Where is the 2016 Yankees are Assholes Thread?

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx (22-23) lost Wednesday night to Toronto after a six-game winning streak (you suck Oakland!) had brought them back to .500 for the first time this season since being 4-4.
They're still fighting it out for the AL East cellar with the Jays & Rays and this streak hasn't brought them any closer to the 1st place Sox seeing as how they're scoring just shy of 8 R/G lately (118 RS over last 15) and are as hot any anyone right now.

Now ARod gets activated off the DL today and I bet they can't wait for his .194 BA to start clogging up the works again. This also pushes Beltran back to RF as he had been thriving (leads the team in HRs) while doing most of the recent DH-ing. Not that RF replacements/reclamation projects Aaron Hicks & Dustin Ackley have hit but it did give the team more speed, defense, and athleticism out there in Mr. Rod's absence.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ceetar wrote: This is disgraceful: http://nypost.com/2016/05/15/how-yankees-disgracefully-sell-the-national-anthem/ Later oh, Mushnick, I see he's as angry, wrong and rant-y as ever. He missed an easy segue too. After talking about Rosenberg (who it sounds like is a voice of reason on the Michael Kay show?) he went over to the Mets, but surely he could've worked in Rosenberg's wife Alexa Datt in to make the transition?

Oh btw, the Mets radio has the very same deal Mushnik describes with Mutual of America (shoulda read the link I guess). Howie announces the singer, saying "tonight's tribute to America was brought to you by Mutual of America..."

[bmfc1]

Enjoy: http://www.hardballtimes.com/damning-the-yankees/

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I don't know about these MFY fans commenting on the Mets, particularly this "3 things they must do to win New York" bullshit.

I do agree with the part about the MFYs being an unappealing enterprise that's almost impossible to root for and looks bad compared to the Mets, but that's pretty obvious!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Wow!

Their ballpark is as unappealing as their play. The New Yankee Stadium is a corporatist knock-off of the House That Ruth Built – a sterile, supremely overpriced bandbox where stiffs in suits eat sushi in $1,200 seats. The home field of the most famous team in sports history has gone from hallowed ground to variety show laughingstock.

[ashie62]

Ike Davis is now an MFY.

[Fman99]

I've been watching them lose at home on TV this weekend, because, of course, FIOS fucks me out of every WPIX Mets game. And watching them get knocked around is just a hoot.

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: Ike Davis is now an MFY.

First Teixeira got hurt - and then got hurt again - and was hitting .180 anyway.
Greg Bird was supposed to be his replacement but got hurt before the season ever started and will miss the year.
Last week, right after we grabbed Loney, they Yanx signed Chris Parmalee in keeping with their recent trend of collecting failed former 1st round picks [Ackley, Hicks, Parmalee] and hoping to strike lightning with at least one of them (not so far) but 8 ABs (and 2 HRs) into his Yanqui career Parmalee went down.
So it was really only a matter of time before they got around to Ike.
If he fails to work out stay by your phones ... you could be next.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: If he fails to work out stay by your phones ... you could be next.

I have caller ID. I wouldn't answer.

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LOLYankees.

* With a 6-4 lead and the inpentretrable bullpen due in, Miller gives up a 900-foot home run to cut it to 6-5 in the 8th.

* In the bottom 9th, in pouring rain, Chapman walks a guy then a 3-hour rain delay, then Kirby Yates comes in a 2:30 am:
--K
--HBP
--HBP
--2 run single
--HBP
--flyout
--2-run single
Rangers hold on and win 9-6.

* Girardi cries about rain-delay call, thinks umps should have had the sense to call the game while the MFYs were still winning.

* Arod benched.

* Randy Levine berates media for asking whether the MFYs, who've struggled at or below .500 all year, will be sellers.

Randy Levine wrote: “When we decide to become sellers, if we decide to become sellers or if we decide to become buyers, you’ll know. The difference is that most of you guys have never run anything and we have a lot of history here of knowing what we’re doing."

