Seriously, did this happen?
1. Will Warren - battered by LA (7 runs in 1.1 inning) and whupped by Boston (4 runs in 5) - suddenly throws six zeros in a cloudburst?
2. The Yankees - sans their hottest bats: Judge, LeMahieu and Wells - steal a game with five hits?
3. Pablo Reyes - in maybe his last-ever Yankee appearance (when Stanton returns; he goes) - is the hero?
4. We sweep our main rival from the 1970s, after losing to our main rival of the 2000s. Which raises this chestnut from the war lords at Fox.
Last Saturday night's game drew more eyeballs than anything MLB has ginned up - I'm talking Ohtani, Yamamoto, the Dodgers, everything - in three years. It was a one-off in June. No September drama. No Pedro v Clemens. Not even a pennant race. The biggest Saturday night audience baseball has summoned since 2023.
Yep, like olden times: Yank v Bosocks, 3 million viewers.
Keep in mind that 3M still falls below NBC's Happy's Place (3.3 million) and a mile behind the Boomer fave, Law and Order: SVU (8.7 million). Thus, it's not as if the American zeitgeist is suddenly focused on the return of Scott Effross. Still, for one night, last Saturday, the eyes of baseball were on the Bronx.
And Saturday night, they will reconverge upon Fenway.
That will feature our second chance at Hunter Biden Crock-o-shit Dobbins, the Redsock hurler powered by hate. Donno about you, but I'm closing my eyes and imagining 2003. Can we coax the ghost of Don Zimmer to make a run at the mound? We just exorcized George Brett. Could we do the same with Big Papi?
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So, maybe we're back to using KC as a punching bag. So what?
The Yanks will respond to the moment the way they always do against the most hateful of pitchers.
Well they optioned Headick...team is already improved...
You know, you can't predict baseball. Thankfully.
Because If you could, I'd predict Jack Chesbro (Cale Yarborough?) to throw a complete game tonight and the two lefty aces to stink up the weekend.
One thing you can predict, any bad outcome will be directly traceable to the cue-ball Ca$hole.
That's a start.
It's Hedley! You provincial putz!
Speaking of Mel I just saw a trailer for Spaceballs 2. The trailer was good but comedy sequels rarely work. Airplane 2, Major League 2, and the current administration come to mind.
The Police Squad films are the only ones I can think of that pass the test.
1) If and when Spaceballs 2 comes out, Mel will be over a hundred (hunnert?) years old.
2) It had better damn well have the subtitle "The Search for More Money"
Oh, punching bags are always a comfort, Bitty.
Who WAS Headrick, anyway? It sounds like the name of a supporting character in an obscure Ibsen play. "Have you heard? Headrick has the consumption!"
I appreciated the first couple sequels of Police Academy. One might argue that 2 was better than 1.
Headlice is wonderfully gone. Oh frabjous day, calloo callay.
Hopefully we're all able to enjoy some much needed consumption TONIGHT !
3 lefty starters for a weekend at Fenway. Wouldn't have seen that in the 70's
There's a reason Stengel skipped Whitey Ford in Boston.
Hoss, I’ll be going to see an Ibsen play later this year. Will be watching for a Headrick.
Chisolm not in the lineup tonight. Neither is Stanton
I was disappointed to find out that I wasn’t either
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