM stuck me with this dumpster fire of a roster, our entire organization couldn't train a dog to sit up with a steak in its collective hands, nobody in the bullpen has an ounce of moxie among them, my big bopper has disappeared and will probably hit the DL again soon, and two of my other regulars don't care enough about the season to get vaxxed or take precautions.'
Satisfying as that might have been to say, Ma probably sat there and thought of the mill or two he will make this year instead, and decided to fumfah about.
Well, that at least was that—the final nut breaker that decided this season.
On the bright side? We can all feel free to make those October travel plans! No annoying distractions in September, as the Yanks plunge into what we would know to be the ultimately futile chase for the Wild Card play-in.
The thing is, the Red Sox are really not a good team. They have maybe 3-4 outstanding players, which is more than we do, but they're far from overwhelming, and they played very poorly tonight.
Didn't matter. We managed to play even worse. Say good night, Gracie!
Right now the Yankees have a 38 percent chance of making the playoffs, a 32 percent chance of winning the Wild Card, and a 6 percent chance of winning the division. Surely Cashman must know of these odds. Barring a near sweep of the next seven games, the Yankees MUST clean house before the trade deadline. Any hint of buying to make a kamikaze run at the postseason will leave the franchise a smoking ruin. I mean . . . SOMEONE in that fucking mafia social club must know what the fuck is going on, right?
Boone is complicit in nearly every facet of player personnel and on-field tactics. He doesn't dictate, but he is no Einstein, and presents no counter-current to Cashman's dumb-guy choices. There's no evidence of that--even as a commentator on ESPN he was a platitude machine.
Baseball reference put the Yanks at having a 16 percent chance to make the playoffs and a 0.4 percent chance to win the World Series GOING INTO TONIGHT'S GAME.
Could it now be an Elvis Costello? By which I mean less than zero?
I was citing numbers from Fangraph. So the Baseball-Reference odds are even more dismal for the Yankees, re-inforcing the point: any attempt to lunge for the playoffs with reckless trades will fail in the short-term and prove disastrous in the long term.
Let's not forget why Boone,with no managerial experience, was hired in the first place. Because Hal wanted someone he could get cheaply. Nothing has changed.
Yeah, The Brain at Hal's behest assembled this team. But the players Mr mistake after mistake in all the fundamentals, even the young players have played the game game for fifteen to twenty years, wtFFF?! You'd think that they are playing Go or chess. I'm positive that after I have never seen so many contact play outs at home in over forty-five years of watching the game game. Perversely, they do afraid to take the extra base. I'll spare my Torres rant, but when he nonchalantly throws to first, you would think that he believes that he's Ozzie Smith. Perhaps he wants to keep the first baseman limber. And this posing crap needs to end. I'd love to know how many bases they've thrown away. I just hope to HELL that Buck is brought in to remind these guys that your reflects what you put into it. Fundamentally this team might be the worst since sometime before WWI. Just despicable.
PS, this talk of 'building Stanton to take the field at " is beyond the pale. Tonight, we have possibly the biggest game of the season. Currently we have two lethal bats available. But no, one young finely tuned athlete sits on his ass, which made the other bat ineligible. WHO THE FUCK IS RUNNING THIS BASEBALL ANALOG OF THE COSTA CONCORDIA?????
Went to bed with the Yanks up 1-0. Woke up , got my coffee, had to choose between watching a documentary on the barium enema or reading about the remainder of the Yankee game. I decided to read this blog instead, and actually did both. Everything is back to normal. They truly give feces a bad name DIVEST- BOYCOTT AND ALWAYS WRITE IN CAPS
P.S. read Sports kibble. com, to see how our MILB guys are doing. Much more fun. P.S, my 3rd. grade teacher told us that using" P.S" is the sign of people who cannot collect their thoughts and write at the same time.
My first glance at the Yankees’ website warns: “Andújar near return.”
That means someone goes back to Scranton, or elsewhere. Can we have some money, please? Probability suggests that it will be someone who has helped us over the insane last days.
