Texas Rangers. Arizona Diamondbacks. Houston Astros. Philadelphia Phillies. Atlanta Braves. Tampa Bay Rays. Los Angeles Dodgers. Washington Nationals. Boston Redsocks. Cleveland Indians. Chicago Cubs. Kansas City Royals. New York Mets. San Francisco Giants. St. Louis Cardinals. Detroit Tigers.
A: They each played in a world series since 2009, the Yankees' most recent, gala, grand farewell appearance.
Q: How many world series games have been played since the Yankees' most recent, gala, grand farewell appearance?
A: 86
Q: What teams have won the most world series games since 2009, the Yankees' most recent, gala, grand farewell appearance?
Astros 13
Giants 12
Rangers 8
Dodgers 8
Redsocks 8
Royals 7
Cardinals 6
Braves 4
Nationals 4
Cubs 4
Indians 3
Phillies 2
Rays 2
Diamondbacks 1
Q: How much money have the Yankees spent on payroll since 2009, their most recent, gala, grand farewell appearance in the world series?
A: $3.035 billion, according to Cots Baseball Contracts.
Q: How much money have the Astros spent on payroll since 2009, the Yankees' most recent, gala, grand farewell appearance in the world series?
A: $1,968 billion, or slightly less than 2/3rds of what the Yankees spent, according to Cots Baseball Contracts.
Q: When was the last time the Yankees went 15 years without appearing in the world series?
A: Never. Though, technically, that's debatable, if you include years they were known as the New York Highlanders. The 1920 Yankees/Highlanders went 18 seasons without an appearance. (The 1982-94 Yankees went 14, and the 1965-75 team went 11.)
Get excited, everyone! The Crystal Yankees in 2024 could make history!
The Yankees are Crystal Light.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees are Bud Light
ReplyDeleteAnd now the long wait begins.
ReplyDeleteI used to look forward to the Hot Stove season and would count down towards Pitchers and Catchers, then to Opening Day. No more.
The wait I speak of now has no end in sight. It's the chasm that opens up until the day that Cashman leaves the Yankees. I doubt Hal will ever sell, so I'll wait for Brian to disappear. The big problem then is that Hal would be hiring a new GM.
Just as Cashman cannot make a sound baseball decision, Hal is incapable or unwilling to make a sound management decision. And why should he? He inherited everything he has. He never learned about failure or the desperation required to make radical decisions. Everything he has done or not done has increased his wealth.
Hal is another one of those "smartest guys in the room" who were born on third and think they hit a triple. In reality, he was left in a corner of the dugout as an infant and has hated the Yankees ever since. He CAN read a bottom line, though, and he won't sell, despite what the best psychotherapist would tell him.
Instead, he'll exercise benign neglect, continue to make money, and not think about the team for 99.8 percent of the time. Don't ask him questions about the Yankees. You'll make him upset.
No one is coming to save us.
13bit -
ReplyDelete"Zelus Analytics, a sports analytics company, will allow the Yankees to view how they crunch their numbers in terms of player performance, in-game decision-making and much more, according to a league source. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly."
https://theathletic.com/5022695/2023/11/02/yankees-zelus-analytics-offseason/
It's our only hope.
I have to think the Yankees are in hospice care, waiting for the arrival of the hearse.
ReplyDeleteNow, some of you might argue that The Intern is already legally brain dead and pulling the plug is the only humane thing to do, but as we've seen in the past few seasons, a GM with no pulse can operate with impunity as long as there is money in the family Medicare plan.
Since both Hal and The Intern are still in their fifties, we've got a long way to go before either of them kick it. It's very likely that I will be long gone before either of them are put in a home. Then, future Yankees fans will have the pleasure of visiting his gravestone in Monument Park. How's that for a sight?
The Yankees are a crystal meth addiction. You know they're bad for your mental and physical health, but you keep coming back for more.
ReplyDeleteAnd HAL is the Don, with Ca$hole as his Capo. With neither caring that they are ruining the lives of all of the addicts.
ReplyDelete...as long as they keep making money.
Ladies and gentlemen
ReplyDeleteGentlemen and Ladies,
Allow me to be the first to say
That everything is going to be OK
I am reminded of the epilogue at the end of Kubrick's Barry London:
IT WAS IN THE REIGN OF GEORGE III
THAT THE AFORESAID PERSONAGES LIVED AND QUARRELLED;
GOOD OR BAD, HANDSOME OR UGLY, RICH OR POOR.
