It is high, it is far, it is... caught!: AN ABOVE AVERAGE HAIKU TUESDAY - ARE WE STILL BREATHING? - EDITION

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Tuesday, July 9, 2024

AN ABOVE AVERAGE HAIKU TUESDAY - ARE WE STILL BREATHING? - EDITION

Posted by AboveAverage at 12:15 PM

43 comments:

ZacharyA said...: The Yankees have stolen THREE bases in the last calendar month.

Three!

You'd think with the offense scuffling, they'd be a little more aggressive on the bases. Try to get something going. But the Yankees have the fewest stolen base attempts of any team in baseball over the last calendar month.

I guess when Volpe isn't getting on base, they just have no one else who can run. So we just abandon that part of the game.

Remember when the bigger bases and new pickoff rules were supposed to encourage more stolen bases? Well, that's happening for most teams. But not the Yankees. Still old and slow. Station to station baseball.; July 9, 2024 at 2:02 PM
Doug K. said...: AA - perfection all around!; July 9, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Doug K. said...: Yanks no longer steal.
Cowardly on the base paths?
Or do they just suck?; July 9, 2024 at 2:15 PM
JM said...: Me, I'm just a lawnmower. You can tell me by the way I walk.; July 9, 2024 at 3:31 PM
BTR999 said...: Listening to Kay twist himself in knots trying to defend the Yankee’s modus operandi would be funny if it wasn’t sad. His denouement? Fans “don’t understand”. He did opine that if the Yanks do make the WC but lose in the first round that Boone would be out.

Boone’s contract has an option for next year, so the team could simply walk away from it. My opinion is they don’t really want to that, but might be willing to do so as a window dressing type move. It’s obvious what qualities they want in a manager, so any replacement for Boone would be about the same, perhaps more articulate, but just as complacent. It would be great if the next manager would snap and burst into Cashman’s office like Ensign Pulver in Mr. Roberts: “It is I, Manager ( insert name )! Now - what’s all this crap about no LH hitting this season?”; July 9, 2024 at 3:59 PM
AboveAverage said...: Thanks Doug that was kind

Your Haiku wasn't eye poo

The Yankees do suck; July 9, 2024 at 4:56 PM
13bit said...: Michael Kay the tool

Drowning in his viscous drool

Shimmering bullshit; July 9, 2024 at 6:19 PM
JM said...: Rodent giving up hit after hit, no outs.

Fucking fucker.; July 9, 2024 at 7:06 PM
JM said...: Oh Christ.; July 9, 2024 at 7:07 PM
JM said...: Disaster signing.; July 9, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Doug K. said...: Why do we even bother?; July 9, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Doug K. said...: Oh and trade Rodon Pay 1/2. Pay it all just get him out of NY.; July 9, 2024 at 7:19 PM
AboveAverage said...: Why do we bother

How bad must things get before

The shit hits the fan; July 9, 2024 at 7:22 PM
JM said...: We are so so fucked

Judge and Soto, please hit

If not we lose more; July 9, 2024 at 7:31 PM
AboveAverage said...: A tip of the Palm Springs cap to JM!; July 9, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Celerino Sanchez said...: I think Ca$h should explore an extension with Rondon, they only have him for another 4 1/2 years; July 9, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Doug K. said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; July 9, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Doug K. said...: JM Soto loafed after the foul ball. He is a beaten man.
DJ looked like he was eight years old on that play down the line.

Where's the manager?; July 9, 2024 at 7:53 PM
DickAllen said...: Boooone will have a job for life because The Intern speaks the same language. Here’s what he had to say about this slump and the slumps of the past two years:

“I think every year is different,” Cashman said. “I think those teams are different and some of the issues are different.”

The bullshit is knee deep in Yankeeland.; July 9, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Doug K. said...: Kaiser: "What's that smell?
It's this Yankee game... It stinks!"
Not My Fav'rite Year.; July 9, 2024 at 7:55 PM
JM said...: A great movie.; July 9, 2024 at 8:01 PM
JM said...: Oh Carlos you bum

One bad inning sinks us

So very much dough; July 9, 2024 at 8:03 PM
JM said...: "Alan Swann is beneath us!"

"Of course he's beneath us, he's an actor."; July 9, 2024 at 8:04 PM
AboveAverage said...: Knee deep doesn’t cover it.

I believe they’re up to their chinny chin chins in it.; July 9, 2024 at 8:05 PM
AboveAverage said...: Top of Five one Run

Great job guys really well done

And we got the dudes; July 9, 2024 at 8:15 PM
DickAllen said...: What’s really sad AA is that it’s the same movie every year and these morons have all kinds of excuses to deny what is obvious to even the casual watcher, much less the fanatics in this blog. The Intern either can’t see it or won’t, and I don’t know which is worse.; July 9, 2024 at 8:16 PM
AboveAverage said...: Had Gleyber snapped that tag they may have gotten the runner; July 9, 2024 at 8:21 PM
JM said...: Rice Rice baby!!!; July 9, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Doug K. said...: It's the SAME GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!

They go down big early. They come back but not enough to take the lead. They fall short!!; July 9, 2024 at 8:49 PM
JM said...: Which makes me think, maybe they'd do better with Bill Veeck's midget.; July 9, 2024 at 8:50 PM
JM said...: Insurance run sinks it.; July 9, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Doug K. said...: IT'S THE SAME GAME!!!!!!!!; July 9, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.

same as it ever was.

Same as it ever was.; July 9, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Doug K. said...: It's. The. Same. Game.

and Soto is a broken man.

They were the best of teams.
They were the worst of teams
but mostly... they suck.; July 9, 2024 at 9:26 PM
JM said...: They really truly suck.; July 9, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Rufus T. Firefly said...: Same as it EVER was.; July 9, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Publius said...: Groundhog day; July 9, 2024 at 9:38 PM
BTR999 said...: Whatta shitshow; July 9, 2024 at 9:55 PM
AboveAverage said...: Ewwww

what's that smell; July 9, 2024 at 9:56 PM
AboveAverage said...: The MAN shares his THOUGHTS ! ! !

https://x.com/yesnetwork/status/1810856547980906885?s=46&t=djhldiZYXsK9muLit3reYA; July 9, 2024 at 10:08 PM
AboveAverage said...: The boy Genius (FINALLY) speaks! :

https://nypost.com/2024/07/09/sports/brian-cashman-laments-yankees-dreadful-skid-gone-on-long-enough/; July 9, 2024 at 11:21 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...: "The ball's gotta start bouncing our way..."

Right. That's the problem. As we've all seen, the Yankees have done nothing but whack wicked line drives that, somehow, are always hit directly to opposing fielders. Their every pitch is an amazing, torqued fastball that, somehow, hits a loose pebble on the infield and bounces over the head of our boys.

The nonsense never stops.; July 9, 2024 at 11:27 PM
AboveAverage said...: Exactly, Hoss.

Spot on, Sir; July 9, 2024 at 11:31 PM

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