For the record, in terms of tabloid back pages, the Yankees continued to rule NYC sports in 2023, but their dominance shrank noticeably - and dangerously.
Their total fell by nearly 30 percent from 2022, and if any local sports franchise had done diddlysquat, it would have taken over as the city's marquee team. The Yankees won because of their heritage, however withering it is, and the lack of competition.
In 2022, NYC faced the most disappointing lineup of professional sports teams in America. If any one franchise steps forward in 2024, it will rule the city.
It all starts and ends with the owners. That means you, Mr. Steinbrenner.
It's time to put the Yankees back on track. That will mean spending money and somehow rinsing the organization of a toxic mindset that overwhelmed the 2023 team. But you have no choice.
if you lose the city, it will be hell to reclaim.
“Some GMs Just Want To Watch The World Burn.”
ReplyDelete“You Either Die A Hero Or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become Brian Cashman”
May I just wish you all a very Happy New Year, with big thanks for entertaining and sustaining me the past year!
ReplyDeleteHappy & healthy 2024, fellow travelers.
ReplyDeleteIf Rodgers didn't get hurt, the Jets would have taken it.
ReplyDeleteYou can say that again!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, looking at the Jets, I wonder if they weren't lacking more. And all these awful teams...
ReplyDeleteBut also, I don't think HAL really cares about "losing the city." I think he just wants to go on raking in the profits in the cozy little sinecure that the MLB cartel provides.
I think he is foolishly optimistic about how easy that will be. Teams are either descending or ascending; they don't maintain some steady state forever. But it is damned hard to actually lose money with the present structure of the game. And as long as that doesn't happen...
Happy New Year, and we better enjoy it now because we'll be miserable from April to October.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year.
ReplyDeleteMy new year's resolution is too not be so fond of HAL and Ca$hole.
I like to pick easy ones.
The duck drops down, you win a hundred dollars.
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ReplyDeleteA story:
A high-powered guy named Robert Goizueta became the cheese at Coca-Cola decades ago. There was a blind taste test, Coke against Pepsi.
Pepsi won. Big, apparently.
Goizueta freaked out. He had the #1 soda in the world, and yet people preferred the taste of the other thing. He was going to be the one who drove Coke into the ground!!!
THIS is how "New Coke" was born. You remember that? If you're old enuf.
Can you get a can of "New Coke" now?
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What does this prove?
People with a lot of money and power have learned (from this and a zillion other instances) to focus on One Thing.
For our purposes here, let's say you are Hal S.
You don't care about pennants. You don't need to think about Mets. For you, having Brian Cashman as GM is as good as Kevin Hart. Or Rudy Giuliani.
Hal has his focus on one thing. It's money. "The bottom line." Brian is a great GM for Hal as long as the money keeps rolling in. If Brian has to spend more to do it, Hal will find the $$$.
But Hal thus far does not need to do that, does he?
Happy New Years to all you sickos! May we all suffer, together, another fifty years of this!
ReplyDeleteHappy 2024...the year of the Los Angeles Japanese National Team...
ReplyDeleteIndeed! Happy 2024, all!
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