In regard to Rufus' very valid complaint about the fact that MLB can't figure out how to play the sport's most important games in good weather, there is this consolation:
A Hollywood director I know who is well-connected, had a chance from someone to buy tickets for tonight's game. The price? $11,000—a ticket. My friend, who is a fanatical Yankees guy, declined.
Just saw that Boone said he benched Wells because he’s going through “a tough stretch offensively.” He’s hitting .098 for his last 11 games. So, to bump up that offense he turns to a guy who …. is hitting .098 for the last THREE MONTHS.
But remember, he’s a great manager. Jeff Passan says so.
That is incredible. Another example of stats that are ignored whenever they feel like it. I wouldn't be surprised if the excuse for getting swept has to do with going with the numbers, but things just didn't work out.
Desperation makes people do crazy things. In this case, knowing the Yankees will not be able to score, so taking a chance. Because it will likely be your only chance.
The Yankees we are seeing tonight is the team we saw for most of the year. It is a Fluke of the universe this team made the playoffs and won the AL pennant. The Dodgers organization clearly wants to win and the HAL could care less. And it shows.
This whole series has turned on the inability of Jake Cousins to pitch to Gavin Lux. I don't mean give up a big hit to Lux, which can happen with almost anyone. I mean, throw a strike to him.
Let’s play a game! The (fill in team name) plays fundamentally sound baseball & takes advantage of opponents’ mistakes. The (fill in other team’s name) don’t.
People everywhere are reaching out expressing their concern and condolences but I am numb. One friend said, “At least this finally means that Boone will be gone”. I replied likely not. Here’s a quick question for those of you still paying attention - WHEN EXACTLY WAS THE KAST TIME THE YANKEES WERE SWEPT IN A WORLD SERIES? Aarongeddon!
Yanks got perfect match-ups to make it to the Series, and they got to face a battered and shorthanded Dodgers team here. But it was still not enough...
...They had the luxury to make most of the season an extended spring-training camp, yet did not do basic things such as see if The Martian could become a player, come up with a replacement first baseman, make sure they had a real third baseman, etc.. They almost got lucky in how beat-up the Dodgers were, but they had a couple days off, and then Boone-Cousins-Judge did the rest...
So the Volpe at-bat was, gets to 3-1, the pitcher comes right over the plate...and he looks at it. Strike two. Then a long foul, then a strike out when he loses his bat. Not professional hitting.
I have to wonder if things would have been different for Volpe had he stayed in the minors for a year or two longer. Yes, I'm indulging in the favorite pastime of Yankee fans, second-guessing management as to when players should make The Show. But he's a career 83 OPS+ hitter, good glove player. I believe that a better organization would have broken him in as a utility player. But Hal saved money by bringing him up early as a starting shortstop. Well, trying to see a System within the Yankees org. is a fool's errand. Which is why I had to bring this up. Thankfully we won't have to look at a third of these players next year...
The umpire is an asshole, but Yanks bitching at him is just another sign of them losing it. Boone should either tell them to shut up or get out there and get in the guy's face himself. Pathetic.
Kevin, I think you hit the nail on the head in questioning whether there is any system here at all. In his latest hagiography, the one he got Andy Martino to write for him, the Yankees' system is depicted as being incredibly scientific and rational.
It's nothing of the sort. Players come up too early or too late, or they often shine at first, then quickly deteriorate for no obvious reason.
Every one of these games were winnable, but we'd miss it by 'about that much'. But it was the manager, the second baseman, the Big Guy, the right fielder who made me feel tense whenever a ball hit near him. Yeah a few breaks and we could be up 3-0. But even if we were, I'd believe that the fuckin Dodgers are the better team. A team of linchpins, backed up by quality players, both positional and the pitching staff. I was awakened from a nice dream only to realize how thin the roster really is, and how overpriced. I'm probably the only person here who thinks that paying for Soto is wise. He's not the best player in baseball, not even close. When he gets that huge contract he'll be playing first base by age thirty, and then...
Like Houston in 2022 ALCS. Dodgers management is smarter than the Yankees. They've attacked the poor hitters at the bottom of the lineup, exploited Judge's insecurities, and been very careful with Stanton and Soto. This series, like that one, was lost in the dugout and the office suites.
Manager AaRon Buffoon Boone is good at the follwoing: following analytics to a fault; being outmanaged; not getting the most out of his played: making moronic moves; serving up the BS, like: "Big G made a hell of a turn around third base."
