The Second Rule of Juju:
Never speak positively about your team.
(Note: The First Rule of Juju is, of course, Never talk about juju.)
Seriously. What good can ever result from babbling happy talk about your team? For starters, you are jinxing the roster. At best, the team will keep doing what it's been doing. More likely, the juju gods will hear what you said, halt their sidewalk cigarette break, run back to the office and start pulling levers to instigate an outfield collision or Tommy John surgery. Nobody will thank you for appreciating their winning streak. All you can do is hex the team.
But but BUT... (and I continue here with great trepidation) - something needs to be - well - inferred about Trenton Marcus Grisham. The guy is having a moment. No, he is having a year. With one month left in the regular season, Grisham is making a case for being baseball's best centerfielder, offensively and defensively, as he heads toward free agency.
Damn. I'm trying to be negative here, but this guy started 2025 as a fourth outfielder - behind Judge, Bellinger and The Martian - and unless I jinx him, he'll finish as the second most valuable player on this team.
Guy turns 29 on Nov. 1. If his season ended today, it's his career year. He has never hit more than 17 HRs. He's closing in on 30. His BA - .248 - is just three points below his career best - 2020, the Covid year. In 115 games, he has made only 2 errors. (Same as Byron Buxton in 98 games.) But to appreciate his defense, you simply have to watch Grisham glide from left to right, timing his arrival with the ball. He already has two Gold Gloves (2020, 2022). This will be his third. Best part of all this? He came from San Diego in the Juan Soto trade - making him the most consequential player (at least this year) traded in that dismal property exchange.
So, no gushing over Grisham. He has a month to go. He'll probably hit .190. And if any juju gods are reading this, I suggest you grab the Camels and go outside for a smoke. You're missing the last great weekend of summer. And if you read any of the above... jeussssss keeeeeeeding!
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Grisham?
Wait a second . . . Are you talking about the Yankees center fielder ?
My dear boy . . . Trent Grisham sucks frog urine out of a steam iron.
(and, from personal experience let me tell you that, that ain’t easy. especially on the organic cotton setting)
And let’s not discus that mustache that he has above his upper lip.
I was terrified a few weeks back when they showed his stache on YesMo.
I’d share what Cone said about that shot if rhere weren’t young animals present.
If I only had some freshly brewed hot coffee.
Grisham turned out to be a fine addition, once he was allowed to play regularly. Frog urine aside, of course.
They make coffee brewers with a programmable timer, enabling you to set when you want your coffee brewed.
"Frog urine" = is this code for "juice" or "magic beans" or, perhaps - "frog urine?" inquiring minds want to know. Who's smoking what these days?
Frogs. Urine.
Who and what.
Guaranteed The Intern signs him to a 7-year deal in November
Must have still been sleeping.
Coffee is just wonderful and, uhm . . . there aren’t any frogs within miles of my coffee maker.
According to Hal-Hairs new policy-no contract can be longer than six years…..so
That you know of.
There are however many frog urinal stations in a state of disrepair
And I wanted to trade him! Oy. But a big part of the reason for that was his looming free agency. Will Hal & Pal re-up him? And how about Bellinger? I guess we'll just have to hope that the Yankees somehow win the World Series, so that their hand is forced.
I kid, juju entities, I kid!
Oh, and pretty damned funny, AA! I especially loved "the organic cotton setting."
Frogs don’t have convenient means of carrying the change required to access public urinals. I believe Meta, in cooperation with the US government, is working on some kind of biometric-based tools to assist the poor desperate amphibians, though of course the frogs would then be subject to floods of ads for frog-hygiene products and anti-toad-immigration campaigns.
The only frog I've ever seen near a steam iron is the one I saw using a skateboard to get around, because its hind legs had been cut off. He had an iron in each hand, using the weight to propel him forward.
https://copilot.microsoft.com/th/id/BCO.88584be2-3433-45de-815c-d73533611281.png
I have always been down on Grisham’s hitting. It’s going to be quite the conundrum this off season, since he has never approached these numbers before. It’s going to be hard to determine the market. Dominguez really hasn’t shown much and is a liability in the field. And no, I don’t believe moving him to CF would remedy the situation. Jones has collapsed at SWB (.188, 3hrs in Aug) and probably should be made available in the right deal.
But yes, Grisham needs to be in CF for every game for the rest of this season.
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