Be afraid. Be very afraid. Folks, this isn't Boston running out of beer. This is fucking Venezuela. Everything is crashing.
Ten thoughts about the miserable state of the Yankees.
1. We knew it would eventually happen, but this team is listless, lifeless and loveless without Aaron Judge.
2. We must play the entire month of July without him. (And maybe a few weeks of August.)
3. Neither Jasson Dominguez (.222) nor Spencer Jones (.226) has provided the spark we needed. We wanted a once-around-the-league hitting spree, a Kevin Maas or Shane Spencer arrival party. Didn't happen.
4. Max Schumann cannot save this team. We don't need a pleasant surprise. We need a ripper.
5. When Amed Rosario is batting 3rd, you're in trouble.
6. Ben Rice has hit the wall. Over the last 15 days, he's at .202. Yesterday, his DP grounder killed us. Worst part: We don't know if this is a slump or the new reality. How far will his average (now .276) fall?
7. Tornado watch sirens are officially blaring over Gerrit Cole. He looks lost and ready for the sandbags. Cole must figure out a new attack plan, or his career is basically over. over. He turns 36 in September, and if the 2027 season is canceled, it's hard to get stoked for a comeback at 38. This is it.
8. The worst period of any Yankee season - the pre-trade deadline angst, when we await Cooperstown Cashman's makeover - is upon us. Last year, Cash brought us Cabby and Bednar - positives - plus Doval, Bird and McMahon. Sweet and sour pork. From now until July 31, we're an organization of players on the way to somewhere else.
9. The farm system's top prospect, George Lombard Jr., is blocked at SS behind Anthony Volpe (.349 over the last two weeks.) That could leave Lombard in limbo (aka Scranton) or forming the base of a huge trade. It's rare for Cashman to trade the organization's best hope, but there isn't much more to deal.
10. My theory: The reflecting pool saboteur attached razors to his/her shoes, so they could effortlessly glide across the expanse, slicing open the plastic skin. Moreover, they wore a duck disguise, so police could not see them. This was the work of a master criminal, an evil-doer, an immortal supervillain well versed in the sharpening of spikes. This was, my friends, the work of Ty Cobb.
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Gee whiz… it’s almost as though there were no baseball people running the team, you know?
I think it was Chauncey Gardner.
I hit "Post" too early. Brian is not only NOT a baseball person, but he has a resentment against crusty old lifers who learned the game on the field. Hal, as we know. has a lifelong, Oedipal-style resentment against the team and, consequently, to use the scientific phrase, "doesn't give a fuck." And Boone, as we also know. is literally a one-hit wonder. His sole qualification was that one home run. Surely, it's not his score on the IQ exam. We could have a Mattingly or another baseball lifer running the team. We could have another Stick and Bob making the trades. We could have an owner who would fire any GM who sucks this badly. We could, but we don't. Shit rolls downhill. This is all on Hal, who spends the money, but doesn't care how it's used, so long as the ATM keeps working. NEPO NEPO, PANTS ON FIRE!
Boone is the killer of this season. Players playing way out of their actual, natural positions. Bizarre lineup juggling for the most ridiculous reason: ooh, the pitcher is left handed, we have to play right hand batters! What an asshole.
The basic, basic, basic idea of baseball management is simple: put your best nine men in the lineup and do it every day. Boone can't do that. He has to do something more complicated, even if it's moronic, and he's killing the team offensively and defensively.
He can't pitch, so the tough times in the rotation are what they are. But almost everything else? Boone. The idiot. And the cyncial assholes who keep him there.
Blah-blah blah-da-da-da
Blah-blah blah-da-da-da
Sunday - Sunday
Bah-blah bah-da-da-da
It’s Rodón and Gray
Blah-blah blah da da da
Carloss vs Sonny
Blah-Blah blah da da da
Without a Cher
Blah-blah blah da da da
This God-awful baseball
Boone calling the game
Is such a shame
Sunday - Sunday
Incredibly lame
This Sunday - Sunday
Its more of the same
Fenway later today
I’ve got no more refrains
BLAH-BLAH BLAH
DA DA DA
DONE !
Happy birthday Melvin Kaminsky!
100 years old today.
(It wuz a momentary loss of muscular coordination)
When your doofus GM puts together a less than adequate offensive lineup, yes there are injuries. That aside. Swing for homeruns, strikeout alot. The Yankees approach sucks and this is an overrated team going nowhere.
Rumor has it that he’ll be 101 next year around this time…
Actually, Bitty, Boone did very well on his exam. He answered everything exactly last Cashman would have...according to Cashman.
Not that I have any reason to doubt it. But that's precisely what you DON'T want in a subordinate: someone who has figured out exactly what you want to hear, whether it's the right advice or not.
And so it goes...
No’ Museums today !
Or rather…..
MO’
Museums today !
WARNING: RANT INCOMING
There are many, many issues surrounding this team and organization. Management does not want to change, so nothing ever improves. The most obvious ones are the often lethargic level of play, fueled by the ever present lack of accountability, and the lack of coaching and intelligent on field management. You may be surprised to hear we do have a hitting coach, (3 in fact) though almost no fans know their names. The head hitting coach is James Rowson, who can be seen in the dugout doing…nothing. No emotion, no feedback. And then there’s boone. I still remain unconvinced that he actually creates the lineup, in which having players play out of position, struggle and fail , is de rigueur.
No other legitimate contending organization would tolerate the drought that Cashman, boone, and the rest of ownership has brought.us. Personally, I’m getting sick and tired of the same fraud being perpetrated on us year after year.
Not that it's any consolation, but...
Had dinner with the Missus, her cousin and his Missus Thursday.
He's an absolute Boston fan in all sports, but not a rabid asshole like too many of them. I joked that we had to finish so he could watch the carmines lose.
He replied that he's not paying for a subscription to their pay channel until Henry sells the team. Hates the owner as much as we do.
Hopefully. After Spaceballs 2 wins the Oscar.
Amen!
Ruf, good to know we’re not alone in the baseball universe!
Hoss, I have always maintained that Boone is just a meat puppet.
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