"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Mr. Scotsman, Mike Axisa is one of the best Yankee beat writers going. I strongly recommend any Yankee fan to subscribe to his patreon blog for three dollars U.S./month. Before he started writing for CBS he headed up a blog called "River Avenue Blues" for about fifteen years. I found this blog because of a list of "best blogs" that he hyperlinked when he went behind a pay wall. He explains analytics without being condescending.
Kevin, I will second your comment to the letter, including the bit about how you found this precious blog that's become the first and last thing I visit daily.
Thanks, Scotland...and just for the record, I respect Axsia, and I think this is a very perceptive article, one that get into the full nuances of why the Yankees have missed this window of opportunity, and why Cashman and HAL are the great comedy duo of Yankeedom.
It's a brainless organization, run by a man mostly worried about somebody replacing him, under the authority of a man who inherited everything and isn't really interested in running it.
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If that's a distress call, nobody is going to come and save us. We must display the following on the 24th: SELL THE TEAM HAL
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ReplyDelete"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
ReplyDeleteTeddy Roosevelt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvbfA-NMaXE
ReplyDeleteRufus - Welcome back!
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ReplyDeleteI get the impression the author is not flavour of the month on here but this article looks to my untrained eye to be pretty spot on
https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/how-missteps-by-yankees-ownership-brian-cashman-have-led-to-new-yorks-shocking-decline-since-2017/
Rufus! Good to see you!
ReplyDeleteMr. Scotsman, Mike Axisa is one of the best Yankee beat writers going. I strongly recommend any Yankee fan to subscribe to his patreon blog for three dollars U.S./month. Before he started writing for CBS he headed up a blog called "River Avenue Blues" for about fifteen years. I found this blog because of a list of "best blogs" that he hyperlinked when he went behind a pay wall. He explains analytics without being condescending.
ReplyDeleteKevin, I will second your comment to the letter, including the bit about how you found this precious blog that's become the first and last thing I visit daily.
ReplyDeleteTHX Platoni, also my first and last. BTW, I think that Mike Axisa really nailed it. Of course he agrees with most of us! 😎
ReplyDeleteRoofy - we all feared the wurst. Glad to see that you pulled through. But I gotta ask …… how’s the identical twin?
ReplyDeleteI was going to mention Ray Milland or Rosey Grier?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Scotland...and just for the record, I respect Axsia, and I think this is a very perceptive article, one that get into the full nuances of why the Yankees have missed this window of opportunity, and why Cashman and HAL are the great comedy duo of Yankeedom.
ReplyDeleteIt's a brainless organization, run by a man mostly worried about somebody replacing him, under the authority of a man who inherited everything and isn't really interested in running it.
In short, we're screwed.
And...yet another loss in which the Yanks insist on pitching to the best hitter on the other team, with a base open.
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ReplyDeleteMike Axisa is one of the best out there. I miss River Ave. Blues. Great blog.
ReplyDeleteRiver Ave Blues is still on Twitter, in case you're interested.
ReplyDeleteBit, did Teddy Roosevelt not know that there's a thing called a "period" in English punctuation?
Hello, Scotland! Welcome back, Rufus!
Hoss, we must pitch to every team's best hitter. It's in a memo from the Analytics Dept.