Or as I said the other night on Twitter... the Zombies.
They're a loser.
Fans are pissed... even now. I mean what an embarassment that this team couldn't get it done. But look, this is what happens when teams are streaky. You never know what you're gonna get. Now look, I blame Boone. Not just for the Wild Card game, but for the entire season. I mean, being honest here, the players have to be responsible for a one game loss like that, it's embarassing, but I have always said and I will always believe that if you don't have the right leader leading the ship to victory, you ain't gonna win anything.
Joe Girardi was a pretty damn good manager, but even he was let go because he couldn't win in the playoffs. It comes down the leaders.
We've seen Michael Kay launching on this team and on guys like Joey Gallo for weeks. I'm thrilled he did because it needed to be said.
Gallo was the wrong guy to pick up and now it looks like we have control for him for next year. OMG. Sure, defense is solid with Joey, but that's about it. He was exposed in New York. You gotta wonder what will happen to this guy. The city is too big for this guy and will literally eat him alive. And it showed... he was cracked.
Suzyn Waldman went off the other night. Audio here, but here is what she said:
"If what they think they're doing offensively is the right thing, then they either have the wrong players or they aren't paying attention. We can go through this pitching staff, who did what and who didn't do what. The thing that happened this year Sweeny to me, is they did not hit. And we saw this at the beginning of the year, they were supposed to pummel everybody... "
"Did you not see how good this offense was when they didn't have big people in there? When Giocarlo Stanton is at his best, he can't be pitched to, but that is not all the time. I'm not saying you have to lay down a bunt, I'm really not, but there's gonna be other things that you can do. Look at the Red Sox. Look at Tampa Bay, they hit. They have scored more runs than anybody, so they're not just sitting there and playing small ball, but when they need it, when they get men on and they get them in. And there were stakes tonight, why in the world would anyone send their runner, just from third base? You play at this level, you're gonna make mistakes you're gonna lose."
"How long do you do this with Gary Sanchez? How many years do you do this? They keep bringing in people, and look, we love Gary Sanchez, he's trying, they change his catching every single year, they bring in a new person. How many catching instructors? And if they're gonna go with the way they're doing, that alot of veteran catchers won't do, this together, knees down cause you can't move, alot of veteran catchers do not do it. If theyre gonna keep changing him. I mean maybe, and it's too late now, I thought they were gonna have a great offensive catcher. If he isn't Johnny Bench who cares if he hits 40 home runs. We've seen that before and it works. But if they're gonna do the same kind of offense, who knows what they're gonna do. I dont know how along with the same thing, banging your head against the wall."
I mean Suzyn came off hot and she should. Someone within that Yankee group, announcer or management needs to be HONEST. The team is trash with the exception of a few guys. But this is a perfect example of failing up. Guys in high back office positions that are more fascinated with a big name than actually winning are in charge. We need a change and we need it fast.
Even CC Sabathia was going off.
Larry Brown Sports writes:
"He questioned how the Yankees could lose to Boston in 2018 and 2021 with the same core, while the two Red Sox teams were radically different and overhauled.“Our core lost to a team in ’18 that’s not even the same Red Sox … Mookie (Betts), Jackie Bradley, (Andrew) Benintendi … they traded all them,” Sabathia said, via Chris Bengel of CBS Sports. “We still have the same core. We come back to Boston four years later and lost to a completely different core … What the f— are we doing wrong?”
There is a lot wrong with the Yankees.
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Trainers, why is it this team takes forever for an injured player to return or we rush them back before they are ready.
The scouting and evaluation department. Why is it we didn't see Garrett Whitlock and kept Brooks Kriske?
Why is it we traded for a staring pitcher who was horrible and got worse and still kept running him out there while we kept mess with a Gil.
Ever wonder why our minor league starting pitching is behind the others , because we destroy their confidence. See Devi Garcia,
Why is it that we trade for an OF who was already in a 1/21 slump when we got him and thought hey he will come out of it and while resting Stanton , Judge we ran this guy out 30 plus games in a row after we traded for him before we gave him a day off. I was a little disappointed in Rizzo on offense but he provided something we haven't had at 1B in year's defense. Speaking of scouting how is it Tampa has got offense and defense out of a guy we released after about 10 games.
Now the players, wrong chemistry and all bout themselves .Look at Voit and his self proclaimed super star .I led the majors in home runs last year and I deserve to play as much as Rizzo a guy who wasn't healthy in camp and kept saying it was just a sore knee and needed surgery a day before the season opened. Odor a guy who when was forced in to a semi every day starter who bunted against the shift hitting the opposite way ring a .179 avg up to .238 forgot how to do it and started swing for the home runs in which he connected a few times but his avg. dropped all the way down to below .200.
To many player spend more time trying to draw a walk instead of hitting a single while trying to walk looks stupid at strike 3 down the middle. There is drawing a walk when the pitcher is wild but when your letting good pitches go by trying to do it time to stop playing that player and give him time to think.
Boone trying to emulate Cash in Tampa with a different lineup or batting order each night is stupid.
Tampa always has speed at the tip of their lineup and we don't.Boone ran Odor who hit like .083 for the last 30 games while sitting Wade who when playing every day was hitting .270-.280 and stealing bases decide hey he doesn't hit home runs let's forget he gets on base and save him to pinch run for Stanton in late innings.
Like I said there is enough blame for all we bench a guy or lecture a guy for no hustles but we don't hold batters accountable for hitting .150 we just keep sending them out like Gallo and Odaor. If you don't produce you sit and we try someone else ( Allen seemed to deserve a shot as did Florial)
We over pay for a No.1 pitcher who is not clutch, a 2B who dropped 30 points from career average and hit only 10 home runs, we paid to much for Kluber and can not manage a pitching game.Pulls certain starters to early and then allow others to pitch longer resulting in bad results. Sometimes goes 5 days without using his closer who has a history of velocity being down and wild when that happens and still does it. There is need for a lot of changes maybe wholesale changes.
Define insanity—- “doing the same thing the same way over and over again and expecting a different result” This team has had the same faults for 1/2 a decade. Can’t stay healthy, can’t hit in the clutch, can’t play defense, all or nothing approach at the plate. Yet what does Cashman do year over year? Bring in all or nothing players with injury histories that can’t play defense. Cashman has no idea how to construct a roster. This team had 3 second basemen, 3 right fielders, 2 first basemen and nothing else. No viable SS, no viable starting Catcher, no solid CF, a third baseman who could not stay on the field, back ups were better than the starters and have been for 3 years. This has to change. Need an owner who holds people accountable. George would have never let this continue.
ReplyDeleteWhen you have batters looking in the dugout to see the sign that wants the better to hit the ball in a certain way, that is a problem. Not leaving out the butt-ins from the front office or that Cashman character who I do not like, he reminds me of a snapping turtle. However this has been going on for year's and needs to stop.
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