I don't know what you guys expect of our team. Why, it's August, and it's very hot! And they had to play two doubleheaders. That's four games! And...and they had to play a day game after a night game. And fly to that dumb-ass promotion in Williamsport, PA!
Hey, I don't want to get too Get-Off-My-Lawn-You-Kids here. But your New York Yankees have been looking distinctly...shall we say, unengaged, these days?
I know. The Boone Loon moves don't help, and the awful roster, and the fact that we somehow don't have a closer. But still. A little effort, mayhaps?
I looked it up. The 1927 Yankees played 19 doubleheaders (They swept 9, split 9, and were swept in 9.) The 1939 Yanks played 25 doubleheaders. (10 wins, 10 splits, 5 losses.) All in summer wool, without AC.
Just saying, that yet another thing that makes this team so unlikable is the constant lack of effort. And then there's that closer. The Yanks didn't invent the closer, but for a century, they have generally had the best ones in the business—at least when it came to October.
Wilcy "Cy" Moore, Johnny "Fireman" Murphy, Joe "The Gay Reliever" Page, Johnny Sain, Bob Kuzava, Bob Grim, Ryne Duren, Luis Arroyo, Sparky Lyle, Goose Gossage, John Wetteland, David Robertson, and The Great One. Not to mention the likes of Tom Ferrick, Marshall Bridges, Steve Hamilton, Lindy McDaniel, Dave Righetti, Ron Davis, Steve Farr, Mike Stanton, Jeff Nelson, Ramiro Mendoza, Rafael Soriano, and Andrew Miller.
This Yankee dynasty what never was? Well, we got Machine Gun Sweats and Sherlock.
But this is unfair. There is so much else that stinks about us. To quote the Estimable Keefe, over at keefetothecity:
The Yankees are poor at situational hitting, have an inconsistent and top-heavy lineup, a bad bullpen and a mediocre rotation. They make sloppy mistakes in the field and on the bases and have a manager who puts the team at a disadvantage in late-and-close games. Add all of that together and talent and payroll don’t matter when you’re playing inferior teams.
Can't say it better than that.
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Also from today’s Keefe:
1. I didn’t feel good seeing Clay Holmes warming up on the Williamsport mound on Sunday night with the Yankees only holding a one-run lead. I don’t think any Yankees fan did. Because for all the times John Sterling told us “You can’t predict baseball” over 30-plus years, sometimes you can.
3. “I thought the sinker was good tonight,” Aaron Boone said of Holmes. “The slider was good.”
You know who else thought the sinker and slider were good? Colt Keith and Jace Jung.
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The toughest (rarest) score to win by is 1-0. You have to shut out the other team, whilst scoring only one lousy run yourself. And it proved too difficult for this Yankee 2024 team to get it done. Yeah, Holmes is going to kill them, even if they do make the playoffs. (I still don't think they will.)
I'm done with Holmes, never really started with him, truth be told, but you cannot put ALL of this on him. He's simply one broken cog in a large, broken machine that's filled with a lot of broken gears, springs that go "boing!" like in a cartoon, leaks squirting out through the engine wall, broken glass, rusty pipes, and mysterious clanging noises that echo down the halls late at night.
I heard Alain Delon died on Sunday. He was 88. I knew he wasn't going to live forever, but it still sucks big time. One of my childhood heroes has passed. I loved many of his movies: Zorro; Le Samurai; Red Sun. Just to name a few. R.I.P.
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