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MFYankees Carnage 2023

metirish
Feb 15 2023 12:40 PM

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1625918766495444993[/TWEET]

Probably nothing

Fman99
Feb 15 2023 06:14 PM
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Ruh roh

metirish
Feb 16 2023 04:03 AM
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For your viewing pleasure at a later date



https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2023/02/espn-films-announces-multi-part-documentary-event-the-yankees-win/

MFS62
Feb 16 2023 07:58 AM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023


For your viewing pleasure at a later date



https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2023/02/espn-films-announces-multi-part-documentary-event-the-yankees-win/


That is the perfect reason for a violently hurling imoji.

Later

metirish
May 16 2023 04:26 AM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1658286528018239488[/TWEET]

Holy shit 😂

Fman99
May 16 2023 05:19 AM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1658286528018239488[/TWEET]

Holy shit 😂


They should trade him to the Astros I guess. Just another cheater.

Edgy MD
May 16 2023 06:23 AM
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Buck Martinez at a loss for words is really fun Buck Martinez.



Dan Shulman: "You don't want to go throwing allegations around without knowing, but ..."



Buck Martinez: "No. AndyouwahaIIIeeeeIIyknowhavehad ... guys looking back when I was a catcher and ... heyouIcan obviously seeitand I ... he couldn't see the catcher with the way he was looking right there."

nymr83
May 16 2023 08:53 AM
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This is a long way from a credible allegation of cheating, but hey, its the Yankees, I hope they get caught doing something wrong.

Frayed Knot
May 16 2023 09:50 AM
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Peekin' ain't cheatin'.

It might be asking for a heater in the ear hole, but it's not Houston video spying level cheating.

Edgy MD
May 16 2023 09:51 AM
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... as far as we know.

MFS62
May 16 2023 11:19 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:

... as far as we know.

They hosts on WFAN were saying that Judge said the manager had just been thrown out and the guys in the dugout were "chirping". He said he glanced toward he dugout to see who was doing it because it was annoying him during the at bat. Looking at the angle of his head and eyes, I find that plausible.



Later

Benjamin Grimm
May 16 2023 11:30 AM
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Especially if other players weren't also peeking at the dugout. If they had a system like the one that's being hinted at, all of the Yankees hitters would be peeking at the dugout on every at bat.

batmagadanleadoff
May 16 2023 11:59 AM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

Peekin' ain't cheatin'.

It might be asking for a heater in the ear hole, but it's not Houston video spying level cheating.


This, ferchrissakes. Beat me to it. Peeking at the catcher's signs is legal because there's no WRITTEN rule prohibiting it. Now unwritten rules, OTOH ....

Edgy MD
May 16 2023 12:32 PM
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His eyes aren't shifting to glance at the catcher behind him, but to the right side, toward the on-deck circle and the Yankee dugout.

nymr83
May 16 2023 09:04 PM
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German got the Scherzer treatment tonight, ejected and ten games off for "sticky stuff"

Edgy MD
May 16 2023 10:17 PM
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That ejection didn't even have a Phil Cuzzi factor.

Frayed Knot
May 20 2023 07:28 PM
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The Yanx bit the bullet and DFA'd OF Aaron Hicks today, ending their association with their longest tenured position player.



Hicks was a former 1st round draft pick of the Twins (14th overall, 2008) but, after failing to live up to the billing, was picked up by the Yanx in 2016 where he seemed to finally "find it" and was declared a MFY success story.

A long term deal followed but the success didn't last and so now he's been cut loose with three years and $30-some million remaining on that deal.



Talking heads, and more than a few NYM fans, will tell you that the Yanx eat contracts all the time except that they actually don't so this is an exception for them.

ashie62
May 21 2023 06:05 AM
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When signed Cashman said "I am gambling on Aaron."



Snake eyes

metirish
May 23 2023 01:38 PM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/billjamesonline/status/1661081723499626534[/TWEET]

I'm guessing with 53k following this is indeed for real Bill James

Benjamin Grimm
May 23 2023 01:49 PM
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Oh, snap!

