Unfortunately, in recent years, Hope Week has seemed to correspond with a teamwide collapse, as it folds its tent for another lost season.
I propose that the Yankees, soon after Hope Week - hold Despair Week, where they visit deathbed patients and - in this case - the looming end of democracy. The message: The Yankees may be also-rans, but - hey - the whole world is crapping the bed, so let's enjoy the fiasco!
People... this is Despair Week.
The Yankees still have a seven days to stagger and fall into all-star break, a walking corpse with a convergence of whispers. (Clay Holmes, really?) They could lose two more series - in Tampa, resurrecting the Rays' wild card chances and in Baltimore, a brutal, finishing humiliation by a younger, stronger, better team.
By then, Boston might have bypassed them in the AL East - a notion that seemed preposterous a month ago. In recent weeks, the Redsocks exposed three existential Yankee flaws: The inability to hold baserunners, the lack of a closer, and the total collapse if pitchers simply don't throw to Aaron Judge.
Despair Week.
Too negative, you say?
I'm just getting started.
The real shit will go down if/when Aaron Judge gets hurt. (I'm trying to apply reverse juju here: By saying it will happen, you try to ensure that it doesn't. But in this case, it will.) Three of his nine MLB seasons were corrupted by injuries: In each, he played less than 115 games. (He's now at 90.) Last year, he hit the wall in LA, literally. The effect on the Yankees was a snakebite in a crocodile pit.
If/when Judge goes down, the replacement will be Jasson Dominguez, Spencer Jones Trent Grisham. Need I say more?
Folks, this isn't a losing streak. This is a lost month, with the Yankees showing up as the worst teams in baseball.
Cue the deathbed visit. Wait... beneath that breathing apparatus... it's the Yankees!
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The lack of fundamentals, of timely hitting, never ceases to amaze. They continue to pitch to hitters like Devers in close situations who continue to beat them. Boone is clueless yet there are those who protect him.
The only question this week is will we go 2-4 or 1-5. 0-6? Will that get Boone fired?
Forget about upgrades at the trade deadline. The time for a reset is in the offseason, and it includes eating a ton of money, which is why it never gets done.
Hope Week? For this team there is no hope, and none for us fans.
When does pity week start?
Boone is not getting fired. He is there to babysit 26 players. He's doing his job. The players aren't mouthing off about Boone. It's not gonna happen...
Shitting the Deathbed ?
What would the Michael Kay voiced Yes Promo say:
“There he gooooooooooooes, SHIT YAH! Bed - Bobble Bed Day - where the first 13000 fans get a commemorative Despair Week Shit Yah! Bed - Bobble Bed.”
You know…….for kids!
To all of you that were giddy with hope in April and May, I say bah, humbug!
We are doomed to the tenth circle of hell until HAL either sells the team or gets fitted for cement overshoes.
I'm starting to wonder if the people that write and follow this blog were together for some past historical sports related event in which we ALL behaved very badly and are doomed to a "Flying Dutchman" kind of fandom.
A ghost fandom as it were,endlessly circling the drain, never arriving at port. While in the real world the Yankees are still a well run good team.
Time for a morphine drip. Embrace the sweet long sleep.
But then Winny, even the embrace won't hold for long as we slip away
I can already hear Cash-hole at the end of the season…”hey, we got 82 wins. With the injuries and the trade market being what it was, Boone did a great job. Were really poised for next year.”
They'll be very fortunate to go 2-4 these next two series. They could be swept both series.
Looks like the doomsayers on this blog were spot on about this year! I think I predicted 80 wins (don't even remember at this point). Seems impossible after the hot start, but they might not even reach 80 wins.
Good point, Doug! Me, I think it's all the karma coming back on us for our century of incredible success. Somebody's got to pay the price for Harry Frazee.
That, or, as I've written Col. Ruppert made a deal with the devil and signed Brian Cashman's name to it.
