Traitor Tracker: .258

Traitor Tracker: .258
Last year, this date: .300

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Ten questions for the Yankee brain trust

 1. Why was Fernando Cruz working out with a medicine ball? Was the team's Jack LaLanne Glamor Stretcher in use? 


2. How long do you go with two infielders - Jazz Chisholm and DJ LeMahieu - who are playing out of position?

3. Once again, the Boone June Swoon. How many times must we relive this before trying something new?

4. In what metric is Anthony Volpe improving?

5. Who do Yankee fans think of on Bobby Bonilla Day? 

6. Why in the world should any Yankee opponent pitch to Aaron Judge?


7.  Are you ready for second place?

8. Can we stop calling Jasson Dominguez "the Martian?" It's starting to sound a bit derisive.


9. In what world is this considered good news?


10. WTF is this about?



29 comments:

AboveAverage said...

All good questions.

All of them.

Every one of them.

Separately.

And together.

Sequenced in any order.

Spoken silently.

Or out loud.

It is.

Prince Spaghetti Day.

JM said...

Sind wir lausy Yankee bums?

Ja, wir sind noch Yankee bums!

Spielen wir wie drunken Schmucks?

Ja, wir spielen wie die Schmucks!

JM said...

Shit, I had spaghetti last night. Damn.

AboveAverage said...

Eidechsen laufen sehr schnell
Bis sie es nicht mehr tun
Wie muss es sich anfühlen?
Einen Riesenfuß zu haben
Zerschmettere dich auf dich

Piiax said...

oy vey iz aundz.

Carl J. Weitz said...

Meine vier Jahre Deutsch in der High School waren heute Morgen von Nutzen! But how did you get the double s symbol on your keyboard?

Very timely and probing questions today. Good point about the use of "The Martian." At this point, he's hardly otherworldly.

JM said...

AA knows the secrets of the alts.

JM said...

Best Taco Bell commercial, tie in to the Godzilla movie, with the Chihuahua saying, "Here, leezard leezard leezard..."

JM said...

96 F here, humidity at 36 percent. Kind of hot.

BTR999 said...

From sharp Katie Sharp:
Mark Leiter Jr now has a 1.59 WHIP this season.
That ranks 150th out of 157 AL pitchers with at least 30 IP.

From not so sharp BTR999:
The Yankees are 10-14 against the AL East.
Therein lies the problem.

BTR999 said...

More marshmallow than martian

AboveAverage said...

may have to play a bit with https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuznC5LW4AAwHYX.jpg

BTR999 said...

Get yours now!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/187374513019?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=187374513019&targetid=882300791467&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9004447&poi=&campaignid=1669934603&mkgroupid=65058347419&rlsatarget=pla-882300791467&abcId=1123856&merchantid=6296724&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=1669934603&gbraid=0AAAAAD_QDh_lE9XxammAQxAJxa9xPMVVC&gclid=CjwKCAjwsZPDBhBWEiwADuO6y2OU_oE9MvHbJWdgmI6jlGF5l7s4O6PUeLOUZ1VM80TyRhn7nVDNrRoC5BsQAvD_BwE

Scottish Yankee fan said...

I know no foreign language except Glaswegian slang which is prettymuch like Martian to the rest of the world

To Cashman Boone and the rest of the Yankees brains trust when I start to hear the old 'It's right in front of us' and Closed door team meetings .

Yir bums oot the windae

(Your bottom is out the window)

An expression used when someone is talking utter rubbish,trying to pull the wool over your eyes or downright lying

DickAllen said...

We are all living the myth of Sisyphus, forever rolling a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down to the bottom, an endless cycle of labor and frustration, forever having our hopes dashed in the end.

Ken of Brooklyn said...

I remember a professor once said that the way to flip the Sisyphus script is to believe that he took pleasure in the toil of his process,,,, the analogy makes sense since I’m a complete and utter masochist for continuing to follow this team LOL!!!!!

HoraceClarke66 said...

So, after musing over the strange discoloration on his finger for days, Wells finally brought it to the medical staff, who concluded the arterial damage was caused by his catching the ball. As the catcher.

Glad that's all concluded.

BTR999 said...

Per Pinstripe Alley -

“ The Yankees have announced that they’ve designated Geoff Hartlieb for assignment while recalling Clayton Beeter from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Hartlieb had just joined the team a few days before after Fernando Cruz hit the IL with an oblique strain.

With Cruz out, it looks as though the Yankees might cycle through players with options, such as Beeter and Allan Winans, to fill Cruz’s spot, at least until they make a trade to acquire another relief arm. Beeter, 26, was the return in the Joey Gallo trade nearly three years ago.”

edb said...

One question, why are you so arrogant and dumb?

Rufus T. Firefly said...

I blame bad genes.

AboveAverage said...

?

Carl J. Weitz said...

36% humidity at that temp is an oddity unless your in or near the desert.

Rufus T. Firefly said...

AA, I'd guess that was supposed to be question 11.

Carl J. Weitz said...

Like when a certain Commander-in-Chief moves his lips.

AboveAverage said...

Thanks Rufus - for a second I feared the a return from Christmas past . . . . you got the game thread today . . . . . . .? or should eye

Carl J. Weitz said...

I need some advice. If the day arrives where my penis turns the same color as Wells' finger, should I wait several days to see what oozes out ( if anything ) or should I go to a walk-in clinic and address it immediately?

Carl J. Weitz said...

AA...I'm not sure if you frequented this blog, say, 5-6 years ago when edb used a different name(s) and Rufus took exception to certain postings.

AboveAverage said...

....I know Carl - I'll post the thread

Rufus T. Firefly said...

1) I was going to post this photo if needed: https://sub.media/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/blame-canada.png
2) I am not convinced that lower case edb is the same individual.