Traitor Tracker: .254

Traitor Tracker: .254
Last year, this date: .305

Thursday, May 29, 2025

Another win, another sense of the surreal

 Internet meltdown today. Working off phone. No Tiktok, no conspiracies, no celebrity bikini updates, nothing. How many times can you disconnect the power and then plug it back in, before you realize the issue is beyond your capabilities to fix?

Quiet. Radio silence. Too quiet.

The Angels were baseball’s hottest team, before the Yankees arrived. Suddenly, our pitching staff turned into the 1964 Dodgers. I mean… how does that happen?

Well… Juju can toggle on and off, like a light switch in the cellar. You can go from seeing nothing… to standing eye to eye with the hatchet killer, who has been waiting here all along.

And that’s how I feel about our current streak. Everything looks great. But we’re probably seeing the greatest week of the season.

Next up… the Dodgers. Our worst nightmare. They’ve been waiting silently here all along. The light is now on. We’re eyeball to eyeball. Here it comes. And no internet? Technology, where art thou?


14 comments:

Pocono Steve said...

The Yanks will take two of three from the Dodgers . . .. I PREDICT!

Just remember that the usual June collapse doesn't happen until, uh, June!

JM said...

June does start on Sunday, Steve. Just saying.

It would be nice to humiliate the Dodgers the entire weekend, but I doubt we can. Maybe. If all our starters have turned into Cy Young and Sandy Koufax, we could do it.

Whoever thought the Yankees would be winning 1-0 games this season? Or 3-2 games? It's bizarre. And Volpe has turned into one of the best shortstops in terms of RBI and some advanced stat I can't remember, both of which put him ahead of Bobby Witt. Meanwhile, did you see the article about Judge having one of the best BABIPs in history so far? Ahead of the Babe?

I'm sure all of this will evaporate as our "stars" return. Jazz, Gil, Stanton. Remember how not so ROY Gil was for months after the All-Star Game? We may pine for Warren before this season is over.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. In space, no one can hear you scream. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. The call is coming from inside the house. Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

Color me concerned.

AboveAverage said...

Nobody expected it, nobody believed it, and nobody could stop it

In space, no one can smell your farts

Some days you just can’t get rid of a Boone

In heaven, everything is Fried

JM said...

In heaven, there is no beer. That's why we drink it here. And when we go there from here, all our friends will be drinking all our beer.

The Hammer of God said...

Aint it foggy outside?
All the planes have been grounded
Aint the fire inside?
Let's all go stand around it

Funny you've been there
And I've been here
And we ain't had no time to drink that beer

Cuz I understand you've been running from the man
That goes by the name of The Sandman
He flies the skies like an eagle in the eye of a hurricane that's abandoned

The Hammer of God said...

A newly minted Yankee fan must think that 1-0 wins grow on trees. Three 1-0 wins on the year so far. Incredible! Even Emmanuel Berbari on the Yankee post game show mentioned it like a dozen times. Said this is more 1-0 wins than happened during the previous three years combined.

The previous one happened just a week ago, last game of the Texas Lawmen series. This one just now happens last game of the Hells Angels series. Sensing a pattern? They just mailin' in these last games of the series?

The Hammer of God said...

And now come the Hateful Artful Dodgers of LA LA Land. Are the Yankees going to exact some revenge for the last World Series humiliation? (That's two consecutive World Series humiliations against those artful fuckers, 1981 and 2024.) Or will they get belted like a pinata? I hope the bats wake up. Gonna be a hellish series if they swing the bats like they did against Kikuchi. Another Japanese battleship on Sunday. Are we gonna play "Battleship"? YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!!!

AboveAverage said...

If the Yankees beat the Lodgers by a score of 1- 0 then we all should collectively prepare for the end of days.

So get your affairs in order.

2 😵‍💫 2 5

BTR999 said...

Actually, think we can mebbe just skip this weekend’s games?

In the line from every Star Wars movie “I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”

AboveAverage said...

Judgie, meat wall.

Wall, meat Judgie.

P.T.T.S.

(post traumatic toe syndrome)

Could cause Judgie to enter a weeks long funk.

Perhaps DH him all weekend.

Perhaps have his life coach/therapist on hand for the series.

If Judgie must play the outfield, then erect a golden dome bootie for him to wear to defend against The Wall.

Make it so….

HoraceClarke66 said...

That's where Mad George was an asset. He would have spent the last two years fulminating about that wall, until the Dodgers finally did something to fix it, just to shut him up. Hal? Not so much.

Carl J. Weitz said...

El Duque...are you typing on your phone or using your phone as a hot spot for your computer? The latter is easy to do and makes life easier.

TheWinWarblist said...

I particularly like how Soto somehow looks grumpier and grumpier every day in the Traitor Tracker picture.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Don't look in the trunk.