Congrats to Yankee batting leader Anthony Rizzo... now at - gulp - .268. Can anyone crack that elusive .270 mark?
What a dead, tired club.
Sorry, but that's all I've got today.
What a dead, tired, sluggish club.
Technically, the Yankees remain in possession of the final wild card slot - and you thought young millennials were being awarded too many meaningless trophies?
What a dead, tired, sluggish, lackluster club.
I mean... down by 10 runs after four innings. And this, from a pitcher who not long ago looked like our potential Number 2.
A no-hitter through six. And then, courtesy of Isiah Kiner-Falefa - our pitcher/slugger answer to Ohtani - the most meaningless HR since Jackie Donaldson's late inning shot in the 15-5 loss to Boston.
Tired team, tired lineup, tired everything. And 42,000 in attendance.
Nope, I got nothing.
ReplyDeleteIn the Department of "Why Can't These Guys Stay Healthy?"
I just read this online in an article about WCalhoun:
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Calhoun has had a tough time staying healthy. From being hit in the face in 2020 during spring training that broke his jaw while with the Texas Rangers, to hurting this same quad in 2019 and a fractured forearm in 2021, it's been a tough road for Calhoun.
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Was it possible for The Front Office to look into Calhoun's health history and see that he was a Fragile guy? Seems so.
So maybe the reason there are so many "important" Yankees getting injured is that they are brought to team (by Cashmonkey) as damaged goods?
And: Maybe this is the reason they had Volpe stop the base-stealing thing. Afraid he'd get injured, too.
???
ReplyDeleteWhat a dead, tired, sluggish, lackluster, boring club.
Maybe they think they are playing golf and lower score wins
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ReplyDeleteStanton is 4 for his last 41 (.098) with 16 strikeouts going back to June 3rd, Donaldson 4 for 43 (.093) 12 strikeouts, Torres 11 for 56 (.196), LeMahieu 6 for 39 (.154), *Big Tony 5 for 45 (.111). The meats in the lineup hitting .134 cumulatively, 9 HRs in 224 at-bats. Big guns really stepping it up with Judge on the IL.
*the head shot may have had something to do with him falling off the table though
For Hal, this roster is good enough to extend Cashman another 2 years.
ReplyDeleteCashman for GM of the year!
Maybe they need to start taking Geritol....
ReplyDeleteTo paraphrase Jack Napier, this team needs an enema.
ReplyDeleteI'd still like to bash Hal to make things a bit less boring. But no, that doesn't help. After rooting for the Yankees since the early 50's I guess I still care but there ain't much left. I only watch an inning or two here and there. It's just not worth it. (Maybe Stanton will start hitting since he prefers playing in the field.)
ReplyDelete"Nope, I got nothing. "
ReplyDeleteNeither do the New York Yankees.
What a sad state of affairs. What a waste of (no) talent.
And while I'm on the subject: Fuck Harold, Fuck The Intern, and Fuck Boooooooone.
We could say, just write this one off and move on, but Stanton, Donaldson, LeMahieu are to the point where they’re starting to embarrass themselves. Somehow, Steinies threat to start asking tough questions (hey! What’s your favorite color?) didn’t have the desired effect. Kay will be squealing like a pig this afternoon as he twists himself into knots trying to defend Steinsucker, Trashman, and Ba-Ba-Boonie. Dilbert Lawson back to hiding behind the water cooler.
ReplyDeleteFlo hit an opposite field 400 ft HR lat night in SWB. Just about 1/2 way through the season he has 19. So, if he hits 40 this year then what? Let him sign with TB as a minor league FA? Blah, Blah, Blah, trouble with the curve? Extend Torres before it’s too late? Enroll Stanton in Hot Yoga classes?
To lighten the mood, a young prospect at Somerset named Dick Fitts pitched a gem last night. Note to cashman, if the dick fits, wear it.
How embarrassing is it for the rest of the American League that this rotten team has a winning record and is still in a playoff spot?
ReplyDeleteOutside of the Rays, Rangers, Astros, and I guess O's... the league is a dumpster fire.
is florial tied to the yankees or is he free to play in japan and korea and make good money?i hope so for his sake!
ReplyDeleteThe W-L record doesn't show it, but this is easily the worst offensive Yankees team I've ever seen. That it wins any games at all while Judge is injured is due to the pitching. A ramshackle, baling wire rotation and a patchwork of relievers--one or more of whom are always going through a "rough patch"--and still, somehow, they can hold down certain teams as we score our allotted couple or few runs (and how we score at all is incredible) and eke out wins.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shitshow. At least the games are a lot shorter this year. Unwatchable, but shorter.
Look at the bright side……
ReplyDeleteSince the day Aaron Judge got hurt, the Yankees are hitting .196/.258/.353 (.611 OPS/68 wRC+) in 527 PA.
ReplyDeleteThat ranks 30th in BA, 30th in OBP, 27th in SLG, 30th in OPS, 30th in wRC+.
Often fanbase's tend to exaggerate their team's woes. But in this case, there's no exaggeration. Our offense has quite literally been the worst in baseball without Aaron Judge.
