Gather your riot helmets, everybody. The next four days will bring a crazed marathon of felony-grade Yankeetainment.
Who can forget the Cortica Riot of 2013, when fans massed near a small mountain of kegs, barking, puking, flipping cars and diving off roofs - (that's an actual shot) - eventually requiring police from across the area to quell the insurrection. Thirty were arrested. The school bigwigs were shocked - SHOCKED - and the rivalry was nearly ended. But here we are.
Why care about a small college rivalry in an area that is steadily moving Metward? (Both Binghamton and Syracuse, former Yankee minor league outposts, are now Met towns.) Well, next year, they'll play the game at Yankee Stadium. Two years back, the did it and sold 40,000 tickets, second-highest in history for a Division III outing. The year earlier, they played at Metlife Stadium, selling 45,000.) Thinking sellout...
Sunday, it's the regular Welcome New Giants Coach game and debacle, featuring recently promoted Mike Kafka, as he dons the Brian Daboll Headset of Doom. The Giants are 2-8, third in the NFL Tankathon for draft picks. Can they keep it up? And should we care?
As everyone knows, if the Giants draft an eight-foot tall QB, he will turn out to be two dwarfs piggyback. Still, this game does bring out the pageantry. What will the flyover banner say?
Then... Epstein Monday! Emails, notes, cards, handwritten birthday poetry - it's bubbling up, one grimy morsel at a time. Bill Clinton? Boom. Alan Dershowitz? Boom. Your mom? Boom. Who's next? This isn't going away.
Here on Epstein Island - this is a tale of our castaways, we're here for a long long time - Mr. Howell was always diddling Mary Ann. We've been at this for six years. By the time we're done, Ghislaine will have a podcast, maybe with Matt Gaetz. Hunker down. The worst is yet to come.
Then... Tuesday... Trent Grisham Decision Day! The 29-year-old CF will tell the Yankees whether he's accepting their $22 million qualifying offer, and thus, whether he will return in 2026.
If he says YES - that is, the Vatican chimney belches white smoke - there goes our shot at signing Kyle Tucker and/or Cody Bellinger. The course of our entire Yankee winter will be fundamentally altered.
Four days from now, we'll know everything.
Get ready to riot.
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I read yesterday that Grisham wasn't goint to accept the offer, but you can't believe everything you read. Until it's "official."
I fully expect some GOP Senator or Congressman, from Oklahoma, maybe, or the Deep South, to defend Trump by loudly saying that if the age of consent was where it should be, at the age of 14--hell, maybe 13--all of this would just be a lot of hooey and balderdash.
Thanks for the info about the Cortland-Ithica game. Never knew about that, even when growing up in Schenectady and living in Saratoga. At the time, Schenectady had more bars than stoplights, so that's kind of amazing.
I’m praying that Trent takes his show on the road - giving a six-year deal to a guy who’s never hit more than 17 homers in his career is just the kind of stupid move The Intern is capable of.
If they do sign him, I fully expect him to be getting a room in the Ellsbury wing of the Montefiore Senior Care Ward sooner rather than later.
Let him go. Far, far away.
Here’s an important question that I do not think anyone will answer:
If Kirk is a Fork, and
Spock is a Spork, and
Bones is a Knife, and
Uhura is a Spoon . . .
What is Scotty, Checkov, Sulu, and
Nurse Chapel?
Napkins.
If I was Grisham (and I just might be) I’d reject the one year deal and negotiate for a two to three year deal, at an annual value of about 15 -16 per.
Knowing CashClown (like I do) I expect the Yankees to pivot and offer Grisham a three year deal worth 72 million.
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And JM……Napkins?
What type/kind ?
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