Friday, September 29, 2023

We should write about the Yankees the way rock critics do about singers

 

This caught my eye from New York Magazine. It's a review of Olivia Rodrigo's new album, Guts. This is how we need to cover the Yankees. 

"Rodrigo is living in a gilded panopticon where her every move arouses emotion in viewers she may never meet, and the images cultivated by celebrities like her are used to judge everyday people who can't access the same resources. Guts is saying fuck it."

I couldn't agree more wholeheartedly.

In fact, Aaron Boone is too often lost in his personal freeform zeitgeist, where not even a positive Judgeian edict can necessarily overwhelm the YES-based fan ethos that threatens to devour him, whole and unflinchingly, into its cacophony of NO.  

12 comments:

HoraceClarke66 said...

Somebody is en fuego this morning.

AboveAverage said...
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AboveAverage said...

Review this little POP masterpiece:

Boone knows
It can’t be sealed
Without a kiss

When things run a bit
Amiss

Just unzip and
Take a piss

It’s just another
Swing and Miss

Oh yeaaaah….

The seasons’ over
‘cause
We suck so bad
Suck so bad

It won’t change much
‘cause
We suck so bad
Suck so bad

Heads won’t ROLL
‘cause
We suck so bad
Suck so bad

SuhhhhhhhhhK
Soooooooo
Baaaaaaad

Oh yeah

Kevin said...

"Rodrigo is living in a gilded panopticon where her every move arouses emotion in viewers she may never meet, and the images cultivated by celebrities like her are used to judge everyday people who can't access the same resources. Guts is saying fuck it."

Artsy-fartsy bullshitting. Intellectual poser.

BTR999 said...

Two words : Responsibility and Accountability.

People the water is rising here. Please remember my last words to B/C/S :”Fuck you all very much!”

HoraceClarke66 said...

That's even better than, "Don't give up the ship!"

Celerino Sanchez said...

Can they trade Rondon for Chapman?

TheWinWarblist said...

Can we all meet at Boone's place and take a combined shit on his stoop?

13bit said...

Winnie, how about one small turd, strategically placed at the tip of Boonie's cleats so that he has to yank it on before making contact? Or replacing the sunflower seeds in his personal bag with tiny faux seeds made of excrement and painted appropriately? Okay, I must get back to my third grade class before teacher expels me.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Winnie and mr. bit are the muses of this site.

I volunteer to contribute.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Can they trade Rodent for a bag of mothras?

Rufus T. Firefly said...

Jiminy cricket.

Or WTF?

The Marlins clinch a playoff spot.

Why can't the Yankees get a general manager that can do that for them?