NY YANKEES - 2021

[SJU61982]

What an inexcusable play by Stanton dogging it into second base on an easy double. Just inexcusable. Nothing more, nothing less. Defense still horrible. Cost a ton, especially in extra pitches. Where was Green tonight? They certainly could not have been saving him to save a game! 2 meaningless homers in the 9th. I guess Heaney is loose to start Sunday night. Urshela? Wow. What a different player right now.

I actually don't think Stanton was dogging it.  He just should have stayed at first.  I mean, he didn't even kick it into another gear, which is what they usually do when they know they've been lazy.  He was at the same speed the whole time, so I think there was something more there.

I haven't like the way he's been running every since he made that diving catch against Baltimore.  I wonder if he maybe got hurt on the play, and is trying to play through it, because that's also when he stopped hitting, too.

 

[SJU61982]

Right now, this team looks just as bad as the 2000 squad did, towards the end of that season.

Hopefully, we can craft a similar October ending.

 

[Knight]

This team doesn’t deserve to play in the postseason.

Are you saying the teams behind them deserve it then?

I’m saying the teams behind them are better, so yes.

How is a team behind in the standings better?
Unless you are making a prediction that they will eclipse the Yankees. But that’s a lot different than be deserving as you said originally. 

Team quality is a snapshot in time.

 

[Moose]

This team doesn’t deserve to play in the postseason.

Are you saying the teams behind them deserve it then?

I’m saying the teams behind them are better, so yes.

How is a team behind in the standings better?
Unless you are making a prediction that they will eclipse the Yankees. But that’s a lot different than be deserving as you said originally. 

Team quality is a snapshot in time.

Numbers don't lie

Or in the words of the great Bill Parcells- You are what your record says you are 

 

[Knight]

This team doesn’t deserve to play in the postseason.

Are you saying the teams behind them deserve it then?

I’m saying the teams behind them are better, so yes.

How is a team behind in the standings better?
Unless you are making a prediction that they will eclipse the Yankees. But that’s a lot different than be deserving as you said originally. 

Team quality is a snapshot in time.

Numbers don't lie

Or in the words of the great Bill Parcells- You are what your record says you are 

True that.

 

[section10]

game 162/141
i guess kraken is afraid of breaking a finger nail.
getty gallo.
what is a yankee game without an infield flub or three
if you had monty and the under, you lost

 

[Moose]

Earliest I’ve turned a game off in a longgggg time 

 

[bk8664]

Has a team in MLB history ever had a 10+ winning streak and a 10+ losing streak in a season? 

 

[Delaware]

Another pathetic performance in a meaningful game. How low is this? How embarrassing for an MLB team to perform like this. This team needs a complete overhaul in the offseason. Boone is delusional that this team can be good again. They are plain awful. Take away the big winning streak and they are essentially a .500 over the season. In the past Yankees managers would have been fired. WTF was Sanchez doing tonight? The infield play again was atrocious. What are the consequences for this pitiful performance? No one is accountable. Sanchez and Torres need to be out if here to start. Watching them play lackadaisically is old and it's time to end this once and for all. I actually DVR'd the game and watched it in about 15 minutes. Not wasting any more time watching this pathetic team led by a horrible manager. 

 

[bamafan]

Why do Yankee fielders bother ever throwing the ball home? Sanchez either can't catch the ball or he can't tag the runner. Yankees 7 game losing streak (and 11 losses in last 13 games) and getting blown out by the Mets during crunch time in the season would have GS turning over in his grave.

 

[fuchsia]

I have reached the conclusion that a Yankees loss gives me more pleasure than a Mets win.  Does this mean I am a nihilist?

 

[Knight]

I have reached the conclusion that a Yankees loss gives me more pleasure than a Mets win.  Does this mean I am a nihilist?

No. It makes you a typical Met fan. Losers hate to see winners win.

 

[section10]

game 162/142
bertha box score will be reporting on the game
i went to my communities 9/11 memorial event.
apparently one of the most exciting of the many "mayors trophy" games.
for the first time at my 9/11 event, no politician spoke, only first responders.
boone rewarding a hot gardy by batting him 1st and 2nd lately.
the 9/11 crowd was one of the largest in years.
yankee mvp #99 again showing a good reason to give him a long term deal.
on my lawn i had 13 American flags.
4 yankee gettys - #99, #99, gardy, higgy
3k American flags were placed at the 9/11 local site by a youth group.
yank bullpen still shaky. all are members of the agita army.
instead of political speeches we had a lot more patriotic music.
kluber leading us to the promised land has been delayed.
its 9/12, back to baseball and player rankings.
God bless the fallen.
 
