Hunter Walker sent us this fab skeet, adding "I was in the bleachers last night. The Volpe bomb hit right at section 237. His gift to the creatures. Beautiful."
I have a mutual friend with WORLD SERIES HERO ANTHONY VOLPE's dad. Over on Facebook, Mr. Volpe is posting photos including this shot of Yung Anthony in a Yankees outfit. The other one is him with his godfather wearing a Yankees hat on the day he was born. He was born for this moment!!
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw.bsky.social) October 30, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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If we win tonight, Rodent pitches in LA on Friday. We'll lose unless we score 11 runs again. Not sure that is happening again against the A team out of the LA pen.
Rodent would have an extremely short leash...
Do they sell leashes for rodents?
Not gonna worry about Rodon or a theoretical Game 6 until I see the Yankees high-fiving on the infield tonight.
All the money Cashman spent on Rodent and Stroman. What a waste. So many bad choices, for so many years. Can't win with the bozos he signs.
Tonight is certainly no guarantee—but I did notice that the air seemed considerably warmer, and it's supposed to be warmer still tonight. That kind of atmospheric lift, I think, can only help us...
...But as JM points out, how the hell do we get past Rodon's start in LA? For them, Jack Flaherty looked lights out at Chavez Ravine in his first start against the Metsies...then very hittable back east. But for Game Six, should there be one: Yamamoto vs. Rodon? Oy.
The ghosts of October have been waiting a long time to come out
Moto vs Rodent is not a fair matchup. Well, first things first. We have to win tonight.
Then we can watch the debacle on Friday.
Hey, Pat Sajack is there. Excitement.
Is it me or does Cole look drugged down and depressed or did he just eat too many bananas again during his pre-game ritual ? Asking for JM.
I hate Fox. Goofy fake newspapers. Christ.
Bananas. Definitely bananas. And smoking the peels.
Judge!!!!!!
He's showing up!!!
Golly!
Alarm must of gone off
Wat
Jazzzzzzzzz!!!
He's showing up, too.
Jazz
Nice start...
Back-to-back, Suzyn! And, um, belly-to-belly!
Sorry, I'm late. I got caught up at the hospital.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL RIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Amii Stewart - Knock On Wood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKuJUxGntRI
BELLY TO BELLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AHHH-AAAHHH-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOME FUCKING RUN DANCE PARTY!!!!!
Ah-hem.
Flaherty is very hittable today.
Young Tony showing up again.
Those national broadcasters just stealing from The Master: "That's why baseball is crazy." No. Sorry. It's "There's no predicting baseball," morons!
Even Doogie.
Flopsie!!
Knocked out the starter in four outs. Not bad.
Need to not let up here, keep piling on.
Soto PLEASE
Judge pretty Please
Jazz PRETTY PRETTY PLEEEEEEEEEZE
Deflating
Cole looks great, but I don't like that walk. I'm sure he feels the same, more strongly.
Ohtani is an injured mess.
Is Gavin Lux wearing some special potion that repels the baseball? I don't understand how we can possibly keep walking him.
The decision to insert Jazz between Judge and Stanton remains a mistake.
Glassman!!!
Stantonian!
Blondie - The Hardest Part
https://www.mlb.com/gameday/dodgers-vs-yankees/2024/10/30/775296/live/live
But hey...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHERE ARE MY BATTLE PANTS!!!??!!
Can't help thinking it could be 8-0 now. But can't complain!
Stanton again.
He's pretty good in the postseason, I think.
Hoss, ah-hem, I believe that we, the Commentariat, can always complain. And do so well.
This ump is terrible.
I'm leaving this here because it's very funny.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-yankees-are-hoping-bad-baserunning-wins-championships-too/
There you go Hoss!! That's it! That's the fucking ticket!
When Cole is in top form, he doesn't walk guys.
Judge!!!!!!! What a catch!!!!!!!
So Judge is good again? Awesome!
It's nice, ain't it?
Here's where the Yankees gotta grab 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the ass. They gotta take their bats and ram them through their living guts. They... uh, sorry, sorry got a bit carried away.
Wow, Judge is in the house.
