Boone continues to change his lineup every game, which he did all season long. If it is indeed his lineup, and not something that was handed to him by the shadowy Man In Black from the front office. Boone's been around the game for 30 years, he can't possibly by this stupid can he?
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This is just an eye test, so grain of salt or whatever, but I don't think I've ever seen the Yankees (or any other team) swing at so many pitches WAY outside the zone as in the past two days.
This is Cashman's team. He owns it. He created it. Hal owns him. And Hal is owned by the tortured spirit of old King George, who haunts him every night to the point that HAL DOESN'T CARE.
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Also, as we have said all year, it was one thing for the Yanks to beat up on these No. 4-5 pitchers on lousy teams all year. Against playoff pitching, though, they have nothing.
they have had sucky situational hitting for 20 fucking years now. 20 fucking years. who's fault is that? there has been only ONE constant over that time and his name rhymes with "Dryin' Flashman."
PS, of all the crappy stats that get thrown around, the most significant one for the Yankees since the end of the last Golden Era has been LOB. Left on Base. Or "Left on Fucking Base," as we might have said once upon a time up in Yonkers.
"So while the Yankees essentially did multiple years of shopping in one signing period during 2014-15, they still remained aggressive in 2015-16, signing more players than any other team during the 2015 calendar year, "
Luis Medina Andres Chaparro, Deivi Garcia Alfred Pujols Edward Paredes Estevan Florial
There were 6 more but it's just more of the same... nothing
The 3-0 pitch to Stanton was a few inches low, according to the tracker. Called strike, of course. The tying run should have been in scoring position and the go-ahead at first. The umps have been fucking brutal with balls and strikes.
But yeah, the complete lack of control over the strike zone by this group is amazing. I've never seen a team swing at so many pitches well out of the strike zone.
And the thing is, with all that, these games have both been so close. It would not have taken much—just a couple key personnel decisions—to have put the Yanks UP 2-0 in this series.
Where is all that talent the Yankees have snapped up in the Caribbean? I mean, they never even made the Majors after being dumped or traded... Maybe three guys get hot, and we come back to make a show of it. But right now we are being un-dressed on national television.
It went nowhere, Kevin. Cashman, and the guys he hires, are obviously terrible judges of talent. Also, they are bad at nurturing and developing talent. But somehow...
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Rizzo was doing fine at 3....da fuck
ReplyDeletebetter "protection" for Stanton I suppose.
ReplyDeleteBoone continues to change his lineup every game, which he did all season long. If it is indeed his lineup, and not something that was handed to him by the shadowy Man In Black from the front office. Boone's been around the game for 30 years, he can't possibly by this stupid can he?
This is going to be GREAT !!!
ReplyDeleteOld school:
ReplyDeleteBader CF
Peraza SS
Judge RF
Rizzo 1B
Stanton DH
Torres 2B
Donaldson 3B - because he has to play I guess
Cabrera LF
Catcher
Donaldson should have been batting last - coming up the rear like the clown shoveling up after the elephants at the three ring circus
ReplyDeleteAA - finally an avatar I can relate to!
ReplyDeletePeraza with a solid play.
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ReplyDeleteI though you might like that one, Doug :)
ReplyDeleteThat said - moving forward I think that Bader needs to do something about the optics of his mouth guard tongue jiggling..
It's just not an enticing/inspirational image.
Would one of you make a call or two to see if this could be corrected?
Perhaps if it wasn't strawberry pink and red and maybe instead incorporated Yankee pinstripes it would be more, uh . . . .
Palatable
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13 bit -
ReplyDeleteSuperior!
Holy crap, Donaldson actually hit the ball.
ReplyDeleteNext inning is the Yankees best chance to put something together.
ReplyDeleteOld school style.
You've got the two kids hitting in front of Bader and Judge.
This just in, from the moral victories department: the Yankees will not be no-hit tonight.
ReplyDeleteBadness lurks around every at bat. Badness of all sorts.
ReplyDeleteSevy digging deep there. I wonder how long he can do that.
ReplyDeleteI see what you did there AA
ReplyDeleteFuck.
ReplyDeleteWelp, that's that. See you all tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteOne more all too sadly predictable fuck.
Game over I guess
ReplyDeleteThat's game. We suck. Good night.
ReplyDeleteAt least donaldson isn't up yet
ReplyDeleteThank you my Friend.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is Deutsch fluent. She translated.
Also, fuck the Azztros
OK so two runs scored and now Donaldson. The line up is Genius I tell you. Genius.
ReplyDeleteThis just in from the small victories department: the Yankees will not be shut out tonight.
