For the first quarter of 2026, the Gammonites of MLB - cheerful, dancing courtiers to America's oldest-money billionaires - stuck to their scripts and blathered praise for the 2nd place Yankees.
Night after night, "Boonies' Banterers of the Booth" have spun felony-grade ebullience about the Yankees' success, much in the manner that MAGA meatballs speak of You Know Who.
The narrative is simple: While certain other teams - (Mets, Redsocks, Orioles, Jays, Rays, et al) - remade their rosters, the Yankee brain trust doubled down on last year's team.
Ignored is that the 2025 Yankees collapsed in early June and finished second, due to an inability to beat their rivals. Today, we are watching it happen again, though a series of mind-bending losses.
Last night brought out Luke Weaver - the cerebral former Yankee closer, who the front office let go last winter. He came in with the bases loaded, nobody out, and a 2-run lead on the line. Weaver faced the ex-Met super-prospect, Amed Rosario, who never quite lived up to the hype. Rosario struck out.
Next came Trent Grisham, whose decision to accept the Yankee qualifying offer last winter set into motion the entire stand-pat strategy. (Basically, the Yankees had no other choice.) Grisham struck out.
Then came Anthony Volpe - the prodigal son of New Jersey - in what likely will be his last week - and his last chance - as a Yankee. He hit a routine grounder to short, ending the inning and - effectively - the game.
Everything you wanted to know about the rise and fall of 2026 was wrapped up in those four players.
Today, the Yankees trout out Elmer Rodriguez, a young pitcher who was showered with hype throughout the month of March, then sent to Scranton to tread water.
The winner of today's game will - for now, anyway - claim to be NYC's better team. Frankly, it's not much of a title. That said, make no mistake. The Yankees are fading, and everybody can feel it. The Bards of the Booth can say whatever they want. The second quarter looks like Hell.
Posts
16 comments:
As they said in "Hair", we're falling through a hole in the flag. Or maybe Yankees pennant on a stick.
Luke Weaver is better than anyone Cashman added at the deadline last year. Maybe not that high a bar, but he's 'way above it. (Note the antiquated apostrophe. Originally it showed that "away" was the proper word and "way" was an casual abbreviation. I love that kind of crap.)
How can CashBrain be this bad at his job? How could anyone be that bad at any job? It's apocalyptic level incompetence.
Fuck CashBrain.
Fuck HAL.
Great quote, JM! Love that line.
So, the night before, the Mets looked absolutely crushed. Beaten, sinking, their best pitcher in what has already been an injury-plagued season for them injure by a line drive, and out for who knows how long. Reduced to throwing a "bullpen game" in which they would nevertheless have to bring in an already failed starter.
And the Yankees could not beat them. The Yankees could not put a decent starter out there—let's face it: Carlos Rodon is a bum; end of story—could not beat a struggling reliever they had discarded over the winter.
This team not only has not heart, it has no eye for the jugular. It has no character, period.
Nada, nada, nada.
I figured I had to mention where it was from or nobody would get it!
I am reminded of a time that I forgot to remind myself to forget
Is that when you had deja vu all over again? Or was that veja du?
Great version of that song by Robert Gordon and Chris Speeding
Spedding
How do we lose today? I say that Elmer is going to bleed a few runs, but like the last couple of times, "show character" by not completely losing his shit in all the base traffic he initially allows. The small lead he surrenders will be insurmountable. The Mets will Mets somewhat but not enough, and the Yankees' hapless offense will not take advantage. We will lose.
Fudd was unimpressive is his first two starts, with an obvious lack of command. Why expect anything different today. As always, the bottom of today’s lineup is an embarrassment.
Where the hell is Warren?
Random question: does injured list count as service time for the Martian and Parmigiana?
#2 would Zoilo in this lineup improve it?
Will we ever know ?
They have been reliving it for years, thanks to Genius Cashman.
Post a Comment