The end is near.
For the Yankees, things are about to go blooey.
Not trying to scare you. (Actually, yes, I am.) Last night's giveaway in Toronto barely masks a cold reality:
The Yankees have squandered a playoff-worthy set of starts, because their defense and hitting is more rancid than a mystery-meat burger on the U.S.S. Abe Lincoln.
Consider our starting pitchers over the last nine:
Last night: (Cole) 6 IP, 2 earned runs.
Aug 13 (Fried): 5 IP, 1 earned run.
Aug 12 (Warren): 4 IP, 5 earned runs.
Aug 11 (Weathers): 5.2 IP, 1 earned run
Aug 9 (Schlitler): 7.1 IP, 1 earned run.
Aug 8 (Cole): 7 IP, 2 earned runs
Aug 7 (Fried):6 IP, 0 earned runs
Aug 5 (Warren): 5.1 IP, 3 earned runs
Aug 4 (Weathers): 6 IP, 0 earned runs
Nine games. Fifteen earned runs. Less than two per game.
Damn. We shoulda won at least seven.
Instead, the Yankees went 5-4, thanks to a leaky pen, a shaky defense and an incredible dearth of hitting.
We shoulda paced Tampa and pulled away from Boston. Instead, the Yankees burned through some of the season's best starts, their hold on the wild card increasingly greasy and weak.
People: This cannot hold.
Soon, as Scotty once said, the dialythium crystals are gonna break, the matter/anti-matter pods are gonna come together, and the whole thing, Captain, she's a-gonna go!
This week, we play eight against Toronto and Baltimore. Suddenly, those lineups look flush with young and ascending talent, while we seek to coax the MLB minimum from Heliot Ramos and Ryan McMahon. One of these days, our starting pitching is gonna blow up.
People, this is the fulcrum point of 2026.
And the dam looks ready to go.
2 o 2 s u x
ReplyDeleteLast night
Another misplay for the ages
Cole appeared ready to smash
his head against the cement
walla of the dugout after he was
lifted from the game.
Can not . . . wait to watch and
enjoy today’s contest.
Walla….. hahaha
DeleteWalla Walla is no Valhalla.
ReplyDeleteAnd Valhalla is no great mental institution. You gotta be a Westchester County resident or live nearby to get this reference.
DeleteThe hammer of the gods
DeleteWill drive thy ships to new lands
To fight the horde
Singing and crying
Valhalla, I am coming!
I don’t bite the Apple, so I didn’t see the game, just watched the “highlights” now. Another sub par effort, with our daily defensive miscue.
ReplyDeleteHow many runs won’t we score today?
I refused to even watch the ghastly autopsy, which is what Yankees highlights should be called. Awful.
ReplyDeleteLast night was somewhat similar to that game where Ali Sanchez threw the ball down the 3rd base line. But this time, it was Garcia throwing it away. The long diagonal throw across the diamond. Did Boone once again say "we got to do a better job of playing catch there"?
ReplyDeleteCourtesy of Iron Maiden:
Delete'Cause you know this has happened before
And you know that this moment in time is for real
And you know when you feeeeeeeel ... deja-vu
Yeah, this is what the Yankees usually do about this time of year. They don't play well. Mistakes, goose eggs on the board next to the Yankee line. Whilst other teams start playing better and better. This is why I prophesized the Yankees wouldn't make the playoffs.
ReplyDeleteThe fucking ASS-stros won a barn burner last night. Blew a lead late, but came from behind to light up Anthony Munoz's ass in extra innings. Hell, it was epic! See, the ASS-stros always seem to make good trades. They get guys like Itsaac Peredes and Daulton Varsho. And we get guys like Anthony Munoz, IKF, Trent Grisham. Results are very predictable.
Cashman would rather do hara-kiri than get a guy named Itsaac Paredes. Did I spell his name right?
ReplyDeleteI don't think there were many who said this, but the guy who should have been traded at the deadline was Trent Grisham. You put Spencer Jones in CF. You could have kept Jasson Dominguez in RF, even if you still got Heliot Ramos to play LF. Or just bring up an outfielder from the minors to play LF until Judge gets back.
ReplyDeleteThere were many different ways to do it, but Cashman probably chose the worst. Created a logjam at 1B/DH. Especially when Judge comes back. Instead of DH'ing Judge for the remainder of the year, they are forced to immediately play him in RF, where he's had the two rib fractures. Did I say I would've ordered Judge never to dive for a ball unless it was Game 7 of the World Series?
Plus, with Judge in RF, you know Dumbass Boone must play Trent Grisham in CF and Heliot Ramos in LF. So, Spencer Jones has to be sent down to the minors or benched as the 4th outfielder. It's intolerable stupidity, risk management, and they'd rather do hara-kiri than develop a young player.
If there is a next year, I predict Cashman will re-up Grisham for a long contract. They can't get enough of Grisham here. See, this is why, when Cashman made the qualifying offer to Grisham, it was actually a mistake for Grisham to immediately accept. He could have negotiated for a couple mil more. Cashman would have paid it.
ReplyDeleteWhen Judge had his break out year in 2017, Cashman must've been dumbfounded, in shock and utter dismay. He couldn't have planned on a Yankee prospect developing like that. Wonder how many nights Cashman was throwing up in the shitter that year. Yankee management must've been in ecstasy when they lost the ALCS to the ASS-stros. "Whew, that was a close one!"
ReplyDeleteIn 2024, when Cashman made that infamous deal for Juan Soto, I don't think they planned on going to the World Series. That was another close call for Yankee management. You can betcha they had many closed door meetings in the war room about how important it was to play mediocre players like Volpe, Wells, Grisham. The plan is to avoid another World Series appearance for at least fifteen years.
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