Meanwhile the unpronouncable Asher Wojciechowski and Hoy Jun Park (was he even here?) are already gone, and we look forward to Sal Romano (who?) in pinstripes.
RHP with an ERA of 5.23 in 14 appearances.
Even if (IF!) he bails us out of a few innings of a game against the dreaded crimson hose, how long will he be around?
The current system (and I use that term loosely) is running on the far edges of easy disposability. Bring one in, toss one out.
The return of the sextet of Covid-Kids is hovering. Do we really want them all at once? Could we please pick and choose?
The equally unprononcable (is that even a word?) Trey Amburgey (is that even a name?) is a possibility for the outfield. So then: who goes?
We have been chanting – with irregularity – all season: bench this guy, play that one more. Gardy seems to be in the history books as much as DJ. Allen looks to be our Great Hope for the Future.
But how long will he be here? Will Corey Kluber be our saviour?
How many hamstrings can we pull and caress back to power?
August starts next week. Got that?
Geez … just as the “team” was getting to be “fun to watch.”
P.S. THANKS, HOSS, FOR KEEPING A MUCH-NEEDED VOICE OF SANITY ON THIS SITE. (Seriously)
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No Sanchez tonight, so Boone plays Brantley. Not Higgy.
ReplyDeleteI fear we will look back on these glory days (without defaming Springsteen’s lyrics as in an earlier post) as one brief shining moment (“Camelot”?) when we were free – free, I tell ya! – from the chains of pornographically long contracts, thanks to COVID-19, and gave the next generation a glimpse of what awaits them, most likely in any uniform but certainly not one with pinstripes.
ReplyDeleteThose straggling back from the IL – from a variety of categories – are about to send the heroes of the last days back to Scranton or to whatever better contracts they may have legitimately earned.
Just look at the best plays of the Phillies games. Think you’re gonna see these young, fit, intelligent men in August? Or September? Certainly not October ...
Dream on.
We will welcome back the walking wounded with great fanfares and … oops! … sag back to fourth place as we are trounced by the great mixtures of youth with just enough seniority of Boston, Tampa Bay, and Toronto. (Sorry, Gardy: I have loved you for so many years, you are just making my break with you as painful as any dame has ever shredded my heart.)
The lesson – blindingly obvious to anyone except Foodstamps, the Brain, and Boonie – is that we can only succeed as a 27-time-world-champion team – and finally surpass that record – is with a new generation.
Clear the benches! And not because of shenanigans in a dugout. Cleanse the House that Ruth Built!
Somehow we have six left-handed hitters in the lineup.
ReplyDeleteAnd Gardy, who is hitting .192, is hitting number 2, the most important spot in the lineup.
It's not Hedy, it's Hedley, Hedley Lamarr!!
Nelson Cruz to the Rays
ReplyDeleteThey were already better than us, but now they’re even betterer
JM, is Higgy available? I thought he was one of the COVID toilet bowl lickers.
ReplyDeleteKindly stop abusing the name of Hedy Lamarr: SHE WAS A GOOD WOMAN!
ReplyDeleteSeriously: just have a look at her amazing bio on Wikipedia: not only was she famous for being one of the first naked women in films (“Ecstasy” 1933) as well as Tondelayo, she was, during WWII, an inventor who pioneered the technology that would one day form the basis for today’s WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth communication systems.
And she looked damned good on film through 1958 (“The Female Animal”).
Yeah, my brain didn't work there. Higgy is still on the Covid list.
ReplyDeleteDoh!
Pitcher's duel early on here.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, you're so silly! As I've already said: "It's not Hedy, it's Hedley, Hedley Lamarr!!"
ReplyDeleteBig Head left out Ralph Houk received the Bronze and Silver Star- serious stuff
ReplyDeleteWhat a rally!
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the Rob Brantly home run call will be.
ReplyDeleteBrantley gets all rant-ley?