Like in 2022 ALCS, evenly matched teams. The difference is in management. When sweeps or 4-1s happen between evenly matched teams, it's a management issue. Yankee management, as we've long known, is mediocre at best. Dodgers management, like Houston's, is industry leading.
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You just convicted and sentenced him to hit 4+ home runs to be served by the end of the playoffs.
In regard to Rufus' very valid complaint about the fact that MLB can't figure out how to play the sport's most important games in good weather, there is this consolation:
A Hollywood director I know who is well-connected, had a chance from someone to buy tickets for tonight's game. The price? $11,000—a ticket. My friend, who is a fanatical Yankees guy, declined.
Hate how they don't let you hear most of the real crowd reaction before the games.
Here in cow Hampshire, I'm grilling streaks at 38 F outside. Didn't get above 45 here today.
This is insanity.
Sure. Flame on. Let's get this over with.
Ribeyes on!
Really? A Fat Joe performance when everything's ready to go? WTF?
Then another commercial break. The levels of greed here are beyond belief.
Accountants, ANALytics and Assholes, oh my!
That’s the name of the game, Hoss…
Schmidt got an out. That’s good - now his ERA can’t be infinity.
Whoops
Already with the bullshit.
Close to infinity.
Schmidt looks like he took speed just before heading out to the mound. Wound tighter than a drum and he’s missing high. Not good.
So glad there’s an ad featuring Ohtani in the background.
Pro Tip - Walk Freddie from here on out. Thank you for your cooperation.
11K (shakes his head)
Judge fails again.
I have not been able to tune in yet (just jumped out of a meeting) but I would have to imagine the the fans booed that Judge strikeout)
Judge
No, silence mostly…
No I was wrong. Not infinity. A pedestrian 5.06 ERA.
Instead of walking Freeman, how about putting one in his ribs? What? Oh? We don't do that anymore? Too bad.
There you go
Volpe is not a good major league hitter.
That unstoppable Yankees offense…
for a month, I was worried that we were being set up to get destroyed in the World Series...at least it's not the Mets doing this to us.
The master just said it's a slider, but they wanna call it a sweeper.😁😤
We are all headed for a SWEEPING
Why is Schmidt still in the game?
Tuning to the curling channel...
I may leave you very soon.
Leiter?!
This is not a professional effort. But hey, Rufus: don't you feel for those people out there, having spent $11,000 to see this? Schadenfreude Nation!
The whole goddam series comes down to this--and Leiter?!
Now it’s a bullpen game…
All right, time to get the next pool together. What does everybody think the main excuse will be for the Yanks getting swept in this Series?
I got my money on the delay between the championship series and the World Series.
Well, I should just Leit-en up, I guess. Or not.
All right, give Leiter Junior his props.
Wasn't Schmidt a Number 1 draft pick for us?
The fans were too critical & it was jut too much of an emotional distraction.
Yes.
Do we get a hit tonight? I'm thinking...maybe.
Schmidt spit bit.
Gaaaaaaaaaaack
We need new catchers.
One good thing about the end of this Series? I will never have to watch Flopsie Vertigo in a Yankees uniform again.
Soto our best chance for a hit.
No hits yet. Yankees looking to be first team to get no-hit in back-to-back games.
Of course, why manage any differently than the regular season?
Just saw that Boone said he benched Wells because he’s going through “a tough stretch offensively.” He’s hitting .098 for his last 11 games. So, to bump up that offense he turns to a guy who …. is hitting .098 for the last THREE MONTHS.
But remember, he’s a great manager. Jeff Passan says so.
Oh, well.
Verdugo is such an asshole.
That is where you are mistaken
I thought that it was classless when George apologized to NYC after the '81 series. Hal needs to start writing his...
Now that the series is over, I’m wondering how cashman will fuck up the post season roster overhaul.
Nestor warming up because that's the key to the comeback.
So Boone is just going to concede the game and the Series here?
And a big fuck-you to the announcers, hoping the call will be overturned.
Nestor? NESTOR? Is Boone dissociating?
Cortes? Cortes!!! NFW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen
BUT HOSS… Nasty is our Ohtani killah ….
Ladies and Gentlemen - what we are about to see is not safe for work
How did we ever get out of that? Nestor trying desperately to walk Ohtani.