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: * Girardi cries about rain-delay call, thinks umps should have had the sense to call the game while the MFYs were still winning.

Girardi, apparently worried about Chapman pitching in the slop, helped talk the umps into that top of 9th delay figuring that maybe he'd get the 'W' without actually having to play the rest of the game.
But the delay wound up costing them the use of Chapman which in turn started the whole hit/HBP-athon.



The Yanx have been hanging around .500 for a while now, but this four game series with Texas represents the first tough team they've faced in two weeks following a string of Colorado - Minnesota - Colorado - Minnesota where they finished 6-6 total - which, considering they lose to the Twins once every third solar eclipse, isn't all that encouraging for the pinstripe fans.
The Rangers had been flying (19-6 in June) but had to DL starters Colby Lewis and Derek Holland last week alone on top of Yu Darvish who was DL'd two weeks ago. So, aside from Cole Hamels tonight, the Yanx get to face three guys with 9 starts this year combined including last night's season debut of Chi Chi Gonzalez who I think was a pro golfer in the 1960s. Nice to see him back earning a living.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: So, aside from Cole Hamels tonight, the Yanx get to face three guys with 9 starts this year combined including last night's season debut of Chi Chi Gonzalez who I think was a pro golfer in the 1960s. Nice to see him back earning a living.

When I saw the name I thought of this guy:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/olivoch01.shtml

IIRC the golfer was Chi Chi Rodriguez.

Later

[Ceetar]

in other news, Yankees ink deal with Stubhub and do away with any semblance of paper (print at home) tickets it seems like. mobile only.

[Ceetar]

Trespassing!

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[Frayed Knot]

As the second half of the seasons starts and the Yanx hanging around .500 for most of this year, their business side and their operations side are apparently at odds over whether to fish or cut bait.
Wally Matthews reports that Brian Cashman wants to deal off some of their high-priced aging talent -- maybe McCann, Ellsbury, Miller -- but the Steinbrenners and all-around asshole Randy Levine want to hang on to the idea that they remain contenders.

Meanwhile, the Sox are have already nailed down their third major deal of the month.

[MFS62]

Nothing about Jeter's wedding?
C'mon CPF-ers, its like hunting season.
I'll start - I wonder if she gave him back his gift basket as a dowry.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

Wonder when he explained to her that not all 'beards' are grown on the chin.

[Frayed Knot]

After losing 2 of 3 to the BoSox to start off the second half to revert back to their most common record of this season: one game under .500, things don't get any easier for the Yanx in the near future
- four games at home starting tonight against the 1st place Orioles
- they then get a visit from the 1st place SF Giants
- and then they travel to now-hot Houston for three. After starting the year 7-17, the 'stros have gone 43-25 and looked more like last year's playoff quality team; they'd probably also be a 1st place team if they could only beat Texas once in a while (1-9)

After that the Skanks go to Tampa but they'll also hit the trading deadline during that series so how these next three series go will go a long way towards determining how they play it at the deadline which will in turn dictate what kind of team we'll face in the Subway Series as that four-game tilt starts on August 1st after their games in Tampa.


iow, they've got an interesting ten days ahead of them which may force them into the type of decision they haven't had to make in a very long time.

[Centerfield]

Hopefully they'll go on enough of a run to be aggressive buyers...

...then subsequently tank. But not enough to get a protected draft pick.

[MFS62]

Some CAH* named Moore was doing the fill-in for the mid-day show on WFAN. He was speculating that the Yanks could trade two of their relievers (one of them Chapman)- one each to the Cubs and the Nats for needed talent, then re-sign Chapman as a free agent at the end of the year. So, they could screw the Mets twice. I threw up a little in my mouth, knowing that those moves are entirely possible.

Later

* CAH = Cretinous Ass Hole - one step on the evolutionary scale below YLDB. Other examples are Mark Malousis and everyone on ESPN radio.

