Friday, October 3, 2025

Everything is going EXACTLY as I planned. Mwahahahahaha.

Posted by el duque at 1:17 PM

Houston.

Altuve.

Mets.

Soto.

Redsocks.

Chapman.

Bregman.

Bleu Jays.

Junior.

Dodgers.

Yamamoto. 

Ohtani. 

21 comments:

TheWinWarblist said...

Keefe is on fire.

https://keefetothecity.com/yankees-wild-card-series-game-3-thoughts-cam-bleeping-schlittler/

October 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
TheWinWarblist said...

Cam Fuckin' Schlittler!!

October 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...

Schlitt, yeah! (Tabloid head I expected to see.) Or maybe, "That's Some Fine Schlitt!"

October 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
HoraceClarke66 said...

Funny thing: I felt weirdly confident about that game all day. I didn't want to say anything, lest I rouse the juju deities. And I never feel confident about a big Yankees game—particularly not these Yankees. But I did.

Contrary to what a great man once said, there really is a mysterious cycle of events in baseball (to paraphrase another great man). I thoroughly expected the Yanks to lose this series in two games. When they managed to pull out Game Two, I had complete confidence they would advance.

Sure, it helped (a lot) that the Red Sox' number three starter was hurt, and that they had to start this untested kid (But then, how many times have we seen an untested—and unspotted—kid shut down the Yankees?).

Sure, it helped (a lot) that the Red Sox played the field like, well, a bunch of drunken sailors. But they never did score.

Weird. Usually, in scary movies, this sort of unwarranted confident presages something horrible happening. And hey, for all I know the Yanks could easily get swept by the Jays or squashed by the Oversized Dumpster.

But this one...I knew we had it. Uh-oh.

October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
DickAllen said...

Schlittler pitched the game of his life last night. And I fully expect him to regress to his mean going forward. I can’t imagine him going all Bumgarner the rest of the way.

Beating the Red Sox was more than enough for me, but I’m looking forward to shutting Vlad’s mouth for the winter.

October 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
JM said...

Makes sense, Dick. I'm just not sure what Sclittler's mean actually is. Feels like a moving target at this point. Just hope he handles the Jays 75% as well as he did the Sox.

October 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
DickAllen said...

Through all levels he’s 33-31 with a 2.96 era and a 1.225 WHIP and 10.9 Ks per 9IP

Not altogether terrible

October 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Copelius said...

I really hope Boone doesn't ask Keefe to hold his beer: "The Yankees are a better, deeper team than the Blue Jays, and in one of the rare occurrences, the Yankees have the managerial advantage. John Schneider makes Boone seem like Joe Torre or Bruce Bochy."

October 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
AboveAverage said...

"People from Boston had a lot to say before the game,” Schlittler said. “For me, just being a silent killer, being able to go out there and shut them down. … I’m from Boston. I didn’t like some of the things they were saying today. I was just making sure I was going out there and extra locked in.”
Schlittler declined to reveal specifics – “I’m not going to get into it,” he said – but he did say it came from fans, not players.
“There’s a line I think they crossed a little bit,” Schlittler said. “I’m a competitor. I’m going to go out there and make sure I shut them down. You know Boston fans. It’s just how it is. We’re aggressive back home and we’re gonna try and get under peoples’ skin. They just picked the wrong guy to do it to – and the wrong team to do it to as well.”

October 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Hammer of God said...

So there you have it: "The Silent Killer" is his new nickname. Cam the Silent Killer Schlittler. Or Cam Schlittler, the Silent Killer. Has a ring to it.

October 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Hammer of God said...

Schlittler has a great fastball. Or should I say "fastballs". Because he throws the 4 seamer, the 2 seamer, and the cutter. Pretty rare, for a pitcher to have A+++ stuff on several different types of fastballs. Really refreshing to see a Yankee pitcher just throwing heat, but with different grips and moving it around the zone, using both sides of the plate and throwing high and low. He challenges the hitters but also uses his head to get them out. I'd say he's for real.

October 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Hammer of God said...

The minor league numbers are meaningless. They were compiled as he was developing. He's been developing even more after coming to the major leagues.

October 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Hammer of God said...

They say he's going to be an ace if he develops a good off speed pitch. I could see that happening. If he improves the curveball, if he develops his changeup. Or if he starts throwing a splitter. I think his best option for next year would be to refine the curveball and improve the changeup.

October 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
DickAllen said...

He’s going to need more than a fastball to get by, even if it does have variations.

October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The Hammer of God said...

Keefe to the city and NYPost both think that the Yankees are the favorites to win the divisional series.

The Yankees have more "talent" on paper, yes. But just like with the Boston Red Sox, I don't think the 5-8 record this year against the Blue Jays was an accident. Once again, just like the Red Sox, Jays have an unspeakable number of Yankee killers. Like droves and droves of them. Vlad the Impaler; George Springer; Alejandro Kirk. They say Bo Bichette is hurt, but he still might play.

Keefe says Boone is a superior manager to John Schneider. Really? I don't see it that way at all. Schneider manages every game against the Yankees like it's Game 7 of the World Series. Rarely, if ever, does he pay for overmanaging a game.

A 5-8 record is .386 baseball. Carry that out over 162 games, it is a 62-100 record. And yes, I really believe that the Yankees would lose 100 games to the Blue Jays if they played each other 162 times. For whatever reason, Yankee bats get silenced by Toronto pitching. And all the Yankee killers in Toronto's lineup beat Yankee pitchers like pinatas. Boone always makes dumb mistakes, and the Yankees have to overcome the dumb managing to win.

The Blue Jays are a better team than the Red Sox. Yes, the Yankees just beat the Red Sox 2 out of 3, but just barely. They could have easily lost Game 2 and the series would have been over. Even in Game 3, at one point, it looked like it was going to be one of those dual shutouts through 7 or 8 innings. Yankees were definitely somewhat fortunate to receive a self destruct inning from the Red Sox defense, plus it took a Herculean 8 inning shutout from rookie Cam Schlittler.

Just like with the Red Sox series, I will go with my heart instead of my head. My head says Blue Jays in 5, but my heart says Yankees in 4.

October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The Hammer of God said...

He'll have to use his curve a lot more against the Jays. No question about it.

October 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Hammer of God said...

MLB.com says it's an even match up. That's a more accurate view than keefe, but I'd say the Blue Jays should be the favorites for the oddsmakers. So the Yankees were better at beating up bad teams and have more home run hitters. So what? Yankee hitters were not good at beating up Blue Jays pitching. Think the Red Sox were good at spoiling pitches and making contact, driving you nuts? The Jays are even better at those things. And they have even more Yankee killers than Boston. That's why it's a bad matchup for the Yankees.

October 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
TheWinWarblist said...

Cam said “Drinking dat dirty water,” on X. What does that mean? Clearly it was a message for Red Sux fans who gave his mom a hard time before the game.

October 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Hammer of God said...

Like I've said before, there's got to be something there about all these Yankee killers. Must be good scouting/good coaching/good managing/good execution. That's why Yankee hitters get shut down and Yankee pitchers get lit up by these teams. Not a coincidence/not a statistical aberration.

October 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Hammer of God said...

Maybe from the song "Love that dirty water/Boston you're my home"

Bum bum bum
Bum ba-bum

October 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Publius said...

"Tigers. Gleyber" completes the list.

October 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM

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