ReplyDelete(Radio feed is about a batter behind. It’s a long way to Germany, I guess.)
Donaldson strikes out again.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone mentioned that Donaldson sucks?
ReplyDeleteHe's fucking terrible.
Ja. Frankfurt. Heading home in the morning, so I figured it didn’t matter if I didn’t get much, if any, slept tonight.
ReplyDeleteHappy fahrting, Hink!
ReplyDeleteDumpsterson
ReplyDeleteLoving Bader.
ReplyDeleteBootsie Night Guard
ReplyDeleteThis is just an eye test, so grain of salt or whatever, but I don't think I've ever seen the Yankees (or any other team) swing at so many pitches WAY outside the zone as in the past two days.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn’t Draft Kings sign Pete Rose as their celebrity Spokesman?
ReplyDeleteBrian Anderson can go fuck himself..
ReplyDeleteBader having an excellent postseason, Judge a poor one.
ReplyDeleteThis is Cashman's dream.
Cashman has been a nightmare
ReplyDeleteThis is Cashman's team. He owns it. He created it. Hal owns him. And Hal is owned by the tortured spirit of old King George, who haunts him every night to the point that HAL DOESN'T CARE.
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As we have been saying since 2018, Torres is the slowest man in the world.
ReplyDeleteAlso, as we have said all year, it was one thing for the Yanks to beat up on these No. 4-5 pitchers on lousy teams all year. Against playoff pitching, though, they have nothing.
ReplyDeletethey have had sucky situational hitting for 20 fucking years now. 20 fucking years. who's fault is that? there has been only ONE constant over that time and his name rhymes with "Dryin' Flashman."
ReplyDeletePS, of all the crappy stats that get thrown around, the most significant one for the Yankees since the end of the last Golden Era has been LOB. Left on Base. Or "Left on Fucking Base," as we might have said once upon a time up in Yonkers.
@Hoss and Michael Kay says with a straight face that the Yankees are built for the playoffs…
ReplyDeleteDouble helping of Lasagna for Diaz.
ReplyDeleteKay would look good on a spit with an apple in his mouth. A-Rod can man the basting brush.
ReplyDeleteWe suck dinosaur balls.
ReplyDelete9 strike outs is not as bad as 17. Holy crap a-mighty, they only put the ball in play 10 times last night??
ReplyDeleteUggh. Fuck.
Where do the Astros keep finding these great pitchers and why don't we ever find them?
ReplyDeleteThat's a reasonable question, Doug. I don't think they come from under the rocks where Cashman usually lurks.
ReplyDeleteI looked it up.
ReplyDeleteValdez signed with the Astros as an international free agent in 2015, and made his MLB debut in 2018.
Peraza. Wow.
ReplyDeleteIs 2015 the year the Yankees signed Dermis Garcia? Is that the year they passed on Yoan Moncada?
ReplyDeleteDuque would know. I am too feeble to keep this shit straight.
"So while the Yankees essentially did multiple years of shopping in one signing period during 2014-15, they still remained aggressive in 2015-16, signing more players than any other team during the 2015 calendar year, "
ReplyDeleteLuis Medina
Andres Chaparro,
Deivi Garcia
Alfred Pujols
Edward Paredes
Estevan Florial
There were 6 more but it's just more of the same... nothing
into the fog, Doug. out of the fog and then right back into it...
ReplyDeleteGarcia and Florial. The surviving members. Kinda.
ReplyDeleteNice play by Torres there.
ReplyDeleteSo frickin' close by Judge. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteFuck, just missed.
ReplyDeleteDamn.
ReplyDeletePlease. Robo umps.
ReplyDeleteJohn gave the blog a shoutout on that fly ball by Judge. Glad I stayed up long enough to to hear it.
ReplyDeleteThe 3-0 pitch to Stanton was a few inches low, according to the tracker. Called strike, of course. The tying run should have been in scoring position and the go-ahead at first. The umps have been fucking brutal with balls and strikes.
ReplyDeleteThey have bets on the ASStros or verlander's hooker wife has pictures with them.
ReplyDeleteHilarious, Bitty!
ReplyDeleteThis is so exhausting.
ReplyDeleteRobo umps, for sure. And yes, this Yankees team has the same problem, every year.
ReplyDeleteCashman blew those international signing periods, big time.
No Moancada, traded for Chris Sale.
No Chapman in his original incarnation.
No Yu Darvish.
No Jose Abreu.
All guys who could have been signed relatively cheap—AND FOR MONEY THAT WOULD NOT EVEN HAVE COUNTED AGAINST THE PAYROLL LIMITS.
Why do we keep running into each other?
