The photo above depicts a guy who can't figure out his way near to a happy day.
He is trapped, metaphorically. In a box from which he cannot escape. All his assets pretty much garbage.
The NFL Giants of 2024 are in a similar box. The most important position on the team ( quarterback) has three candidates and each one spells disaster. There is little ( read that as "nothing") they can do to remedy the situation. They can't make a trade. They have no one in the farm system ( practice squad). And the clock is ticking.
The Yankees are in a similar situation. A key position on the team is " closer." He assures victory in the close games, where your offense is meager. Our closer has blown 10 saves so far, including the. awful one in Williamsport. In front of the youth of the world..
A genre, by the way, that have only known the Yankees as " losers."
And, like the Giants, there is nothing they can do. If Holmes steps down, as Duque begs, there is no one to step up.
Cashman has built nothing in the way of depth. He has failed at his job. For more than a generation now.
We are in Misery's box.
And there is no way out.
Before you say "disaster" about the Giant's QB situation, wait a few weeks.
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DeleteMy hopes lie almost entirely with the Knicks…
ReplyDeleteThere is an answer, and it’s a painful one. Gil as the closer for the rest of this season. Let him blow away 3-4 batters a night and preserve his arm for next year’s rotation. Warren/Schmidt fill his rotation spot.
ReplyDeleteProb doesn't matter, but...
ReplyDeleteI went back and looked at the East standings on 5-31-24. Since then, the Yankees have played precisely .500 ball (33-33). The Orioles are 37-34, and the Red Sox 36-30 in that period
You might call the NYY record "sustained mediocrity." Or, if you like, "suckitude re-enforced on a daily basis."
Joe, the overall mediocrity of MLB is the only reason we are entrenched in the playoff race.
DeleteNow hold on a second, O Dauntless One!
ReplyDeleteWe have no idea of just what we're looking at in that photo. The individual in the picture, unassuming though he appears, may be full of bliss and joy.
He may be a found artist, contemplating the award-winning piece of contemporary sculpture he is about to make out of that collection of various objects before him. He may be a first rate catcher of rats and other pests, about to set out to eliminate all the vermin in his neighborhood with that amazing collection of devices.
Or, he may just be looking to scrap a lot of junk in his backyard.
Whatever the case may be, he is probably NOT planning to watch or listen to Clay Holmes blow yet another baseball game in the last inning of play. In that sense, he is far above all the rest of us, set on proving the definition of insanity yet again.
The Master will be broadcasting tonight!
ReplyDeleteFuck CashBrain.
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ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know the season record for blown saves? Bleacher Report seems to think it is 14 in a season, most recently by Ron Davis in 1984. Bard Lidge blew 11 saves (Or perhaps goats? Or Phillies fans? It's hard for me to tell them apart.) in 2009. Searching for the single season record for blown saves is difficult now that fucking AI has ruined every search engine, even BB Ref. Anyway I'm going with 14 and the number for Holmes to beat. I am confident he will. He and Ma Boone and CashBrain cannot be stopped. They are like Jordan in his prime, only exactly opposite with the incredible suckage.
ReplyDeleteFuck Boone and Fuck CashBrain for putting Holmes in a situation where he can fail again and again.
And Fuck Hal righteously for creating a culture where this is condoned.
This is the Bleacher Report link.
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I've done some more digging. Since 2011 there have only been 5 seasons where a pitcher has blown 10 or more saves in a single season. Emmanuel Clase blew saves 12 last year in 2023. Holmes can definitely get to 12 BSv. I am confindent.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty funny, Warbler. And what's more, Clay Holmes will have EARNED that record. The blown save is often pretty dubious as a stat. Yes, as we all remember, The Great One gave up one in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS, but he also surrendered one in the 8th inning of Game 5 in that same series, when Torre brought him on in the 8th, with none out, and men on first and third. Mariano gave up only a flyball out, but that was enough to tie the game.
ReplyDeleteAnd sure, Sherlock hasn't earned EVERY BS he's had this year. Flopsie Vertigo and Volpe's antics in Baltimore spring all too readily to mind. There was another one or two, I think, in which if we had fielded human beings at every position instead of Bornean orangutans, we would have won a game behind him.
But I ask you: where would the study of mammalian evolution be then?
Righetti had 13 one year.
ReplyDeleteGil looks great, okay, lousy, confident, and a head case. In the same inning.
Wells last 21 games hitting.338. But Trevino today.
ReplyDeleteO'Neill the moron just said Trevino is such a great defensive catcher. Jesus.
DJ. Why, Boonehead? Why?
ReplyDeleteThe Master joining the idiot and Big Head in the TV booth, coming up.
ReplyDeleteJOHN STERLING CALLING THE GAME IN THE RADIO BOOTH! 4th AND 5th INNINGS!!
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ReplyDeleteJohn and Suzyn, together again!
The Audacy app is wayyyyy behind the TV coverage.
ReplyDeleteVertigo is useless.
ReplyDeleteOh. His arm is falling off. Yeah, that's not so good.
ReplyDeleteVertigo almost fucked that up.
ReplyDeleteTrevino, Volpe and DJ coming up. Sad.
ReplyDeleteVolpe. Holy cow.
ReplyDeleteNo outs, man on third. Nada.
ReplyDeleteSo great to hear John and Suzyn telling the truth about the state of baseball. No bullshit. No propaganda. Just the truth.
ReplyDeleteWtf DJ?