THEY ARE ALL EQUAL NOW
Cue the Orchestra . . . .
Only in our case, the orchestra is the Lawrence Welk Orchestra, and it's playing "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries."
ReplyDeletePerfect o JM
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/h9kAd8Mygpw?si=dI3rs0aa603M83P7
and-a 1 and-a 2…🎵🎵
ReplyDeleteYes, they will. with Genius Cashman in charge.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteOnly in our case, the orchestra is the Lawrence Welk Orchestra, and it's playing "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries."
On the subject of Lawrence Welk, I don't know if you guys have seen this, but it's a personal fave, if only because everything lines up so well...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i48BP1PUoFI
Well done, AA. Brian Cashman, the Yankees' Barry Lyndon. A provincial zero raised up in society by a combination of folly, shamelessness and dumb luck only to have it all come crashing down after his true talents, or lack thereof, are exposed. Our "hero" toggles between self-pity and impotent fury trying to maintain his status, which serves only to make his degradation and humiliation worse and worse. Yep, it's a very good comp.
ReplyDeleteChauncey Gardiner would make better decisions than Brian Cashman. There's no hope unless they go on a spending spree and get lucky at the same time. Hal will never do that, therefore, we're fucked.
ReplyDeleteNon-tendering Domingo German is another example of Cashman's lack of acuity. Okay, perhaps German has worn out his welcome on the team. But, he is still quite an effective pitcher. Why not trade him for some decent assets rather than just dump him? Surely, many teams would make a deal for him. I guess that would cut into his prep time for the annual rappel.
Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine....
ReplyDeleteChauncey Gardiner! Carl, the perfect analog, and a hilarious one at that!
Amazing analyses, guys! I think you're all right. And Doug, the Zelus "audit" is an obvious ploy, designed to give cover to Cashman going back to business-as-usual.
ReplyDelete"Player performance"? It will conclude that, considering these players, they're performing as well as can be expected. "In-game decision making"? We'll be told that it all conforms to the analytical model and, again, can only be improved by improving the players.
Everything will be blamed on injuries. And Cashman will hold a press conference at the end of this "audit," and say that it confirms what he's been saying all along: that the Yankees' "process" is right, so no use worrying about declining results.
It's true that no one is coming to save us.
ReplyDeleteOur one hope is that the Mets become so good, so fast, that it begins to turn HAL's bottom line, red. I don't think that he or the rest of the Steinbrenner Crime Family will stand for this enterprise actually losing money.
But yes, as someone noted, then HAL will just hire another clod. Hey, you never know: Mad George ended up hiring a lot of talented people, in between his extended fits.
Carl, Yeah, that's what I would've done. Give German his arbitration raise and then turn around and trade him.
ReplyDeleteI'm so so tired of the diatribe by most Yankee fans that this one or that one has "no value" and is "untradeable". A really good GM is able to find a suitor and get rid of players that he doesn't want. I think German has got some value. He just threw a freaking perfect game. He's got great stuff.
So now some team is going to pick up a very decent pitcher, possibly a #2 or 3 starter, for ... nothing. This is the genius of Cashman: how to ruin your ball club and still retain your GM position.
I am not the person I was. As famously reported on this blog, I was once a stunning piece of ass. Now? I'm not worth 99¢ a pound. And there are a lot more pounds. So many more pounds. But even now at my aged worst, I could've choked out CashBrain with one hand and assembled a better roster for less money with the other.
ReplyDeleteWinnie, you are still a piece of ass to all that care about you. And an excellent judge of what needs to be done with the Yankees front office.
ReplyDelete@ Warblist....If you're not even worth 99 cents a pound, then you are equivalent to deer balls which is the cheapest meat you can buy in America. Why are they the cheapest? Because they're under a buck. Groan. Oh my!
ReplyDeleteWinnie, you're always a woman to me, as Billy Joel sang. Well, at least you're hello a gal.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Hammer, it makes absolutely ZERO sense. OF COURSE you can trade this guy for something! Just as he could/should have got something much more than Shedd Long for Sonny Gray.
The man is a fucking imbecile.