At any moment, in any game, almost any member of your New York Yankees is likely to go haywire.
To suddenly meltdown, burn out, burst into flames and never be usable again. Or at least not for another month or two.
Maybe, as Neil Young sang, it's better to burn out than to fade away (My, my, hey, hey.). But really.
Any given game, any given season, it can happen. Setback Sevvy yesterday, who still has not got over one July night in 2018. Domingo German, a perfecto one game, a tomato can in another.
Aaron Judge, done in by a fence in Dodger Stadium, and The Toe That Will Not Heal, our Telephus and Philoctetes. Giancarlo the Man of Glass, Rizzo who's gone ratso, Nestor whose injuries doth fester, Jackie who has done crackie, etc., etc.
What are the odds, from MLB's many gambling partners, that Rodon the Savior will walk off the mound early in his "comeback" tonight, clutching some part or another?
Go to any game, any day or night, and you are likely to get burned. A bristling July showdown with a big divisional rival? Chances are you will end up watching IKF throw his middle-infielder stuff by the end of the game.
Brian Cashman is the sleazy, e-bike repairman of the majors, running his fly-by-night shop off a side street in the Bronx. If it blows up on you...too bad!
Yeah, I get the feeling that Rodon will get lit up tonight and then announce that he's hurt again.
ReplyDeleteThe media keeps throwing pitching stats at us, how the Yankees have really good pitching. And the truth is that it has held the team above water for the most part so far. But sometimes stats lie. And I never really believed that this team has got the kind of pitching to do anything worth talking about. I look for their pitching to come down to earth over the second half of the season. And yes, one of these days, IKF will get lit up too!
"The ship be sinking" (Michael Ray Richardson)
ReplyDeleteDoesn’t Severino have the 5th best WAR on the pitching staff?
ReplyDeleteA sleazy, e-bike repairman ……..
ReplyDeleteNICE!
Now I can’t get the image of Cash sniffing the seats of these broken down, oft peddled rejects.
The Yankees have claimed left-hander Anthony Misiewicz off waivers from the Tigers, according to announcements from
ReplyDeleteMisiewicz, 28, has been collecting jerseys at a rapid rate over the past year. He spent the early parts of his career with the Mariners and was with them until he was designated for assignment at the end of July last year. Since then, he was acquired by and subsequently DFA’d by the Royals, the Cardinals and the Diamondbacks. The latter club lost him to the Tigers on waivers, who now have lost him to the Yankees on this latest waiver claim. All in all, that’s six different organizations in less than a year.
- per MLB TRADERUMORS
you can’t make this stuff up…
I think it's time to find a new moniker to replace "Setback Sevvy."
ReplyDeleteSuck-ass Sevvy?
Shitstain Sevvy?
Schmucko Sevvy?
Smegma Sevvy?
Chrissakes Sevvy?
P.S. Boone is an idiot. But according to Ken Rosenthal in the Athletic, Cole is a genius. When he's not being Colace.
What kind of Slavic name is Misiewicz?
ReplyDeleteToo many goddam vowels, only one small consonant cluster.
Wait till Sterling has to pronounce it
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