1. With six weeks until pitchers and catchers, the Yankee seem to be playing dead.
2. They might not be playing.
3. Ever since Trent Grisham grabbed his $22 million qualifying offer and flew off to the Grand Caymans, Hal seems terrified of opening his wallet.
4. In every public interview, he has poor-mouthed about the payroll.
5. Cooperstown Cashman is combing the scrap piles: Paul Blackburn, Amed Rosario, Ryan Yarbrough. Not awful. But nothing to boost hope.
6. We still balance far too heavily on LH strikeout swingers - Chisholm, McMahon, Grisham, Wells, the Martian.
7. We know Giancarlo will get hurt and miss substantial time, and one of these years, so will Judge.
8. The current bullpen shapes up as the weakest in our lifetimes.
9. It's foolish to bank on three starters in their 30s - Cole, Rodon, Schmidt - returning from surgery as their old selves.
10. After three tough years, we're apparently still waiting on Anthony Volpe.
11. Imai was the best starter on the market, and the Yankees didn't even make an offer.
12. Baltimore, Boston, Toronto are improving.
Are we playing dead? Or is this the new reality?
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I can almost tolerate it if it means an end to the insufferable bullshit and gaslighting of the last several years. Stop selling nostalgia and admit what you:
are: an out of date, tacky, faded echo of past glories.
For the first time in my long fandom I’m not looking forward to the season at all.
I can almost tolerate it if it means an end to the insufferable bullshit and gaslighting of the last several years. Stop selling nostalgia and admit what you:
are: an out of date, tacky, faded echo of past glories.
For the first time in my long fandom I’m not looking forward to the season at all.
BTR, you're a better man than I. I have not looked forward to a Yankee season in at least 5 years. Last great season was Hoss's virtual season during 2020. We have sucked for a long time. It's just that we all so fervently want it to be okay that it's hard to admit. I'm still a Yankee fan, but not the same KIND of Yankee fan I used to be. Not the kind that goes out of his way to watch every minute of every game, to buy swag, to hit the Stadium or to care. I don't really care. Neither do they, apparently. I'm not the kind of fan they seem to care about. Corporate money seemingly will never dry up for luxury boxes. Unless the brand becomes so limp-dicked that people start looking towards Shea, eh...Citifield...as an alternative. If I were Cohen, I'd be exploiting that. Then again, Cohen might have just been in it for the Casino license. Let's see if the Mets get thrown under the bus now. What a sad state of affairs is end-stage capitalism.
999, I hear what you're saying. For instance, they are almost certainly going to "finish second" in the bidding for Bellinger. And if that meant, for instance, that they would then give Spencer and The Martian an all-out chance to actually winning a starting job, I could see it.
But you know, I know, and the American people know, they won't. Expect Ahmed Rosario—or worse!—to come north as the starting left fielder.
Yanks and Mets have decided that they can't beat the Dodgers whatever they do. Why bother spending all that money when it wont give them a championship...
Bitty, I feel your pain (and thanks for the shout-out about the 2020 fantasy season.). I also find it much harder to care the way I used to do.
I know it's silly, but my Yankee fandom seems to parallel my patriotism these days. I was never an uncritical patriot (or an uncritical fan, as you may have guessed), but I was very proud to be an American, for all our faults. What's happened to us in the last 10 years or so...I find impossible to forgive or move on from. I don't feel any kinship for my fellow citizens who have brought us to this pass.
Yes, I have to go on "caring" about our country because there are too many good people who will be hurt by the destiny we are hurtling toward. But I sure don't—and can't—summon up any urgency about our nepo baby owner and his sad laments that he has to pay taxes.
Incidentally, much as I share your sentiments, I have to say that we are not in "late-stage capitalism." Capitalism will bury us all. Capitalism is baked into the human condition. Even when the service bots do every possible thing for us, sometime in the future, people will still be competing to see who can get the most robot butlers, maids, cats, etc.
Hoss, I'm with you on all points. My remarks about "end-stage capitalism" are, I believe, an attempt to be optimistic, although I could be wrong about my own thinking. Ditto to your sentiments on fellow citizens. I remain grateful to live on the small island of Manhattan, off the coast of America. I am reporting this from hostile territory at the moment.
If capitalism doesn't become more socialist (at least along the lines of Soc Sec, Medicare, health insurance subsidies, food stamps, etc.) it will die by popular decree. Or at least it should. Capitalism is like all other isms: none are really good if they're pure. It's a mix of isms that make for good governance and happier citizens. We still have too much capitalism and not enough of anything else. And that's really a big part of how we got to where we are, which is fucked.
The funnieste part of that is how it applies to the Yankees. Hal inherits a shitload of money without any inheritance taxes to speak of. He complains of spending too much on the team. While he accepts the business socialism of state and city largess to build a (crappy) new stadium. He's a total capitalist until he's not.
(For further reference, see: The Big Beautiful Billionaires' Blowjob Bill.)
I always told non-New Yorkers that I lived in New York because it wasn't really a part of the US. Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn and Queens excepted.
"One generation got old (Sadly, us)
One generation got sold (Whoops, it's us again)
This generation got no destination to hold. (This was written about us but we screwed the pooch and became the above.)
I wonder if they outright lied to Judge a few years back. Did they tell him they were going to do everything possible to win a World Series? I wonder if he wishes he'd signed with the Giants.
Agree, but for one point: Payroll caps are for commies.
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