Or not? He looks like a great guy. So does Judge, of course, but Babe... it would be like defeating your teddy bear. I don't know. He had his time. Live for today, right? Crush him.
I can't get no....satisfaction. I can't get no....satisfaction. and I try, and I try, and I try and I try... I can't get no I can't get no I can't get no no no no hey hey hey that's what I say...
Boy, do I hate these guys. A fucking beer-league team, in attitude and fitness. This division was theirs to take, and they didn't do it. Wonder if they still have their home run jackets and all that crap?
And again: Fuck the Blue Jays. Games like this—'We're not particularly inspired to play hard, but we're going to make sure the guy everybody came to see doesn't get a shot'—are yet another nail in baseball's coffin.
Does nobody involved with baseball today understand that the money does NOT falleth like a gentle rain from heaven, but comes from the fans?
Well, I wouldn't call it a minimal accomplishment. In some ways, it's the most difficult accomplishment in sports, achieved as it is over the longest season there is.
Not as great an accomplishment as it used to be before divisions. But still very impressive.
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How are we in a position to clinch the division with what has to be one of the lamest collection of baseball players ever?
ReplyDeleteWho in this line-up, aside from Judge, approaches good much less great?
Trevino
ReplyDeleteGood, as a catcher
ReplyDeleteHurrican Ian might do us all a favor and destroy that dump of a ballpark in the next few days.
ReplyDeleteWe’ll, this game is officially over.
ReplyDeleteTrevino and IKF and Waldo.
ReplyDeleteThis team is a travesty of a mockery of a sham.
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ReplyDeleteAm I wrong to be already thinking, "Christ, how are we going to score two runs?"
What a pissant team.
You are not wrong, Mildred. Not one bit.
ReplyDeleteIntentional unintentional BB.
ReplyDeleteHey!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Master and Suzyn are bemoaning the way the Yankees leave men on base and don't get the runs in.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteDonaldson and Stanton, back-to-back. How to kill a rally.
ReplyDeleteIn 2023, NYYs will pay these 4 players (combined) a total of just a bit more than $100 million:
Stanton
Cole
Donaldson
Hicks
I find this extremely depressing. There's more in store.
Mildred -
ReplyDeleteDonaldson and Stanton, back-to-back in the middle of the lineup.
:(
Hicks anywhere in the lineup.
ReplyDeleteBronx cheers.
ReplyDeleteI missed the first period. I was out getting Brador's.
ReplyDeleteHow's it going so far?
When is Zoilo Almonte batting?
ReplyDeleteThis is when a good team busts things open.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know where I can find a good team?
How many frogging times do we have to watch Rizo get thrown out on the bases?
ReplyDeleteFrogging is like frigging - it’s the amphibious version.
ReplyDeleteBichette having a fun inning.
ReplyDeleteThey walked Judge again? I'm shocked. Nobody wants to see Judge walked. Throw strikes you fuckers.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDelete(Ring ring ring.)
Hello.
Hello. Is Mike Stanton home?
No he's out.
What again? It seems like he's always out.
Tell me about it.
If Hicks comes up with two outs, guaranteed Judge is leading off the next inning.
ReplyDeleteI can't get no....satisfaction.
ReplyDeleteI can't get no....satisfaction.
and I try, and I try, and I try and I try...
I can't get no
I can't get no
I can't get no
no no no
hey hey hey
that's what I say...
Walks again
ReplyDeleteIt's insane to walk Judge every time. They walked him twice and he's come around to score both times.
ReplyDeleteFuck this Nancy Sinatra bullshit.
ReplyDeleteDon't confuse Boots with Bootsy Bader
ReplyDeleteWonder how many home runs the Gerrit Cole bobble head will give up on Friday night.
ReplyDeleteBichette having a rough night.
ReplyDeleteThink...lol!
ReplyDeleteHink, I mean
ReplyDeleteHicks, great throw.
ReplyDeleteFirst, what a crafty play by IKF. Second, it’s nice to see other teams running into outs.
ReplyDeleteStanton Strike Three (Stand By Me)
ReplyDeleteWhen your swing is long...
And you are all bark.
And a change up is a pitch you can not see.
The pitcher's not afraid.
No, no never afraid.
Cause he knows, that you'll swing... at strike three.
Woh...oh..oh.
Stanton strike three.
oh oh oh oh
Stanton strike three.
Yes he knows, you will swing, at strike three.
I'm touched, Doug. A tear in my eye.
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ReplyDeleteThis team is a travesty of a mockery of a sham.
Man, that's just Bananas.
