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9 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2024.10.19)”
In his Patreon newsletter Mike Axisa, the great Yankee beat who write for CBS, summed up exactly the Yankees’ fans feeling about this season:
“When Jon Berti bobbled that ground ball in the ninth inning, I half-expected him to fire it into the stands. That he didn’t means the Yankees are a Team of Destiny, right?
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The Yankees have a 3-1 lead in the ALCS following that nice, normal, definitely didn’t take years off my life 8-6 win in Game 4.
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This team is killing me and I hate it, but I also love it. Winning the World Series ain’t supposed to be easy and these Yankees sure know how to make it hard on themselves.”
I understand the quips from Mets fans and every Yankees fan who has lived through the late 90’s dinasty is spoiled, but the Guardians aren’t the Dodgers, Clevaland is a mediocre team.
They’re 18th in the League in OPS (the Yankees are 3rd), 17th in SLG (Yankees 4th), 22nd in AVG (Yankees 9th), 12th in homers (Yankees 1st), 23rd in BB (Yankees 1st).
They’re 5th in SB, have a bullpen of flamethrowers (who are now mostly gassed) and they dink & dunk you to death, but their only merit is being in the Central Division.
And against this mediocre team the Yankees are playing the sloppiest baseball you can fathom, making mistakes on the field and on the bases, blowing dozen of chances with RISP, melting leads multiple times.
They’re more talented and the far better team, but they’re doing just enough, barely enough to avoid an unexcusable collapse, making all the games a grind.
That said: LGFY!
Back to basketball,
preseason doesn’t mean a lick for established players, at the same time I’m just a liiiiitle bit concerned about Bridges’ new shot form (why did he change it by the way?), Hart strange fit in the starting unit (at least unless he stops mocking us and start being Hart again) KAT “kindness” and the need for this team to find a new “soul”.
Expectations are high and the potential is very high too,
they need to gel and learn to play together, it’ll take time, 10, 20, 30 games, I don’t know, but it’s too early to panic, there’s a long season to do it if necessary… 😀
This ^^^^^^^^^^
I don’t.
They’ve been incessantly whining about their players, GM, and manager since the beginning of time. They cried about their team in the 90’s when it was one of the best teams in the NL. They cried about their team two years ago when it won 100 games. They cried about Lindor and tried to run him out of town. They cried about their team all winter and they cried about their team this year until it was the best team in baseball for 3 months.
This Yankees team is fun but terribly flawed. Winning 94 games in the worst AL season of the century and stumbling through the playoffs against a couple of substandard AL Central teams does not put you on a pedestal.
In short: you try watching Clay Holmes self destruct, or watching Rizzo play the field, or any Yankee run the bases.
This is no house money team in the first year of its run. That was 2017, and that year was a well-deserved lovefest from Yankees fans. This is the eighth year of the same shit with this team.
If the next 7 years of Mets baseball equal the last 7 years of Yankees baseball, you will not hear the end of their incessant whining. They might be happy losing to the Dodgers now but if they lose three NLCS to the same team like us and the Astros, they’re not gonna be the same happy bunch they are now. And if they repeatedly lose to division rivals like Atlanta & Philadelphia in the NLDS the way we lost to Boston & Tampa they will not go gently into the night.
Mets fans are simply latent intolerables enjoying a year of unexpected success, and calling out Yankees fans is hypocrisy of the highest order from a jealous fan base that would do the exact same thing if the shoe were on the other foot.
This is a description of Mets fans I am totally unfamiliar with: feels like you are projecting Yankees entitlement.
I am deeply intrigued by Donovan Clingan. Monster preseason line.
This is not the most reassuring Josh Hart quote, via Bondy:
Mikal’s shot is completely broken. I have no idea how he and his coaches could have looked at video or whatever of that shooting form post-adjustment and said to themselves, “Yeah, that’s what we’re looking for.”
Most athletes (golfers primarily) have a default setting that they can either consciously go back to under true game circumstances if an adjustment doesn’t work, or that they’ll involuntarily revert to because the adjustment hasn’t fully taken. The danger is that the default setting disappears because of the adjustment.
Mikal needs to go back to the default setting. Pronto. Hopefully, it’s still there.
Of all my worries about this Knicks team, Mikal’s shot is low on the list. Hart’s fit with the starters is a bit more concerning but not really. I’m much more worried about KAT in general and our 9-14 guys on the bench. These guys are itching to start the season.
It is my birthday today. Which is the more disconcerting birthday, do you think: when I turned 50 last year, or this year, which means I am “in my 50s“?
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