As the King of Late Night, Larry Sanders suffered numerous anxieties. But his worst fears surfaced each summer, when the network sought his vacation replacement. Larry lived in terror that somebody - Carrey, Seinfeld, anybody - would come on and be funnier than he. It drove him - and his staff - sorta crazy.
So, today, why am I thinking of Larry Sanders?
Obviously, it's Anthony Volpe.
So... for the last three months, he may have been playing in pain.
I can almost hear the studio audience chanting... "Larry, Larry, Larry..."
Dear God, where do we start?
Well, to begin with, nobody should question Volpe's grit. He always answers the bell. But but BUT... if he's played in pain for the last three months, maybe we should question his intelligence.
Since May, when he jammed his shoulder and felt a pop, Volpe has been MLB's worst starting shortstop. By a mile. By ten miles. The lack of offense and defense at SS is the biggest reason why the Yankees are three behind Toronto in the AL East, and barely a spring of nasal hair ahead of Boston in the wild card.
And now, we learn he's been playing hurt?
Shoot me. That's some serious Larry Sanders-level paranoia: That he refused to sit out of the fear that Oswald Peraza would take his job? WTF? We're two weeks from the clang ending the regular season, Volpe's year has turned to shit, his career is hanging by dental floss, Yank fans have been booing him - (a Jersey boy!) - at home... and now, now, NOW we hear he's been playing in pain? Who is running this operation? Brian Daboll?
Full disclosure: I'm a secret Volpe fan. For three years, I've been Volpe's Pavlov's dog. If he goes 2-for-3, I drunkenly leap into the Happy Pit of Hope, thinking he's turned the corner and will become the Second Coming of Jeet. My second greatest fear - after being outed as a Roan Chappell stalker - is that Volpe gets chased out of NY and lands in, say, Tampa, where he turns into an all-star. I don't want to live in that world.
But whadda we make of this? He's been playing hurt? Did nobody on the team notice? Did the coaching staff know? It's three effing months. NOW they tell us? Has everything about Volpe since May been a lie? I believe that's called "gaslighting?" WTF? Next time they press Larry's APPLAUSE button, maybe we - the studio audience - should just go silent. And for god sake, sit this guy down until he's pain-free.
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Okay, that comment was removed by the authorities, the men in black. Let me repost from my fortress of solitude.
I'm not a conspiracy guy - not by a long shot from a lone gunman on a grassy knoll in Dallas - but the "he's been hurt" theory/excuse would truly dovetail perfectly into the "Cashman can do not wrong" ethos. It's convenient and Brian does benefit from this "explanation." In other words, follow the money, the incentive and the reward for the idea that Volpe has been "playing hurt." Again, I'm not a conspiracy guy, although I can do a good imitation of one.
Didn't he kind of suck last year, too? Was that also an undisclosed injury? Or is he just what he is, which is not so good?
If he has been playing hurt since May, that makes our medical and training staffs an even bigger joke than we've given them credit for. And Boone, of course, who's an idiot.
https://pinstripesnation.com/yankees-injury-handling-risks-cutting-short-anthony-volpes-prime-2025-09-12/
The Yankees mishandling an injury? Gasp!
How many of us here have been posting hurt ?
And where did all those elephants come from and how did they get into this room ?
Through the door ?
SERIOUSLY ?
Shit, now I can't like the young Giants quarterback. So many douchebags.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6618380/2025/09/10/charlie-kirk-reaction-yankees-harrison-butker/
All I can say is " Heyyy Now!"
Is anyone here surprised that the team mishandled Volpe’s injury? Are they doing the same thing now with Judge?
Re: trump’s visit, I decry any politicization of sports, especially at the hands of a fascist demagogue. To see the team honor Kirk, who has spent his life bashing minorities and women makes me physically ill. The team’s ownership is a group of cockroaches, and it starts at the top with the flaccid nepo boy owner.
Fuck all of them who capitulated to trump.
Oh no, JM....you had to post that! It seems as though he's as big a douchebag as Mark Teixeira. At least Dart is only 21 and probably naive. I wonder why so many people, including the Yankees management, were not so publicly vocal about the 4 people shot in Minnesota last month (including a state representative and her husband) by a right-wing Christian nationalist?
Being hurt doesn't give you terrible pitch selection. Being hurt doesn't give you retarded levels of baseball IQ. Being hurt doesn't make you back up on every grounder hit to your position. Being hurt this year didn't make you suck the prior two years. Being hurt doesn't make you the worst hitter in the Bigs for the last three years and worst fielding SS in the Bigs this year ... unless - mayhap - you had a traumatic amputation of a limb.
