All for nothing, right?
Not complaining, I guess. A win's a win, right?
Over nine games, the second-tier Yankees have beaten sluggish, second-tier opponents, sometimes by whopping margins. "Victories," mostly from no-name players, chasing a final, nonexistent bullpen slot, or a place in the traveling Wilkes Barres' outfield.
A win's a win, right? I mean, when the Yanks win a game in July, it still doesn't fix the brakes on your car, right? Spring, summer, fall - they're all meaningless in the context of our lives, right?
Well, this is a spring like no other. What do I mean?
1. No matter what happens over the next two weeks, the Yankees will enter 2026 as wild card contenders. The AL East is a jumble.
2. The Yankees' key returnees - Cole, Volpe, Rodon - won't arrive until summer.
3. The team has not yet suffered a major injury. (Last year, by now, Cole was gone and Giancarlo faced a lost season.)
4. Our most hyped prospects - The Martian and Spencer Jones - will be relegated to Scranton. How will they take to it?
5. The World Baseball Classic is about to put unprecedented stresses on key players, across the spectrum of MLB.
6. The bombing of Iran will add to the pressure in ways that I do not believe any of us can readily imagine.
7. It's already putting enormous stress on Aaron Judge, captain of Team USA. (Of all things, he was mocked yesterday for a fumbling speech to the team.)
8. The WBC will surely bring injuries. We want America to win. But at what cost?
9. It remains to be seen whether the WBC will capture the American audience. Will these games be similarly meaningless, come June? Will anybody care who won?
10. No past WBC has taken place in such an unsettled world. This shall be a spring like nothing we have faced in our lives. Meaningless games, right? March Madness.
WTF is coming?
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What’s the WBC? Asking for an enemy of the state…
Why ?
Because,
Comrade !
We’re bombing Iran?
I guess they won’t be coming for the World Cup then, huh?
Frankly, I don't see what the hell the point is of trying to keep noocular weapons out of the hands of Iran. They're going to get 'em sooner or later, whether by development or just purchasing at a black market nukes show. I say let everyone have as many nukes as they want. They just need to understand that the use of one nuke means the end of the world as we know it, as they will all die in a noocular radioactive inferno.
We are going to have learn to live with one another as brothers or expunge ourselves in endless and pointless wars.
Trump said it'll be a 4-5 week affair. Now Hegseth says 8 weeks. Soon, it'll be 8 months. Then after a few years, it'll turn into 8 years.
Wars like this typically will last 20-30 years.
Trump says it's not a war, just a police action. Let's call a duck a duck and a cat a cat. This is obviously a war, not just an anti-terrorist operation.
Who the hell gave Trump the power to declare war? Congress has allowed Trump to usurp its constitutional authority. Newsflash to Congress: he ain't givin' it back, morons.
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