"Are you sure you're not a shortstop?"
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
There is no backup plan.
If Soto signs elsewhere, the Yankees are selling the franchise to Mike Lupica.
As with all of these analyses, I don't think the Yankees should say "or." It should always be "and."
Sign Soto AND Alonso for starters. Also, sign Adames AND that Japanese pitcher.
Also, the soft salary cap is stupid and it isn't working.
Also, did the threshold increase to account for inflation?
Sunday, December 01, 2024
The Dodgers crushed the Mets in the NLCS.
Outscored the Mets 46-26.
Won four games to two.
The Mets (and Lupica, by extension) take a silly amount of pride in winning a Game Five bullpen game so the Dodgers couldn't celebrate at Citi Field.
This particular phenomenon might be the silliest thing in the ultra silly world of professional sports.
"It's our house" and such.
Who cares where you lose or even how you lose?
Even though Lupica is bizarrely giving the Mets A LOT of credit for NOT making the World Series, it's simply asinine to act like the Mets played better in the NLCS than the Yankees did in the World Series.
The Yankees evenly matched the Dodgers and the games were close.
No, it doesn't actually matter. "Almost winning" is the same thing as losing.
But if you're going to evaluate the quality of the performances, and you conclude that the Mets outplayed the Yankees, then you're just being ignorant.
I'm also not sure why anyone would bother.
Do the Mets get a parade down the Canyon of Heroes for winning two games in a seven-game series?
Knock yourselves out.
Get Mookie and Buck and Dwight and Darryl on Opening Day to raise the banner. Lupica could go through his rolodex and relive the good ol' days.
For what it's worth? At no moment after losing Game Two did I think the Yankees could come back and win the World Series.
If Judge had caught the easy fly ball and if Cole had covered first base, the Dodgers had their best pitchers set up for Games Six and Seven. Winning is always preferable to losing, but the ending was pretty much already written before the fifth inning of Game Five.
So when I say the games in the World Series were close, I'm simply stating a fact. I'm only comparing their respective efforts to the Mets because Lupica is petty enough to do that.
It's not a useful way to evaluate anything.
I mean, the Padres took a 2-1 lead against the Dodgers in the ALDS, didn't they?
So in Lupica Land, the Padres must be the World Champions right now.
So much more. So very much more. The most more that any team has ever needed in the off season, and that's if they sign Soto.
The Yankees haven't even won the World Series since 2009.
Mookie Wilson; Jonathan Papelbon; Buck Showalter; and Alex Rodriguez took PEDs.
No, he didn't say all that.
I'm reminded when Lupica said the Mets needed deGrom. Then, when deGrom signed with the Rangers, Lupica switched and said that the Mets needed the payroll flexibility.
None of this is ever an actual baseball discussion. It's just the Yankees are always stupid and the Mets are always smart ... and, of course, the Mets are about to take over the attention of baseball fans in the New York metropolitan area.
Like in 1986.