[Edgy MD]

I'm not particularly afraid of the Nats adding a relief pitcher, or of the Yankees resigning any that they may trade to the Nats, which would only prove the Yankees didn't learn anything this season.

[Centerfield]

Let the Cubs and Nats load up. It will be that much more epic when the Mets take them down.

And let them trade away their young talent. Next few years will be that much easier.

[Frayed Knot]

Hopefully they'll go on enough of a run to be aggressive buyers...

So far it looks as though CF is getting his Yanquis wish as the 2 of 3 they lost to the Sox looks like the outlier right now. Since then they beat Baltimore 3 of 4 and got past the Giants last night* with Bumgarner on the mound. Combine that with the 3 of 4 they won from Cleveland just prior to the ASB and that's now a 8-4 streak against 1st place (or 1st-place-ish) teams over the last two weeks where a bad stretch would have absolutely buried them.

I still can't find a spot in my brain that allows me to even temporarily root for them but -- at 2 games over .500, 6.5 out in the East, 4.5 in back of the 2nd WC slot -- this recent string shirley puts a damper on those within the org who may have been in 'Full Dump' mode.



* Giants played like shit last night: Bumgarner allowed 7 hits + 3 walks in 7 IP and the Giants made 4 errors including 3 by SS Brandon Crawford
Tanaka wasn't much better than MadBum but the Giants were as bad as us w/RiSP (1 for 12) so that even after Bettances gave up a run in the 7th, Miller gave up 1 in the 8th, and Chapman started the 9th by serving up a leadoff double, SF Still found a way to lose the fuckin' game.

[Frayed Knot]

Teixeira to retire effective the end of this season, to be announced in a presser this afternoon.

Not a huge surprise, his contract is up, he'll turn 37 next opening week, and he's been breaking down physically for years now (barely 1,000 total ABs since the beginning of 2013).
It's obvious that the Yanx aren't going to resign him and he'd probably be getting the ARod treatment right now had 1B-apparent Greg Bird not gotten hurt in ST.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

The ARod thing surprises me, even by MYF standards. Do they not want him to get to 700 homers?

[Guest cooby]

If they had any kind of decency they'd release him so he could go play in Seattle or Miami. I'm sure their fans would take him in.

Heck if he can still hit...

[Frayed Knot]

I'm sure Alex would love to go to his (sorta) native south Florida, but even with the incentive of him as a ticket seller just 4 HRs short of the 700 mark (look at how Miami is embracing Ichiro's quest for 3,000 hits even though very few of the 3K came with the Marlins) no team in the non-DH league is dumb enough to take him (at least I don't think so). I have no idea what Seattle needs on the field but I don't believe that city has a lot of affection for him, or vice-versa. At this point I can't imagine who would take him but yaneverknow.

I'm sure the Yanx want to release him and know it's the right move for them but yet see the move of actually going through with it as some kind of public admission that they talked their way into a bad contract when they re-re-upped him way back when (like no one knows that already!!) and for all the talk about how the Yanx can always buy their way out of bad contracts I can't remember the last time they actually did so. It's like the MFY front office wants to avoid a public shaming of admitting a mistake like they're a modern-day version of some of those WWII-era Japanese Generals.
And I'm assuming that they can't possibly think that this sitting is going to induce HIM into getting fed up with being the world's highest paid bench sitter and walk away from next year's salary but it's like that's exactly what they're trying to get him to do while they simultaneously make sure that no one else will want him either.

[Guest cooby]

yeah, for crying out loud, what did they expect when they signed him thru age 42? I'm sure Arod wasn't expecting this inglorious treatment.
Forgot Miami was NL.

[seawolf17]

I almost actually feel bad for ARod here. There's no way the Yankees let him pass Babe Ruth on their dime.

[Edgy MD]

And yet, they won't cut him loose until his agent comes crawling to them offering to renegotiate.