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All’s been relatively quiet on the Hot Stove front. But at least pitchers and catchers report next week.

[Picture by William O. Fletcher via Index of American Design via the National Gallery of Art]

Youse guys stink. Or some variation is prolly what you’re thinking of our boys these days. And who could blame you?

What we’re seeing right now is depressing, ain’t it?

What with all the activity in December, January is a decidedly less dramatic month for the Hot Stove.

What’s keeping you warm?

The Hot Stove is simmering.

Tonight gives the 2022 MVP awards…

Rizzo returns.

The Phillies swiped Game One from the Astros in Houston and hope to do more damage tonight.

Course, the damage has already been done to the Yanks, and the seasons ends with Aaron Judge inexplicably getting jeered at home, and Hal Steinbrenner giving Aaron Boone a vote of confidence as manager. Surely, all is not settled in Yankeeland.

Meanwhile, the championship with the Astros and the Phillies.

Never mind the hot stove:

Let’s Go Base-Ball!

The Yanks are down 3-0. Here’s hoping they can make us happy at least once more. One they lose, the panic about signing Aaron Judge, followed by Aaron Boone’s inevitable dismissal will set off a long, weird off-season.

Never mind hot stove:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Yanks still have a chance to swipe a game in Houston—and yes, Game 1 was within reach, a missed opportunity, dammit.

Sevi on the hill tonight.

Never mind the brisket:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Ah, the Yanks and Astros play for the American League pennant. Just like it was drawn up. Sure, the Astros should be able to wipe the floor with these Yanks but stranger things have happened.

We’ll be here rooting.

Never mind the hangover:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Nail-biting time for the Yanks and Guardians in the Bronx tonight. The weather looks lousy. The fans will be noisy. We will be rooting.

Never mind the Hot Stove:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Game Two gives a rare afternoon playoff game in the Bronx.

Yanks looking to stay ahead of the Guardians and not turn this into some kind of soggy, misbegotten weekend of horrors in Cleveland.

Never mind the doubts:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Today gives a pair of Game 2’s in the National League.

Never mind the chill:

Let’s Go Base-ball!

Aaron Judge didn’t hit a home run during the weekend series against the Orioles. He hasn’t seen that many strikes, though yesterday he whiffed three times. Can’t help trying to hit a home run at home. He had at least two pitches yesterday that were mistakes. He put a good swing on both of them. Fouled them both off. The difference between a hot streak and “pressing.”

The Yanks are winners of the AL East and end the regular season against the Rangers in Texas. Tomorrow gives a double header so figure Judge will play three of the four games.

Never mind the pressure:

Let’s Go Jud-ge!

The Yanks clinched the AL East on Tuesday night. They’ve got eight games left (including a double header next Tuesday in Texas). Under normal circumstances, Aaron Judge would get a game or two off. That’s not going to happen with him sitting on 60 homers.

You know he’s got to be pressing and yet last night he walked four times. He was up five times and the count went full in each at-bat. In the first inning, he lined out sharply to third and after that, he spit on the 3-2 pitch, all enticing, and took his walks.

One of Roger Maris’s sons sits next to Judge’s mother at each game. It’s all exhausting—Michael Kay has to rev up into “historic” mode each time Judge comes up—but in the meantime, the Yanks are winning and all is well.

Everyone should have such problems.

Never mind the great expectations:

Let’s Go-Yankees!

Hitting home runs is not easy even for the best of the them.

All eyes on Aaron Judge again this afternoon. Yanks have beat the Sox 5-4 each of the past two nights; he walked three times on Thursday and hit a long fly ball that he “just missed”; got a base hit and whiffed twice last night. The magic number for clinching the AL East is down to four for the Bombers.

Never mind the pressure:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Aaron Judge hit home run number 60 last night to lead off the ninth inning. Four batters later, Giancarlo Stanton hit a line drive home run—the kind Dave Winfield used to hit—for a game-ending grand slam.

Tonight Judge goes for 61.

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

Well, the Yanks offense has been lousy this summer but Aaron Judge continues to astound.

What a season, with a couple more homers last night in Boston and Maris’s 61 within reach.

Funski.

Wow, this has been some kind of ugly, eh? And to think they still have the second best record in the league.

Ah, the trade deadline.