"Insects don't have politics. They're very brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect...
"I am an insect who dreamt he was a man, and loved it. But now the dream is over, and the insect is awake...
"I'll hurt you if you stay."
Obviously, Cronenberg was foreshadowing the 2025 Yankees, who flew deliriously high throughout April and May, only to be swatted in June.
Nope, we can't trust the insect. We can't trust this team. Brace for impact, because the Yankees will soon be runners-up in the AL East. And they'll hurt us, if we stay.
How dare we speak such blaspheme?
Look at the country. Look at the world. Dear God, look at the frickin' Yankees. Right now, our offense is two - two! - Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm - either of whom can twist a billiard and miss a month. The rest of the team is wandering the night without a spark. Though the starting rotation has been effective, the gap between the 6th and 9th innings is a treacherous gauntlet, as Aaron Boner flitters from one arm to another.
Worse, Yank fans this weekend must endure the spectacle of the traitorous, money-grubber, Juan Soto, preening his feathers as baseball's hottest bat. Check the rankings on the right, of hitters over the last 30 days.
In that period, Soto has out-produced not only Judge but the two veterans - Cody Bellinger and Paul Goldschmidt, who were supposed to replace him. (Over the last month, Soto has 11 HRs; Bellinger and Goldy - combined - have 6.)MLB batting leaders over the last 30 days
I know, I know... it's stupid to still be lamenting last winter's auction, when the Yankees went to $760 million and then pleaded poverty. Today, the Mets can claim the game's most dangerous hitter, and we have - well - stems and seeds, unable to protect Judge.
Today, at 3 p.m. it's game two in Toronto, whose crowd booed us lustfully all last night. They're not going to become a state. They're not going to follow Greenland. They're going to moon us. Somehow, somebody has to spark this team. Is Phil Linz's harmonica available?
We dreamt we could fly. My advice: Run. They'll hurt us if we stay.
Posts
18 comments:
The harmonica is long gone, but I'd bet that, like Yogi, Boone explodes and gives the team a generational tongue-lashing that sends them on a winning streak all the way to a World Series victory! Ahahahahahahaha—just kidding!
I went AWOL for a day or two, but I really like Hoss's idea of bringing the A's to New York, even if it is Staten Island. (An old bit of dialogue featured each week on my favorite college radio station show: "Staten Island? I thought you said you lived in New York?")
But of course, fat chance. So the mighty Leiter Fluid took the loss yesterday. Boone loves that guy, and he does have his moments, but I always cringe when he comes in.
And if he comes in today, I can watch it. With a 3 pm start, it's 9 for me, and I can tune in.
Supposed to be 100 here tomorrow, no air conditioning. The new "air cooler" will really be put to the test. It did make the living room better yesterday. But Jesus, Germans, start building windows that an a/c can fit into. This is just stupid.
From yesterday's game thread:
edb
Yankees cannot hit in the clutch, do not field well and have poor leasdership.
Yeah, but aside from that...hey Volpe is leading the league! No other SS has as many errors as our Meatball.
The only way I would like to see Boone explode is like he’s a character from another Cronenberg film, SCANNERS.
Sorry it's so wretched there, JM. Here in the city, we have AC...and incessant drilling. Repointing brick is the main thing we do in New York.
Yeah, MLB is never going to let the A's or anyone else move to Staten Island. The city is stuck with that particular giveaway to the poverty-stricken franchises of big-league sports. I'd like to see poor Hartford get something, too, Carl J. Weitz, but ain't gonna happen...
...Meanwhile, the Yankees...well, it's that Talking Heads song, "Once in a Lifetime"—"Same as it ever was."
Only for these Yanks, it's once every year.
Yet again, a starter having a Cy Young-caliber year, and a position player having an MVP-caliber season...all for nought. Once again, a whole crew of promising young players rapidly deteriorating under the guidance of our crack(headed) coaching staff, while we're told how wonderful they are...
And of course, there's our manager. Did they find out if he ordered Chisholm to bunt in the 8th last night? Or was that his own, addle-minded decision? Well, no matter.
Somehow, baseball reference STILL has the Yankees with easily the highest, odds-on percentages to win everything: 97.6 percent to take the division, 30.4 to win the pennant, 17.3 percent to win a ring.
I'm telling you right now, NONE of these things will happen. But the insistence on this by whoever is calculating those odds has begun to scare me. Is a new Arnold Rothstein hanging out in Vegas? Hey, never mind—I'll take it.
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!!
But, on a happier note, there is proof that it is technically possible for the Yankees to have worse management:
HAPPY BOBBY BONILLA DAY!
"Missed it by that much"
-- Maxwell Smart
Well said Duque, but the hard truth is that many of us can’t run - no, not like Stanton, but we can’t run away from so many years of fealty to the team. The team, like the country, is nothing but a profit driven mess of ripoffs, lies, and disinformation, cynically presented by millionaires and billionaires who want us to sit back, pay up, and just accede to the wonder of it all.
Why is Mark Leiter Jr. still on this team? He can't get out AAA players...
And to your point, 999, here is The Estimable Keefe, in keefetothecity, ripping Volpe a new one (quite deservedly): https://keefetothecity.com
It occurs to me that what was already Boone's standard excuse for this team—and what has become Judge's and Volpe's—is the polite, 21st century way of saying to us all, sportswriters and fans alike, "Fuck off, you know nothing about the game we play."
Which is, first of all, nonsense, considering that so many of us have been following the Yankees since before all of these players—and sometimes, even their parents—were alive. It's really a condescending insult.
And...with everything else, it elides the role of money in the game. It was one thing to have that attitude when the players were making about the same money as the fans, who paid a pittance to get into the park. It's another when everyone is among the richest people who ever lived, and are charging small fortunes to see them for a night, or an afternoon.
"That's baseball" doesn't cut it. If the response were, "Oh, THAT'S baseball? Thanks for telling me. Please cancel by YES network and ticket plan," I don't think we'd have to hear such nonsense.
But hey, that day is coming.
Yankees under Boone:
2022 started: 61-23 and finished 38-40 (3-6 playoffs)
2023 started: 36-25 and finished 46-55 (no playoffs)
2024 started: 50-22 and finished 44-46 (8-6 playoffs)
2025 started: 35-20 and currently 13-16
Not as good as Keefe, but here's another satisfied customer:
https://yanksgoyard.com/even-aaron-boone-disaster-vs-blue-jays-cant-shield-these-yankees-from-fan-outrage
That sums up everything. I'm posting it.
Yeah, BTR, but aside from that...
(continues to be my favorite rejoinder to incessantly bad news/behavior)
Everybody knows but the stat boys and Cashman. Boone sucks, Leiter is unreliable, Volpe shouldn't be starting...no accountability, no discipline, no nothin'.
Post a Comment