Last year, Grichuk appeared unto us in the ghostly form of Austin Slater, obtained in a deadline trade that the YES mouth migraines now avoid, as if it popcorned up from the Epstein files. Regarding: Grichuk in 2026...
1. This is not his fault.
2. Last night, he happened to be a bystander, too close to the accident scene.
3. He's probably not that bad.
4. When the Yankees DFA him - they soon will, because the brain trust needs a scapegoat, and he's the lowest hanging flower on the Oleander tree - I suspect that some team will pick him up.
5. To the Death Barge's fan base, he represents everything that's wrong with the Yankees, with America, with money ball, with capitalism, and with life in 2026.
6. He is a Yankee because of a stat: His 2025 numbers suggested that he'd be a slight improvement over The Martian, Jasson Dominguez, from the RH side.
7. The Martian is hitting .341 in Scranton. (Last night, he went 0-2 with two walks.) He is 23 and wasting his time.
8. One of these days, the Yankees will banish Grichuk and bring up Dominguez, because their lineup desperately needs a spark. But they will still have no place to put him, because the pipes are clogged with expensive contracts.
9. Seriously, I got nothing against Grichuk. He's just the wrong guy in the wrong place on the wrong team at the wrong time, which is 2026, as opposed to 2025, and it's an honest mistake, because the two Yankee teams are nearly identical.
10. It's as if H.G. Wells spun the time machine to the wrong future date, and we have The Martian playing for the Morlochs, in the wrong book. And I am lapping myself...
This is how it goes down. The Yankees just achieved the ugliest loss of 2026. Dear God, it had everything - a come from behind, a blown lead, extra innings, blown chances and then, the finale: an inexplicable play by Jazz Chisholm, throwing to first base out of muscle memory, when the game was already lost. Bravo, everybody.
The 2025 Yankees have arrived, and time is running out for Randal Grichuk.
His not his fault. I hope that - in his next incarnation, with another team - he doesn't hold it against us. But of course, he will. Don't they all?
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Hello Volpe my old friend
Soon we’ll be seeing you again
Back amongst our starting nine
Playing like you’re deaf and blind
And we were told you’re one of the
Game’s best
Whatta’ mess
These Clowns of Cashman
We suck. Name a level, management, field management, lineup, bullpen, attitude. All of them, suck.
We certainly don’t suck at sucking….
The We Suck song is appearing soon at this rate...
I used to be ambivalent regarding Jizz Chasm.
I was wrong. He has less baseball sense than the Gleyber.
Plus, I find it interesting that Gay Caballero finally gets a couple of meaningful hits when his replacement is watching from the dugout. Probably just a coincidence.
Finally, Boone and Ca$hole are stubborn idiots and beyond useless. They can't be fired soon enough
In retrospect and with all fairness to Bednar, he pitched well enough to either get the win or end the 10th inning in a tie. But his manager, an ignorant tool, did something he always does in extra innings, and what every other manager (including those in Little League) would never do.....pitching to Walls with runners on second and third and nobody out instead of walking him to set up a force at home or the double-play. But no, the idiot never learns from his mistakes and lets him hit, which he did, getting a single to tie the game. Even more galling is that play by Jizz Chasm in the 10th. He has bad throwing mechanics, of course, and frequently seems to have his head up his ass. And anyone can make a miscue while fielding the ball. But Jizz seems to do this more frequently than most. Worst of all, he is clueless about the rules of the game. Rules that a 10-year-old would know. And at the major league level, this is totally unacceptable. Here is his explanation of the play:
"I was really gonna tag the runner and throw it to first. I don't know what the rule is, if I went to first base first and threw it back to second if it's an out," Chisholm said. "Is it still a double play? I don't know. Does it count as not an RBI?"
That comment is illustrative and the root of the team's most obvious coaching and development failings.
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