First, Rangers-Bruins/Knicks-Celtics will trigger serious PTSD from my childhood. Though actually, by that time the Knicks could usually beat the Celts when it counted. The Bruins just owned the Rangers. Until finally, in the 1972-1973 playoffs, the Rangers upset them in 5 games...only to lose in 5 to the Black Hawks.
Hammer, I'm also glad to see Verlander seems to be done. But boy, that was the all-time fail of The Brain.
Down the stretch in 2017, Cashman went after Sonny Gray instead of Verlander. From 2017-2022, Verlander went 69-23, 2.42 ERA, and won 10 postseason games.
Sonny Gray? Well, still pitching well...after Cashie traded him on for NOTHING.
If we had signed Verlander, the Yanks probably win 4 rings in that time. He could wear any damned beard he liked!
Yankees now into the sad sack part of the pen. For a bullpen that has the best ERA in baseball, they make me very, very nervous. Not to be confused with the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous.
I had to read these comments 'after the fact'. I MUST say that you guys are rounding into mid-season form! Glad that I wasn't drinking a milkshake. Keep up the hilarious work!
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First, Rangers-Bruins/Knicks-Celtics will trigger serious PTSD from my childhood. Though actually, by that time the Knicks could usually beat the Celts when it counted. The Bruins just owned the Rangers. Until finally, in the 1972-1973 playoffs, the Rangers upset them in 5 games...only to lose in 5 to the Black Hawks.
ReplyDeleteSigh...
The 1973 Knicks only beat Boston because Havlicek was playing with a separated shoulder.
ReplyDeleteThere's no crying in basketball, Publius. Winning is winning, no matter the circumstances.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but didn't the Knicks not have The Pearl for that series, due to injury?
ReplyDeleteHondo didn't cry. He played left-handed.
ReplyDeleteHammer, I'm also glad to see Verlander seems to be done. But boy, that was the all-time fail of The Brain.
ReplyDeleteDown the stretch in 2017, Cashman went after Sonny Gray instead of Verlander. From 2017-2022, Verlander went 69-23, 2.42 ERA, and won 10 postseason games.
Sonny Gray? Well, still pitching well...after Cashie traded him on for NOTHING.
If we had signed Verlander, the Yanks probably win 4 rings in that time. He could wear any damned beard he liked!
ReplyDeleteThe New Yorker Blowthani cover is an abomination.
Exactly. EXACTLY.
ReplyDeletePop Quiz!
ReplyDeleteWhat rhymes with Kyle Tucker?
Vile Fucker?
ReplyDeleteI was enjoying the naming rights riffs in the other thread.
ReplyDeleteHow about: Tom Carvel Field in Boss Tweed Stadium? With the Marv Albert sky boxes?
The Bit wins!
ReplyDeleteGleyber does it again!
ReplyDeleteGleyber has a very low baseball IQ
ReplyDeleteWhat a dimwit.
ReplyDeletemr. bit, I'd propose a dedicated "Calgon, take me away" thread.
ReplyDeleteBut, I've always been a tastes awful, less filling, kinda guy.
And, yes.
ReplyDeleteGleyber is on the spectrum.
Spectrum Business? Spectrum cable? Spectrum crap original series?
ReplyDeleteRodon does not fill me with confidence.
ReplyDeleteGleyber out of character with a good play.
ReplyDeleteI know. I was shocked.
ReplyDeleteAstros have brought in one of the Italian pilots from Night the Opera.
ReplyDeleteAt the Opera.
ReplyDeleteJudge is back.
ReplyDeleteRodon is on that Ozempic diet - so he could have eaten your confidence JM and you would never have known it
ReplyDeleteBrunson out with ankle issue. Questionable to return!
ReplyDeleteWasn't he in Along Came Brunson?
ReplyDeleteAA, excellent point. Fred Allen-esque.
@JM well played
ReplyDeleteJM, you made me go to the way back machine.
ReplyDeleteYankees now into the sad sack part of the pen. For a bullpen that has the best ERA in baseball, they make me very, very nervous. Not to be confused with the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous.
ReplyDeleteAs a late friend of mine used to say, my brain is a cornucopia of crap.
ReplyDeleteCan't we have a reliever who can finish off a game cleanly? It's embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteSomebody like King would do.
ReplyDeleteThuuuuuuuuh Yankees win! Finally.
ReplyDeleteMy mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
ReplyDeleteRodent wasn't rat shit tonight
ReplyDeleteSome injured and less minor-leaguey relievers should be returning within the coming weeks, right? Right?!
ReplyDeleteWould that these games had occurred a number of years ago in October rather than in May of this year. But I’ll take it anyway.
ReplyDeleteSmall comfort.
I had to read these comments 'after the fact'. I MUST say that you guys are rounding into mid-season form! Glad that I wasn't drinking a milkshake. Keep up the hilarious work!
ReplyDeleteFred Allen
ReplyDeleteOh - the days of young.
Young
and Dumb
and
Full of . . .
Ozempic
Off-topic comments only? Holy shit, such wankery!
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