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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“?
Happy Birthday Alan! 🙂
Happy Birthday Alan, wishing you a great year! Believe me, 50s are awesome!
Many Yankee fans DO have a sense of entitlement. If the team isn’t good enough… just go out and sign Mark Teixeria and CC Sabathia and problem solved! It is the Yankee’s birthright!
I think a major criticism of Cashman (I knew his dad well from the horse racing business) is his propensity to hunt stars an create top heavy teams with a lot of holes. They also try to make everyone a launch angle backspin swing and miss specialist, even middle infielders at the expense of consistency.
That’s cute but the Mets players know exactly what I’m talking about:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/sports/baseball/mets-fans-thumbs-down.html
I suppose you don’t remember the end of the Willie Randolph era, either, so here’s a refresher:
https://nypost.com/2008/05/16/boos-for-willies-amazin-mess/
So much love and gratitude from a joyful fan base, right?
You are a young man… cent’ anni
Willie won 294 game in three seasons. He finished 1st, 2nd, 2nd. And Mets fans killed him and their team night and day while finishing 3 games behind a Phillies team that won it all in ‘08.
So please, kindly mind your business when we talk about Aaron Boone.
To be sure, it’s not really the fans themselves, it’s the historical entitlement resulting from rooting for dynastic franchises in general. Mets, Knicks, and Jets fans would be just as obnoxious if they had tons of titles and multiple dynasties in their lifetimes.
It does seem weird that a team on the verge of playing in the World Series is being trashed by its own fans, especially the smart ones here at KB. But hey, I wasn’t the one bashing Thibs and Leon the past four years despite the most success we’ve had in over two decades.
Happy Birthday Alan.
Be happy you are only in your 50s. You could be me looking forward to your Social Security COLA. 🙂
I don’t think any Yankee fans on this blog feel entitled to a WS.
This particular team simply does not deserve shielded-from-all-criticism status bc it won 94 games, and it’s laughable to suggest otherwise.
Happy Birthday
Boone was terrible last night, but some of the blame has to be put on Cashman as well. Holmes doesn’t need to throw another pitch in these playoffs. The biggest issue and this falls on Cashman is the Yankess lack quality bullpen arms.
Lol, I’ve watched like 4 Yankees games this year. I don’t know anything about the roster except what I’ve read here. I complain about players that play poorly. That’s just sports.
I complained about Randle when he played like crap, even as he dragged us to the playoffs again.
We’re complaining about Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart in a preseason we went 4-1, while Charlotte’s starters lost to our 2nd unit.
I complained about Jonquel Jones, who I didn’t even know the name of, missing shots in the 2 minutes I watched of the Liberty in game 1. She had a great game, just not the part I saw.
Every fan has the right to complain about their team. It’s a part of sports. It’s a part of life.
That comes from the money, though. Not the dynasty.
The Yankees aren’t just randomly the richest team in sports. We paid for that shit! We pay for it in ticket prices and cable bills and $40 sandwiches at Yankee Stadium.
When you charge my company tweny-seven thousand dollars for me to host an event in your luxury box, I do feel entitled to complain when you won’t address your glaring 1B problem bc your GM made some terrible deals that you’re too cheap to unload. Don’t give me Jazz Chisholm when I’m paying you for Alex Bregman. That’s where the entitlement comes from.
I’m not even sure what Hart is talking about.
We have a starting lineup with 2 guys that can average 25 or more per game, 1 that can average 20 per game and another that can average 15 but wants a bigger role. I’ve been saying from the start, no matter who the 5th man is, he is not going to be a scorer. His job is to defend at a high level and do things 1-4 aren’t doing well enough because we know they can score. In Hart’s case that means rebound like a demon, make 3s at a reasonable clip if the defense is leaving him open, run the break when he gets a defensive rebound and be a secondary playmaker. We want him to average something like 8 – 9 – 4 but be efficient on the 8 points and make sure he’s crashing the boards.
Happy birthday Alan!!!
This has been a Hubie-had-two-cappuccinos morning, btw. I either have to run 8 miles or build a tower now.
Happy birthday, Alan!
Cheers y’all.
I was a crazy Yankees fan as a kid, watched every inning of every game and if it wasn’t on TV I listened to the whole game on the radio.
1978 might have been my favorite year as a sports fan, followed closely by the 1996 championship.
Then they started bringing in a-holes like Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi, A-Rod, and a parade of free agent pitchers (Kevin Brown, Ed Whitson etc.) who inevitably failed. Even tho the “core 4” lasted, I found most of the team really hard to root for and kinda checked out for the last 25 years or so
So at this point I honestly couldn’t care less about the Yankees.
Hubert mad at both the Yankees and the Mets for being 1 and 2 games from the world series is classic hubert
That Josh quote is definitely not confidence inspiring, but it’s also Josh and he just says a lot of shit and it’s not that weird that he’d be unsure of his role in a new offense with new teammates.
Strat, your take is absolutely correct and rational, it’s what we expect from him, we don’t need another scorer.
But if you watched the preseason games, he didn’t do anything that you wrote except maybe rebounding.
He took 8 shots in 4 games (one every 10 minutes he played, more or less), he passed a lot of open shots, even very close to the basket, he didn’t run the break with the usual ferocity, he looked “out of synch”, probably due to the need to learn how to play with a big who play so far from the basket and two wings who fill the lanes quicker (both OG and Bridges are often the leaders on the break, a role Hart did before).
First it did look like he was joking and mocking all of us, now he’s saying that’s he feels “lost”.
Preseason is a joke, the real games start next week and all will be well, probably he just needs to find his niche in the new lineup, but it isn’t like we’re imagining things just to talk about it… 🙂
The only strategy or roster building decisions that matter in baseball are “do enough to make the playoffs every year.” If you’re in the playoffs most of the time, that’s all you can ask for. Once you’re in, shit is actually fairly random.
There are a handful of teams that manage to do this. Do this long enough, and maybe you get past the variance gods and win a World Series one year. It requires winning at least three series that are essentially coin flips back to back.
You might be “better” than the other teams you’re facing, but even the shittiest team in baseball history won 25% of their games. Flatten that out to a team that wins 61% versus a team that wins 57% and you might as well be playing rock paper scissors to decide who wins.
Max,
I hear you.
I don’t think he did enough pre season, but he plays with a kind of passion that may be a bit tough to muster up in pre season games. We’ll see what happens when the season starts. One thing is that he can’t pass up wide open shots just because there are better scorers on the court. He has to take them and hopefully make enough to punish leaving hm open.
Happy birthday Alan, and happy birthday to the poster who shares a birthday with Alan! (I know you’re out there, I just don’t remember who you are, sorry!)
A very happy birthday to the guy whose reviews I google 30 seconds after finishing a show!
Not really sure what this Yankees argument is about. The team is clearly very good. The team clearly has flaws–we were dead last in wRC+ from first basemen this year. Ours hung a seventy-one (71).
If they win the whole damn thing, it’ll be because the very goodness overcame the flaws. That’s baseball, Suzyn.
When is the deadline for the final roster?
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