Saturday, October 3, 2020

The 2020 Yankees' full lineup played Tampa only twice, and the outcomes didn't reflect the season

By know, everybody knows that...

a) The President is in the hospital.
b) Brad and Jenn might be a thing again.
c) The Yankees play the Devil Angelic Rays, starting Monday.

Most of you know the Death Star went 2-8 this year against mighty Tampa, super-team of the AL. In a two-month season, we finished seven games back, and the month of September was spent batting for second. To call this a disappointment would be like saying the Atlantic Ocean is "moist."  

But but BUT... only twice did the Tampons face the Yankees' "A-team" - with Judge, Stanton, LeMahiue, et al - and those two games happened in early August, the first weeks of the season.

On Aug. 7, we lost 1-0 to Blake Snell, the Rays scoring in the ninth off the then-trusted Adam Ottavino. (Snell beat Masahiro Tanaka in a duel.) Back then, Mike Tauchman was still considered viable, so he played LF. 

The following night, NY beat the Rays 8-4 behind Gerrit Cole, featuring HRs from Judge, Stanton and Mike Ford, (who had yet to become an afterthought.)  

After that, while rattling off a series of wins, Tampa never saw the main Yankee lineup, which - barring virus and tweaked gonads - the Cash Men will send out, beginning Monday.

You might think I'm trying to gin up hope following the discouraging two-month letdown that ended last week. You'd be absolutely right! The Yankees started with Great Expectations and finished as Little Women, suffering from Moby Dicks. The way they flopped over the finish line - spared from the 8th seed by Toronto's loss - they should have been tested for Coronavirus, if not Maui Wowie. 

But when the Yankees hit the field Monday, their lineup will have gone 1-1 against Tampa this season. Considering that the teams will play on neutral ground, I can't imagine bigger toss-up and, for that matter, a more wasted effort than finishing first. Kudos for MLB in playing the season. But has anything mattered less? 

17 comments:

Vampifella said...

The Rays are choke artists. They always fail when it counts the most for them. I feel slightly better for the Yanks than I did with them against the Indians. Still it could go either way so either outcome wouldn't surprise me.

HoraceClarke66 said...

I still think this Yankees team has too many weak spots to win through. But in the year of Covid, who knows?

Anonymous said...

You can always hope. Believe it or not, I'd rather have faced the Tampons in the first round 2 out of 3. They still have the big advantage with pitching. Aside from Cole, who in our staff matches up? Remember that final game with Cleveland? That is our arson squad bullpen, in classic form. We scored ten runs and barely won by coming from behind. If the way Kevin Cash used his bullpen against us is any indication, we'll have a very tough time scoring off their bullpen. On paper, it looks like the Tampons in three or at most four. But miracles sometimes happen.... Our sweeping Cleveland was certainly a small miracle. We'll need a big miracle to beat the Tampons.

The Hammer of God

Anonymous said...

So Miami is in the NLDS. The Yankee divine-justice sequence, to avenge Cashman's destruction of Clint Frazier and Miguel Andujar and his imbecilic signing of Stanton: The Jeter Nine meet the Yankees in the World Series and we see a reprise of 2003. Book it. Karma's a bitch.

Local Bargain Jerk said...


Wait.  Brad and Jenn might be a thing again?  I didn't know this.

TheWinWarblist said...

Tim McCarver is a putrid buttmuch and matters much much less.





Fuck you McCarver.

Anonymous said...

Tampa’s season was never derailed by COVID, so they played through uninterrupted and I think only had 2 double headers due to road rain outs. Must be nice. Yanks had 2 layoffs, 7 double headers. A hot mess of injuries. Remember how great Tampa has been over years making “contact”? Well, they lead the league in strike outs. Me thinks they are overrated and had an easy go this year due to schedule and timing. Any game Yanks score more than 4 runs is a Yankee win. With no days off, Yanks have a better chance in 5 than outlasting Tampa pitching through 7.

DickAllen said...

And they won’t have to play in that wretched, piece-of-shit excuse of a sewer they call a stadium in that scum-sucking, brain-dead, dead-red swamp state.

Anonymous said...

Warblist types: "Tim McCarver is a putrid buttmuch and matters much much less. Fuck you McCarver."

Would someone please try to help him/her/it to get to a psychiatric ER?

HoraceClarke66 said...

Yeah. What about Brad and Jen?

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Asshole - you need help, you miserable little boy.

Anonymous said...

That's OK, Warblist--you can foam at me under your customary name. We all feel compassion for you. You are a deranged, tormented soul and in need of some sort of professional intervention.

Anonymous said...

Richie, tell us what you really feel about Florida. You all from the North blue state cesspool freezers keep come down South. Please stay up in your welfare Socialist igloos and leave us alone. The next Civil war won't be won by NY and Cali,.
Bedford Forrest

DickAllen said...

I don’t live in the North Blue State you sister-fucking degenerate.

You lost the war, you racist scum, so get over it. All your playing soldier with your toy guns and camo outfits only make you Barbie dolls playing dress up. If you had to fight a real war, you’d soil your trousers and run home to mommy (if you know who she is).

And while we’re on the subject, his name was NATHAN Bedford Forest - not only did he murder hundreds of black troops who tried to surrender at Ft. Pillow in 1864, but he was also a grand wizard in the KKK - you know the KKK? Those are the guys, like you, who don’t have the courage to show their faces to the world. Just like you anonymous weenies who populate the backwoods of the world.

So fuck off and crawl back under your rock.

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