"Well, I just don't think you can discount the injuries."
Yep.
This is what we are going to hear for the next six months. It's the all-purpose, dual action, rear suspension excuse:
"I just don't think you can discount the injuries."
It's the perfect way of saying, "We're not making excuses—but we are."
It serves to both excuse the Yankees for this awful, dreary season AND to excuse yet another off-season of penny-pinching inaction (accompanied by significant price increases!).
You can't discount the injuries.
Hey, that's not altogether false. The Yanks sure did have injuries this season, and that kept them from being what they looked to be at the start of the 2023 season: yet another team that would make the playoffs by the skin of their teeth, and then most likely be eliminated in the first or second round. Or, joy of joys, be humiliated in another, ALCS sweep.
Whole lotta discounts here. For instance:
—You can't discount the fact that all major-league teams today have injuries. The smart ones have stockpiled talent and can fill in players who are nearly as good.
—You can't discount the fact that, year after year, the Yankees ALWAYS have more injuries than anybody else, and that their guys never get better, and that that fact seems somehow, just maybe possibly perhaps, related to their abominable training and coaching methods.
—You can't discount the fact that the Yankees going into this year, as with most years, were an old and unathletic team just waiting to break down.
—You can't discount the fact that injuries or no, this Yankees team didn't have enough pitching, the ultimate key to all success and failure in baseball.
—You can't discount the fact that our manager, for all his yelling at the umps, made constant, bad field decisions, and said nothing about how often this team seemed to be mailing in yet another game.
Nope, no discounts allowed. And once again, our sad stooge of a manager toes the company line, play the company man.
Asked about this on SNY, Pravda reporter Anthony McCarron went right along and agreed that Boonie should be back. Only the network's young turk, John Jastrzemski, was having none of it, insisting that he should go.
"It's past time somebody on the Yankees should be held accountable! They haven't won in 14 years!"
Amen.
You just cannot discount the moronic decisions by those running The Yankees. Same Old Shit, different day.
ReplyDeleteAccountability? Don't hold your breath! The Yankees, Inc. made another record profit this year. That's all that matters. Success!
ReplyDeleteAnd as someone who has had over a decade as a player, he is especially clueless about the how the game is (or should be ) played.
ReplyDeleteEvery single level of the way the Yankees are run can be improved
It would need a total clear out and the removal of Cashman which is never going to happen sadly
Love the new hat, Scotland! And all with you on getting rid of Brainless.
ReplyDeleteAnd: you can't discount the fact that they've listed so far to starboard that the ship capsized.
ReplyDeleteYou can't discount the fact that the fundamentals on this team are atrocious.
They only emphasize and teach exit velocity, launch angle, throwing velocity, and spin rate. The hitters do not know how to hit. And the pitchers do not know how to pitch. The hitters swing for the fences, hoping to run into one and hit it out. And the pitchers throw as hard as they can, with as much spin as they can, and hope the other team's hitter gets himself out. Does that summarize Yankee baseball 2023?
I paint with a broad brush, of course. Since the hitting coach change, I think they're trying to be more fundamentally sound. But the pitching coach is still the same. The pitching really collapsed when Severino and Rodon came back, and neither one could get anyone out. The two of them probably tossed a couple of dozen games in the garbage. Add the usual half dozen Ba-Boone self-destruct button jobs, and there, in a nutshell, you have the anatomy of a lost season.
Jogginson Torres, once again mentally quick on the basepaths..
ReplyDeleteAnd by quick, I mean worse than little league.
You know, that Judge fella is purty goood.
ReplyDeleteGleyberrrrrrrrrr! He's so pathetic on the basepaths.
ReplyDeleteYankees win…
ReplyDeleteThe sense of this season being the Big Squander really hit me tonight. Judge with 2 HRs, Cole a 2-hit shut-out…. What a waste. Thanks, $man. Thanks a lot.
ReplyDeleteCole may have just put the final exclamation point on a Cy Young winning season.
ReplyDeleteCy Young then a request for a trade during the off season is entirely a possibility. I mean I would ask for a trade to a better managed team with superior oversight and World Series potential.
ReplyDeleteVery true, Hammer.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is, there are many ways to win in baseball, and everybody on the roster should be contributing to it.
The Yankees believe neither proposition.