MFYankees Season of Doom 2024

[Edgy MD]

Aaron Judge. Golden sombrero. A .179 average. All rising and booing in the Booronx.



Ouch. He's probably still having a better start than Francisco Lindor, with his team in first place, but ... .

[Frayed Knot]

But, in honor of it being John Sterling Day, one of those K's was called a HR.





Sudden thought: do you think maybe the gift the 83-inch (that's 6' 11" for those of you scoring at home) TV for Sterling was a not-so-subtle hint saying, well maybe NOW you'll be able to tell a Homer from a pop to deep SS!

[metirish]

Cry more

[metirish]

The NY Mets bringing the doooooom



See yaaaa

[Fman99]

Hard to recall back to back games vs the Bronx Twatters where we utterly destroyed their pitching like this. Especially in our normal sized stadium and not their bandbox

[Frayed Knot]

The 2024 season of the Yanx Luis Gil:

- first 14 starts/80 innings: 18 earned runs allowed

- most recent 3 starts/9-2/3 innings: 16 earned runs



In those three games his ERA went from 2.03 to 3.41

I like to think that our game (the first of those three) started him on the road to destruction.

[Edgy MD]

Gleyber Torres, whose lack of hustle was palpable during his series against the Mets, has sort of become the story, being benched a few times since the series and called out by his manager, which now gives best-play-by-play-man-in-baseball Michael Kay implicit permission to call him out from the booth.

[metirish]

Losers of 14 of the last 19 games

[MFS62]

On his debut show on WEVD (later ESPN radio) I heard Michael Kay say he had never used ketchup and didn't "believe in" EZ-Pass.

I had turned in to see if the new station would be a viable alternative to the drive time blowhards on WFAN.

After hearing that, I stopped listening to both.



Later

[metirish]

Wow , this is great

[Frayed Knot]

Yup. He assumed the play was going to be made at 1st making it irrelevant whether he crossed the plate first or not.

But once it became a tag play then the whole situation changes. There seems to be a lot of MFY non-hustling lately, eh?

I wasn't watching at the time so I'm not sure how the booth handled it. They tend to be more forgiving of the home folks unless the guy is otherwise

not contributing and therefore has been deemed by the ones up on high to be NOT a 'True Yanqui'. At that point he becomes target practice.





I did tune in briefly to that rain-delayed game after our debacle was over but went to bed once Boston blew several chances: 1st & 2nd none out and

then 2nd & 3rd with one out in the 8th.

So I was pleasantly surprised to learn this morning that the Sox went on to score twice in the 9th to tie it then twice more in the 10th to win it.

[Frayed Knot]

A bit of an update of a post I wrote in a TWiB Notes thread in mid-June:



[The Yanx] pitching has been the unanticipated strength.

Last year they rode a CY year from Gerritt Cole to a 4.31 team ERA, good for T-9th among the 30 clubs.

This season, played entirely without Cole so far, it's more than a full run lower at 3.26 and best in MLB

- Carlos Rodon, awful last year, sub-3.00 this year

- Marcus Stroman: sub-3

- rookie Luis Gil was sub-2 until his last start and still has a sub-1 WHIP

- Clarke Schmidt, tho recently IL'd, nearly halved his ERA from last year [4.64 to 2.52]

- Nestor Cortes dropped more than a full run/G off his [4.97 to 3.68]



I said somewhere here that I thought Cole was the most important injury starting the year because of how much

the Yanx relied on him to give them a likely win every fifth day and how there was no logical replacement to pick

up the slack. Instead, Rodon, Stroman, Gil, and Schmidt combined are as stingy this year and Cole was in his CY

campaign last season, so instead of losing him it's more like he's been quadrupled.





When I wrote that the Yanx' starters ERA was 3.38 in April and 2.02 in May but then, just as Cole returned from

the IL, it ballooned to 5.37 and it's 5.17 so far in July



Individually, Rodon was sub-3.00 less than a month ago, now it's 4.45

Stroman went from sub-3.00 to 3.58

Gil from sub-2.00 to 3.27

And now that Cole is off the IL with 4 starts under his belt, his ERA sits at 6.75



And the entire team ERA went from best in both leagues to 9th best in less than a month's time.

[Fman99]

They all suck and I'd let any of them take a bullpen job away from the shitbags in our pen

[metirish]

Oh man

[Edgy MD]

All roads lead to Volpe.



He just kind of lollygagged it and let the ball play him a little, but where the hell was Verdugo playing? I realize that he broke in initially, but he seemed like he must've been playing much too shallow to begin with. The ball landed pretty much where a standard leftfielder would be positioned and he wasn't anywhere near it when it fell in.

[metirish]

The doom is real

[metirish]

Oh no

[Lefty Specialist]

Make that 28 teams, Bucko. The 29th was pretty successful at the task.

[metirish]

🍿🎊

[Lefty Specialist]

Oh, this is wonderful. Mike Francesa ranting about the Yankees.



https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-francesa-podcast/id1615588712https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mike-francesa-podcast/id1615588712

[Edgy MD]

The notion that the conduct of George Steinbrenner is somehow the gold standard that's missing should not be entertained.

[Lefty Specialist]

Well, Steinbrenner flipping his lid would be schadenfreude-ilicious.



The Yankees really are a two-man team, and nothing else. I was amazed when they batted JD Davis cleanup. Seriously, what were they thinking?

[Edgy MD]

The problem is that the alleged virtues of Steinbrenner's leadership are pretty much exactly what took President Trump to the top.



We can have a good old time laughing at it all, but I feel like the last laugh was on us.

[nymr83]

Edgy MD wrote: The problem is that the alleged virtues of Steinbrenner's leadership are pretty much exactly what took President Trump to the top. We can have a good old time laughing at it all, but I feel like the last laugh was on us.

I don't think there has to be a disconnect between enjoying Steinbrenner antics as entertainment as owner of your (least) favorite team while not wanting the same shenanigans in your government.

[batmagadanleadoff]

So the lesson, kids, is never to make fun of Georgia Steinbrenner because years after he died, Trump became President.

[Edgy MD]

Make fun of him all you want.



It doesn't work for me, anymore. It may certainly work for you.



Fortunately, the Yankees have proven they can fail without him. Sometimes even disgracefully so.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I wasn't making fun of Steinbrenner.

[metirish]

Carton calling games now , it's as bad as one might expect

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I heard him do an inning or two over the weekend. He wasn't so bad. Better than that John Sterling Wannabe clown they had on there

[MFS62]

He called that like he was betting on the game.

Or is "Just what the Doctor ordered" going to be his catch phrase?

Later