And forgive me, Warbler. As I like to say, "You're a New Yorker. You can always complain."
Sad to see Banda gone.
Where did all these incredibly patient hitters come from, and what have they done to the Yankees? Not that we're complaining about THAT.
Thought that was gone
Jazz, having homered, will obviously never be good for anything again.
He, like Volpe, should be thinking about hitting line drives & going the other way, not swinging for the second deck. The HRs will come. More doubles! More singles & stolen bases!
Pick him up, Cole.
They're killing me. Why can nothing be easy?
Volpe always screws up a critical play.
This asshole is squeezing Cole.
What in God’s name is THIS?!?
Well, at least we retired Gavin Lux.
OooooooO
What the hell was that???????
It’s turning into a little league game…
Unbelievable. Just unfuckingbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Well, Cole pointing to the bag was helpful ....
Why the fuck wasn't Cole running? Why wasn't Rizzo hustling to the bag?
FFS…
I just spit up a 62 year old binky
John Sterling is not happy. "This inning should have been over three or four times."
They can’t get out of their own way.
We’re screwed…
Worst single inning in Yankees history. And it's still not over!
Losers.
Also, why hasn't Boone come out to say anything to anyone, and calm everybody.
Fun while it lasted
Un.
Fucking.
Believable.
Fucking fundamentals. Lousy fucking fundamentals.
They field like drunks too.
Cole hung in for a while, but the princess is present. Head case time.
Like I said yesterday, in S/T this team needs to be drilled and drilled and drilled in fundamentals. Fuck this waiting around for somebody to hit a home run.
What a shit show inning….
Cole is in meltdown mode.
And Judge went the entire season without making an error. Until this inning.
Really, after it was 5-1 and they'd made those three bonehead plays, Boone should've been out on the mound. Talking about what they were going to do with Freeman, but more importantly, just telling a couple of cheap dirty jokes and getting everybody to relax.
I've never seen a manager—particularly a third-generation, former ballplayer—who has so little feel for the game. He seems to just zone out most of the time.
Dodgers were all but ready to concede this game and get "back on the bird" as Boone likes to say. Now, the momentum has swung completely.
Boone has never heard of sending the pitching coach out to calm the pitcher down, and to give him a breather. Third generation player. Unreal.
AND STILL...Everyone is sitting in the dugout looking shellshocked, while Boone says nothing to no one. He needs to be up, talking to guys, getting their heads back in the game, getting them angry. He ain't doing it.
Shit.
It's incredible. Cause for dismissal, like so many Boone actions and non-actions.
NO! No more Cole for tonight. He has reverted to being Flouncy. No, no, no!
They'll do it to you.
Every
Fucking
Time
This defense shit doesn't happen under Girardi
Judge leads off. He’s going to try & hit a 5-run home run, & go back to looking helpless at the plate.
True, Joe.
Boone makes weird motion with hand, and buries head in his sleeve. This is what I feel like doing, but not exactly the mien of a leader.
Hmm, who do we want up here? Jazz Chisholm or Giancarlo Stanton?
Let’s Fucking Go!
This umpire's strike zone is all over the place. Judge is lucky he didn't strike out there. Of course, He's made some shitty calls against us, too.
Sac fly, I'll take it.
Man. Of. Glass. Again and again.
Good, but it’s not nearly enough.
We need like, hrrrm? 7 runs? Would that be a safe lead for these bunch of drunks?
Jazz almost manages to blow the game again.
Another redemption opportunity for Volpe.
Three more runs to win
Yanks' sloppiness just excoriated on TV. They didn't call out Boone by name, but they might as well have. The lack of fundamentals is inexcusable. And Boone's passivity during the meltdown was inexplicable.
Looks like Cole is coming out again. I dunno. 98 pitches now.
Also...no one's warming up? So he's going to send Flouncy out for another inning???
OK, now time for Stanton, Nelson and Rivera and we go back to LA
(Oh, don't I wish ...)
I don't know what the hell he was thinking taking second there. He could have wiped out the go-ahead run.
Hill and Holmes warming up
This is the stupidest thing ever. It's a disaster waiting to happen. Ohtani, who could not touch Cole last at bat, nearly singled off him.
