Led by sluggers Vernon Wells and Travis Hafner, and "Mr. Lifelong Yankee" the ever-hustling Robbie Cano, this plucky team was poised to make history, once Kevin Youkilis and Michael Pineda returned from the DL. And if youngster Zolio Almonte became the star we all expected him to be, the Yankees looked like a Thom McAn shoe-in for a postseason run.
Yep. Close your eyes, and it's 2013... all over again.
Government shutdown. New pope. Tornados, killer storms, partisan politics, Detroit, Snowden, Fox News, dogs and cats living together! And a glorious, magnificent Yankee meltdown - a lineup so disastrously beautiful that, 12 years later, we remain in awe.
We're here again - a team built with frayed rubber bands, certain to snap, and to leave their fan base with the worst experience of all - of hopes shattered, of a franchise that not only falls apart, but which ends up with not even a top draft picks to show for it, and a season that cannot be forgotten, because we relive it, year after year...
Yesterday's worst moment came not during the loss to Miami, but in the postgame show, when Hair Jell Jack Curry grumbled the news that Boston had won, plunging the Yankees deeper into the losing maelstrom. The Redsocks are a young, rising team - everything the Yankees are not. They could win it this year. Meanwhile, look - LOOK, DAMMIT, STEINBRENNER! DON'T AVERT YOUR BEADY LITTLE EYES! - look at the shoddiness of the last 15 years.
2013... welcome back to Hell.
Yankee fans deserve better.
New York deserves better.
Warning: Wednesday begins my annual dRUNK bLOG, when I will be experiencing reality from the filter of a five-day drinking binge, surrounded by angry Yank fans and - yes - a few cynical dastardlys from Boston . I will post now and then, but they will be barely readable. Fortunately, IT IS HIGH's raft of Yankee inspirationalists and sayers of sooth will take over the helm. Godspeed John Glenn.
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Truly horrific reading
Yankees need to cut out the malarkey and sack Boone sack Cashman and I think for Hal best I can wish him is sponstanious head explosion due to greed
Enjoy you drinking binge have a few for me please watching the Yankees would turn you to drink
Sadly, we have settled into Hell for a while, unloaded the truck, plumped the cushions, planted some annuals, painted the fence, and done got right cozy down here.
It's HAL. Someone please pull the plug.
So much winning. I'm actually tired of the winning. And the best people. Brian hires the best people. Anything else that anybody tells you is fake news. YAGA© YANKEES ARE GREAT AGAIN!!!
Winnie, you have to first be plugged in for someone to pull it. That's the trick. How do we get him plugged in? Pulling it is trivial after that.
This team needs an enema.
YAGA…I like that, Winnie.
A plutonium enema
Was the Y A G A. Card actually just played ?
isn’t a plutonium enema only available through international shipping ?
It's a one-way flush, AA, a one-way flush. Make Enemas Great Again - MEGA
Do we, though? Deserve better, I mean.
Shouldn't our response to the Yankees last demand for a new Stadium have been, "Hey, pal-ly, we already gave your family one free ballpark. You want a new one? Here's the deal:
—You don't shrink the Stadium, you expand it, back to what it used to hold. With prices most people can afford—and a guaranteed, 10,000, dirt-cheap, day of game tickets available.
—At least five of your new luxury boxes have to be awarded on a lottery basis, to whoever enters and wins.
—Yes, you have to accept cash at the Stadium. It's called legal tender.
—You have to put at least 10 games a year on good ol', free TV. And nothing on streaming. Also, you have to clearly advertise, everyday, where every game is going to be broadcast.
—Finally, and most importantly, you have to actually do something for the neighborhood where your team has had its ballpark for nearly a century. And I don't mean some token, "Hope Week" thing. I mean a real, dedicated, years-long effort to restore the Bronx.
That's it for now—but we're also writing in a clause where we can make new demands upon you as the occasions arise. Don't you like it? So lump it. There are a dozen other small-market team that will take your place. Don't let your bags of cash hit you on the way out.
Hoss:
1. I love it!
2. I won’t hold my breath…
I cannot argue with that, Hoss. But you know what New York politics is like, along with the New York "developer" community. This is the age of Peak Greed.
The day wealthy individuals are treated as Hoss describes will be the day I finally morph into a Kangeroo.
An enriched plutonium enema, Bitty, but yes, I agree.
Hoss is such an enlightened leader.
SIGNED: The Yankees have signed veteran RHP Kenta Maeda to a minor league contract.
Maeda posted a 7.88 ERA in 7 games with Detroit this season.
This team is a horror show in an era filled with more profound and consequential horror shows,,,, I check in every day but I have zero words or insights to share,,,,, I'm just grateful for you ALL who can more eloquently dissect these atrocities with the appropriate humor, venom and wit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Tpe-dbPQI
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