When the Yankees fall into third, it's over.
When Giancarlo starts shagging flies, it's over.
When sportswriters start reevaluating past Yankee trades, it's over.
When a Yankee manager has lost Michael Kay, it's over.
Insert sigh here...
There's a song by John Melencamp, that goes, "This may not be the end of the world, but you can see it from here."
He should be a Yankee fan.
Honestly, it's too soon to pronounce a season as over. Remember Phil Linz and his harmonica? But maybe I'm not talking about the 2025 Yankees. I'm talking about the legacy, the mystique, the history that once made us the greatest sports team in the world.
Our current descent into third traces back to the winter of 2017, right here in Miami. It began with the trade for Giancarlo Stanton's contract, a deal that has defined the Yankees for nearly a decade, just as our deadline moves this week will confine and cramp us into the distant future.
Baseball is a young man's game, and we are always on the old side.
And trouble is coming. You can hear thunder in the distance. In a spate of recent meetings with teams, it's becoming clear that the Commissioner of Baseball and the players' union will go into nuclear war over the planned initiation of a payroll cap. This would enrich already infinitely wealthy owners - including the House of Steinbrenner - while destroying the Yankees.
Let's face it: If we're spending $300 million for a third-place team, imagine where we'll be if payrolls are capped.
So, yesterday, Michael Kay - the ultimate YES man - dropped a dime on Aaron Boone's management - or lack, thereof - of the Yankees.
We are entering uncharted waters. See those storm clouds? They're coming our way.
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We need a wartime consigliere.
Jeter GM and Mats for Manager
It will take 5 years to rebuild this team. Judge will end up like Mattingly. Forced to retire due to injuries, just before a resurgence.
They will all still be rich and not care.
The odds should be 98% Boone is fired. But what are they given the current cabal that runs this team.
Piiax....The odds only greatly increase if the fans, and especially the media, shine a light on the history of Cashman's many blunders. Then BaBoone becomes the deflection and sacrificial primate, err, lamb.
Very true, guys. And incidentally, I don't think I said so, but terrific post pointing out how many year it's been since the Yanks failed to develop any decent position players at one spot or another, Carl J. Weitz...
They've lost Jeter, they've lost A-Rod, they've lost Kay and O'Neill, they've lost sports radio, and they've lost a shitload of games they should've won. Dumb mistakes, dumb managerial choices, dumb GM. Or maybe Cashbrain just likes his job so he does what Hal wants and the cash register keeps ringing.
But we keep saying the obvious over and over and nothing changes. Naturally.
Rufus T., there will be no resurgence. Boone isn't the only Professional Idiot in the organization.
...As for the 2026 apocalypse, if the owners and the players—and mostly, it's on the owners—are greedy and clueless enough to shut down their sport yet again, in an America so far on the brink...then I hope it goes all the way.
If they blow it all up, the damned, dirty apes, then I'd be happy to give the Yankees, RIP, a grand burial and sign off. Somebody is going to put some kind of professional baseball team in New York again, and I'd be just as happy to start over rooting for them because, let's face it, those old Yankees are gone and they ain't comin' back.
A new Players' League? Hey, it almost worked in 1890. Or would it be time for the cities to go all Green Bay Packers on MLB's ass, and start a new league with public stock ownership of all the teams? It seems to have worked for the Packers.
Just imagine: being free of the whole awful lot of them, Hal & Pal, Boone, Rodon, Wells...Well, a fella can dream, can't he?
“I and others have come to a belief, that your heart is not in this. That you don't have the belly for it.”
Passed by the Red Sox. Next up probably Texas, maybe Seattle. I get the feeling they're not making the playoffs. Oh but the run differential! Volpe is fucking elite, just look at his 1.9 WAR and he's a Gold Glove winner!
Organization run by idiots that hires an idiot manager and fills the roster with idiot players. Nobody knows baseball from Hal on down.
1. No fundamentals whatsoever.
2. Mental errors are a constant feature of their performance. No consequences for boneheaded performances.
3. Lineups and pitcher substitutions that look like they were created by a disfunctional AI program.
4. One-dimensional player development
5. No productive coaching as far as I can see
6. Training/conditioning squad breaks ballplayers like breadsticks
7. No ability to evaluation potential aquisitions
8. No ability to read a medical report (especially for potential trades)
9. No understanding of 'team chemistry'
10. No grit or perserverance
11. No understanding of a 'balanced roster'
12. The whole team's leadership seems more concerned with 'optics' than performance, like a disfunctional corporate officen led by a few first class creeps (Levine, Trost) who should never be allowed near a player - especially when recruiting free agents - and Cashman, who only cares about covering his ass.
Ladies & gents, it's time to abandon ship. This old tin is going down.
Lower away the life boats. Women & children first.
Gentlemen, it has been a pleasure. I sincerely hope that we'll be around for more of these pleasure cruises. Hopefully, next time it won't end like this one. But if this be the end, then let them say that we died like men. Now, it is every man for himself. Good luck & may God be with you!