ReplyDeleteGood thing there's a rain delay when it's NOT raining.
ReplyDeleteWell, the rain delay's no big thing. It's not like Yankees/Redsocks games are known to run long or anything.
ReplyDeleteLong Gerrit Cole interview on the TV broadcast. When he talks, I can't tell if it sounds more like he's just sucked on a helium balloon or if he's permanently trying to suppress a belch.
ReplyDeletePull a "tiring" (?) Monty @ 83 pitches to bring in SAL ROMANO?????!!!!! WTF???!!
ReplyDeleteGreat hitting by the vets. Gardy gets hit by a ball he swings at and misses. The Gleyber strikes out on a pitch a foot outside. Stanton seems to have disappeared again.
ReplyDeleteAnd...we have Sal Romano on the mound.
ReplyDeleteFucking shift.
ReplyDeleteAnd he gets out of the inning.
ReplyDeleteYa gotta admit at least it's interesting. As opposed to a feeling of doom.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I can't escape this feeling of doom.
Doug K.
What's a Sal Romano? Sounds like a pizzeria.
ReplyDeletethat pizza delivered
ReplyDeletei know the loony has been effective this year, but are there any righties available?
ReplyDeletei got a baaaad feeling...
ReplyDeleteJust awful.
ReplyDeleteThe Master: This has not been the best inning for the Yankees.
ReplyDeleteLuckily the game is tied…
ReplyDeleteQue the intro to "Iron Man"....
ReplyDeletenice to see someone else do something stupid on the basepaths
ReplyDeletei love cheap hits
ReplyDeleteI am so confused as to what is happening right now.
ReplyDeleteHow is this possible?
ReplyDeleteAlso good to see Ottavino stinks for everyone.
Brantly is stankly.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Master will not have to devise a home run call for him because he won't hit one.
ReplyDeletewow - a 5-pitch inning - I can’t believe what I’m seeing either, bitty
ReplyDeleteEstevan doesn't look any suckier at the plate than the other Yankees. And gets thrown out on a ball dropped by the catcher.
ReplyDeleteWow.
Good Green not bad Green, please.
ReplyDeleteGood thing we got NY Otto tonight…
ReplyDeletethat was a sweet pitch
ReplyDeleteyeah, ranger, but we got bad chad - hung one on an 0-2 pitch
ReplyDeletefuck
ReplyDeleteMore like suck ass Chad…
ReplyDeleteYeah, we're getting bad Green.
ReplyDeleteGod, I miss Mariano.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is hitting him hard, even on outs.
ReplyDeleteThat's a game winning g homer in the Bronx.
ReplyDeleteSTEAL HOME!
ReplyDeleteWhat an awful at bat…
ReplyDeleteStanton lost without a map
ReplyDeleteGee, Officer Kriske.
ReplyDeleteFucking awful…
ReplyDeleteYanks fried by Kriske
ReplyDeleteKrisk you!
ReplyDeleteCan we DFA Kristen Kreme right now?
ReplyDeletethis motherfucker is playing pickle ball
ReplyDeleteKriske
ReplyDeleteHow could that happen with a pitcher with an ERA over 10?
ReplyDeletesay goodbye to this game
ReplyDeleteHow many wild pitches is that?
ReplyDeletecan you say dfa?
ReplyDeletenow they have to walk the bases loaded
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of like what they did last night, except they played a better team and weren't able to recover from it.
ReplyDeleteThought the same thing Steve. I saw it happening and turned to watch Miami Vice.
ReplyDeleteI just don't understand how Cessa cruises through the heart of the order on 5 pitches and this total asshole Boone doesn't send him out for the 9th. Also, who the hell was the guy pitching in the 10th? Has that celebrated bullpen fallen so low they had to go to a guy that doesn't belong in Low A ball?
Everything feels so hopeless because no matter what happens, Cashman stays.
Brooks Kriske...what a joke.
