Arguably.
The depths of this Yankee meltdown have yet to be appreciated.
On June 1, they led the AL East by six games, with a record of 36-22. They were touting the game's best slugger, its best bullpen and the leading candidate for Comeback Player of the Year. (Paul Goldschmidt.)
Since then, they have gone 12-17. How bad is that?
Worse than Miami, which went 16-12.
Worse than the homeless A's, who went 13-16.
Worse than sad Pittsburgh, which went 16-12.
Almost worse than the lowly White Sox, who were 10-18.
Almost worse than the astonishingly rancid Colorado Rockies, who went 11-17.
What's amazing is that they have accomplished this meltdown with two of the game's best players. Remove Aaron Judge and Max Fried and - dear God - how bad are they?
Today, the Yankees are so crappy that it almost seems rigged; it's mystical, supernatural, impossible - an incredibly disturbing omen of impending doom.
As the Yankees go, so goes America.
Dear God, what have we done?
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We are blind and our dog is dead.
Excellent takedown of Boone and Cashman by Keefe yesterday. As they say down south, good Lard, they suck.
I should have sold out and taken a big money job , churning out crap work. My integrity got me nowhere, anyway, and I still ended up doing crap. But without the big money.
You reap what you sow. Years of rotten ownership/leadership have come to roost.
But I wish you all a Happy 4th, even in these dark times. Stand Together!
Maybe this is the year that it comes crashing to earth? If that is the case, it's way overdue...
Yeah, could be Yankee Apocalypse.
Wow, gettin' swept by the Red Sox then gettin' swept by the Jays. Probably will get swept by the Mets now. These sweeps aren't coincidence. They get killed by teams that make good contact and hit for average. Yankee pitchers must think that these other teams are just like them, swinging for the fences all the time, with zero fundamentals or discipline. And, in truth, there are a bunch of teams like that, which is how the Yankees accumulated most of their wins. But the Red Sox and the Jays aren't one of them. And it showed against these two teams.
A late friend, Red Sox fan, called them the YankMe's. He was right.
Mostly, the dumber you are, the higher you get in corporate work. The CEOs are the dumbest of all, making tens or even hundreds of millions a year, whilst intelligent people toil in warehouses or low level management, struggling to keep up with rent and the utility bill. That's how it goes.
All comes back to the hard truth: if HAL really wanted to win, why the hell would he keep Dumbass Cashman as GM and allow Cashman to keep Commander Aaron BaBoone as manager? The managing and coaching on this team are off the charts horrendous. I used to think that a baseball manager and batting coach, pitching coach didn't make much more than a few games difference either way. I don't think that anymore. The Yankees have got the worst manager I've ever seen. And the coaches aren't much better. The old way of thinking that managers and coaches don't make much difference was based on the assumption that managers and coaches are competent, reasonably intelligent people. But these guys here are two legged jackasses, perhaps because they are dominated by two legged jackasses sitting in front of computers, churning out lineups and coaching advice based on what they consider relevant data and computer algorithms. If you allow yourself to be dominated by a jackass, well, sorry but you are a jackass, and a spineless one at that.
Cashman's smart enough to kiss the ass and keep the paychecks flowing for his mail-it-in job. Fell upward and just stayed there I guess.
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