Unlike the movie of the same name, what your New York Yankees have now introduced us to is "Endless Spring."
Here we are, almost at the very end of the season, still playing like it's spring training.
The Yankees now have spring training—and then they have more spring training. And more.
Yesterday, with the division at least still ostensibly on the line, we were still trying out players and lineups.
Can Michael Fulmer close? (Uh, no.)
Can Caballero play centerfield? (That would be a big negatory.)
Can Max Schuemann be a pinch-runner? (I'm sorry—what?)
Meanwhile, the real questions—Can The Martian be a major-league starter? Is Oswaldo Cabrera ready for the bigs again? Can Spencer Jones play everyday?—are never addressed.
All so we can be "prepared" to finally start playing hard in a postseason...which our GM says is just a crapshoot. ("Uh, I never actually said that...")
Crazy. The Yankees are the best team that never got out of spring training.
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Right-o! It's all on the manager and general manager. They're in charge of the coaching staff, the training staff. This club is run like an amateur softball league. And it'll always be that way, with these bozos in charge.
I think there's a (Henry James?) short story about a guy who talks to an ex-boxer who is sitting on a bench in the park. The boxer says he's an "amateur". Never could make it as a professional because he just doesn't have the right stuff. The guy who listened to this runs home determined to prove that he's no "amateur". He gets on the phone and calls a girl to tell her he loves her. Only to find out that he spoke to her sister - not the girl he actually wants. He's fucked up everything now. He realizes that he's an "amateur" too.
Then there's a real good line in the movie "3:10 to Yuma", the remake with Russell Crowe, not the original. A railroad exec tells a small time farmer/rancher that "sometimes, a man has to be big enough to see how small he is". Good advice!
Not only should Boone and Cashman take that to heart, but all the small market teams trying to "compete" by purposefully running net losses for tax deductions should also. Can't take the heat? Get out of the damned kitchen!
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