So, a quick question: Have you had a chance to ponder the regular season? You know, how it ended? Because we've been thinking about it down here. Seems to me that, on that last weekend, even though you didn't need to win one game - you had home field advantage - you sort of made it into the mini-playoffs. You used all your bullpen. You played hard in each game, celebrated in the dugout like it was the World Series. You won two out of three and damn near made it a sweep.
Thus, we lost the home field advantage in the one-game Wild Card. That was huge for us, even though it didn't matter to you.
Of course, you did this because you absolutely, totally, completely despise the New York fucking Yankees - and I get it. That is your prime directive: Beat the damn Yankees. After all, we invade your back yard every spring, we broadcast our games into your market all summer, and you have created this imaginary notion that we're always going to sign your players. You feel threatened by us, and you lash out. We're the team you most hate. Thus, you gave everything on that last weekend, and when we lost the home field advantage, you celebrated.
So... just wondering... how ya feelin' today? A little blistery? Are the sores flaring? Because by tonight, you'll be covered in them. And you actually have a second tier of depressing thoughts to handle: You'll have to wonder "What if?" Frankly, you should have known what all of us fans knew - that the 2021 Yankees were a Hell-bound ship, destined to sink. Get us in the first round, and we'd go our usual 0-10 with RISP. We wouldn't score in 20 innings, and that's not even mentioning the prospect of Aroldis Chapman holding a lead. Nope. We were the team you wanted to play.
You had to know how much that Wild Card home field advantage meant to us. And you took so much delight it denying it.
So... here we are. Today is the Canasta tournament. Wednesday is Hee-Haw Binge Night on the TV. Thursday is All-Day Disco. You're going to love it. Hey, gotta go: It's almost time for Carrot Top.
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ReplyDeleteThe team to get hot and run the table looks like it might be the Beaners. Sadly.
ReplyDeleteCan they take the Giants? Hard to say. But Giants are Giants, they came from New York, and I'll root for them.
Fuck that, I’d rather root for the Houston cheaters than see another out of nowhere Boston World Series
ReplyDeleteHouston has Carrot Top's color.
ReplyDeleteThe Rays were never all that powerful of a team but they are extremely smart and know how to win. They don't really have the ability to get though the playoffs as an obviously powerful team (Sox, Astros) will typically beat their smart playing.
ReplyDeleteIf Yanks did win those last three games and the Blue Jays won over the Red Sox, I'm pretty sure that the Jays would have proceeded beat the Yanks in one and then go on to beat the Rays.
The Yanks this year was a wounded deer and couldn't have lasted much longer. I'm personally happy they were stopped early rather than struggle on to their inevitable hamulating defeat further down the road.
Go Giants!
ReplyDeleteGo Giants, Go White Sox, love to see that WS scenario!
ReplyDeleteBoston's ISIS and Houston's Al Qaeda as far as I'm concerned, may they both rot in hell!
ReplyDeleteLast 2 posts: (a) abandon hope (sounds familiar...) and (b) Rays join us in Hell.
This Rays thing was wonderful. Fun to read.
I hope you saved something for when the Red Sox are eliminated!
Hilarious, Duque! But guys, I can't root for the Giants or Dodgers precisely BECAUSE they are from New York.
ReplyDeleteThey abandoned us. They abandoned us for cities they believed were whiter and richer. Fuck them forever.
Go...White Sox! Hey, that's all that's left!
When the Red Sox win the WS, it will be 5 WS wins with 4 different GMs. I thought the GM position was a lifetime appointment.? Also why can't the Yankees get guys the Eovoaldi & Whitlock?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see Bob Uecker's Brewers win it. Bud Selig's Brewers, not so much.
ReplyDeleteWell, Horace, you might consider cutting the Giants some slack, especially if they beat the Dodgers, that most loathsome of all teams (Sux aside).
ReplyDeleteYour namesake Horace (Stoneham) was wallowing in a cavern of a ballpark that nobody went to anymore in New York. It made perfect sense for him to move west with a natural blood enemy.
