Let's be honest: We secretly hoped LeMahieu, at 36, would somehow recapture his famously honed fundamentals and deliver a comeback season, buying the franchise time for a long-term solution at 3B. He'd hit enough to spare us from the Oswald/Oswaldo conundrum, now entering Year IV with both players straddling their sell-by dates.
Third base is a problem that deepens with each passing day. We can debate the precise order, but here's how Opening Day might look:
Jazz Chisolm 2B
Aaron Judge RF
Cody Bellinger CF
Paul Goldschmidt 1B
Austin Wells C
Jasson Dominguez LF
Anthony Volpe SS
Dominic Smith DH
Oswald/Oswaldo 3B
Welp, God help us.
Of course, everything revolves around The Martian. If Dominguez hits, we can imagine anything. Trouble is, he was supposed to start 2025 by hitting deep in a circular lineup, full of pop. The impending loss of Giancarlo Stanton - and now with LeMahieu's barking calf - just blasted two holes in that fantasy.
Also, I don't see how the Yankees can save themselves by spring trades. The farm system gasping for air. (By the way, there's a terrifying rumor going around that Boston will use its wellspring of prospects to pry Vlad Jr from Toronto.) Also, we're still clinging to the delirium that Stanton and/or Mahieu will surprise us. But one more tweak, one more lost soldier, and the '25 Yankees could be a team for the ages - not in a good way.
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Aren't we overdue for a meltdown?
The meltdown has already begun...
This is why there’s a Yankees fondue pot day in late May. First 1500 fans receive an electric fondue pot and accessories, courtesy of Metamucil.
I read once of a tribe somewhere in Africa where the rite of passage for males was to briefly dip your testicles into a pot of hot oil. Is that what you're referring to the with the fondue pot?
Bitty, if you are one of the fortunate first 1500 fans, you are free to use the fondue pot (courtesy of Metamucil) in ANY way you choose!
"You gotstah stay regular if you wanna be happy!" Hallorann
let's pack up our troubles in our old kit bags and smile, smile, smile....
With the product on the field, the prices for parking, tickets, and rat-infested concession food, every day is Fongool Day at the stadium.
13 B....Rite of passage? I pay extra for that at the local Happy Ending Massage Parlor & Spa. Don't despair—they're expanding into the five boroughs.
My god, did anyone really believe that LeMahieu was going to bounce back this year? I don’t think even cashman believed it, but he knows DJLM is a “name” and moreover has a big contract. Steinbummer is done adding payroll, even with his huge tax cut in the offing. Still, he may be forced to put a low cost solution at third, even though he let several pass him right by in the off season.
That projected lineup is probably close to what we’ll see in a few weeks, and as my dearly departed dad would say, “It stinks!”. Dominguez needs to show us something or it will be Trent Grisham in LF. An Alex Verdugo reunion can’t be ruled out. (At the right price; always at the right price)
The forecast calls for a chilly April, but excellent visibility all the way to Flushing.
It’s all so exhausting.
I know Verdugo was our whipping boy but now that beards are ok sign him stick him in left and left the martian DH/CF split with Bellinger
Fondue pot? Have we gone back to 1975? (Oh, please, oh, please...)
I say, toches afn tisch. Put The Martian in center. Bring up Spencer Jones, and let him get some at-bats. Have Rumfield play some first, and Goldschmidt DH some (he'll break down soon enough, anyway).
The Oswaldi at third. Hell, they'll soon have to mind second, as well, once Jazz has his usual, third-of-a-season injury.
Let's see what we have, period.
Fondue pots? Really? I've got 2 of them from my wedding. Never used. I tried to get rid of them at a yard sale. Nobody wanted them. I left them out on the sidewalk, afterwards, with a 'free' sign. Nobody took them.
Only a moron in the Yankee front office would think a fondue set is an incentive to come to a ball game.
But which moron?
I'd take Doogie back, at this point. And for God's sake, why the f*ck do we have Dominic Smith on the roster? I'd rather see Ben Rice DH than Smith. He's simply not worth the waste of time.
We got plenty o' nothin', and nothin's plenty for Hal...
Doc, I think you'd have better luck with the fondue pots in Europe. Furriners have more fondness for them.
Every once in a while, we have a year where everybody gets tweaked. We bring up the young guys and it’s exciting as fuck and then Yankee management tells us about how the cavalry is coming to the rescue in September, except the cavalry is a bunch of rotten broken down old assholes who are getting paid too much money. They remove the young guys who were all excited, then crush their dreams, they crush our dreams, and the old guys predictably tank us again and again and again and again and again
Fondue pots and hot oiled testicles. That's why I love the comment section.
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