Edgy MD
May 23 2023 01:59 PM
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After Johnny Bench got elected to the Hall of Fame, they went an awful long time without electing a catcher. From the beginning, it was assumed there was a different offensive baseline from which to measure catchers, as compared to other positions.



But after Bench, it almost became like there was a new standard. Well respected defensive guys with a mixed offensive record that were welcomed in years past got shunned. Good hitters who didn't necessarily maintain their best stats in their later years wallowed in the back end of the voting.



In recent years, that seemingly has abated. But



For what it's worth, I first noticed that after Bill James observed it. He was more interested in the quick pass that Darrell Porter and Ted Simmons got, I think, than Munson. The 1930s version of Bob Boone and Mike Scoscia also might well have been inducted.

metirish
May 24 2023 04:23 AM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/billjamesonline/status/1661086171114422303[/TWEET]



This isn't going well for Bill James , wow

batmagadanleadoff
May 24 2023 04:50 AM
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Munson's 1976 MVP award was definitely undeserved. But back then, the writers/voters were in the dark and often awarded the MVP to the RBI leader of a first place team when there was no clearly obvious recipient, which Munson was (the RBI guy, not the deserving MVP). Also, the voters had a thing for catchers just because, without any statistical proof beyond that the catcher was a catcher. Catchers automatically got bumped up like10 or 20 spots in the voting. Because they were catchers. That's probably why knucklehead Gary Carter went around griping about not winning the award in '86. Carter wasn't even the third or fourth best guy on his own team that year but the voters placed him in third place in the voting.



Bad AL vote, also. Mark Fidrych got royally screwed out of the Cy because Palmer had more wins and wins were like everything when it came to Cy voting in '76. Wins and RBIs. The Dark Ages of award voting.



Dwight Gooden, like Fidrych, was another Rookie of the Year who got screwed out of a simultaneous Cy Young award. Maybe Rusty Staub was a jinx or something.



And on the subject of Mets who got screwed out of a Cy, the NL 76 vote was as bad as the AL vote. It should've been Seaver instead of Randy Jones but no way a 14 win pitcher was gonna beat someone that had 15 wins at the All Star break.

Frayed Knot
May 24 2023 05:24 AM
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James is obviously having some fun here responding to MFY fans upset that he won't vouch for Munson's greatness or sanction their demands for immediate inclusion into the HoF.

And what other fanbase so regularly cites being 'The Captain' as if that's an 'accomplishment' which represents something worthy of consideration when evaluating a season or career?

metirish
May 24 2023 05:53 AM
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Yeah he is , but damn, he's really laying into him

metirish
May 24 2023 06:09 AM
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Following up on FK post I should add that yes the context here was James polling about Posey and Mauer ,and I guess it took off from there

stevejrogers
May 24 2023 07:22 AM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

And what other fanbase so regularly cites being 'The Captain' as if that's an 'accomplishment' which represents something worthy of consideration when evaluating a season or career?


Sadly I think that line of thinking is informing Met fans into over-inflating the HOF cases of the deserved Keith Hernandez and the less than deserving, but he better not get the Alfonso treatment, David Wright.



Also “leadership qualities” was part of the “package” for decades with fans of his when campaigning for Gil Hodges. Even if his managerial career would just be a sentence on his eventual plaque honoring his performance as a slugging 1Bman.

stevejrogers
May 24 2023 07:26 AM
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=metirish post_id=126423 time=1684930153 user_id=72]
Following up on FK post I should add that yes the context here was James polling about Posey and Mauer ,and I guess it took off from there



Certainly a debate of same era stars that lends itself to personal “outside looking in” favorites to be muscled in on!



As opposed to say Pizza and Pudge Rodriguez, where both are in the most inner of inner circles for their positions!

Edgy MD
May 24 2023 07:49 AM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

James is obviously having some fun here responding to MFY fans upset that he won't vouch for Munson's greatness or sanction their demands for immediate inclusion into the HoF.