Nasty did a good job. Give the man a cookie
Now we just need Judge to get a walk.
I do, but I don't. I think you can understand.
Ohtani has a little bit of pain
Makes the off-season TJ surgery he requires after snapping a ligament in the service of a losing cause.
I'd love to believe that the last two Houdini acts were some kind of turning point, but I can't
Anything he can do to get on base. Even a Slapshot striptease would be acceptable to applicable
Well, better. I still think we can get a hit.
A hit!
Stanton gets to second!
Time for Volpe to k
Jazz is very funny. But not actually good.
Ignominy averted
Exactly
But Stanton couldn’t get home….did something just explode in all of our brains?
Not sure sending Stanton on a single, hit directly to the left fielder, was all that clever.
It wasn’t, but the near hitter would’ve just failed anyway
W.T.F. Who sends Lumbering G? Ever?
Once again - horrible decision making
I yelled “What the fuck!!” at my TV as soon as I saw them waving Stanton in. He can barely run …. why the hell would they send him?
This series is the Juju Gods just laughing at us.
Jazz IS NOT just NOT funny - or NOT good- he’s a liability.
Chisolm belongs in the OF. When Soto signs with the Dodgers, Judge moves back to RF and Chisolm can play CF.
I think the Yankees actually build getting thrown out at home into their player development plan, & when they interview third base coaches.
This team is like Ulcerative Colitis
AA, not as many runs.
Really there was no choice when it came to sending Stanton. Who was going to drive him in?
2003 vibe...
Suzyn and the Master:
TWO FUCKING HITS?
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
THEY SUCK!
Obviously, I may be paraphrasing...
You win response of the game!
I would LOVE to see Boone resign during the post game Pressure Presser
They absolutely CANNOT run Boone back out there next year
As would all of us.
Yet, they will...
That is incredible. Another example of stats that are ignored whenever they feel like it. I wouldn't be surprised if the excuse for getting swept has to do with going with the numbers, but things just didn't work out.
To Quote Doctor Smith…..”The Pain!”
I don't know if I have the stomach to root for this team anymore...
No use letting them play Lucy with the football.
Boone will manage the Yankees for the next THOUSAND years
So, the Mets sign our coach, and he becomes a terrific manager. We sign their coach and he sends runners through to be thrown out.
He's earned a raise by "getting them this far" after the 15 year drought.
This is pathetic.
But you have a point, Kevin. And the answer is...no one.
And when they sign our right fielder he’ll get even better.
Desperation makes people do crazy things. In this case, knowing the Yankees will not be able to score, so taking a chance. Because it will likely be your only chance.
Dodgers with 4 runs, 3 of those on guys who walked or were hit by a pitch.
Hoss, this series shows the emperor has no clothes. The emperor being this team.
The Yankees we are seeing tonight is the team we saw for most of the year. It is a Fluke of the universe this team made the playoffs and won the AL pennant. The Dodgers organization clearly wants to win and the HAL could care less. And it shows.
This whole series has turned on the inability of Jake Cousins to pitch to Gavin Lux. I don't mean give up a big hit to Lux, which can happen with almost anyone. I mean, throw a strike to him.
Let’s play a game! The (fill in team name) plays fundamentally sound baseball & takes advantage of opponents’ mistakes. The (fill in other team’s name) don’t.
Sad that the Master is going out this way.
Also very scary that next year will be worse, and without the dulcet tones of the Master.
People everywhere are reaching out expressing their concern and condolences but I am numb. One friend said, “At least this finally means that Boone will be gone”. I replied likely not. Here’s a quick question for those of you still paying attention - WHEN EXACTLY WAS THE KAST TIME THE YANKEES WERE SWEPT IN A WORLD SERIES? Aarongeddon!
Yanks got perfect match-ups to make it to the Series, and they got to face a battered and shorthanded Dodgers team here. But it was still not enough...
AA - 1976.
Thanks HH
...They had the luxury to make most of the season an extended spring-training camp, yet did not do basic things such as see if The Martian could become a player, come up with a replacement first baseman, make sure they had a real third baseman, etc.. They almost got lucky in how beat-up the Dodgers were, but they had a couple days off, and then Boone-Cousins-Judge did the rest...
Also, the idea that Volpe is our shortstop of the future is a joke.
The reason? "Hey, we had a few tough breaks. It could have gone either way. Blah blah woof woof..."