ReplyDeleteDJ is just awful.
ReplyDeleteLeRallykiller
ReplyDeleteAnyone out there? AA? Rufus? Stang? Buehler?
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, Steve.
ReplyDeleteLet it be known: Torres did another thing!
ReplyDeleteJM,
ReplyDeleteI am here, sorta.
I am quite upset at missing the Sterling interlude.
and the Yankees spitting the bit on a VERY winnable game.
Fck HAL, Fck Ca$hole, Fck Bonehead.
FUCK the entire front office.
Can we please get a targeted missile strike on Yankees front offices? Is the Mossad available. I realize they have other stuff going on, but *pretty, pretty please*?
My buddy with the retired numbers shirt is coming over tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteI will either be a night ranting here or we will be too drunk to look.
Hoping for the best.
To quote JM: “Verdugo is useless.”
ReplyDeleteGood thing there was a pinch runner out there.
ReplyDeleteIn other words, you'll be too drunk to look.
ReplyDeleteThese guys are pathetic. Why is Verdugo playing? Why is Trevino playing? Why is DJ playing? Why is Torres playing? Terrible.
And Wells pinch hits and almost parks one. And Grisham can't make it home. Why was he playing?
Nice pinch fucking goddam runner. Fucking assholes. Why do I bother with these weakies?
ReplyDeleteJM. you are a very perceptive man.
ReplyDeleteThrow is a mile off and Grisham isn't even on screen.
ReplyDeleteFucking goddam fucks
ReplyDeleteDid Verdugo even try to bunt Grisham over?
ReplyDeleteBottom 8th inning, tie game, leadiff walk. For 130 years of baseball that mean at least try to bunt him over.
Hello
ReplyDeleteHolmes will strike out the first two batters then give up a run and we lose.
ReplyDeletePublius, Verdugo can't bunt.
ReplyDeleteHolmes has feet of clay.
ReplyDeleteAt least DJ is leading odd, so he won't have a rally to kill.
ReplyDeleteLeading off
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected. For one inning, anyway.
ReplyDeleteActually didn’t have a bad evening…
ReplyDeleteClasse is right-handed. Rice should pinch hit for DJM.
ReplyDeleteJM...no doubt you're right. On the night John appears I could say something about a pinch hitter, or that professional standards have irretrievably fallen, but why bother? It's Cashman's Yankees.
ReplyDeleteLast time Verdugo tried to bunt, he popped out.
ReplyDeleteCousins having a fine inning here. DP saves his ass.
That was a nice play.
ReplyDeleteChevy is using a disco song in their commercial sung by a porn actress that's about screwing in front of the camera. Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and porn. Chevrolet.
ReplyDeleteUp to Wells.
ReplyDeleteOh fuck, that's Grisham. Shit.
ReplyDeleteAnd now Verdugo. Crap.
ReplyDeleteThe Verdugo Special: grounding out to 2B
ReplyDelete0-2, two outs. This is when we get into trouble.
ReplyDeleteHinkey, Verdugo was just worthless again.
ReplyDeleteVertigo is the poor man's Stanton.
ReplyDeleteLooking more and more like JM was prophetic about tomorrow.
Wells almost got one, again.
ReplyDeleteWells has had NO luck tonight.
ReplyDeletePS as in PISS on blogger.com,
ReplyDeleteThe new version of the website is very annoying because (for me anyway) keeps putting me at the top of the page whenever I post a comment. I mean, I've already read all those dipshits.
It's still okay on a phone, Rufus.
ReplyDeleteDJM is so completely washed up.
ReplyDeleteOz pissed.
ReplyDeleteHave to agree, Hinky. Sad but true.
ReplyDeleteBronx Buds should be about legal weed and the players who smoke it.
ReplyDeleteYankees need to come up with a trick play if they want to score. Statue of Liberty. Triple reverse. Ponzi scheme. SOMETHING.
ReplyDeleteAnd … we’re done.
ReplyDeleteHidden ball trick? Folly Floater?
ReplyDeleteWell, there it is. A hit off the new guy with the 7.71 ERA.
Like watching snails fck, or the voyage of the damned.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't Boone pinch-hit for DJ?
Cleveland can bunt, it seems.
ReplyDeleteKevin, it's Boone. Is there even anyone left on the bench?
ReplyDeleteUhhhhh, oh yeah. And he's a third generation "baseball man".
DeleteDJ is fucking up royally.
ReplyDeleteI still have jet lag. No need to see this debacle to the end. Hitting the hay.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand it, no jet lag. Good night, all. Pleasant dreams?
ReplyDeleteI’m gunna go eat a bunch of worms. Anybody want to join me?
ReplyDeleteHad enough…shutting it off…the garbage bin bullpen…
ReplyDeleteMan on, none out, in the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th...Yankees don't push one across. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteI hope my buddy brings some bourbon tomorrow . Because that's what he drinks, and I only have a fifth here.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe this team is *even* in contention, they play so horribly.
🎶🎶Although it’s been said many tines, many ways….this team sucks.
ReplyDeleteThere should be a photo of one geek/nerd/putz incompetenet GM, who is dysfunctional. He is paid alot to do a job that he cannot successfully do. He answers questions regarding the team he constructs with cute and pert answers or gets snarky. He has had his job for 25 years. The ownedr lacks cajones so he stays. This GM has an assistant that would do a better job than him. His photo should be there and not the chubby guy.
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