Saturday, April 25, 2026

WE WILL NEVER LOSE AGAIN!!!

 


"And though we choose between reality and madness

It's either sadness or euphoria..."

Or, you know, we could follow the New York Knicks.

Personally, I'll take euphoria. But even knowing, as a longtime fan of the New York Yankees, how likely it is to end very soon, a win is a win is a win is a win is a win is a win is a win.

I'm not even discouraged by the injury to Stanton which, as our Peerless Leader writes, is likely to keep him out of the lineup for weeks, not days. Counting on Stanton not being injured (for the first time since 2017) is something that only a sad, naïve child would do—someone like Brian Cashman.

As to who should replace him, well, Anthony Volpe is coming, as surely as summer turns into fall, and fall into nuclear winter. If that means that Ryan McMahon gets pushed to the bench—with Rosario/Caballero taking over third—it might even be an improvement.

But apart from that, I'm all with sandman.  Yes, bring up the "wrong-handed" Triple-A bats, Spencer and The Martian. Courteously give Paul Goldschmidt his walking papers, too, along with a laurel and hardy handshake. Bring up all those hard-throwing kids for the pen.

The pillars of the earth are shaking loose, within baseball and without. Time to get one more before it's too late, baby.







27 comments:

  1. GUARANTEED WE NEVER LOSE AGAIN. We win it all this year and next, then for another 25 seasons, until we DOUBLE our number of titles to 54. At that point, Boone and Cash retire - although Brian still gets to send in the lineup every night for another few years, just like Tim Apple.

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  2. This is the game thread, gentlemen.

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  3. Jazz wants to be a 50/50 player. Well he has 8 steals and 6 missed ABS challenges…

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  4. Red Sox fired Cora & a bunch of coaches. Including Jason Varitek & his mask.

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  5. Perhaps they should have just shuttered the franchise whilst they were at it

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  6. In more carmines newsnews, the infamous nesn.com article has finally been removed from their website. Thankfully the internet is forever.
    https://web.archive.org/web/20230127090854/https://nesn.com/2011/01/2011-red-sox-will-challenge-1927-yankees-for-title-of-greatest-team-in-major-league-history/

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    1. Thing of beauty, joy forever, and all that.

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  7. I find myself in an awkward place. As a former New Yorker, economically exiled to Western Massachusetts, I truly enjoy seeing the Yankees whip the Red Sox when they are down. I play softball out here, wearing a Yankee hat. (The umpires called me 'brave'.)

    On the other hand, I can't help feeling like this is another 'Lucy and the football' set up. A well-contrived, broadly designed conspiracy to ensure the maximum investment in Yankee gambling futures; to get the greatest number of rubes to bet on a Yankee WS victory, only to crash in the fall and flame out in the playoffs.

    I do enjoy the moment of silence from my local Red Sox friends, who've strangely stopped texting me with their Yankee jibes, since their own team is flaming out so early and ugly.

    But the season is very long and outcomes are uncertain, even for the mighty AI bot that rules the Yankee decision-making process (while the front office goes off to the country club for drinks).

    As I step out on the field one more time, wearing my tattered Yankee hat (I refuse to buy another one, while Cashman is GM), I will be graceful to poor Red Sox fans and not rub their noses in it. I know the Yankees are designed to fail in the fall and I do not want to eat crow when that happens. Such is reality, when prediction markets rule and insider trading is how the rich really make their money.

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    1. Doc, where is you located?

      I have a mountain evil lair in VT near the MA border.

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    2. I live in Northampton. I run a community resource center in Turners Falls. Not too far from the VT border.

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  8. We have a walkathon going on….

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  9. Bird & Doval throw scoreless innings? Knicks win easily? What a weird night.

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  10. Is it pronounced du-vaal? If so, his nickname should be long ball or at least "that's a ball".

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  11. That appears to be another game won

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