Hey, whattaya know, Rizzo CAN move to first base.
FreeeeeeeeeeeeMan go away
DO NOT PITCH TO THIS GUY.
This x 1000
Is there a manager in the house? I can't believe this is not Cole's decision to go back out there. And to go after Freeman.
That's it for Cole. I'm not so sure he should come out. But Boone knows what he's doing.
Aroldis Holmes?? Boone is an idiot. A clueless moron of legendary status.
Beyond stupid
Welp, you cannot spell moron without Boone.
Slow motion train wreck
It’s Waterloo Holmes to the rescue. We’ll just have to sweat it out.
Fuck Booooooone
Holmes is picking the wrong time to revert to the walk machine.
NOT THIS GUY!!!
Well, Boone knows what he's doing. I'm sure.
One on, one-run game, do-or-die game.
Let's bring in our least reliable relief pitcher. Whaddya say?
Whew.
This game, this team will kill me yet.
The remarkable. But Boone will let Aroldis start the next inning and try to steal another out. Which will blow up in his moronic face.
Six more outs. Two more runs would help.
Amazing that Booooooone keeps running him out there
His fucking stupid imbecilic pin-fucking-headed moronic face.
6 outs? Need at least 7 runs to be safe.
Holy crap, he got out of the inning.
Nailbiters are overrated. Give me a good blowout win any day.
I think he has to, Warbler, under the three-man rule.
No, it is Kahnle! And...he lets up a hit. Great.
I think the rule is, 3 men or end of the inning.
Kahnle is a mistake.
Amazing how all the Yanks' confidence, in the field and at the plate, has vanished since that inning.
Pitch Weaver until his arm falls off.
Boone, you idiot, this is it. You win or go home. Can you grasp that concept?
I noticed that, too. It was fragile.
This is excruciating…
We’re losing the lead…
The Yankees are acting like they don't believe in themselves.
I hate this fucking team.
Hey, I wish it had been Holmes.
Where’s David Robertson when you need him?
This is incredible. The JuJu Gods are most wise. I rejoice at their attentions.
Wow - Wow - Wow
Poor Weaver. Bases loaded none out in the 8th with a one run lead in a WS elimination. He'll be remembered as the guy who gave it up. I hope Hal at least cuts him a nice check as Christmas bonus for borderline ruining his life.
Like I said, it was fun…
This game was 5-0 with our guy throwing a no-hitter heading into the fifth. Then the Juju gods said, "Enough fun for now. Time to toy with your minds for a bit."
Just throw strikes, for fuck sake.
They will score at least two runs
This would be a good time for a triple play.
Full count? Sure. Why not another one.
We are mega fucked
This is Brian's team.
Catcher's interference? Sure! Why not!
And goodnight
Just end the misery
Great. Wonderful. I rejoice.
Bad baseball.
Oh, hey! It's Freddie.
A fitting end to this season. Too bad it’s not also the end of the Cashman / Boone reign of errors.
We suffer. The gods laugh.
Does it seem like the Yankees deserve to win this game? Should I put up an internet poll?
There is no more hope
Goodbye 2024
There’s the fucking door
Hey, look. A pitcher covering first on a grounder.
Nice to see Judge still trying. There oughta be a trophy for that. Oh course it was his error that started all this.
Do we get an award for scaring them?
Aaargggh! Awful at-bat by Stanton! Fuck fuck fuck
Stanton got a good pitch to hit. Didn't hit it well enough.
That was our last best chance
Why do you possibly swing at the first pitch from this guy, when he was having so much trouble finding the plate?
Bottom of the lineup
Season is over…
Rizzo gotta go
And Anthony Rizzo concludes his Yankees career with no home runs in his last 112 at-bats and an unforgivable mental error. Thanks, Big Tony. See you never.
No way we were gonna win on Friday, anyway.
Best of all, we’re set up to see Verdugo ground out to second for the final out of the season.
Nobody Signs the Rizz
Dismal conclusion to a dismal, albeit pennant winning, season. Cash and Boone have to go. It's just over, fellas. Just leave.
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