Earlier this week The Athletic published its survey of baseball fans' optimism, ranked by team. We Yankee fans came in at 22nd (!) out of 30, between the Marlins and the White Sox. Yes: We have slightly less optimism than the Miamiphiles, and a hair more faith than the Pope.
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| The green bar represents the percentage of optimistic fans; the orange bar represents IT IS HIGH. |
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Three against those Miami Marlins this weekend. Yankees always seem to have trouble against the Marlins. I don't like the first two pitching matchups. You know the Marlins will beat up on Ryan Weathers. I think the fish take two of three.
Bravo, Hammer. Just what we need.
The piting has been excellent. The third and fourth starters are questions. However, reinforcements are on the way. The lineup is producing to a point. It is difficult to be optimistic about Ryan McFan. There I go again, not being positive. And Mr. 50-50 Chisholm. Will Grisholm hit in the postseason? There I go again!
I’m sorry. Remind me again what we’re supposed to be optimistic about?
The other day, I was thinking about why the Yankees (in these recent years) always get off to such a good start and then why they stumble and fall on their faces in June.
It's a combination of poor coaching, poor managing, and injuries (from the weight of old age). Their computer chess algorithms (or logarithms, or whatever the hell you want to call it) work very well through spring training and the first 60 games of the year. Then, the other teams make adjustments and start playing better. Yankee coaches are extremely slow to make adjustments. They won't make any adjustments until the ceiling is about to collapse. Plus, around that 60 game marker, the wear and tear of the season suddenly starts to catch up to all the old guys on this team.
Around mid to late July or early August, the coaches finally make some adjustments and maybe the old guys recover a bit and maybe they bring up a few kids to bail out the sinking ship in early August. Maybe Cashman sells a few prospects to get a couple of bullpen lugnuts. They salvage the sinking ship and manage to barely qualify for the playoffs. Then they get the crap beaten out of them in the first or second round of the playoffs, due to terrible lack of fundamentals and poor coaching and even worse managing. Sound like a plan?
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