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!!
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 246 of 246We have become the Oakland A's of 20 years ago, another "analytics team" that lost playoff after playoff due to mental and physical errors. Unforgivable play by the veterans, a terribly assembled team by Brian Cashman, and a terribly led team by Aaron Boone.
This all started with an easy line drive right to our most sure-handed defensive player. Who dropped it. Then all hell broke loose.
I know. But this loss is simply astonishing. One played without excuse or honor.
Has Boone gone home already? Just wondering.
These are the June/July Yankees. Suzyn said, "Every weakness the Yankees have had all year have come out in this game."
"Defeat is one thing, disgrace is another." Winston Churchill.
Yes.
Boone belongs to Cashman. It's Brian's team. No more excuses from the brain.
Fuck these announcers. It's a one run game. I hope the Yankees win just to shut them up
He might not even been playing if we had any other option
Will The Moron even pinch hit for any of these princes and kings?
Oooommmmmmm
Leiter seems to be the only person of character on the team.
Hey Juju gods the announcers have anointed the Dodgers as champions in a one run game. How about you shove it up their collective asses
Anyone got a juju intervention in ‘em?
If Mark Leiter Jr got out of that, with a swing thru 3-2 curve along the way, anything can happen
Very true, JM. The Dodgers have a gutsy team, but they are badly hurting and at the end of their rope. We can't take advantage, because we choked, big time. Plus, guys like Rizzo are done, and guys like Verdugo and Chisholm never should've been here in the first place.
Why would you pinch hit for Verdugo? Jasson is just here for funsies?
Over
Assholes
Hinkey, you cockeyed optimist!
They sucked when it mattered.
Hey, Soto, bet you want to stay here, doncha?
Over and out
Hinkey, you cockeyed optimist! Of COURSE Vertigo was not capable of grounding out!
Sterling called the Yankees performance as a “disgrace.” He’s being polite.
Has there ever been a more poorly played game in the World Series?
Yup
Don't think so. And certainly not by the Yankees.
I’ve asked this question a hundred times…how the hell did a mediocre team like this win 94 games? And get into the WS?
Some will say the better team won. I think the worse team lost.
So long John!
Poor John Sterling
All year long, a collective group who don't pay attention to the little things. Even tonight Smoltz was pointing out how Soto wasn't trying to take ANY lead at first base. And as I'm sure everyone here noticed Betts never had to make a heroic dive on a ball, he was always perfectly positioned...
So long John
Question. Has anyone here ever once seen the camera zooming in on Boone's brothers or father at a game since he's been manager?
Gentlemen, thanks for making the season more enjoyable. I raise a glass in your general direction.
Fuck Hal. Fuck Cashman. Fuck Boone.
Back at you! And may all our free agents be of good talent and of the highest character.
Bless you all! Many thanks for all the great comments and reads! I’m sure there will be plenty more for us to wail and beat our breasts about in the next few months.
The only good thing about this series was that John Sterling got to do one more World Series winwarble.
Maybe he comes back to do some games next year, but I'm guessing this was the last postseason game. If this series was indeed the final time that John and Suzyn will be behind the microphone, it was a shitty way to send them out.
John called the fifth inning "a disgrace." He easily could have expanded that to the entire series outside of Game 4.
I've long given Boone the benefit of the doubt. Cash is the true villain. Boone is an errand boy. Ungracious to attack. But not PH-ing for either Wells or Verdugo there is unforgivable. Lots of mistakes to criticize him for, but that was just blatant incompetence. Those two are automatic outs. Never mind a single today, a homer last night. In that spot you try to catch lightning in a bottle. The great managers...Casey, Lasorda, you name it, Joe Torre in 2003 (remember that one Boonie?)...change up the look the pitchers have. In that spot, they bet on the adrenaline from a bench player to maybe poke one, get something started. Not Boonie. Obviously exhausted Wells and clueless Verdugo go down meekly, like they have been for a month. Trevino, Oswaldo, Grisham, whoever aren't great options (thanks Cash). But it's baseball. You never know. But Boone just rolled with "his guys". He thinks that's a virtue, which is probably his biggest weakness as a manager. He has to go.
I mostly agree with you, Publius. And you make a great point, 999: the Yankees even being there is more a reflection of how bad baseball is today, than how good the Yankees are.
I mostly agree, Publius. But the structure of the team was very much Cashman's fault, and probably the idiotic lineup—Jazz between Judge and Stanton????—was his, too. I don't know that putting in guys who had not played much or at all for weeks would've helped.
What I blame Boone for is not going out there in that disastrous fifth inning. He should've called time, run out to the mound when it was 5-1, gathered everyone around and said, "No, I was supposed to cover first base!"
I think they actually would've won that game—and maybe the Series. Instead, just like his team, he went into shock. NOT WHAT A LEADER DOES.
And 999, you're right: the Yanks getting that far is more of an indictment of baseball than anything else.
Good point, Hoss, esp about Boone showing some leadership in 5th. Hadnt thought of that but uoure right. "Hey fellas, come here. We really fucked this inning up didn't we? Jesus. Well, all right. Can't get worse. Riz, you OK? Need a break after that jog...hahaha. all right, GC. Get this guy" probably would have worked.
And I get it's putting Grisham or Oswaldo in a tough spot. But, on the other hand they've got nothing to lose. They're not down on themselves, overwhelmed, borderline hoping to get HBP like Wells and Verdugo. Do something in that spot.
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