ReplyDeleteThank goodness. I thought for a moment that was going to be yet ANOTHER disastrous, Little League-style collision.
ReplyDeleteHoss, Cashman is an idiot.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, the complete lack of control over the strike zone by this group is amazing. I've never seen a team swing at so many pitches well out of the strike zone.
ReplyDeleteNonsense!
And the thing is, with all that, these games have both been so close. It would not have taken much—just a couple key personnel decisions—to have put the Yanks UP 2-0 in this series.
ReplyDeleteInstead of this crap.
Kudos to the West Village dude who embraced Altuve. Pissed off Pressly.
ReplyDeleteCole in New Yawk. We're not dead yet.
ReplyDeleteOne of the announcers almost said bowel instead of ball.
ReplyDeleteJust looking for entertainment here.
The radio feed is running well behind, please have patience if my warble is delayed. It may not come again until the Spring.
ReplyDeleteBoy, is Torres a bad hitter.
ReplyDeleteJust got beat, on balls around 90. Awful.
ReplyDeleteOh, and how perfect: Josh Donaldson is the last man standing!
ReplyDeleteDonaldson is our final hope? Gaaaaaa.
ReplyDeleteNow, the guy who shouldn't be in the lineup...
ReplyDeleteCarp for Higgy. No.
ReplyDeleteWell, all I want is all I wanted after we lost the first two to Atlanta in 1996: 1 win.
ReplyDeleteI also wanted that in 1976 against Cincinnati. Didn't get it.
At least I can watch the season come to an ignominious end this weekend without staying up all night. AB, I hope you choose sleep over this dreck.
ReplyDeleteThe Master thinks 12 strikeouts is a lot of strikeouts. I agree.
ReplyDeleteWell, Swingo draws a walk.
ReplyDeleteMatt Carpenter?
So now Carpenter...
ReplyDeleteOh, yes. It's Porn Stach. Ridiculous.
ReplyDeleteOh. Oh. A walk. This pain still goes on.
ReplyDeleteYep, that's the best pitch you will see, my boy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he can Kirk Gibson it.
ReplyDeleteC'mon Golden Age of Porn Stache! Swing that mighty stick!!
ReplyDeleteDon't know why they are bothering to run Locastro.
ReplyDeleteOil it up and swing it!!
ReplyDeleteAnd then, NOT run Locastro. Boone is a genius!
ReplyDeleteThey are running Locastro because they heard that's what a major league baseball team might do that.
ReplyDeleteThat was not a strike. But why was he even close to offering?
ReplyDelete13 strikeouts is more than 12.
ReplyDeleteBullshit!
ReplyDeleteSee ya.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, no Boone, no Carpenter, no nobody bothering to protest that awful call.
ReplyDeleteI know it wouldn't matter. But it would be nice to see they cared.
What happened to the animals in the box?
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah in the replay he did go. Absurd that this is what we are relying on late in the game.
ReplyDeleteCan we get Porn Stache a minor-league rehab stint before next game?
ReplyDeleteAnother pitiful offensive display. Can’t (actually can) wait to hear the spin job on this series…
ReplyDeleteCan’t you just wait to see the Arse-tros celebrate a sweep on our field? Their filthy, cloven feet dance where Rivers and Jeter stood?
Carpenter now 0-7 in this postseason, with 7 strikeouts. Gee, think he was ready?
ReplyDeleteWhat I can't fathom is how the Yankees' "brainstrust" looked at him and decided, 'Oh, yeah, he's set. Get him out there!'
No, he's not set.
Obviously, they have to maximize what offense they can get in the lineup. But how?
ReplyDeleteI would recommend Peraza at short and IKF at third, but IKF-Donaldson is probably a toss up. I don't know; I think this team is at its end.
I really don't know what's worse - watching this team lose to the ASStros or having a colonoscopy ?
ReplyDeleteIn spite of the close score, the last time I saw a lashing like that was in "High Plains Drifter".
ReplyDeleteWhere is all that talent the Yankees have snapped up in the Caribbean? I mean, they never even made the Majors after being dumped or traded... Maybe three guys get hot, and we come back to make a show of it. But right now we are being un-dressed on national television.
ReplyDeleteI may see Black Adam over and over again to avoid watching Saturday's game . . . . (well, OK - maybe not) . . . but I'm just saying.
ReplyDeleteIt went nowhere, Kevin. Cashman, and the guys he hires, are obviously terrible judges of talent. Also, they are bad at nurturing and developing talent. But somehow...
ReplyDeleteAA, I have seen so many Black Adam ads by now that I feel I HAVE seen the movie. What bloated dreck. But what's new?
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