1. Sixth best record in baseball.
2. Eight Six behind Tampa in the loss column.
3. Ten losses in last 15 games.
4. Yesterday, they staved off embarrassment at home by beating Tampa for the first time this year.
5. Aaron Judge's walk-off HR hopefully ends his worst slump in this decade. (He is still tied for second in HRs, with Munetaka Murakami, at 17. (Kyle Schwarber has 20.)
6. On a daily basis, the Yanks get nothing from the bottom third of the lineup.
7. Their bullpen is shaky; no lead is safe.
8. When Max Fried returns, they could have MLB's best starting rotation.
9. Their two main rivals - Mets and Boston - have had terrible springs. (The Mets are 9 below .500; Boston, 8 below.)
10. Ben Rice has saved us. But since hurting his wrist on May 3, he is 11 for 62 (.177). (He does have 5 HRs, though.)
11. They have three trade chips in Spencer Jones, Jasson Dominguez and Anthony Volpe.
12. Due to the labor dispute, there will probably be no baseball in 2027.
13. Brian Cashman will probably go wild at the Aug 1. trade deadline.
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Hey E.D.
Didn’t Bob Costasdamus predict that Southern California would completely break off during a massive earthquake this summer and sink into the Pacific Ocean?
And didn’t he cryptically forecast it’s approximate date in the following:
“whilst the world cups and spoons along it’s win-some and lose-some dunes, a great crack in the sand, the fault of no man, will drown its thirsty land….”
In other words, there may be bigger things to worry about than baseball in Chivas Ravine….
At least America will win the Steroid Olympics.
How will Uncle Sam do during the world cup this summer? Footie will start trampling all over the fruited plains, and baseball, in a couple weeks.
Actually, we're "only" 6 games behind TB in the loss column. But point taken...
Can't wait. Any relief from this year's baseball season will be a relief.
At this rate, we will finish about 18 games behind the Rays...
Is that "best rotation in baseball" we keep hearing about ever going to really materialize? Fried is still out with something the Yankees can't quite complain. Rodon, who's a bum, looks like one so far. Cole? So far, so good. But that's not the rotation we need...
And yesterday, BOTH New York teams played two games that were scoreless until walk-off home runs. Very dramatic at the end—and very boring until then. The game needs to change—but nobody at the top is interested in that.
I'm with Hoss on the decline of the game, itself. No matter how bad one's team could be at any given time -- for YEARS at a time, in fact - you could always count on the game. THE GAME. The game was consistent. You could go for the game, to sit there and soak in the ambience, the slowness and stateliness of the game, punctuated by moments of terror and exhilaration. You could enjoy the game for its own sake. They are ruining that now - between the rules changes, the way games are coached and played, the way that players are less team-oriented. It's all changing. And to use the words "human condition" with a bunch of re-animated sloths like the current Yankees might now be accurate. I'm in a humbug mood. Perhaps the approaching economic collapse will allow us to reset things. These moron owners might be choosing a bad time for a lockout. Where's my flamethrower?
Despite yesterdays’s walkoff, the mood remains grim, and not without reason. The current malaise is directly related to the slumps of Judge and Rice, not to mention the festering bullpen. There have been some Stanton rumblings recently. There are no saviors on the horizon, the entire MiL system a black hole. Kansas City has been our personal whipping boy in recent years, and a series loss could portend real problems. Everyone still seems to have their heads buried in the ground about next year. I wouldn’t expect that to change until next year,
The mood remains grim because These Our 2026 New York Yankees are the most flawed and awful team that money has bought.
Cashman would be crazy to trade Jasson Dominguez. But that's if he's trying to win. Which he is not. So he might make such a trade. From my point of view, I hope they do trade him. Because he's never going to get a chance to develop here. On many other teams, he'll quickly become a big time player, I think.
Wow, my comment just went thru! Haven't been able to post on this here blog for quite a while. Keep gettin' "failed to publish - try again later". Not a tech guru, so don't know how to fix it and too lazy to find out how.
Judge finally got a big hit in the 9th! Not a "whooooopppppeeeee" moment, though, because there was nobody out. He wasn't the last chance saloon.
There was a game just recently where Judge came up as the last chance Yankee. And I think he was hitting #2 in that game. Of course, he flew out to end the game. So a belated "WHOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
So now they're in K.C. What is this, a 3 game series? I think K.C. wins at least 2 out of 3.
This is a mediocre team, at best. I think I predicted 83 wins, right? Might not even get there. This might be the year they finally crash and burn. The starting pitching is good, or was good, until Fried got hurt, and Rodon & Cole turned up. The offense has been terrible and will stay terrible, until they get rid of all this dead wood, .180 hitters. I hope they trade Jasson Dominguez for a bag of balls, and I hope he turns into a .330/30HR/120 RBI batting champion. Pretty decent chance of it happening, too.
Meanwhiles, keep running Stanton out there. The guy who can't open a bag of chips. Re-sign him to a 10 year, $300 million contract. Because he's a Hall of Famer.
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