I actually feel sorry for the horse in the photo, which is more than I can say for the Yankees as an organization, or for certain individuals on the team (looking at you, Volpe, you nitwit).
Whatever hopes any of us had for this season have been flushed down the commode, thanks to one of the worst month-plus stretches I can remember in 30 or more years.
It starts with Hal, who sticks with Cashman and Boone, as long as the cash registers ring. Cashman is an arrogant twit who refuses to admit his mistakes, who has made "sticking to the process" more important than winning and bad statistical analysis more important than anything. His latest idiocy involves signing washed-up infielders to make up for the fact that he didn't fix the infield before Spring Training.
Boone is a shuffling, party line dimwit who manages worse than he played. Which, aside from that one magical moment when he was a Yankee hero, wasn't so hot. Listening to Torre was annoying, listening to Girardi was infuriating, but listening to Boone defend his losers and his own ineptitude is simply depressing. He obviously thinks we're as dumb as he is. What a dork.
Yesterday, Carl commented, "This is the first time in a quarter century that the Yankees have had 2 six-game losing streaks. It last happened in 2000 when they lost 13 of their last 16." That first sentence offers some hope, because we all know where that 2000 team ended up, but this is not the 2000 team. This is, as has also been noted, the CBS Yankees. Personally, I'll take Horace Clarke over Volpe any day of the week.
The fact is, like every year since 2009, we backed the wrong horse. Yes, injuries have been a bitch this year, but the Mets' pitching staff has been decimated, too. They're a half game out and on the verge of sweeping us under the rug.
Over the past five or six weeks, everything has gone sour. Even Fried has proved very human. If the pirching holds up, the offense disappears. If the offense shows up, the pitching disappears. As the grating Kay mentioned, teams that have scored five runs per game for four or five games in a row tend not to lose all of them. It's a sad spectacle.
All of it perhaps capped off yesterday when Volpe threw a ball that hit the one offensive star that we have, leaving him "shaken." There might be no better symbol of this season: the lousy and the clueless sabotaging the great and the able.
Hal: "There will be a chicken in every pot." Brian: "We are not chickens." Boone: "I like to smoke pot."
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El Duque.....This would have been the best horse to back:
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Ed had a hinky swing, but it worked.
ReplyDeleteToday in bland reactions:
“Just got to play better,” Judge said. “That’s what it comes down to. Fundamentals. Making the routine plays routine. It’s just the little things. … Every good team goes through a couple bumps in the road. But we can’t let it alter what our ultimate goal is. We’ve got to keep pushing forward. We’ll clean some things up. We know what we need to do. We’ll take care of business.”
Just read that as well . . .
DeleteJust need to confirm one small point.
Just a crumb of clarification.
Just a simplifying spray to cleanse this god awful turbidity out of the wash basin that cradles my brain.
Is BOONE an IDIOT ?
Boone is an idiot, beloved by the blandly unemotional players.
DeleteThe Disappointment. Volpe.
ReplyDeleteThe Yankees plan to promote Cam Schlittler to make his MLB debut vs the Mariners according to @Joelsherman1
ReplyDeleteHe features a 97 MPH fastball and was ranked as the 89th-best prospect in all of baseball by Baseball America.
I guess the team has hit the Schlittler...
ReplyDeleteIt what tends to happen when you become Schmidtless
DeleteIf Girardi or Torre were managing, Volpe would be riding the bench after making stupid plays, with Zimmer sitting beside him to listen to his gripes and drive home the message about keeping your head in the game.
ReplyDeleteInstead, Babysitter Boone, will soothe his ego, telling him he's very special and send him back out to make more stupid mistakes.
This is called ruining a young player's development. It is also one of the many reasons that baseball fundamentals is a foreign concept to the NY Yankees.
I saw this teaching college every year. Pampered, over-privileged kids come in, produce total crap and are shocked when I don't accept it as inspired genius. When this occured at a private college, where I my office was in the Dick Cheney School of Communication, the student's advisor would drop by my office and gently suggest that I pass the privileged dullard, because, you know, money... The Yankees look like they are being run by a C-grade private college for rich mediocrity.
Katie Sharp:
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Teams with multiple losing streaks of 6+ games this season:
Athletics
Braves
White Sox
Royals
Nationals
Yankees
Rockies
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Yankees relievers have taken the loss in each of their last 5 games.
This is the first time in franchise history the Yankees had a 5-game span with 5 losses and the bullpen got the loss in each game.
Cam Schittler and Dick Lovelady in the same game. What a time to be alive.
ReplyDeleteLOL. You're 1/6 of the way there for an All -Time Pitching List
DeleteI got a pal and his name is Hal
ReplyDeleteSixteen miles on the Erie canal.
He’s stubborn as a mule with a soul a-nal
Sixteen miles on the Erie canal.
Took this team with the help of Cash
Sixteen miles on the Erie canal.
Off the cliff and into the trash
Sixteen miles on the Erie canal.
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The #Yankees have an off day tomorrow and are currently on a six game losing streak but decided it was a good idea to have Jasson Dominguez, Ben Rice and Jazz Chisholm all on the bench today.
Then they’ll tell you they’re serious about winning. Ok.
Jm, we reluctantly back the horse because The Yankees are our team. If I ever see Hal, I will tell him, your father would be embarrassed of you.
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