ReplyDeleteSo is Boone. Every other manager on the planet walks the bases load for a force at home or a DP. Once again, Boone proves what a shit head manager he is.
Well, that's yet another evening that will set the national game back about 50 years.
ReplyDeleteWhat an all-around vortex of suckitude...
This is ALL on management. Kriske blew chunks all over the place, for sure. But he did NOT put himself in...and he did NOT keep himself in. One hundred percent on Boone.
ReplyDeleteFor Chad Green, as I have said before, after awhile it comes down to character. The man lacks any.
ReplyDeleteEven though it's nice to see the enthusiasm of the kids, it's truly amazing how bad they're trained.
Estevan Florial has been playing professional ball for 6 years now...but he still can't make a read on a passed ball or not make a flat-footed throw to the plate. Awful...
Boone is the least articulate manager I've ever heard. And he was hired for his reputed communication skills.
ReplyDeleteIt also says everything you need to know about this organization that:
ReplyDelete—Rob Brantley is now our catcher.
—Hoy Jun Park is not allowed to compete for a job with Tyler Wade.
Scratch that. It's amazing that no other infielder in organized baseball, chosen at random, isn't allowed to compete for a job with Tyler Wade.
And yeah, Brooks Kriske. Four wild pitches in less than an inning. I thought I was watching Jim Eisenreich again for a minute.
ReplyDeleteAlso, what a game from our remaining stars, huh?
Yeah, yeah, I know: Stanton got a bloop hit to drive in a run, and Gleyber hit a sac fly that, Michael Kay assured us over and over again, would've been a home run "in 20 out of 30 major-league ballparks."
Right, because Fenway Park is known for its vast open spaces, and how hard it is there to hit a home run.
Jm:
ReplyDeleteHiggy is still on the Covid list. But why bat Brantley Sixth. Because he's a lefty stick. But he can't hit. Remember when Genius Cashman picks up all the stiffs that he does and sticks them at Scranton. They might be called up. And they play to the back of their Baseball Card.
Boone is, I think, as inarticulate as he wants to be.
ReplyDeleteThe alternative is to say, 'Hey, my idiot GM stuck me with this dumpster fire of a roster, our entire organization couldn't train a dog to sit up with a steak in its collective hands, nobody in the bullpen has an ounce of moxie among them, my big bopper has disappeared and will probably hit the DL again soon, and two of my other regulars don't care enough about the season to get vaxxed or take precautions.'
Satisfying as that might have been to say, Ma probably sat there and thought of the mill or two he will make this year instead, and decided to fumfah about.
His best decision all season.
Well, that at least was that—the final nut breaker that decided this season.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side? We can all feel free to make those October travel plans! No annoying distractions in September, as the Yanks plunge into what we would know to be the ultimately futile chase for the Wild Card play-in.
The thing is, the Red Sox are really not a good team. They have maybe 3-4 outstanding players, which is more than we do, but they're far from overwhelming, and they played very poorly tonight.
Didn't matter. We managed to play even worse. Say good night, Gracie!
Right now the Yankees have a 38 percent chance of making the playoffs, a 32 percent chance of winning the Wild Card, and a 6 percent chance of winning the division. Surely Cashman must know of these odds. Barring a near sweep of the next seven games, the Yankees MUST clean house before the trade deadline. Any hint of buying to make a kamikaze run at the postseason will leave the franchise a smoking ruin. I mean . . . SOMEONE in that fucking mafia social club must know what the fuck is going on, right?
ReplyDeleteBoone is complicit in nearly every facet of player personnel and on-field tactics. He doesn't dictate, but he is no Einstein, and presents no counter-current to Cashman's dumb-guy choices. There's no evidence of that--even as a commentator on ESPN he was a platitude machine.
ReplyDeleteno evidence of Boone being a frustrated foil for Cashman rather than an accomplice
ReplyDeleteListen carefully. Boone's vocabulary is about on a Trump level of literacy.
