At any time, in any town, at the tweak of any elbow, the mighty Yankees can go from powerhouse to shithouse, from tape- measure HRs to tape-worm Ks, from barrel blasts to bowel blasts, and that's one pungent load of analogy crapola.
Nobody can explain this, especially Aaron Boone, with his "good swings" theory of groveling Yankee hope. (Giancarlo, despite four Ks, showed "good swings" tonight.) But the transformation can happen instantly.
Last night, against their personal cupcakes, the Twinkies, you could almost imagine the click. Will Warren pitching into the seventh. Four Yankee HRs, of course, solos. A first-game-of-the-series win... McBroom?
Six losses separate the Yankees from 1st in the AL East. They'll play three with Toronto and seven against their Boston overlords.
There is time to flick that switch. But it sorta has to happen now.
Here's what's left on the Yankee schedule:
Cupcakes (23 games)
Twins (5)
Rays (2)
Nats (3)
White Sox (7)
Orioles (7)
Maybe Cupcakes
Cardinals (3)
Contenders (16 games)
Tigers (3)
Astros (3)
Blue Jays (3)
Redsocks (7)
By my unofficial count, Toronto has 31 games remaining against cupcakes. Boston has 27. Not only do both have better records, but their schedules are more tomato cannish.
Let's be honest: The Yankees show no sign of being able to beat solid teams. They'll be lucky to go 8-8 against the contenders.
But if they go on a binge against the tomato cans - say, 16-7 - they can take the remaining wild card berth. Basically, that's all Food Stamp Hal Steinbrenner demands. This year - with Steve Cohen as the new Old George, splurging on Juan Soto - the Mets were supposed to force our hand. It hasn't happened. They might actually be worse than the Yankees.
But if the Yankees are going to do anything in the month of October, it has to start tonight with their old friends from Minnesota. It's not too late. It's just later than you think.
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They may or may not make the playoffs, although it's becoming harder these days to not make them. Once in, though, they will need to play the better teams and THAT is where we always run into trouble. Just getting there and then pulling out that "life is a crap shoot" trope every year has worn quite thin.
Of course, Bit, life IS a crap shoot, which brings us right back to Duque's scatalogical analogies. The playoffs...not so much.
A thought…when the Yankees bring up their two players in September, one has to be Spencer Jones…
G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB CS BA OBP SLG OPS
32 125 36 40 6 0 14 30 16 39 15 2 .320 .400 .704 1.104
The above are Spenser Jones' Scranton AAA stats through last night.
Yeah, but can he bunt?
The Yankees' remaining schedule, according to Tankanthon, is the 4th easiest overall in MLB and the easiest in September, per reports on WFAN.
The Mets, on the other hand, have the 9th hardest overall and 3rd hardest in September, as reported by the same sources.
https://www.tankathon.com/mlb/remaining_schedule_strength
@ JM....Well, he's in the Yankees farm system, so likely no.
K rate stantonesque. Otherwise, ha really put on a show
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HeHe
HAW HAW HAW
True.
I hadn't checked on the Mets for a while. Wow, they've done the same reversal as the Yankees. Lost seven in a row, 11 out of 12, went from 5 1/2 up to 6 back. Is Cashman freelancing?
AA, that was a great graphic on yesterday's game post. I saw it on my phone this morning and had to zoom way in to see what those dots were.
Thank you Sir.
Hopefully you clicked on the image first to access the image for full resolution before cranking up your zoom to get a proper look at dead-eye Boone.
OHtani sleeze news:
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/sports/baseball/20250812-274926/
Seems he likes throwing people under the bus.
Yankees may have dodged the bullet by not signing him.
His translator can attest to that.
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