Okay, everybody... this is it.
It was a bumpy ride, but we have reached our destination. Kindly check your bags from the stow-away, and be careful, as objects may have shifted during flight. There is no more waiting - no more arguing, pleading, wailing... check the vomit bags... but have reached Rainbow's End.
Since the wintery day when we traded four players for Juan Soto, then added three more for Alex Verdugo, 2024 has been an all-or-nothing flight: Five key players on one-year deals, and everyone aware they might be gone after Nov. 1.
The Death Barge played a strategy: Now or never.
We started hot, built a lead, then fell into a funk that has lasted - well - dare we think it ended this week against KC? Whatever. Here we sit, three up in the AL East with 14 left, including three against Voltimore. But if we finish off Boston, today or tomorrow, then have a little winning streak, we can put the O's out of striking range.
Can we win at least one of the next two? For the sake of children, everywhere, let's put suffering Boston out of its misery.
Or will we fall back into that spiral of losing the last two games of each series?
Damn. It's been a slog. Nobody will ever confuse this team with the 1998 Yankees, who won 114 and swept poor San Diego. But here we are, the end is in sight, and the home field advantage is ours to take.
Last night, we kicked Boston square in the nuts. In the sixth, you could sense their fratboy fans planning their playoffs rotation. Then, ka-boom - thank you, Mr. MVP - they were knock-kneed and peeing themselves. For the first time in 2024, they know it's over. And for the next month, they can suck on hearing the name "Chris Sale."
Yeah, it's been a slog. But it's nearly over. We gotta win today. That's all. Win today, and Boston goes to sleep. And if we can't - if we lose the next two - well, brace yourselves for what's coming. And get out the vomit bags.
We found Luke Weaver....
ReplyDeleteWeaver was a fantastic find. Kind of makes up for whatever future potential we gave up trading for Soto and Vertigo. In fact, the Boston pitcher who made us look like monkeys for five innings? One of ours. We traded him to get Vertigo. Another horrible move by the front office.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, back in the States...over their last 10 games, no team in major league baseball is playing well except the Phillies and Mets. Everyone else is around .500 or worse. And I mean everyone. Our 6-4 is one of the standout success rates.
Is everyone tired? Is it parity? Is it butter or Imperial margarine? Hard to say. But nobody is winning a lot except the Phillies and Mets, and thank God or the Scooter, they aren't in our division.
Been a while since the Stadium looked so energized…
ReplyDeleteThe postgame guys were going on the other day about how we had to give...Brian Cashman major credit for having grabbed Luke Weaver off waivers late in the 2023 season. Right. Yet another of his random dumpster dives, and he came up with a (mostly uneaten) bacon cheeseburger. Great. But good grief.
ReplyDeleteA broken clock is right twice a day. With Cashman, not so frequently.
Deleteweaver also give a great interview. seems sharp, somewhat funny and a bit amused by it all. perhaps he is the one. wouldn't that be nice.
ReplyDeleteYes. Yes, it would.
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ReplyDeleteThe postgame guys are holograms. Their controllers are in the room near the metrics guys, in the sub-sub-basement of the stadium. They'll tell you that the ketchup Hal gives you with the shit sandwich ties the whole meal together.
ReplyDeleteIf you spend all your time in dumpsters, eventually you'll come up with an unwrapped Subway hero.
ReplyDeleteEven a blind nut finds a squirrel once in a while.
Even 1998 had its shaky moments. Remember Knoblauch standing at first base with his arms outstretched while Clevelandians rounded the bases?
ReplyDeleteGood old Garlic. Still not as bad as when he got the yips. That was sad.
DeleteSo Poteet and Trivino are both about through with their rehab stints in Scranton. So do they both come up? Just Trivino? And who goes to make room? Hill? Mayza? Leiter Fluid?
ReplyDeleteSo many questions...
Leiter fur sure - dewd
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