I was hoping that Phelps, as a former teammate of Judge might groove one but alas he did not.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Taillon still pitching?
ReplyDeleteIs no one up in the pen?
ReplyDeleteMiguel Andujar had a 3-run double today in Pittsburgh's 4-1 win.
ReplyDeleteWhy are we in italics??
ReplyDeleteThis is far too fancy for the likes of us!
ReplyDeleteThe BJs are scum. Four walks—and of course we pitched to Impaler, Jr.
ReplyDeleteIdiotic. Each walk to Judge should've been followed by a ball in Vlady's ribs.
True, Winnie. But I feel that I am writing everything with a whole new emphasis.
ReplyDeleteDonaldson is simply an awful hitter, and the sooner he is off this ball club, the better.
ReplyDeleteIf we were to go to bold, I bet we would also be more audacious than ever.
ReplyDeleteStanton 1-16, with 10 Ks since the walk-off v. Pittsburgh.
ReplyDeleteThis team has zero chance in the postseason.
One more time.... (with feelin')
ReplyDeleteStanton Strike Three (Stand By Me)
When your swing is long...
And you are all bark.
And a change up is a pitch you can not see.
The pitcher's not afraid.
No, no never afraid.
Cause he knows, that you'll swing... at strike three.
Woh...oh..oh.
Stanton strike three.
oh oh oh oh
Stanton strike three.
Yes he knows, you will swing, at strike three.
Check that: 1-17, 11 strikeouts.
ReplyDeleteWow. Playoff pitching is going to eat these guys alive.
ReplyDeleteReally a good-faith effort there, too, to get Judge another at-bat.
Doug,
ReplyDeletePhelps was gone before Judge came up.
Looks like Ruth's record wont be broken...
ReplyDeleteItalics?
ReplyDeleteAre they from Italy?
He made all our comments slanted?
ReplyDeleteRanger,
ReplyDeleteWell we were already biased.
Please, no ethnic jokes.
ReplyDeleteBoy, do I hate these guys. A fucking beer-league team, in attitude and fitness. This division was theirs to take, and they didn't do it. Wonder if they still have their home run jackets and all that crap?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of italics, do they still sell Vitalis?
ReplyDeleteAll right, I'm starting it.
ReplyDelete"THHHHH...."
Yankees Win!!!
ReplyDeleteWe have the division.
ReplyDelete"UUUUUHHHHHH..."
ReplyDelete"YANKKEES! WIN!"
ReplyDeleteOK... At least there's that!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe uduhudufufUHUHUHUHUHUHUH-UUHUUHUUH-UHHUHHUHH YANKKES WIN IN ITALICS !!!!
ReplyDeleteJudge has agita.
ReplyDeleteIn the labonza.
ReplyDeleteDoug K. calls it. The most minimal and meager accomplishment!
ReplyDeleteI do t have anything constructive to add. I just want to see my name in italics.
ReplyDeleteHey! The radio feed is running way behind!
ReplyDeleteIf I was the team leader on the Yankees, I'd ignore the champagne and just take a shower.
ReplyDelete50th first-place finish over the course of the long season, counting 1994, and the first-half, first-place finish in 1981.
ReplyDelete50, in what is now 120 years of existence, and 50 out of the last, 102 seasons.
Not bad.
Judge is looking genuinely delighted. Which is nice.
ReplyDeleteBut we only count rings.
ReplyDeleteAnd again: Fuck the Blue Jays. Games like this—'We're not particularly inspired to play hard, but we're going to make sure the guy everybody came to see doesn't get a shot'—are yet another nail in baseball's coffin.
ReplyDeleteDoes nobody involved with baseball today understand that the money does NOT falleth like a gentle rain from heaven, but comes from the fans?
Well, I wouldn't call it a minimal accomplishment. In some ways, it's the most difficult accomplishment in sports, achieved as it is over the longest season there is.
ReplyDeleteNot as great an accomplishment as it used to be before divisions. But still very impressive.
Yeah well now we’re bold.
ReplyDeleteFancy Schmancy Italics!
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ReplyDeleteOfficially, they're saying Yanks have 20 division titles since 1969, tying them for second with the Dodgers, 1 behind Atlanta.
ReplyDeleteThese totals, though, do not count 1981, in which both the Yanks and the Bums won the first half "title," then mailed it in, in the second half.
I put it at a three-way tie, at 21.
Sorry guys....
ReplyDeleteI did this on my phone
And then fell asleep.
It looks like I hit into a bug in the blogspot site.
Congratulations to division winners Sterling, Waldman, and the Yankees. Judge did not beat Ruth, but neither did Ruth beat Judge. I’ll take it!
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