And what other fanbase so regularly cites being 'The Captain' as if that's an 'accomplishment' which represents something worthy of consideration when evaluating a season or career?


I'm not sure how much captaining should matter, but probably a little in some cases and not at all in others.



In the very early years of the Hall, when the standards were necessarily very high, the support for Frank Chance was stronger than for a lot of players who had clearly better statistical cases.



It's true that home fans will often see better than others whether a guy is captain in name only or is really leading is team in a substantive way. It's also true that when something can't be measured, fans will often see what they want to see.

batmagadanleadoff
May 24 2023 12:07 PM
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Then there was the Met who got his Met "captainship" by going into a jealous rage over initially being rejected for the role and then crying, pleading and manipulating his manager every which way possible until the manager finally broke down and just gave him the fucking captainship he had to have. Then, after he finally got his co-captainship, he bragged to everyone within earshot about the captainship he supposedly earned, over and over again, just in case anybody didn't hear it the first 85 times he bragged about it, or didn't see the fucking "C" on his uniform, leaving out the part about how he was passed over and had to beg for it.

Benjamin Grimm
May 24 2023 12:29 PM
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I don't recall who you're talking about, but I'm going to guess it was either Gary Carter or John Franco.

batmagadanleadoff
May 24 2023 12:36 PM
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Benjamin Grimm wrote:

I don't recall who you're talking about....


I can't believe you don't remember. This fiasco is permanently embedded in my brain. And it's not Franco, who, if I recall, wasn't a co-captain.

batmagadanleadoff
May 24 2023 12:42 PM
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Benjamin Grimm wrote:

I don't recall who you're talking about....


I can't believe you don't remember. This fiasco is permanently embedded in my brain. And it's not Franco, who, if I recall, wasn't a co-captain.


Davey Johnson initially named Keith Hernandez as the sole Mets captain. Johnson was an intelligent baseball lifer who knew his team, knew the locker room, and even knew many of his Mets from their minor league days. Johnson read the room and correctly determined that Keith would make the best team captain, based on his playing skills, his leadership and the total respect Keith received from his teammates. This decision didn't sit well with Carter, who literally cried and whined and pleaded and begged and then cried some more, until he finally wore Johnson down into making Carter a co-captain. What a manipulative creep. And this right after publicly whining to the press all off-season long about how he was supposedly gypped out of the league MVP award -- the 4th or 5th best player on his own team.

batmagadanleadoff
May 24 2023 01:01 PM
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Benjamin Grimm wrote:

I don't recall who you're talking about....


I can't believe you don't remember. This fiasco is permanently embedded in my brain. And it's not Franco, who, if I recall, wasn't a co-captain.


Davey Johnson initially named Keith Hernandez as the sole Mets captain. Johnson was an intelligent baseball lifer who knew his team, knew the locker room, and even knew many of his Mets from their minor league days. Johnson read the room and correctly determined that Keith would make the best team captain, based on his playing skills, his leadership and the total respect Keith received from his teammates. This decision didn't sit well with Carter, who literally cried and whined and pleaded and begged and then cried some more, until he finally wore Johnson down into making Carter a co-captain. What a manipulative creep. And this right after publicly whining to the press all off-season long about how he was supposedly gypped out of the league MVP award -- the 4th or 5th best player on his own team.

metirish
May 24 2023 01:54 PM
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Was Carter a good pilot at least ?

MFS62
May 24 2023 01:57 PM
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=metirish post_id=126474 time=1684958075 user_id=72]
Was Carter a good pilot at least ?



BAM!



Later

Edgy MD
May 24 2023 06:10 PM
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Is there an early source where we can read about the Carter whining campaign?

Frayed Knot
May 24 2023 06:47 PM
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I don't remember it. What I recall in more or less chronological order:

- Keith's utter indifference to his new knighthood: 'Ummm, yeah, it's a great honor ... I guess'

- followed by the team realizing it had a pr issue on its hands with respect to their other everyday veteran

- so they 'solved' the problem by naming Carter a captain too which had the effect of not really having a captain

which, as far as I'm concerned, is fine since a baseball captain is essentially a meaningless title anyway.