 

 

[Sherman Sheridan & Grant]

I have reached the conclusion that a Yankees loss gives me more pleasure than a Mets win.  Does this mean I am a nihilist?

No. It makes you a typical Met fan. Losers hate to see winners win.

I have not been participating on this site recently. but these posts piqued  my interest.
I’ve been a Yankee fan since my year of birth 1949. My first five years the Yankees won the World Series! 13 of my first 15 years through high school the Yankees were in the World Series. I only follow the Yankees. and we have had lousy years like the late 1960s when I was in college. And this season is such a mixed bag.

But as of late I realize that a loss to the Mets hurts more than a loss to almost any other team including the Red Sox.

in general though I give no thought to the Mets and wish them all the best. They seem to create many of their own problems. And I wouldn’t give anybody over $300 million including Cole.

Yes Knight. Our colleague Fuchsia might just be rooting for the wrong team.
peace!
 

 

[Sherman Sheridan & Grant]

game 162/142
bertha box score will be reporting on the game
i went to my communities 9/11 memorial event.
apparently one of the most exciting of the many "mayors trophy" games.
for the first time at my 9/11 event, no politician spoke, only first responders.
boone rewarding a hot gardy by batting him 1st and 2nd lately.
the 9/11 crowd was one of the largest in years.
yankee mvp #99 again showing a good reason to give him a long term deal.
on my lawn i had 13 American flags.
4 yankee gettys - #99, #99, gardy, higgy
3k American flags were placed at the 9/11 local site by a youth group.
yank bullpen still shaky. all are members of the agita army.
instead of political speeches we had a lot more patriotic music.
kluber leading us to the promised land has been delayed.
its 9/12, back to baseball and player rankings.
God bless the fallen.
 
And God bless you and all of the good Americans that are still around.
I have lost West Point classmates in Vietnam and I continue to lose them from ailments that probably stem from that war.
we all have our sad losses in life which I do not understand. Even though I believe in the good Lord.
I like the statement by Plato circa thousands of years ago:

Be Kind; Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle 

all the best 
SS&G

 

 

[fuchsia]

I have reached the conclusion that a Yankees loss gives me more pleasure than a Mets win.  Does this mean I am a nihilist?

No. It makes you a typical Met fan. Losers hate to see winners win.

My sentiments towards the Yankees started in Ebbets Field and waivered in 1961 when Mantle- Maris home run chase was on and there was nothing else to follow.

 

[prjohnnies]

I guess I’m in the minority here. A loss to the Mets, to me, is no different than a loss to most other teams. A loss the Red Sox bothers me way more; it’s just different. And the Astros and Rays have moved up ahead of others as well in that department. 

I know some Yankee fans are bothered by Mets success. It really doesn’t bother me. Red Sox success definitely bothers me: again the Stros and Rays are creeping into that league as well, although nothing duplicates the Sox. When the Mets were in the series against the Royals a few years back, I rooted for them. I wanted some of my friends and family who like the Mets to experience a title. It also was not “must watch” for me; I tuned in when I could because I love the sport, but I missed parts or even all of certain games. When the Sox played the Dodgers in the WS, I’m into every game rooting against the Red Sox. It’s just different. 

Granted I only see this from the Yankee fan perspective and how successful they’ve been most of my life. If I were a Mets fan perhaps I’d have a different view. I never got it why some of my Mets fans friends want to see the Yanks lose more than like the Braves or Phillies. After what some of those Chipper Jones teams did to the Mets, or the Rollins Phillies teams ripping the Mets hearts out amidst a total collapse, and talking smack the whole way to the Mets, I feel like I’d loath them if I were a Mets fan, more than anyone else. 

Same is true with me and football. I’m a Giants fan and have never disliked or rooted against the Jets, with one exception: part of Rex Ryan’s tenure. He took shots at the Giants anytime he could, and so on Xmas even when the Giants shut him up en route to another great Super Bowl run, I reveled in that. But he was the exception and I wasn’t alone because recall Brandon Jacobs confronting Rex after that game. 

 

[section10]

game 162/143
another game, another yankee infielder error. this one cost 3 unearned runs. 
stanton's getty ties it up. oh vey. knuckle time/

 

[Delaware]

So many things to comment on, but WTF has happened to Green? He's good for a homer a game. Of course the Yankees pitchers allowed a dormant Muts lineup to score a ton of runs this weekend.

 

[SJU61982]

Looking like it might come down to that series at Fenway Park, next to last weekend of the season, for the second wild card spot.