ReplyDeleteBaseball reference put the Yanks at having a 16 percent chance to make the playoffs and a 0.4 percent chance to win the World Series GOING INTO TONIGHT'S GAME.
ReplyDeleteCould it now be an Elvis Costello? By which I mean less than zero?
Uh-hey. Uh-hey-hey.
I was citing numbers from Fangraph. So the Baseball-Reference odds are even more dismal for the Yankees, re-inforcing the point: any attempt to lunge for the playoffs with reckless trades will fail in the short-term and prove disastrous in the long term.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds
Let's not forget why Boone,with no managerial experience, was hired in the first place. Because Hal wanted someone he could get cheaply. Nothing has changed.
ReplyDeleteYeah, The Brain at Hal's behest assembled this team. But the players Mr mistake after mistake in all the fundamentals, even the young players have played the game game for fifteen to twenty years, wtFFF?! You'd think that they are playing Go or chess. I'm positive that after I have never seen so many contact play outs at home in over forty-five years of watching the game game. Perversely, they do afraid to take the extra base. I'll spare my Torres rant, but when he nonchalantly throws to first, you would think that he believes that he's Ozzie Smith. Perhaps he wants to keep the first baseman limber. And this posing crap needs to end. I'd love to know how many bases they've thrown away. I just hope to HELL that Buck is brought in to remind these guys that your reflects what you put into it. Fundamentally this team might be the worst since sometime before WWI. Just despicable.
ReplyDeletePS, this talk of 'building Stanton to take the field at " is beyond the pale. Tonight, we have possibly the biggest game of the season. Currently we have two lethal bats available. But no, one young finely tuned athlete sits on his ass, which made the other bat ineligible. WHO THE FUCK IS RUNNING THIS BASEBALL ANALOG OF THE COSTA CONCORDIA?????
ReplyDeleteSo who hired the coaching staff? Cashman.
ReplyDeleteWent to bed with the Yanks up 1-0.
ReplyDeleteWoke up , got my coffee, had to choose between watching a documentary on the barium enema or reading about the remainder of the Yankee game.
I decided to read this blog instead, and actually did both.
Everything is back to normal.
They truly give feces a bad name
DIVEST- BOYCOTT AND ALWAYS WRITE IN CAPS
THE ARCHANGEL
P.S. read Sports kibble. com, to see how our MILB guys are doing. Much more fun.
ReplyDeleteP.S, my 3rd. grade teacher told us that using" P.S" is the sign of people who cannot collect their thoughts and write at the same time.
The Archangel
My first glance at the Yankees’ website warns: “Andújar near return.”
ReplyDeleteThat means someone goes back to Scranton, or elsewhere. Can we have some money, please? Probability suggests that it will be someone who has helped us over the insane last days.
Meanwhile the unpronouncable Asher Wojciechowski and Hoy Jun Park (was he even here?) are already gone, and we look forward to Sal Romano (who?) in pinstripes.
RHP with an ERA of 5.23 in 14 appearances.
Even if (IF!) he bails us out of a few innings of a game against the dreaded crimson hose, how long will he be around?
The current system (and I use that term loosely) is running on the far edges of easy disposability. Bring one in, toss one out.
The return of the sextet of Covid-Kids is hovering. Do we really want them all at once? Could we please pick and choose?
The equally unprononcable (is that even a word?) Trey Amburgey (is that even a name?) is a possibility for the outfield. So then: who goes?
We have been chanting – with irregularity – all season: bench this guy, play that one more. Gardy seems to be in the history books as much as DJ. Allen looks to be our Great Hope for the Future.
But how long will he be here? Will Corey Kluber be our saviour?
How many hamstrings can we pull and caress back to power?
August starts next week. Got that?
Geez … just as the “team” was getting to be “fun to watch.”
P.S. THANKS, HOSS, FOR KEEPING A MUCH-NEEDED VOICE OF SANITY ON THIS SITE. (Seriously)
Thanks so much, Bosch. But watching this team...I feel pretty insane half the time!
ReplyDelete