All for nothing, right?
Not complaining, I guess. A win's a win, right?
Over nine games, the second-tier Yankees have beaten sluggish, second-tier opponents, sometimes by whopping margins. "Victories," mostly from no-name players, chasing a final, nonexistent bullpen slot, or a place in the traveling Wilkes Barres' outfield.
A win's a win, right? I mean, when the Yanks win a game in July, it still doesn't fix the brakes on your car, right? Spring, summer, fall - they're all meaningless in the context of our lives, right?
Well, this is a spring like no other. What do I mean?
1. No matter what happens over the next two weeks, the Yankees will enter 2026 as wild card contenders. The AL East is a jumble.
2. The Yankees' key returnees - Cole, Volpe, Rodon - won't arrive until summer.
3. The team has not yet suffered a major injury. (Last year, by now, Cole was gone and Giancarlo faced a lost season.)
4. Our most hyped prospects - The Martian and Spencer Jones - will be relegated to Scranton. How will they take to it?
5. The World Baseball Classic is about to put unprecedented stresses on key players, across the spectrum of MLB.
6. The bombing of Iran will add to the pressure in ways that I do not believe any of us can readily imagine.
7. It's already putting enormous stress on Aaron Judge, captain of Team USA. (Of all things, he was mocked yesterday for a fumbling speech to the team.)
8. The WBC will surely bring injuries. We want America to win. But at what cost?
9. It remains to be seen whether the WBC will capture the American audience. Will these games be similarly meaningless, come June? Will anybody care who won?
10. No past WBC has taken place in such an unsettled world. This shall be a spring like nothing we have faced in our lives. Meaningless games, right? March Madness.
WTF is coming?
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What’s the WBC? Asking for an enemy of the state…
Why ?
Because,
Comrade !
We’re bombing Iran?
I guess they won’t be coming for the World Cup then, huh?
Frankly, I don't see what the hell the point is of trying to keep noocular weapons out of the hands of Iran. They're going to get 'em sooner or later, whether by development or just purchasing at a black market nukes show. I say let everyone have as many nukes as they want. They just need to understand that the use of one nuke means the end of the world as we know it, as they will all die in a noocular radioactive inferno.
We are going to have learn to live with one another as brothers or expunge ourselves in endless and pointless wars.
Trump said it'll be a 4-5 week affair. Now Hegseth says 8 weeks. Soon, it'll be 8 months. Then after a few years, it'll turn into 8 years.
Wars like this typically will last 20-30 years.
Trump says it's not a war, just a police action. Let's call a duck a duck and a cat a cat. This is obviously a war, not just an anti-terrorist operation.
Who the hell gave Trump the power to declare war? Congress has allowed Trump to usurp its constitutional authority. Newsflash to Congress: he ain't givin' it back, morons.
This thing will erode an already weakened economy. It's also giving birth to literally billions of new terrorists all over the world. So this is the path we've chosen. Prepare for a blood bath that'll make WWII, Vietnam, and Korean look like Sunday picnics. We better ramp up our special forces at least twenty fold because we're gonna need it. Going to be terrorist cells poppin' up everywhere. We'll need special forces to exterminate the contagion. "Jaws" movie: "we're gonna need a bigger boat"? Hell, we're gonna need a monster sized vat of pesticide.
Also gonna need to prep for runaway inflation. Energy prices gonna explode. But the Trump Fed will lower interest rates. Which will throw dynamite on the fire.
"Only the dead know the end of war."
Trump, a Draft Dodger himself, might have to re-institute the draft. So that he can create lots more "suckers and losers".
Trump has also said "So much winning that you'll get dizzy..."
They are trying to destroy the dollar and the Fed...
It used to be the World Boxing Council...
The dollar has been doing okay so far (SO FAR), and inflation is keeping the Fed from lowering rates. Ya never know.
"We are going to have learn to live with one another as brothers or expunge ourselves in endless and pointless wars."
This statement has been true as long as there has been civilization. We're still here, still assholes, and still fighting endless and pointless wars.
Realy looking forward to the future. Hey kids, you're gonna have a swell time!
WBC = WE'RE BOMBING CLEVELAND
AMEN to Hammer and to all. As for the "Hoax" of affordability, from someone who has never bought one food item in his life or paid for one gallon of gas ever, all I can say is that I feel noticeably poorer every time I go to the grocery store lately. It's no fucking joke. And Yankee tickets? They have become a luxury item. THANK GOD I am boycotting those fuckers. Which reminds me - would there be any interest in a one day suspension of said boycott and an IIHIIF group event at some point this summer? I could use it.
I'm game.
I'll ride in on horseback.
As time goes on I find I have nothing to say about this team that I haven’t already expressed several times. They’re running it back, do I’d have to run back any commentary. I’ll probably be on mute until the start of the season.
Carry on, Gentlemen!
The real irony of bombing Iran is that we now have a chance to install of government of our own understanding.
Bring back the Shah!
Shirtless, like Vladimir?
Yes
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