I've finally done what we've been talking about on here for quite some time now. I have "retired" as a Yankee fan. I'm no longer in the game; I'm out of the loop. I don't pay much attention anymore. I only check the box scores occasionally. I check in here once in a while. And that's it. Forty-four years as a baseball fan, and I never thought it'd end this way: by me walking away from following the game.
If MLB is dumb enough to have another labor dispute next year, then, thank God I won't be around to care. They've lost me as a fan. The ghost runner; the All Star game ending with home run derby. There is no end to the stupidity of MLB.
I heard about the astonishing blunder of Jizz Chasm. It's a mistake that even Little Leaguers never make. Why would you get doubled off 1st base on an infield pop up? If the defense wants to exchange base runners, there's nothing the offense can do about it. (Just like there's nothing the defense can do about it if, with a 3-2 count, the base runner from 1st base is taking off once the pitcher throws home.) Jizz went on the record that he'd do the same thing again if given the chance, that it wasn't a mistake. I think this is all from the Yankee management and coaching trying to re-invent the wheel. Their players are now also trying to re-invent the wheel. It's the end of fundamentals. They don't believe in any fundamentals. They're going to do whatever they want, when they want. They are not playing baseball anymore. They're playing to re-invent the game. I don't need to tell you that this is going to end very badly.
I think they've ruined The Martian. I don't know what the hell he's doing, but it ain't fundamentally sound baseball. He takes fastballs right over the plate. He even turns away from them. He seems to be always looking for the off speed pitch. Must be Yankee coaching telling him to try to hit the off speed stuff. They've turned a .300 hitter with tremendous power into a .250 singles hitter who cannot even touch a fastball. Congratulations to Yankee management & coaching! You've accomplished something I didn't think was possible!
Did I not say that playing Judge in center was a stupid idea? That Boone should take Judge aside and order him never to dive for a ball, unless it's the 7th game of the World Series? That he shouldn't hit #2 and that he shouldn't be stealing and running the bases like a leadoff man? I don't know when or where Judge got the injury, but using him like a rented mule sure as hell didn't help the elbow. Congratulations again to Boone! You've ruined your best player, and he'll probably be compromised for the rest of his career!
Perhaps, just as Verdugo’s great flop predestined the embarrassment of Game 5, so might Caballero’s beer league level performance Friday precede another flaccid season’s end. It certainly looked that way during yesterday’s lethargic, who-gives-a-shit performance.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns
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Like Achilles praying to the gods that the Greeks would get their butts handed to them by the Trojans whilst he sat out of action because Agamemnon stole his slave girl, I'm kind of hoping that the Yankees lose every game the rest of this year and finish in last place. I hope Boone gets canned at the end of the year. That's the only consolation we can hope for from this sorry ass season.
I heard Cashman made a ton of moves just before the deadline. He shouldn't have bothered. They won't go anywhere with Boone. Also heard one of the guys that Cashman traded away was "a major league ready catcher". Wow, how many catchers has Cashman traded away in the last year or two? He's traded the wrong catchers and kept the wrong catchers. Then again, we know how Yankee coaching would've fucked up their prospects. So these guys never would've amounted to anything had they stayed here. If they can fuck up The Martian, they can fuck up anybody.
Thanks, Horace!
Even the Yankee radio broadcast has turned into a shit show. Whenever I tune in to the game to catch an inning or so whilst making a sandwich or eating dinner, Dave Simms and Suzyn Waldman are pretty much unlistenable. Man, I miss hearing John Sterling taking command of the radio booth. If you thought Sterling made mistakes, Dave Simms is so mistake prone that I think he should get himself checked out for senile dementia. Simms makes all kinds of blunders, can't even get the name of the other team right. Most every time I catch an inning of his play by play, I wonder if I'm crazy or is it Dave Simms? Half the time I can't even tell what the hell is going on.
Doctor....Randy Levine came from the public sector, most notably as Nosferatu's Deputy Mayor of Economic Development. Oops, I meant Giuliani. No doubt, when he was hired by the Yankees to oversee the construction of the new stadium, it was his experience in bribing union leaders (he managed contracts with labor unions) and dealing with crooked politicians who would push through public financing (see the censure of Governor Paterson over ticket extortion).
A search for Lonn Trost's expertise produced an unusual return: "New York Yankees COO Lonn Trost has been a part of the Organization for parts of 43 seasons. Before that way back in 1963 he sold ice cream as a vendor at the fabled and original Yankee Stadium. Like just about every kid in the city, he loved number seven, Mickey Mantle." (May 15, 2018)
Hammer! Please don't go away! We need brilliant diatribes like this to sustain us in the End of Days. "Rage, rage against the fading of the light."—That's us, baby!
Absolutely. The intern at a minimum and owner at best.
...need to go.
Yes, Hammer, we need you!!! We can't have an empty oar on this galley...
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