[3] That was among the handful of results from “laughing Yankee” and I thought maybe I’d actually find a picture that fit into the window for once. But now that you mention it, it’s really weird.

If the marketing cranks won’t let us call it the playoffs anymore, we can at least refuse to subscribe to their branding edicts.

Anytime I see that word capitalized, I hear Joe Buck’s voice. Not a good thing.

🙂

One other thing, off topic. That picture of A-Rod somehow sums up his entire persona. I mean, c’mon. No one laughs like that, do they? Every time I saw him do that in the dugout, it just seemed so incredibly phony, like everything else about him. I’m not anti-A-Rod at all — except for his ridiculous contract and his suspension — but I’ve always imagined him to be some type of divine experiment: “What would happen if we gave someone more baseball talent than anyone in history, but took away all social skills and self-awareness?”

After all, shouldn’t fans become attached to those who have success here? And if you’re brought in to “save” a season and then actually do well in that regard, that’s huge. But then the GM has to step in and not hand out contracts that don’t line up with reality.

I know Ichiro is not loved around here but I have never thought he was a big problem or anyway 2012 still outweighs 2013 and 2014 for me.

So McCarthy and his Civil War re-enactment society for two more years seems like a no-brainer to me now, but that’s when it’s good for all of us that I don’t hand out any contracts. Not that it would be good or bad deal, just I’m in a bad position to judge after the great job he’s done so far.