In the meantime, 10 meanderings...
1. To win in baseball, it's not rocket science. You supplement a strong farm system with a few star free agents. The Dodgers do it quite well. But the 2026 Yankees have neither.
2. Someday - maybe next year - the Mets will rise. We can smirk about their record - fourth most losses in MLB. But they are building the farm, and they are spending the money. One of these days, we will feel the whoosh of them passing us, as NY's favored baseball team. (If you look at tabloid covers, they are already ahead of us, but that won't last through September.)
3. It's taken half the season, but Jose Caballero has apparently won the SS position, (I'll believe this when he plays an entire series.) Congrats to all who are still suffering from Volpe Derangement Syndrome.
4. Cooperstown Cashman has four weeks to find what he can get for Anthony Volpe. Right now, not much. A bullpen lug nut, maybe?
5. The Yankees are yet to see the ballyhooed rotation with Gerrrit Cole, Carlos Rodon and Max Fried pitching at the same time. It's possible that they never will. This should blare sirens about mortgaging the farm for Tarik Skubal. When you obtain an ace pitcher, you're paying for every pitch he's ever thrown.
6. Still bumming over the loss of Carlos Lagrange, the star of spring training. He's out with a strained shoulder, and he probably won't return until - gulp - spring training. Damn. The Yankees had one breakout pitcher last spring, and they will probably get nothing from him in 2026. I realize that young pitchers are always fragile, but the Yankees pitching gurus blew this one, horribly. They had one job: Get this kid - and his 102 mph fastball - to the majors. They botched it.
7. After last night's game, Spencer Jones was dispatched to Scranton. That's strike two for his Yankee career. Unless somebody gets hurt - always a possibility - he's done with this organization. Gone at the trade deadline.
8. Jones is just another reminder that Yank fans - thirsty for news about the farm system - should never raise their hopes about Yankee prospects. They are simply a commodity to be traded.
9. The seven-game losing streak made it a given that Cashman will remake this roster on or about July 31. Last year brought two disasters - (Bird and Doval) - two successes - (Bednar and Cabby) - and a no decision (McMahon.) I don't know how anyone can look at last year's trades and find great optimism for this team.
10. One of these days, the Twins will stop rescuing the Yankees from themselves.
Happy fucking fourth.
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Jones demoted, Volpe still on the roster. What a moronic organization.
Boone is an idiot. Cashman is incompetent. Hal doesn't give a shit.
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Yesterday the Yankees were a dead team. Now they're the hottest team in the world.
Your line: "When you obtain an ace pitcher, you're paying for every pitch he's ever thrown" -- is concise, correct, and something about which I never actually thought (and i can't recall having seen it expressed this way).
Congrats. You should become a writer!
Happy 250th! Enjoy the day as much as you can. It’s still our country. Hope we can keep it.
Duque, your post today should be required reading for all Yankee fans, especially #5 - “ When you obtain an ace pitcher, you're paying for every pitch he's ever thrown.” Truer words were never written here .
Just as a reminder:
Michael Kay cloys and annoys
@AA wasn't that a Clydeism?
Sorry that I haven't posted any wedding pictures, but Garden security checked everyone's device and deleted every picture of the event. I protested and even threatened a lawsuit, but then Quentin Dolan promised a lifetime ban if I did not comply. In retrospect, at my age, the ban wouldn't be all that long.
Happy Fourth of July to our United States of America!
Our Clown-in-Chief is warning of the greatest danger to the world, communism. That much is true, no doubt.
What our Clown-in-Chief neglects to define is what the hell is a communist? A skinny guy running around in black pajamas planting punji sticks? (That one is a possibility proposed in the movie "The Siege of Firebase Gloria".) No, I'll tell ya'll what communism is. It is right in our fucking White House right now. Yeah, that's right. Our fucking Clown-in-Chief has brought us closer to fucking communism than ever before in our history. It's complicated, but communism, in my book, is when the government turns to tyranny because "the end justifies the means". Communism is when there is no more rule of law, when the chief executive officer decides to make it up as he goes along, controlling the media, controlling the government's economic spigots, which should be independent of government manipulation. It's when the government decides to abuse its power to silence any opposing voices, so that everyone is on the same page. And yes, there is definitely a lot of overlap between communism and fascism. Both totalitarian governments in action. In case you haven't noticed, all of this is entirely opposed to the American Constitution and the principles of our Founding Fathers as delineated in the Declaration of Independence. Yeah, wake up people! The biggest fucking Communist in the world is sitting on his fat, decadent ass in OUR White House!
Our Clown-in-Chief has greatly weakened American influence and power all over the world. He has turned all of our own allies against us. Good fucking luck when Communist China starts to throw its weight around. No one's going to be there to help us:
I bailed you out when you were down on your knees
So will you catch me now I'm falling
I'm calling all citizens from over the world
This is Captain America calling
I believe the terms more appropriate are Fascism and Crony Capitalism.
That's pretty great, Hammer. And don't forget the cult of personality that inevitably accompanies communism...
And yes, Trump is an incredibly destructive character. He breaks things. That is his whole record. He's not terribly bright, but he's smart enough to know how not to smash up things like real estate companies, football teams, great countries, etc.
He does it because he wants to do it. Because he wants to see it smash. Because he wants revenge for the fact that his daddy was an evil little shit and his mother didn't give a damn.
What we are seeing is a mental four-year-old, throwing the longest fit in history. And this is really on so many of our fellow citizens who gave him a hammer and the family china, and said, 'Go to it, son. This will hurt someone, somewhere.'
Also, Peerless Leader, that paying for every pitch IS a great line.
Yeah, whatever you want to call it. The names don't matter. Just nomenclature. All these other clowns throughout history, calling themselves communists, but they weren't actually communists. Closer to fascists. Molten Dung, Josef Stalin. Then there is our current clown, a wanna-be-fascist, but very close to a communist. So close that I can't tell the difference between him or the current asshole-in-chief in Communist China. Is there anything more complicated than politics?
In one of those Vietnam documentaries, there was an old man who came running out on the beach as American troops came ashore. And he was holding a French flag, yelling "Vive Le France!" Would be hysterical, if his confusion wasn't so sadly true. Nobody knew what the hell was going on. Things were so complicated that nobody knew who the hell was who anymore, according to the documentary.
All that Hammer and Horace have stated is obviously true. But his biggest flaw, and what makes him so much more corrupt and dangerous to democracy in our country, is that he's a textbook sociopath with no conscience or morals. Therefore, he's oblivious to and cares not one iota for the pain and suffering he causes daily.
No rule of law. Used the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to wipe his dirty old ass. And the Supreme Court and the a-holes in Congress don't have the guts to stop it. It's so bad that I don't know that we'll have a U.S.A. two and a half years from now, let alone another 250 years.
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