We like reading the guy. That's a given. He's honest, articulate, and accurate. Three traits that all of us here admire and hopefully share.
I'm glad he's writing again and don't have any problem with him walking back his pledge.
Sure, he issued an ultimatum," Sign Soto or I'm gone!" But, as we all know, it's hard to quit a team we've loved since early childhood. (Cough. Giants or Jets. Cough.)
In the case of baseball it's even harder.
Technically, even though I am a lifetime NY Giant fan I can still enjoy watching the game of football even if they are not in it.
Yesterday's Texas v. Arizona St. game had one of the best fourth quarters I have ever seen. And that RB guy on AZ, whose name escapes me at the moment. (See the note posted earlier about insufficient coffee consumption.) turned in one of the greatest and gutsiest (and we saw his guts when he puked on the sidelines) performances in college football history. It was a fantastic watch.
Side note - Arizona State was totally jobbed on the non-call of helmet to helmet late in the fourth quarter. Really makes you wonder about the purity of the sport.
But I digress... my point is that unlike football, a game I can watch other teams play, my relationship with baseball (and I suspect Keefe's as well) is 100% with the Yankees.
Using the above example... would ANY of us here watch the Arizona Diamondbacks play the Texas Rangers? Uh... I'm guessing, no.
Consequently, to give up the Yankees is to give up baseball and that's something that is very hard to do. Especially if it is your favorite game to the point of writing about it.
I can't blame Keefe for walking it back, finding some hope, and sticking with it because, that's pretty much the definition of real fandom. We're not front runners. We're Yankee fans. He's stuck. We're stuck.
And, given our collective ages around here, we've suffered through worse. They actually won the pennant last year. Albeit in relatively joyless fashion.
No Soto? No worries. I heard Stanton has a new Yoga mat.
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As I mentioned earlier in Commander Duque's launch post, Keefe is likely one paper cut away from a full nuclear meltdown.
The holiday spirit likely got him in a garland and tinsel chokehold that the Three Horsemen of the Yankee Apocalypse will Heimlich out of him in no time.
And remember . . . uh . . . we're one mid-season trade away from having Gleyber back in the fold . . .
Interesting take from Mike Axisa:, who I think many of you are familiar with:
“There will be 30 teams on the field in 2030 but 32 teams in the league. I think the expansion fees will be too great for the owners to push off any longer (we're talking billions here), especially given the television situation. The owners will want that cash infusion. The Marlins and Rockies exist because the owners needed the cash from the expansion fees to pay off their collusion debt. Why wouldn't they do something similar again, and use the expansion fees to cover what they're losing in television? I think MLB will award two new franchises by 2030, and they'll actually take the field by 2032 or so.”
I fully believe this is going to happen, anytime after the next strike in 2027. Small markets have lost a revenue source with the collapse of the Regional Sports Networks, and ALL the owners will defintley want ro recoup $$$ lost in any work stoppage. LOL, dies anybody think Steinscammer wouldn’t jump at this chance? 😛😛😛😛
Scattebo Doug. Apparently it's pronounced Scatta-boo. Guy was a beast.
And yes that was a shit call. Receiver was defenseless, defender went in helmet first, helmet hit to the facemask. The rule: "No player shall target and make forcible contact against an opponent with the crown of their helmet. No player shall target and make forcible contact to the head or neck area of a defenseless opponent with the helmet..." It's literally what happened.
The fatigue has already set in. The mid-season malaise, the Cashman syndrome, the angst at Hal, the Boonie frustration. The rage generated by Yankjazeera and the Gammonites, which actually sounds like some weird band from 2002. Is something wrong with me that I'm even in a "why bother to play" mood? That I can dredge up no joy at the idea of pitchers and catchers?
I could watch Diamondbacks vs Rangers, but it would depend on who was pitching. I love baseball almost as much as my beloved and benighted Yankees. Avid Strat'o'Matic player in my youth. Go to minor league games. Go to baseball games on vacation. Have road tripped to see stadiums.
And that makes it all the worse for me because I know what great baseball looks like. It looks like the current LA Dodgers. It doesn't look like our Yankees.
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