Unwavering Negativity
ReplyDeleteI said this to Hoss last night when he complained that the Yanks aren't even trying. We can't really know if they're, can we? It may just look like they aren't trying. What if they are trying their hardest and giving their best? What if they aren't any good? Well, we know they aren't. They are a bad, probably a legendarily bad, Yankee team. Maybe this is them doing their absolute best. Last night could be what their best effort looks like.
ReplyDeleteIt's becoming undeniable that DJ, Giancarlo and Jackie are done as productive major leaguers. Don't keep sending them out there. It's embarrassing and heart breaking.
And it's madness, doing the same action again and again and expecting a better result.
Oh for the days of Stump Merrill and Alvaro Espinoza...
Unwavering positivity.
AA, I'm feeling you.
ReplyDeletedoo wopk rebbe,
ReplyDeleteThe sake is really good in Japan, so he'd have that going for him.
Yeah, I have trouble with tiny keyboards.
ReplyDelete@ Rufus, And them Japanese girls are great!
ReplyDeleteMy woman from To-K-Yo makes me see
My woman from To-K-Yo she's so good to me
Is life just a game where we make up the rules
ReplyDeleteWhile we're searching for something to say
Or are we just simple spiraling coils
Of self-replicating DNA?
@ AA, I think Macbeth would say we're just viruses (virii?). Life is "a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".
ReplyDeleteBut I got some good news, courtesy of Robert Plant:
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
Except for the Yankees. No end in sight to The Cashman Malaise. The last wild card will be taken by the ASS-stros. Look for the Yanks to fall out of that race in the coming few weeks before the All Star Game.
@ Rebbe, Florial will be a F/A at the end of this season, eligible to sign anywhere.
ReplyDeleteTo continue from last night:
ReplyDelete"Are you crazy, are you high
Or just an ordinary guy
Have you done all you can do
Are you with me, Dr. Wu???"
@hammer
ReplyDeleteI posted this in last evening’s thread as advice about what to say to the Yankee saddened grandson. (Like minds think a’great):
Tell him that life is but a walking shadow
A rich player that swings hard at strikes
And gets hits no more
It is a team run by idiots
Full of milk fart fury
We are savages in the box! SAVAGES IN THE BOX!
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ReplyDeleteThe whole team is a walking slum
I don't blame the dumpster diver players bullpen scrapheap pickups or non roster invites or AAAA players they are really trying their best but the fact so many are regular starters shows the total failure over decades to have a team that drafts trades and generally nurtures young talent to get them ready for the big team or am I totally wrong on this?
I don't want to appear to pick on just individual players but Arch Stanton (now playing the outfield and I predict due to tweak a magnificently sculpted buttock at any monent and miss the rest of the season) is just a joke figure at this point. He is like a person who has won 1st prize in a raffle at a gym to play MLB baseball for a season I am just going to swing my magnificent specimin of a body at and ball thrown in or out the strike zone and it will look great if I make contact because I am so strong and such a tremendous athelete.
Jackie Donaldisdone is just beyond a joke now can't hit can't even field but hey like Arch he gets the big bucks so he has to play in the team no matter what. Can his average get down to .099 ?
Again I do not want to see nasty personal attacks on people but the New York press are watching this shambles unfold and have done for a long time now and nobody seems to want to write a state of the Yankees story highlighting the numerous ludicrous ways the team has been ran and how not even mediocrity is rewarded.
Then again what do I know maybe I would have wasted the $280 million or whatever the payroll is on a worse roster
More like Salvages in the box . . .
ReplyDeleteAll brilliantly put, Scotland!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to say that during last night’s “game”, the announcers kept saying “Josh” Donaldson.
ReplyDeleteMy wife, in all innocence: “t thought his first name was Jackie?”
BTR99, you are legend.
ReplyDelete@ Scottish Yankee fan, You are totally right, right, right!
ReplyDeleteAnyone with a pulse would do better than Cashman.
@ AA, Salvages in the box, brilliant!
ReplyDeleteThe Bronx Embalmers, salvaging flotsam and jetsam from the local waterways, patching together zombies who hit under .100.
Too too bad that HAL and Brian Cashman didn't buy those $250,000 tickets for the Titan submersible. Would've loved to see those guys implode. Would have been so fitting if they died at the scene of the sinking of the Yankee Titanic.
The eulogy would've been something like this: "Brothers and sisters, HAL and Brian gave their lives for Aaron Boone's salvage operation. Salvaging flotsam and jetsam from the discarded remnants of quadruple A zombies, in hopes that those zombies would join the Bronx Embalmers in the quest for the ultimate nadir. They died whilst searching for zombies from the wreck of the Titanic. A wreck that happened in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred twelve. A wreck that still haunts the owner and general manager of the New York Yankees. Let us pray that HAL and Brian have reached their ultimate nadir, as they fervently hoped and dreamed whilst still in the land of the living."
What's the over/under on when LeMahieu will join the Yankees' ever-ballooning Sub-Mendoza-Line Club? And what's the over/under on when the front office will officially announce that Sub-Mendoza-Line standout Anthony Volpe will finally be de-certified as The Next Jeter?
ReplyDeleteNow we eagerly await a series in which the club that ranks first in the majors in team BA meets the team that ranks 27th.
Ahh, two hundred and ninety million that I could have just spent on whores and whiskey, maybe a few million to just let flutter into the wind. To have Hal's money😈😈
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