Now, did Carter work behind the scenes after they named Keith? Quite possibly, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

But I don't recall anything ugly or public going on and I think it was mostly just assumed that Carter lobbied for

recognition.

batmagadanleadoff
May 24 2023 07:59 PM
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I have no doubt that it happened, more or less, the way I said it did. Besides, otherwise, they would've been named co-captains simultaneously instead of a year apart. Now I have to look for this on the web, which I'm vomiting from already because all I'm pulling up is knucklehead pieces about how Carter deserves to have his number retired and how he was the last piece to the puzzle which made all the sense in the world when the Mets first got him but didn't play out that way. Gaaaaaaah!



Its probably in one of my Mets books. Either that, or I'll have to subscribe to the newspaper archives.



This isn't something I picked up after the fact from reading historical stuff. I became aware of this in real time from contemporaneous coverage, including TV interviews.

dgwphotography
May 25 2023 01:00 PM
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"Gary Carter may come off like a cliché, to the point where a lot of other players mistrust him, but the genuine article comes along so rarely it can be hard to recognize when it looks you in the eye"

- Jerry Izenberg, in The Greatest Game Ever Played

Edgy MD
May 27 2023 08:18 AM
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After being ejected for the fourth time this season, and second time in four days, Aaron Boone has been suspended by MLB ... for one game.

G-Fafif
Jun 07 2023 12:16 PM
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All those of us who have cursed the MFYs to Hell have, at first glance, gotten our wish.


[tweet]https://twitter.com/eboland11/status/1666506363592220672[/tweet]

MFS62
Jun 07 2023 12:21 PM
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I was going to ask i the smoke affected Suzyn Waldman's voice.

Then I realized we wouldn't be able to tell.



Later

G-Fafif
Jun 07 2023 02:39 PM
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[tweet]https://twitter.com/yankees/status/1666543304136171521[/tweet]

ashie62
Jun 07 2023 02:56 PM
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=MFS62 post_id=127892 time=1686162110 user_id=60]
I was going to ask i the smoke affected Suzyn Waldman's voice.

Then I realized we wouldn't be able to tell.



Later



Rude boy

metirish
Jun 11 2023 03:20 PM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/JSterlingCalls/status/1667719905725095937[/TWEET]



Gotta love John Sterling 😂

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jun 11 2023 05:16 PM
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Love Pa Pinstripe

metirish
Jun 11 2023 05:55 PM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/WFAN660/status/1668016401884368897[/TWEET]

Video of the foul ball , John was lucky

Edgy MD
Jun 12 2023 06:34 AM
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Literal MFYankees carnage.

MFS62
Jun 12 2023 08:40 AM
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Lewis Black on the MFYs.

Warning

DO NOT play this at work or near small children.

[YOUTUBE]isWIMwPlGaw[/YOUTUBE]



Later

Johnny Lunchbucket
Jul 12 2023 11:54 AM
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I didn't think it would happen but the Yankees got a sponsor patch


[TWEET]https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1679128500391886856[/TWEET]

Edgy MD
Jul 12 2023 12:10 PM
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Whores.

Fman99
Jul 12 2023 12:22 PM
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It sullies their traditions so it's great. It's like shitting on the mound.

Benjamin Grimm
Jul 12 2023 12:27 PM
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I just wish they were sponsored by "Roach Motel" instead.

MFS62
Jul 12 2023 12:38 PM
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Aaron Boone sounds like he's sniffing Helium.



Later

metirish
Jul 12 2023 01:11 PM
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I'm happy this happened haha

Frayed Knot
Jul 12 2023 01:53 PM
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The Yanx also fired their hitting coach prior to the ASB, notable only in that it's the first in-season axing of anyone significant during the Cashman years so maybe a hint of desperation is in the Bronx air.

