Saturday, February 24, 2018
Friday, February 23, 2018
If it's laughable, then laugh.
"Maybe Cashman was being cheeky, but it’s a bad look. Say what you
will about the Yankees — and everything possible has been — they are the
big boys on the block, in the Big Apple and in our pastime. The Yankees
are so bit that only a team from the NFL (the Dallas Cowboys) is worth
more, at $4 billion. Everything about the Yankees, from their history,
to the names burned in our collective history, to their opulent new
stadium and the prices to sit in said stadium is outsized.
The Yankees are so burned into the sports vernacular that Vince Lombardi’s first goal as head coach was to make his Green Bay Packers the New York Yankees of football. When tourists return from a trip to New York and either complain or marvel at the size and speed of everything, that’s what the Yankees represent, the mythology of money and skyscrapers and the House That Ruth Built."
Jeez, pal. He's just trying to take the pressure off.
Why? Because, in case you hadn't noticed, everyone wants to be the underdog.
The Yankees are so burned into the sports vernacular that Vince Lombardi’s first goal as head coach was to make his Green Bay Packers the New York Yankees of football. When tourists return from a trip to New York and either complain or marvel at the size and speed of everything, that’s what the Yankees represent, the mythology of money and skyscrapers and the House That Ruth Built."
Jeez, pal. He's just trying to take the pressure off.
Why? Because, in case you hadn't noticed, everyone wants to be the underdog.
There's a new sheriff in town.
The guts it takes to discipline a bench warmer in a spring training game.
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
These writers hated Girardi the whole time.
All I ask is that I get a nickel every time Boone says "the process."
Sunday, February 11, 2018
"Hitting .300" is something people care about again?
Public free agent/contract disputes between pro sports players and pro sports ownership?
One time, I'd like to see a commenter take the side of the players:
"All you need to know about the current impasse with free agents in baseball is the headline I saw the other day about Eric Hosmer looking for an 8- or 9-year deal.
Well, OK, Hosmer can look for a contract like that.
But on what planet?"
The same planet where a 65-year-old man can tweet that Justin Timberlake's halftime show was the greatest halftime show ever.
"And on what planet is a $125 million, five-year deal something about which J.D. Martinez gets to act insulted, a glorified DH who had one really great home-run year splitting time between the Detroit Tigers and the Arizona Diamondbacks?"
When the Mets sign J.D. Martinez, Lupica will compare Martinez to Roberto Clemente.
"But owners are supposed to be colluding because they’re not giving guys like Martinez the kind of seven-year deal that the Yankees gave Jacoby Ellsbury, somebody the Yankees now can’t give away."
Not sure if the owners are "supposed to be" colluding. The players and their agents are grumbling and that's what they always do.
"And if you want to look at a longer contract than that, look at where the Mariners are with Robinson Cano, four years into his 10-year and $240 million deal.
You know how many times Cano has hit .300 in Seattle so far?
Once."
Weird about-face.
I think the Mariners will regret a 10-year deal and I always have. Cano's first four years in Seattle have been good, but not MVP worthy.
But every NY writer, including Lupica, has spent four years ripping the Yankees for letting Cano go.
So Lupica just admitted the Yankees made a smart move. But he did it indirectly and probably unintentionally.
One time, I'd like to see a commenter take the side of the players:
"All you need to know about the current impasse with free agents in baseball is the headline I saw the other day about Eric Hosmer looking for an 8- or 9-year deal.
Well, OK, Hosmer can look for a contract like that.
But on what planet?"
The same planet where a 65-year-old man can tweet that Justin Timberlake's halftime show was the greatest halftime show ever.
"And on what planet is a $125 million, five-year deal something about which J.D. Martinez gets to act insulted, a glorified DH who had one really great home-run year splitting time between the Detroit Tigers and the Arizona Diamondbacks?"
When the Mets sign J.D. Martinez, Lupica will compare Martinez to Roberto Clemente.
"But owners are supposed to be colluding because they’re not giving guys like Martinez the kind of seven-year deal that the Yankees gave Jacoby Ellsbury, somebody the Yankees now can’t give away."
Not sure if the owners are "supposed to be" colluding. The players and their agents are grumbling and that's what they always do.
"And if you want to look at a longer contract than that, look at where the Mariners are with Robinson Cano, four years into his 10-year and $240 million deal.
You know how many times Cano has hit .300 in Seattle so far?
Once."
Weird about-face.
I think the Mariners will regret a 10-year deal and I always have. Cano's first four years in Seattle have been good, but not MVP worthy.
But every NY writer, including Lupica, has spent four years ripping the Yankees for letting Cano go.
So Lupica just admitted the Yankees made a smart move. But he did it indirectly and probably unintentionally.
Saturday, February 10, 2018
In case you forgot or were unaware ...
... Mike Lupica is buddies with Buck Showalter.
The ostensible purpose of the article is to explain that Manny Machado's manager is aware of the fact that Manny Machado is an excellent baseball player.
The ostensible purpose of the article is to explain that Manny Machado's manager is aware of the fact that Manny Machado is an excellent baseball player.
Wednesday, February 07, 2018
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