Yeah, I think Boone will survive the year, too. Cashie's going to be very careful before throwing him over the side.
And don't think Hal's expiration, even, will bring about any change. There are plenty of young Steinbrenners waiting in the wings. This will go on for another few generations, until some future idiot manages to squander their money in the Great Crypto Scam of 2200, or some such.
But for now, I think the big outcry is going to come when they let Soto walk after this season. The fan base will never be the same in our lifetime.
If they're eliminated a month before the end of the season, HAL won't be happy. He'll miss his annual goal of barely making the wild card and getting booted out of the playoffs in the first round. Empty seats, declining revenue might be a kick in the pants to wake the fuck up.
May I just say, too, that I'm so glad I didn't watch last night?
The Yankees are almost always pathetic in these late Sunday games. It's the real rap on Boone: that he cannot ever seem to motivate the team.
"Oh, it's a late start...Oh, it's hot...Oh, we're so tired."
Try playing a daytime doubleheader in wool uniforms, babycakes.
Did you actually just call Boone Babycakes?
https://keefetothecity.com/yankees-thoughts-its-all-right-there-in-front-of-us/
New Keefe. Brutally accurate as usual. A sampling...
"Boone has added some more glowing accomplishments to his impressive resume:
– Only Yankees manager to get a fifth season on the job without a championship (and now a sixth and seventh season)
– Manager for the most lopsided home postseason loss in franchise history (Game 3 of the 2018 ALDS)
– Manager for the worst single-month record in 33 years
– Manager for the worst season record in 31 years
– Manager for the most steals allowed in a single game by franchise in 109 years
– Manager for the first three-plus-game-series sweep by NL team at Yankee Stadium in franchise history
– Manager for the first Yankees team to lose five straight home series in 34 years
– Manager for the first time in Yankees history the team allowed 35-plus home runs and had a losing record over any 16-game span
– Manager for the first Yankees team to not steal a base over 20 consecutive games in 61 years"
Check out the rest. Always a good read.
Wow, lots of firsts there, Doug. Cosmonaut BaBoone is a true Yankee space age pioneer. Trailblazer, boldly going where no Yankee manager has gone before.... Da daaaaa da da da daaaaa
And here's a from the Baseball Halls of Pugilism:
https://nypost.com/2024/07/07/sports/cubs-colten-brewer-breaks-hand-goes-on-il-after-punching-wall/
Ex Yankee Colten Brewer reportedly broke his non-pitching hand punching the dugout wall after (what he thought) was a brutal outing. Good thing he doesn't pitch for the Yanks anymore. He'd have two broken hands and two broken feet. Maybe a broken head too.
First rule of martial arts: Those with unconditioned hands should not punch walls.
Now, I don't know anything about Colten. Except his name (and what a great name, surprised Cashman didn't hang onto to him, could've used his services in that epic Yankee western movie extravaganza coming soon to a theatre near you). Maybe he does practice martial arts. But if so, then this is a sign that his conditioning ain't up to speed yet. Greenhorn.
I think I read that actor James Coburn once broke his ankle kicking a motor vehicle. (He'd been taking some jeet kune do lessons from martial arts master Bruce Lee, who used to charge $1,000 an hour back in the late '60s and early '70s.) Must've been too much, too fast.
What was that joke Phyllis Diller used to tell? Something about getting something for her hope chest, "but with my chest, there's no hope."
Try the veal.
Doug,
That list is pathetic. Shows he should have been fired long ago.
Hammer, I think the Bruce Lee lessons were training for this movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Man_Flint
Great movie BTW (as is the sequel) and an inspiration for a lot of Austin Powers gags.
Finally, how could I have missed this?:
https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/derek-jeter-finally-sells-new-york-castle/
Too bad Glassman didn't buy it.
A look inside: https://www.priceypads.com/inside-derek-jeters-9-5m-tiedemann-castle-on-greenwood-lake/
No word on if gift bags were included in the sale.
AAA,
Both are correctt.
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