Baltimore has pretty much been a broken team for much of August and September. The Yankees are giving them back their swagger and their confidence. The O's now remember that they " own" the Yankees. We have been out of games one and two by the third inning.
And if we nosed or way back into the game ( made it close ), someone else dropped the ball and the O's pulled away. Competitiveness was an illusion.
If the Yankees back into a favorable playoff situation ( home. field?) because someone finally loses a game, other than us, the path to destruction awaits.
No matter what the line-up, we have two reliable players.
And this business of the Martian being blind to fly balls is beyond the pale. I am still stunned by his ineptitude.
So light up a joint boys ( lemonade haze is my personal favorite ...see above ). The next several days already feel unnecessarily painful.
And the mayor of NYC is a crook. What a surprise.
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First, I found The Martian's fielding stats at Scranton. And they're not great:
CF: 3 assists, 4 errors, .951 FA, range factor (whatever this means) of 2.79.
LF: 2 assists, 1 error, .905 FA, range factor of 1.73.
RF: (in 1 game) 1.000 FA, range factor of 2.0.
By comparison, Judge this year has a range factor of 2.40 in center, so I guess Dominguez can get to balls all right. He just can't catch them.
(More) seriously, a lot of guys have made themselves better in the field with hard work. Wade Boggs comes to mind. No reason The Martian can't do that, too. And don't worry: having drafted him, Cashie will never, ever get rid of the guy.
As for Adams, believe it or not, NYC is incomparably less corrupt than it used to be. And it's not the size of the bureaucracy alone. Back when the city and its government was exponentially smaller, Boss Tweed and co. used to "outsource" all sorts of work to private contractors...all of whom kicked back to Tammany.
When their incompetence was exposed...Tweed would "fire" them and go to another private contractor, who would kickback to repair the work, and, well, you get the idea. Through this method, the squat little "Tweed Courthouse," just behind city hall, cost as much to build as the Houses of Parliament, which went up about the same time...
...I'm no fan of Adams, who I consider a buffoonish incompetent—and corrupt.
But NYC has had a mayor who had probably colluded in having a crucial mob witness thrown out of a window, and another one who turned a Central Park building into his very own casino and nightclub, where he trysted with his chorine mistresses and people wanting to do "business" with the city.
The problem in this case, I think, is much more our idiotic "ranked choice" system of voting, wherein Adams became mayor with less than 31 percent of the "first-place" votes. And...us.
New York, according to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is the first great, world city actually run by the people. And by and large, we've done a terrible job, electing one crook and incompetent after another. Sometimes, we gotta admit that the fault lies not in the system, but in ourselves.
Adams is Jimmy Walker, with foreigners.
People don't vote in primaries, which is a big problem when you use ranked choice. Which is a dumb idea anyway.
So Switzerland arrested a bunch of people involved in letting a woman kill herself in a suicide pod. Remember, the idea of this thing is committing suicide:
"Elisabeth Baume-Schneider, the Swiss minister responsible for health, said on Monday that the capsule does not meet the requirements of product safety law, and that its use of nitrogen is not legally compliant."
Product safety law? What?
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I used to think that the more computers were used to run guvment then guvment would need less emPLOYeees. Less emPLOYeees would lead to less corruption. Instead we have more emPLOYeees, more corruption, infinitely more difficult to find and root out. And let's face it, these guys protect each other, the various dept. heads. They all have something on each other. Some guvment. Who was that old guy who proclaimed, "That guvment which guverns least guverns best"? Too many thieves to guvern wisely or fairly.
And the political parties put up the nominees, not the people...
I’m sure they will win one of the next few games, but the Yankees make me fucking insane lately. Lately meaning the last 20 years
From the NYY PR Dept
Prior to tonight’s game, the Yankees made the following roster moves:
•Placed RHP Mark Leiter Jr. on the paternity list.
•Recalled RHP Scott Effross (#59) from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Now, dontcha feel better about tonight? Me neither.
I really miss the days when you'd hear the term "Yank-jazeera" around here. Am I wallowing in some mawkish, maudlin pinstriped hole?
Can our blog send a pod to Cashman as a Christmas Gift......you know, something to rappel down into . . . ?
See yah Later Leiter . . . .
Game thread up
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