In World Series Thread - 2024

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Anything coulda happened if Stanton was safe

[Centerfield]

One of the key differences in the Yankees and Mets is that the Yanks bullpen has done a good job of not letting the Dodgers pull away late. The first few innings of each game kinda remind me of our series, except we'd have Phil Maton come in and give up 4.

I think we caught them when Freeman wasn't healthy, and not the Yankees are getting the benefit of a hobbled Ohtani. Can you even imagine this team at full strength. Holy shit.

[Centerfield]

Haha

I used to think that Sterling was so eager to go into his signature calls that he saw what he wanted to see.

Nowadays I think he can't see at all and is just guessing.

[MFS62]

Speaking of Announcers, I keep thinking one of the guys (not sure who) sounds like Bob Uecker.
Later

[Frayed Knot]

My MFY loving friend at work is laying some blame on the umps 😆

Because Yanqui fans don't merely want the calls to go their way they expect them to go their way.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

So I got in due to a work thing (and actually worked) but suite level highlights.

A Q&A with Reggie Jackson. The host notices during the event that Reggie's phone is buzzing -- Willie Randolph is calling. Reggie picks up the phone, puts it on speaker. Willie's asking where Reggie is, and Reggie talks him into the room where Wee Willie walks in to laughter and applause. Pretty sharp comedy chops for a 78-year-old.

Also saw Omar, Spike Lee and ... Nick Swisher. It was a big night.

4 train is brutal after the game. 20 minutes just to walk up the stairs

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

So I got in due to a work thing (and actually worked) but suite level highlights.

A Q&A with Reggie Jackson. The host notices during the event that Reggie's phone is buzzing -- Willie Randolph is calling. Reggie picks up the phone, puts it on speaker. Willie's asking where Reggie is, and Reggie talks him into the room where Wee Willie walks in to laughter and applause. Pretty sharp comedy chops for a 78-year-old.

Also saw Omar, Spike Lee and ... Nick Swisher. It was a big night.

4 train is brutal after the game. 20 minutes just to walk up the stairs

That sounds like an amazing experience - except for the train.

[metirish]

Very cool, I was wondering what you were doing there

[Frayed Knot]

So will tonight be the last baseball game for the next five months?

To avoid that the Yanx are pinning their hopes for survival on righty Luis Gil, the guy who had a great April & May but more ordinary since.
He's also only pitched once since the end of the season when he started Game 4 vs Cleveland allowing 2R/3H in 4 innings.

The Dodgers have yet to name a starter as this is one of their designated 'Bullpen games'.
Of course it is, in effect, a ballgame game for the Yanx too as it'll be quick hooks all around for both managers.
Hell, 15 hurlers were used last night despite just six total runs scored (four until 2 out/bottom 9).

I conked out around the 7th last night so missed the late mini-drama.

[Centerfield]

As FK mentioned, the difference between 1st half/second half Gil is pretty stark. Second half Gil had a 4.20 ERA. 1.419 WHIP.

4 IP, 2 ER in his one post-season start against Cleveland.

[Edgy MD]

Last night, the Yankees kind of looked like the Mets did against the Dodgers, falling behind early, but continually getting runners on through the middle innings and into the late ones, but despairing for the big hit.

The Mets wouldn't have sent Stanton, though.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

According to MLB Insider Jon Heyman of the New York Post, Yankees manager Aaron Boone "seems likely" to be getting a contract extension; Boone is currently managing in the last year of a three-year contract that he signed in 2021, although it contains a club option for 2025 that the Yankees can exercise.

This was posted before the series. Getting swept might change some minds. Wouldn't be the first time the MFYs fired a manager after losing a Series.

[Centerfield]

I have to wonder how Yankee fans are dealing with this.

*World Series appearance. Down 3-0. Unlike past ones, they don't know when they'll be back
*The Dodgers are better than them. They spend money. And for the first time ever, there's rumblings that the superstar will leave the Yankees and join the enemy.
*The Mets are good too, and are an even bigger threat to steal Soto than the Dodgers.

[Edgy MD]

The Dodgers are better at the Yankees own game.

They're not better because of a well-balanced roster and a well-executed performance. They're the best team in the league in exactly the same big, brutal, ugly way the Yankees have always tried to be the best team in the league — by assembling a block of three MVPs that they didn't develop but instead chose to overpay for in the second halves of their careers, still close enough to their primes that stacking them in a row is overwhelming.

Even if you just stock the rest of your roster with decent, modest contributors, there's a good chance that the opposition is focused enough on the monsters in the lineup, and worn down by them, that they won't be ready when one of your other guys breaks through.

[metirish]

NBC 4 NY segment now from MFY stadium said the game tonight is not a sellout

[MFS62]

NBC 4 NY segment now from MFY stadium said the game tonight is not a sellout

Jumping off the bandwagon.
They're front runners and not true fans,
Always have been,
Always will be.

Later

[Methead]

The company I now work for, in the main NYC office, has an older gentleman who helps maintain the kitchen / cafe / break area, keeping it clean and stocked, showing newbs how to get the goddamn coffee machine to make coffee, and so on. He is a very valued member of the team, and as such, the whole company chipped in and got him a couple of tix to Game 4 tonight, since he's been a Yankees fan forever but never made it to a World Series game.

They surprised him with the tickets and he wept happy tears, and was very thankful.

So tonight I'm hoping the Yankees avoid the sweep, but only for him.

[The Hot Corner]

Freddie Freeman - Certified Yankee Killer

[Methead]

Wouldn't have been a homer at Citi

[Lefty Specialist]

Nice to see FFF torture somebody besides the Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

Freeman certainly feeling unfettered and alive in this series.

[Frayed Knot]

Are the Yanx going to remove that fan for yanking the ball out of Mookie's glove or are they going to award him free field level tickets to
tomorrow's game like they did for Jefferey Maier?

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I want the Yankees to lose so we can see Yankee tears falling like Tom Verducci’s famed “soft rain.”

[The Hot Corner]

That is the most blatant example of fan interference that I can recall ever seeing. It was excessive and was a prolonged efort to interfere with Betts. Here should already be in the parking lot for his embarrassing lack of sportsmanship and fair play. If the Yankees did not remove him, then the league should fine them in my opinion.

[Frayed Knot]

I suspect that tattoo on Luis Gil's throat is a saying of some sort, but from a distance it looks like a bar code.