They also shunned any in-house replacements as ex-Cincy star Sean 'The Mayor' Casey is their new man.

Don't know if he can teach but he sure can talk.

nymr83
Jul 12 2023 04:26 PM
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=Fman99 post_id=131521 time=1689186165 user_id=86]
It sullies their traditions so it's great. It's like shitting on the mound.



I love this. Fuck the Yankees

metirish
Jul 17 2023 05:06 PM
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Last place carnage

G-Fafif
Jul 18 2023 05:50 AM
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[tweet]https://twitter.com/latt_90/status/1681170063955566592[/tweet]

batmagadanleadoff
Jul 18 2023 09:16 AM
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I dunno. This schadenfreude doesn't resonate with me. They're over .500, six games better than the Mets and only 2.5 games out of a wild card spot. Meanwhile the Mets are not only blowing a chance at post-season play this season, but more importantly and with more long-term implications, Shohei Ohtani.

Frayed Knot
Jul 18 2023 10:47 AM
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I celebrate every MFY loss no matter what other conditions exist.

metirish
Aug 01 2023 06:02 AM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/bmadden1954/status/1686198008755503105[/TWEET]

I think this is the real Bill Madden

Frayed Knot
Aug 01 2023 06:24 AM
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Remember how the commissioner needed to void the trade of Stanton to the yanx on account of it bringing about the end of competetive balance and an unbroken string of championships to the Bronx?

Edgy MD
Aug 01 2023 07:03 AM
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"Nothing coming in the farm system" is the sort of dime-store prognostication that nobody has ever felt the urge to be accountable for two years later.



The 2023 Yankees are at .519, while their 1966 counterparts finished at .440, with the worst record in the American League. Madden is just pandering, doing his best to degrade the Spink Award while he's still active and able to do so.

Johnny Lunchbucket
Aug 01 2023 07:09 AM
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Stanton is batting .199 tho

Edgy MD
Aug 01 2023 07:17 AM
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Indeed he is, and he was batting third against the Mets in that series at YSIII. I'd've felt a lot better about that if the Mets hadn't lost the second game.



Fun Fact: The Yankees farm system may or may not be a radioactive wasteland — I can't say — but their farm director is named "Oppenheimer."

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 01 2023 07:53 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:

"Nothing coming in the farm system" is the sort of dime-store prognostication that nobody has ever felt the urge to be accountable for two years later.



The 2023 Yankees are at .519, while their 1966 counterparts finished at .440, with the worst record in the American League. Madden is just pandering, doing his best to degrade the Spink Award while he's still active and able to do so.


.519 in an era where if you finish over .500, you're practically a lock to make the playoffs.

MFS62
Aug 01 2023 08:20 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:

"Nothing coming in the farm system"


I'd like to have a dollar for every time that has been said by a fan of a major league team.

Later

batmagadanleadoff
Aug 01 2023 08:23 AM
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Here's a buck: The Mets have no immediate top of the line pitching coming from their farm system.

Frayed Knot
Aug 01 2023 11:24 AM
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Edgy MD wrote:

"Nothing coming in the farm system" is the sort of dime-store prognostication that nobody has ever felt the urge to be accountable for two years later.


Yeah, it's a lazy line which both isn't true and basically translates into, 'Wah, the new guys aren't doing immediate transitions into starters and All-Stars like that '90s group did and we MFY fans now expect as a birthright'

metirish
Aug 02 2023 04:52 PM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/Yankees/status/1686864241129574400[/TWEET]

Wishing German the best

Edgy MD
Aug 02 2023 04:59 PM
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His privacy might have been better respected had they not disclosed the non-baseball reason behind the assignment, but I don't get to write these things.

metirish
Aug 02 2023 05:21 PM
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Yeah, probably trying to get a head of it , who knows

dgwphotography
Aug 02 2023 05:43 PM
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The MFYs struck out 30 times July 30/31, the most in a two-game span in franchise history.

metirish
Aug 02 2023 05:51 PM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/BryanHoch/status/1686868848706834432[/TWEET]

Frayed Knot
Aug 02 2023 05:51 PM
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Five games pitched since his perfect game* and now he's expected to not pitch again this season (according to one version I read).