So the Volpe at-bat was, gets to 3-1, the pitcher comes right over the plate...and he looks at it. Strike two. Then a long foul, then a strike out when he loses his bat. Not professional hitting.
Wells may have been screwed, but not by much.
Torres got shafted.
Maybe. But the pitch was way high. What was he offering at? Awful, awful at-bats.
I have to wonder if things would have been different for Volpe had he stayed in the minors for a year or two longer. Yes, I'm indulging in the favorite pastime of Yankee fans, second-guessing management as to when players should make The Show. But he's a career 83 OPS+ hitter, good glove player. I believe that a better organization would have broken him in as a utility player. But Hal saved money by bringing him up early as a starting shortstop. Well, trying to see a System within the Yankees org. is a fool's errand. Which is why I had to bring this up. Thankfully we won't have to look at a third of these players next year...
I have to wonder if Judge is damaged
We’re not getting a run tonight are we?
Just psychically.
No Jazz
Nope.
Exactly
This is Brian's team from top to bottom.
The umpire is an asshole, but Yanks bitching at him is just another sign of them losing it. Boone should either tell them to shut up or get out there and get in the guy's face himself. Pathetic.
That was the last significant inning of the season.
No chance - must go rework the haiku now
Kevin, I think you hit the nail on the head in questioning whether there is any system here at all. In his latest hagiography, the one he got Andy Martino to write for him, the Yankees' system is depicted as being incredibly scientific and rational.
It's nothing of the sort. Players come up too early or too late, or they often shine at first, then quickly deteriorate for no obvious reason.
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Crazy of Dodgers to keep playing an obviously injured Ohtani.
Weaver?
Was Boone awake there?
IS THERE A RALLY IN THEIR BONEZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ(snore) ?
Can you believe that Volpe struck out? Damn
Where’d everyone go?
Sorry, AA. Still here! That jerk behind the plate SOOOOO wanted to call that last one against Rizzo a strike. But no one here can hit tonight.
Is it something BOONE said?
Phew ( hahahahahaha)
Just showed the last out in 2003. Boy, was that a disappointing game! Little did we know it was the future.
Even I wasn't around for Johnny Podres' shutout in 1955!
RizzO is faster than Stanton (just in case you’re wondering). Vertigo…..(blah)
Huh - Whuh - - - prolonging the pain with Gleyber
Gleyber will dribble
What shall we call Verdugo standing at the plate there? Hubris run amok? Still, at least we scored!
Out
Tomorrow night will be a mercy killing.
He’s just another Boone coddled man- child, Hoss. Glad your director bud didn’t drop 11k on this spew
I was livid after Game 1. I was disappointed after Game 2. I’m just resigned after Game 3. I got nothing left for this team.
Horrible game. And yet, if we'd only pitched to Gavin Lux, we might have won.
On the bright side, Boone can now break out highlights from the 2004 ALCS to inspire the team!
End it tomorrow. Please.
It's like watching a small animal die, if you didn't care whether small animals lived or died.
Every one of these games were winnable, but we'd miss it by 'about that much'. But it was the manager, the second baseman, the Big Guy, the right fielder who made me feel tense whenever a ball hit near him. Yeah a few breaks and we could be up 3-0. But even if we were, I'd believe that the fuckin Dodgers are the better team. A team of linchpins, backed up by quality players, both positional and the pitching staff. I was awakened from a nice dream only to realize how thin the roster really is, and how overpriced. I'm probably the only person here who thinks that paying for Soto is wise. He's not the best player in baseball, not even close. When he gets that huge contract he'll be playing first base by age thirty, and then...
And you were so flush with hope, Stang. What happened?
(Sob!) The Yankees happened, AA.
Like Houston in 2022 ALCS. Dodgers management is smarter than the Yankees. They've attacked the poor hitters at the bottom of the lineup, exploited Judge's insecurities, and been very careful with Stanton and Soto. This series, like that one, was lost in the dugout and the office suites.
Manager AaRon Buffoon Boone is good at the follwoing: following analytics to a fault; being outmanaged; not getting the most out of his played: making moronic moves; serving up the BS, like: "Big G made a hell of a turn around third base."
Like in 2022 ALCS, evenly matched teams. The difference is in management. When sweeps or 4-1s happen between evenly matched teams, it's a management issue. Yankee management, as we've long known, is mediocre at best. Dodgers management, like Houston's, is industry leading.
These assholes are making me sad
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