Li'l Toney will never be a major leaguer. He's a swell guy, sure; I'd let him toss my salad; who wouldn't? But that doesn't make him a big leaguer. This is CashBrain indulging in the basest sort of wish fulfillment to the detriment of the player and the franchise.
Fuck CashBrain. Fuck him.
Well said, WinWarb!
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And please please please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP COMPARING HIM TO JETER.
Hey now.
We make that the Yankees B.S. us. Way back when in another timer, the Yankees told fans that Micky Klutz, no pun intended, had a sprained thumb when it was broken.
Volpe is Refsnyder Part II
Why, that’s like comparing Dominguez to Mickey Mantle!
Volpe’s injury was to his non-throwing shoulder
Here’s how it will go down: Volpe will be traded to Cleveland for a Ryan McBroom type of player who will then be traded to Kansas City for an undisclosed amount of international bonus pool allotments and cash considerations which The Intern will spend on a Venezuelan wonder kid who never makes it past Rookie league. Because that’s how The Intern plays.
Volpe will then sign a contract with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and disappear from sight.
I agree with every last one of you. I’ve been a Yankee fan since before I speak. My mother threw up in the shadow of the stadium and I’ve always been a Yankee fan, but some of the outside issues have begun to piss me off. The plane and the management is bad enough, But Randy Levine may be the final straw for me. Who needs this shit? Why do I want to support such a fucking asshole? And Winnie, you’re dead on about Volpe.
Look what Siri did. I’ve been a Yankee fan since before I could speak. My mother never threw up anywhere near the stadium. I’m not gonna delete it and correct it. I’m leaving this up as an indictment of technology. FTW
Shout it out far and wide, BTR!!
Was he hurt last year too? Or the year before that? He may be hurt as far as throwing from short goes but he hasn’t got for three years
A-men, Duque! And everyone else. This was outrageous. All of it, yesterday.
Oh, and as for 9/11...yes, I was here in New York, and it WAS surreal. I was (and still am) on the Upper West Side, and maybe the weirdest part was that it was a lovely fall day, and we could neither see nor hear what was happening.
The first thing I did was go up to St. Luke's to try to give blood...but of course, horribly, they didn't need blood; almost all the casualties were dead.
A couple days later, my wife and I went down to look around—from a distance, of course. It really did look like some kind of science fiction or dystopian-future movie. Particularly unreal was the twisted metal of those sculptures, which I thought would become the permanent, commemorative sculpture.
(I do think the memorial they came up with is outstanding, and very moving. Not so much the new buildings, which are inexcusable.)...
A couple days later, the wind changed, and this horrible, oily sirocco blew in through the screen window. Awful—so bad a couple friends who had a young child and lived on W. 85th St., fled the city for weeks. We couldn't blame them. That smell persisted down around Lower Manhattan for months, and it made me angry again, every time I smelled it.
In retrospect, the whole area should have been cleared out, as much as possible, and the rescue/rebuilding workers clad in all kinds of protective gear. I wonder how many hideous cancer deaths are on the hands of that inept clown, Christie Todd Whitman...
Maybe the weirdest bit of the day itself was that people were actually stopping outside a second TV, repair/replace shop that was still hanging on somehow. They were staring at the images in the televisions in the window, as if it were still 1963 or something, and they didn't have a nice, big color TV at home. Strange moment.
In the end, I couldn't think of anything to do to help anyone. Fortunately, a friend who was an editor at the Frankfurter Rundschau emailed me to see if I would write a piece for them. I did—which was, blessedly, a way to have something to do—and they liked it enough that they asked for a follow-up.
I wrote that, too—NOT in German, of which I know about three words—and donated the money I got to fund for widows and orphans of the restaurant workers trapped in Windows On the World. A small enough thing to do, but at least it was something to keep me occupied.
And Larry Sanders was a GREAT show. Best Rip Torn line, about a WASPy network exec: "I'm sure I killed that woman in Korea."
But it's his leading shoulder for swinging the bat. The power,shoulder. It's also the shoulder that moves the glove when fielding. And when diving for the ball. A torn labrum is an agonizing injury which never heals without surgery!
Acrid air for weeks. Financial District workers walking up Avenue A covered in ashes. Watching the towers burn from our living room window. Fear at every loud noise for weeks. Wondering if there was going to be another shoe dropping. Empty streets, no traffic.
It was a very horrible, surreal time.
At this point Volpe will be lucky to have Refsnyder's career
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