Sunday, March 12, 2023

Optimism

Posted by Alphonso at 5:35 PM


 Today, I watched Aaron Hicks:

1. Give up on a fly ball to the corner of left field, only to see it drop fair for a double. 

2.  Strike out.

3.  Get picked off of first base.

10 comments:

InsertNameHere said...

Mid-season, post-3rd-stint on the IR form.

March 12, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Publius said...

Don't forget Jonny. Pitching against a beer league lineup from Haifa that couldn't do a thing against the indy leaguers who preceded him, "the best arm in the Yankees bullpen" gave up 3 runs on 3 hits and a HBP. K'd no one, botched a potential inning ending and damage limiting double play with a poor flip to the catcher. Took the L, of course.

It's going to be a long year.

March 12, 2023 at 5:56 PM
Publius said...

One inning of work, to be clear.

March 12, 2023 at 5:58 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...

What are you saying, Alphonso?

March 12, 2023 at 7:43 PM
Carl J. Weitz said...

Why all the complaints about Hicks???
He's ahead of most of the players.
He's already in mid-season form!

March 12, 2023 at 10:38 PM
JM said...

Keep in mind, this is Hicks playing for the position. Think what he does once it's handed to him--for no reason except the size of his contract.

March 13, 2023 at 2:28 AM
The Archangel said...

But, But, Hicksie is in the best mental shape of his career after enduring the the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune last season!!!

March 13, 2023 at 8:32 AM
edb said...

Same old Jet, Same old world, same old Barren Hicks.

March 13, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Carl J. Weitz said...

So, Donaldson claims that if he thought he was closed to being finished as a player and couldn't revert to the hitting form he had several years ago, he would have retired this off-season. Sure. What bullshit. There is no way on Earth that he would forgo $ 29 million (25 salary plus 4 buyout)to save face. Josh, no one believes you.
I'm sure his motivation is more like Ken Holtzman's 35 years ago. In 1978, after not pitching in the 1977 post-season for the Yankees and Martin almost never using him in that current one, a reporter asked Ken what he thought about being passed over for Jim Beattie and having no role on the pitching staff. His reply was " I have no control over that. Just pay me every-other-Friday."

March 13, 2023 at 2:14 PM
JM said...

And there it is, Carl.

March 13, 2023 at 2:32 PM

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