For me, as long as they beat the Dodgers, they’re okay. I grew up a walk away from Ebbets Field, and I might still be living in Brooklyn if them Bums were still in residence. Fuck the Dodgers.
And fuck all the rest of you know who.
Duque,
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed this. Perfect tone and spot on.
Are we going to witness an ALL-CHEATERS ALCS?!?!?
ReplyDeleteDick, I'm absolutely DREADING that prospect, URRGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDick, at least they have the desire to win
ReplyDeleteI know Ken. I feel that too.
ReplyDeleteShame Kenesaw Landis isn’t commissioner instead of the wanker we currently have. Most of those cheaters would have (and should have) been banned for life.
At least the Rays are doing it the hard way. Would that certain owners and GMs were of a similar mind. But I guess some places have to become retirement homes for wealthy has-beens.
As for me, it’s an even year. Which means it’s going to be the Giants. At least I hope so.
The Yankees have become a haven for glad-in-the pan wunderkind: how many guys have had career years, signed a five-year with the Yankees and then spent the rest of their lives on the IL collecting big paychecks?
ReplyDeleteI had a conversation with a Cardinals fan this morning and we got to talking about The Cheaters.
ReplyDeleteI got mad all over again. All the players and managers who were clearly guilty as hell about cheating are no different than the Black Sox were and yet here they all are, at the top of the game playing for all the marbles again. And it won’t be long before Hinch has the Tanking Tiger back in the mix.
I’m sorry.. I know we’ve all been down this road too many times already, but it’s as if an old wound hasn’t healed for me - the scab has been ripped off and I can’t believe I’m still bleeding.
Maybe the Yankees are equally guilty of bending the rules, but when I see legit teams like the Rays, Cards, and A’s keeping a legit organization, I just get more burned up all over again.
Wow, Gruden is a colossal dick.
ReplyDeleteI hear ya, Dick Allen, but I gotta disagree.
ReplyDeleteIt's true, the Giants weren't drawing well at home, out of fears (mostly overblown at the time) about Harlem and crime, and also because of a general slump in baseball attendance. But they were still making money.
How do I know this? Thanks to Brooklyn's own, the great Rep. Emanuel Celler, who made the majors fork over their books for congressional inspection.
The Jints were making money because of television. They were in what was—and is—far and away the biggest market in the country.
Harlem was in trouble? Sure. And maybe the Giants, who had been there since the 1880s, could have tried to do something about it.
Nope. Just like every other pro team in the history of this city—including, alack, our own New York Yankees—the baseball Giants saw New York only as a place to be exploited...
...Almost all baseball owners felt the same way, of course. And almost all of them felt that the big, older cities in the East, at least, were done. They had no parking! They were full of people of color! The street were dirty! Eww!
ReplyDeleteSo they moved. To Milwaukee. To Kansas City. To Minneapolis.
Little known fact: the Giants had actually decided to leave New York first. NOT the Dodgers. And at the time, THEY held the rights to Minneapolis because their Triple-A team, the Minneapolis Millers, was there.
Off they were about to go, when the Dodgers beat them to the punch, and announced THEY were going to LA.
At that point, the Jints could've named their price in NYC. Moses was determined to build a stadium in Queens. They could've moved there, if they were really convinced Harlem was so hopeless.
Nope. They simply decided to switch from Minneapolis to SF. A relatively good choice, all-in-all—though not so good once they let the A's move into the area, too.
Stoneham ended up going broke, and had to sell the team. He traded Willie Mays back to the New York team that had the park he could've had—and that was STILL playing in a city several times the market size of the one where he ended up.
They also broke the hearts of my father and uncle, old Giants fans from back in the day when they were the city's Irish team.
They're just as bad as the Dodgers—only stupider.
LOLOL...From yesterday's NJ.com.
ReplyDeletePete Rose said " Ray Charles couldn't even strike out as much as Joey Gallo".
He lambasted the Yankees lineup.
https://www.nj.com/yankees/2021/10/ex-nl-mvp-trashes-yankees-joey-gallo-after-wild-card-loss-ray-charles-wouldnt-strike-out-that-much.html
Pete who?
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