Of course it's also not like he's the only author of a NYY perfect game who enjoyed himself a cocktail or two: Wells, D.; Larsen, D.

Not that I'm suggesting there's a cause and effect thing here.





* in the seven games sandwiching that PG (two before, five since) he allowed 33 runs on 38 hits across 33 innings. Go figger.

metirish
Aug 05 2023 02:48 PM
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[TWEET]https://twitter.com/YankeeWRLD/status/1687886056853573632[/TWEET]

Stanton is shot

Frayed Knot
Aug 05 2023 03:35 PM
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He shouldn't have been sent. He's not running well (though I had no idea he was THAT lame) and it was clear from

how he went from 2nd to 3rd. There were 2 outs so I guess the coach figured it was worth the shot but he was dead

meat even though it wasn't even a particularly good throw.






Stanton is shot


He's actually been hitting well lately. But his problem, the same one he's had his whole career, it that those hot streaks

never last very long even though still only 33 y/o. He can carry a team for a few weeks, but not for months.

But, hey, the Yanx are only on the hook for four more seasons!

metirish
Aug 05 2023 03:37 PM
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Four more , damn

Frayed Knot
Aug 05 2023 04:04 PM
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Plus an option for a 5th

Edgy MD
Aug 05 2023 04:05 PM
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People paid to see that performance.



Lots and lots of people.

nymr83
Aug 05 2023 07:21 PM
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Giving him the benefit of the doubt here that he isn't dogging it and the Yankees KNOW he can't run and are choosing to play him anwyay, he is slashing .209/.291/465 over the past two seasons (170 games, 695 PA) - what value is he providing?



If I were the Yankees, I'd want to reserve my DH spot for the banged-up Aaron Judge, keeping him the lineup every single day seems important to their playoff hopes.

Edgy MD
Aug 10 2023 08:57 PM
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Does this end here? Is this the curtain on three decades with a winning record for the Yankees?



Can we count on Billy McKinney to do the right thing?

Frayed Knot
Aug 16 2023 07:43 PM
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Braves just finished the sweep by shutting the Yanx out for the second straight night and winning by a cumulative 18-3 score for the series [11-3, 5-0, 2-0]

This officially drops the Yanx into a sub-.500 record [60-61] this late in the season for the first time since they were, well, also 60-61 after 121 games in 1995

under some manager named Showalter. The kicker about that season is that they then finished out the year by going 19-4 (strike shortened season) and

making the playoff as the WC team before losing that epic playoff series to the Mariners -- Griffey scores from 1st on Edgar Martinez's double down the

LF line off Jack McDowell (normally a starter, 'Black Jack' had relieved some rookie named Rivera) -- which is largely credited with saving baseball in Seattle.

That game wound up being Showalter's last game managing the Yanx.



The last time they finished a season under .500 was 1992 [76-85] which was the last of four consecutive sub-.500 teams.

nymr83
Aug 16 2023 08:43 PM
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Frayed Knot wrote:

Griffey scores from 1st on Edgar Martinez's double down the

LF line .


An all time great playoff game

Edgy MD
Aug 16 2023 10:14 PM
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And Stump Merrill is still alive to see it happen.

nymr83
Aug 23 2023 08:47 AM
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Yankees on their longest losing streak (9 games) since 1982! amazing!

Edgy MD
Aug 23 2023 09:03 AM
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Gary Cohen announced it as, "The Yankees have lost their ninth game in a row — the longest since 1982, when Clyde King was their manager!"



I'm thinking, "You don't have to look it up to know that there's no way that King was their only manager that season."

metirish
Aug 23 2023 01:20 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

Sean Casey might have been the strangest mid-season hiring in a long while



Anyway ,some things that happened in 1982 , Italy beat West Germany in the World Cup (Spain )

Frayed Knot
Aug 23 2023 04:29 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

Yanx are also in the midst of a 60-some long innings streak without holding a lead at any point.

