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| The guy who designed this team is still at it. |
WTF? The Morbid Mets have gifted NYC to the Yankees, yet here we sit: Hate-watching an organization so toxic, so Satanic, that it sends a concussed player for two months to face 99-mph fastballs, and pushes an alcoholic until he shows up listing like the Edmund Fitzgerald and punching out the TV.
These are not the vagaries, the Yogi stories, of baseball. These are the warning signs of cancer - of an ongoing disaster, of an organization that devours souls.
And it needs a top-to-bottom overhaul. This isn't about firing Aaron Boone or trading for a left-fielder. This stench permeates Yankee Stadium like the scent of a dead animal.
Dear God, it's hard just trying to figure how everything got so incredibly fucked up. We are not merely stuck in a hole. We are neck-deep at the bottom, stone cold paralyzed. Every move brings consequences. You can glance at the standings and tell yourself there is still hope - that we'll go on a magical streak and win the wild card! Then you watch this clown show blow another game, as it did last night, and you begin to realize the depth of this long-term malaise. The Babadook is not just here. He's running the show.
These days, you know who looks good? Dillon Lawson, the former hitting coach, because he got fired from this ongoing disaster. He should put it atop his resume: Proudly dismissed by Yankee management! He'll get offers, if not a book contract.
So last night, it was Luis Severino - Sepsis Sevy - who once again killed our hopes before the Yankees even came to bat. We should wonder what his problem will turn out to be? Two weeks from now, when he goes on the IL, they'll reveal that he has long Covid, or Sarasota leprosy, or post-bombing PTSD, or something that was holding him back.
In the meantime, we get to ask WTF?
And how do we escape this rotting corpse?
They say Sevy is healthy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe they should check and see if Tatis ran into him too.
"Calling Dr. Howard, D.r Fine, Dr. Howard."
"Bueller, Clean up in aisle Bronx."
Well, for those of you holding out Hope that Tanner Tully would save this season, forget it. He was released so he could sign with a Korean team or some Far East equivalent.
ReplyDeleteThe fish rots from the head.
ReplyDelete“ needs a top-to-bottom overhaul”. that sums it up perfectly.
ReplyDeleteChange won’t happen until top management changes.
Right now, the team is in stasis. Every fan in the fucking world knew Neverino was gonna get lit up last night, but the team put him out there anyway. Why? It seems nobody cam make a tough decision, so they just keep doing the same thing. Don’t know what to do about Florial, Peraza…so do nothing. Boone is a cipher, an empty suit. There’s nothing there. Team has no plan, no vision…just Harry Potter cap nights and Joe Pepitone bobble heads. (with posable hair dryer)
It’s fucking embarrassing to be a Yankee fan now. It’s not the losing. Losing I can rake. It’s the incompetence, and the indifference to incompetence. As long as the money rolls in, everything’s fine. Something goes wrong? Just put a patch on it, have Boone gaslight the tepid media.
Verlander vs a rehabbing Cortes today. The outcome already decided.
Repeat after me: it’s fucking embarrassing to be a Yankee fan now.
It's fucking embarrassing to be a Yankee fan now.
ReplyDeleteThanks, BTR. I needed that.
This team stinks.
It's a fucking embarrassment to be a Yankee fan now.
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ReplyDeleteThis all starts with Hal Steinbrenner. Hal's most recent interview on the Kay radio show was proof that this current stasis, or purgatory, that we are trapped in will not be ending any time soon. Some pearls of wisdom from Hal - "I believe Cashman is a good general manager"/"I'm confused as to why the fans are upset"/"Getting into the playoffs and rolling the dice is good enough"/Hitting coach Lawson is "not on the hot seat" right before being replaced with Sean Casey/He "loves the Giancarlo Stanton deal"/And my personal favorite was his tense response to the ridiculous notion the team generates cash - "The fans don't know that we make money - our expenses are the highest in baseball."
ReplyDeleteCan you think of a better example than Hal for the idiom -
There's none so blind as those who will not see?
UNWAVERING EMBARRASSMENT
ReplyDeleteIt’s fucking embarrassing to be a Yankees fan now.
ReplyDeleteUNWAVERINGLY EMBARRASSED
ReplyDeleteQuestion of the day:
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to Rufus? Did he become unstuck in time and get abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore.
Asking for my Priest.
OMFG Stanton!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, is that the fastest he can run? There were two outs!!
That effort would make a Senior League softball player blush.
I give up
Nestor looking good, at least.
ReplyDeleteHal is delusional. But Nestor is doing great. Wish they could leave him in.
ReplyDeleteThat was ridiculous and embarrassing. Why did he slow down and stop thousands of feet away from the plate?
ReplyDeleteHe can't run. Why was he sent?
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ReplyDeleteJust tripped over this at Yanks Go Yard (a tweet from Katie Sharp--?)
Opponents have a .435 BA and .790 Slug Pct vs Severino in the first inning.
and (same source)
Luis Severino has allowed a 13.85 ERA in the 1st inning, the highest among all pitchers this season with 10+ starts.
We say "trade him." Who would take him, even for a can of peanuts?
Jfob - since peanuts aren’t easily found in cans I’d consider moving him to the bullpen - see how he does in that new role.
ReplyDeleteBut they likely won’t do that so maybe they can instead move him for a fossilized airwick solid (Polynesian Paradise scent)
If Stanton can’t run, he shouldn’t be playing.
ReplyDeleteSeverino is an UFA after this season. Cut him anytime. How ‘bout…now?
Yes Cortes looked good…VERY good!
Gleyber day!
ReplyDeleteInsurance run helps.
ReplyDeleteI don't see the universe allowing us even so much as to split this series, so something bad's coming soon. Bet on it.
ReplyDeleteGreg Allen might be able to run around the bases better then Cantrun
ReplyDeleteYankees Win!!!
ReplyDeleteHard to believe eh?
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ReplyDeleteAfternoon of the living dead.
Pocono Steve’s warning still looms large over all of us so do tread lightly throughout the remainder of your day.
ReplyDeleteIt;s time to boycott the team until Hal bleeds money.
ReplyDeleteI'm not spending a penny on this team until everyone in management - Cashman, Levine, Trost, Fishman, Boone - have been fired. I want pictures of empty desks and sad looking trust funders, carrying their possessions to their overpriced cars.
Replace them all with people who earned their way up on their talent, hard work and bona fide achievements. Then I expect a complete overhaul of every department, program and coaching staff in the organization.
When all that is done I'll buy a ticket, a hat, t-shirt and renew my Yes subscription.
Until then, stick it, Hal.
AA -
ReplyDeleteFrom a recent trip to North Carolina...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/CChDBoRppZgMZn2k9
For decades, I prayed that the Steinbrenners would never sell the Yankees. NOW, all I want is for them to sell the team to a real fan.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I have another dream - that some of us will outlive Hal and see the other side of this. We're not all going to make it, but some of us may. When you get to that other side, spare a thought for all those of us who fell along the way on this heavy trudge.
Doug, that made me chuckle.
ReplyDeleteNow I waiting for you to share a foto of a fossilized airwick solid from a recent trip to Kentucky.
Don't have one but my late father in law was a chemist who worked on the Shell-No-Pest Strip.
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