Saturday, March 20, 2021

It's Mr. Lindor to you.

"If I I’m Steve Cohen and Sandy Alderson, I don’t let a new contract for Frankie Lindor become a thing."

Aside from the abominable construction of that sentence ... think about how that reads ... I don't think anyone calls him Frankie. Maybe they do and I'm unaware of this. I have never heard it anywhere else.

Also, well ... let's just say you're hyping the guy because he signed with the Mets.

You're spending someone else's money. 

Is Lindor worth, way, $400 million?


When Mike Lupica talks about Aaron Judge, he's really talking about Pete Alonso and Alex Rodriguez:

"We all know what Judge can do when he can stay on the field. He hit 52 home runs and set the all-time rookie record for home runs that Pete Alonso would break two seasons later. To put that in some perspective, you know how many other hitters in Yankee history not associated with performance-enhancing drugs — we’re talking about you, Mr. On-Again with Jennifer Lopez — have hit as many as 50 homers in a season?"

Yes. I do know.

 "Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris."

Easy Yankee Trivia for $200, Alex.

"We do keep hearing chatter about Aaron Boone, because that comes with the territory. We are talking here about the Yankee manager who became the first in the history of the team to win 100 or more games in his first two seasons. Now we hear about how much money is being spent on the players he manages, as if that is some sort of marker on the job he is doing. Really? The Yankees have probably spent around four billion dollars on baseball players since the ’01 World Series and have played in two since then and won one."

I'm not hearing many complaints about Aaron Boone. I have some of my own. 

"And if you think it was Boone’s decision to pull Deivi Garcia after one inning of Game 2 against the Rays, you also believe that Alex and Jennifer are going to make it to the altar someday."

Alex Rodriguez joined the Yankees in 2004. Seventeen years of this.

"Maybe this is the season when they are healthy together all season long and dangerous together all season long. Here is another thing to know about Judge and Stanton: Before them, there was only one time when the Yankees ever had two players on the same team with 50-homer seasons on their resumes, because the same year that Judge hit 52 in New York Stanton hit 59 in Miami."

Andruw Jones and Alex Rodriguez were Yankee teammates. 

"Stanton came here from somewhere else. Yankee fans look at Aaron Judge as their own. Not so long after Jeter left the stage, he came along to turn all of 2017 into a Home Run Derby. The next two years after that he combined to hit 54. Still plenty of time for him to punch his ticket to Monument Park. Not sitting next to the Aaron who manages the team."

Aaron Judge has the same first name as Aaron Boone.

Get it?



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