They last led 2-1 early in a game nine days ago vs the Braves, one they'd go on to lose 11-3



But streaks are quirky and both of those will end, probably soon. What I really want out of this season

for them is last place and at a sub-.500 record. Right now they're 5-under and sinking fast. But their

schedule for the remainder of the season isn't very daunting so it's quite possible they'll resurface

above the break even point before the regular season is wrapped up.

I'm going to be tracking closely.



2 more with WAS, then @TBRx3, @DETx3, @HOUx3,

then home to DETx3, MILx3, @BOSx4, @PITx3,

then close it out with TORx3, ARZx3, @TORx3, @KCRx3

MFS62
Aug 23 2023 07:47 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

Tonight, Aaron Judge is creating carnage - he has 3 HR and 6 RBI.

And the MFYs are winning in the 9th.

Later

Frayed Knot
Aug 24 2023 08:00 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

Judge HR'd again tonight (just once) but it wasn't enough as the Yanx lost to Washington

Now 61-66, they've got 35 games left and have to go 21-14 (.600 winning pct) in order to

finish over .500 (82-80) or 20-15 to finish exactly .500



I hope not to bore you folks with everyday updates, but I'm going to be following closely.

MFS62
Aug 25 2023 06:43 AM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

Don't worry.

We're riveted by this race to embarrassment.



Later

metirish
Aug 29 2023 02:27 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

Josh Donaldson released, aside from being awful apparently he's a wanker

G-Fafif
Sep 09 2023 08:26 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

David Wells makes the Roger Clemens trade look like an even swap when it comes to personality.


[tweet]https://twitter.com/brendankutynj/status/1700591032390316137[/tweet]

Fman99
Sep 10 2023 04:40 AM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

He was always a jackass. Now he's a red state jackass. He levelled up! Nice work, Boomer

Gwreck
Sep 10 2023 07:31 AM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

I'm absolutely, positively, shocked to find this out. David Wells is a jackass?



Who could have known?

Edgy MD
Sep 10 2023 08:18 AM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

I'm kind of attracted to his logic. We should all be packing because of the threat of queer basketball shoes.



I'm in!

metirish
Sep 12 2023 07:58 AM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1701584312775180474[/TWEET]

Posted without comment

Lefty Specialist
Sep 23 2023 12:34 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

So many people in Europe wear Yankee hats, it's really annoying. A kid in Prague was sitting on steps near our hotel, so I loudly proclaimed to my friend that Derek Jeter sucks. No reaction whatsoever. Later, we were in Budapest and I saw a woman with a Yankee hat, and said the same thing. She didn't react but her boyfiend said in a very New York accent, "Hey, whadda you, a Red Sox fan?" I have stopped doing that.

MFS62
Sep 23 2023 01:15 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

Lefty Specialist wrote:

Later, we were in Budapest and I saw a woman with a Yankee hat, and said the same thing. She didn't react but her boyfiend said in a very New York accent, "Hey, whadda you, a Red Sox fan?" I have stopped doing that.

I didn't realize bleacher creature were allowed to travel. Were they in restraints?

Anyhow, enjoy your trip.

Later

G-Fafif
Sep 24 2023 03:42 PM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

The MFY loss to Arizona, combined with the remaining 3 game series between Seattle and Houston, in which somebody will win 2, eliminates the MFYs from postseason conyention, which is pretty cool.

Frayed Knot
Sep 25 2023 10:52 AM
Re: MFYankees Carnage 2023

But not as cool as if they finish below .500 although that dream of mine is starting to slip away.

With seven left to play (starting with today's make-up with Arizona) they'd have to go 2-5 (3-4 to finish an even 81 - 81). After today it's a three game set @ TOR which will Shirley need the wins but then the final three @ 103-loss KCR



Not impossible, but I'm not counting on it.