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All Tied Up In Nots

Walk_in_walk_out*Sigh*, let’s see what the Bumm- uh, Bombers did last night…

Hmm, lots of goose eggs in the box score, oh look they managed to push across a run in the second, and dayum, Austin Romine nearly had an extra base hit that could have possibly sparked a much needed and welcomed rally, but some guy on the Blue Jays named Kevin Pillar, whose name sounds too coincidentally like another former Yankee Killer, secured a spot on the Summer Olympics swim team by completing what amounts to be a horizontal swan dive to catch Romine’s sure-shot double, wowing fans and broadcasters alike, while at the same time diminishing any hope that the Yanks would have at least a break in the monotony of loser baseball.  Not just losing, mind you; everybody loses, but when you’re third to last in OPS throughout the season, can’t quite catch up to .500, have essentially five DHs in the lineup who hit for horseshit (our favorite type of fertilizer in these parts, though nothing seems to be growing from it) and a notebook full of whimsy and mystical wonders, you my friend are looking at loser baseball.  Of course, the advantages are clearly potential; higher position in the draft (and thank the stars James Dolan doesn’t run the this team or we’d be out of the draft for the next ten years), time for your prospects to prepare themselves for the leap by adjusting to (or as the case may be, healing from ) AAA play, and in effect driving advertising and broadcast package rates down a notch in the long run because no one in their right minds would pay high rates to watch this over and over again (at least I would hope not for their sake).

This team has me writing in sarcasm-laden parentheticals these days. Bummer.

So, in short, J.A. wins again because he somehow owns the Yanks, CC loses again mainly due to the lack of offense and a neurotic need to use the bullpen to stave off BB (Bulllpen Boredom), and Yank fans are likely contemplating a membership to AA (no need to explain).  Yanks lose 4-1. *sigh*

Categories:  1: Featured  Chyll Will  Game Recap  Yankees

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4 comments

1 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 1, 2016 10:23 am

Great write up Chyll. You captured the evening well. I'm starting to listen to the wife who keeps saying, "do you really want to keep watching this crap?" OTOH, we also have the luxury of watching the Nats, who are pretty interesting this year, doing what they need to do: splitting with the good teams, beating up on the losers. Dusty Baker seems refeshingly binder-less. He actually left a young starter in when a reliever seemed called for because, he said aterwards, it boosted the kid's confidence for future starts. Imagine that!

2 rbj   ~  Jun 1, 2016 12:33 pm

Yeah, this is a third of the season. This team just isn't good.

3 GaryfromChevyChase   ~  Jun 1, 2016 5:24 pm

Big Pappi and Ichiro are making Arod look even worse.

4 rbj   ~  Jun 1, 2016 5:47 pm

Wow 13 walks for the Mutts today, and only one run

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