2024 New York Yankees..........on to the World Series for 41st time

[jayg]

5 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:

 

Cashman built the worst bullpen in my lifetime as a Yankee fan.  An absolute joke.  
 

Boone got this team to the WS yet it’s clear to everyone that watches this team daily that we overcome the sloppiness the laziness the boneheaded base running that was all too common during the season and manifested in this WS was all made up for bc Judge and Soto were insane.  
 

Cashman failed to build a better team relying on the algorithm that told him this team is a lock for 90-95 wins so we’re good.  
 

Clay Holmes.  Luke Weaver.  Tommy Kahnle.  Mark Leiter Jr.  Tim Hill.  
 

It’s just unconscionable.  
 

We wasted peak Judge and Cole seasons.  
 

That’s on Cashman.  
 

So he’ll get an extension.  Because Hal sucks.  

 

I'm so over Cashman, have been for many years.  

[Mike in Horseheads]

Just think of all the fortunate kids in Haiti who will soon be running around in Yankees 2024 WS Champs

[Big Blitz]

6 minutes ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

Just think of all the fortunate kids in Haiti who will soon be running around in Yankees 2024 WS Champs

 

FYI - thought you might find this ….. interesting.  

 

 

They’re going to go after Soto to.  

[Mike in Horseheads]

1 minute ago, Big Blitz said:

 

FYI - thought you might find this ….. interesting.  

 

 

They’re going to go after Soto to.  

He;s going to get a zillion dollars from some team

[US Egg]

27 minutes ago, muppy said:

My heart was pounding during tonight's game. And I don't like either team. World Series is high drama. It's a whole level up in intensity than the regular season.

 

the dodger fans will be insufferable as usual when they play in 2025 here in San Diego. pfft dodgers.

Not that I need to remind you, but, I am, if the Padres didn’t get Yamamoto’d…..🤭

[fasteddie]

Our cable provider (Spectrum) had problems with the Fox feed and we missed the last 3 innings. All other channels were ok. It figures.

[BringMetheHeadofLeonLett]

5 hours ago, muppy said:

My heart was pounding during tonight's game. And I don't like either team. World Series is high drama. It's a whole level up in intensity than the regular season.

 

the dodger fans will be insufferable as usual when they play in 2025 here in San Diego. pfft dodgers.

As a Dodgers fan- with a capital D, and an s at the end, I'd like to say that I'm only insufferable when we play the Padre and Giant... and the Cardinals most of all.  Except for when we play the stinking, cheating Astros and BoSox, and absolutely most of all the Los Angeles California Angels of Anaheim.   Idiots don't even know where they exist.  
 

It may seem odd, but I hate the Cardinals most of all.  check the history

 

I am also somewhat insufferable around waking up with dog slobber, on the wrong side of the bed, bad coffee, mediocre pizza, mediocre Mexican, and mediocre Italian food from places I generally consider reliable, ill functioning toilet paper, snobby people, and toothpaste that doesn't live up to its advertised whitening power also piss me off.  Overproduced music, cold-shipped fruits and vegetables which will never ripen to taste like anything they're supposed to (I'm looking at you Avocados from Mexico), and traffic cameras. 
 

When my girl is a pain in the ass, my dog bites the other one, my cat puts his claw through my lip... that's just love in action... crazy world, but it's kinda true. 
 

Just for a frame of reference, try being a Dodgers fan living in SF during the Bonds / SF championship days - those people are nuts in how much they hate the Dodgers (not kidding).  Oh sure, I'm still alive, but it's only because those animals wanted it that way- I have to type every post with the tip of my tongue nowadays-

 

kidding, but there were some close moments with those idiots. 

 

Walk off Grand Slam and a 5 run comeback- it took all that to shape the series...  and the game 1 thing is massively reminiscent of Kirk Gibson's series- altering, and really world-altering HR.  Sometimes things happen like that- thankfully it seems to be in the Dodgers favor as a fan.  
 

Nice series Yankees fans, really not kidding - Judge sucked, defense had issues, but none of that is true beyond a moment in time - until we meet again. 
 

It's Time For Dodger Baseball.  )
 

 

[fasteddie]

5 hours ago, Mike in Horseheads said:

He;s going to get a zillion dollars from some team

Did you lose the world series feed too, or are you smart enough to not have Spectrum? 

[BringMetheHeadofLeonLett]

 

 

[BringMetheHeadofLeonLett]

Gotta watch this-

 

 

[4merper4mer]

To anyone with any level of objectivity the below is obvious:

 

1. The Yankees made the World Series in a year where several AL teams were on the rise but not ready yet.  Included are Detroit, Cleveland, and KC. Add Oakland…..did I stutter?  Just watch.  Houston is aging. Seattle is a bit of a mystery as their pitching is unmatched but while their hitting on paper is decent, it did not produce.  Baltimore suffered from injuries galore but also mismanaged themselves.  Boston has one of the best systems in the league, maybe the best, and is in the midst of a rebuild that will probably succeed.  Other teams are in a period where they need redefining….Min & TB being examples.  Texas….now there’s a team that will be back.

 

2. Juan Soto infused a level of discipline at the plate that the Yankees haven’t seen since the 90s.  Without him, they would have been unwatchable because he had an impact on other guys.

 

3. Stanton, who has three weeks per season of impact, happened to have them in the post season.  Otherwise KC bounces the Yanks.

 

4.  None of their “prospects” improved all that much.  Nepo baby Volpe did a little, thanks to Soto, but Peraza has been ruined, Jassssssssson is a dolt and Cabrera is meh.  
 

5.  With the possible exception of the injured Braves, whichever team emerged from the NL was going to curb stomp whichever team emerged from the AL.  The gap is as wide as the Pacific and only the young AL teams have any chance of closing it.  
 

6. The Dodgers were never at full strength and had 463 good pitchers injured.  That’s a problem for the rest of MLB moving forward.

 

2025:  The Yankees will spend a lot.  They had better re-sign Soto because he, Cole and to an extent Judge are all they can really build on.  Others have talent but don’t play the right way.  Looking at you shiny object Jazz.  If the Yankees spend it wisely, they will probably make the playoffs and be an easy opponent for a more well rounded team like Texas.  If they go back to their shiny object strategy, the results will be hysterical.

[Ned Flanders]

3 hours ago, fasteddie said:

Our cable provider (Spectrum) had problems with the Fox feed and we missed the last 3 innings. All other channels were ok. It figures.

People still have cable?

 

[US Egg]

Yankees/Dodgers was instilled as a youth. It will always be that. If I got to wait another 43 years, then so be it.

 

I’ll only be 109.

[eball]

I'd like to thank the NY Yankees for coming up with perhaps the Billsy-est way to lose a World Series game in history!

 

Well done, lads.

 

[Success]

1 hour ago, eball said:

I'd like to thank the NY Yankees for coming up with perhaps the Billsy-est way to lose a World Series game in history!

 

Well done, lads.

 

 

That's what I was thinking last night.  Like, why do my teams always find a way to beat themselves?

 

That was just an utter disaster.  I think I saw that was Judge's first error of the entire season.

 

[fasteddie]

4 hours ago, Ned Flanders said:

People still have cable?

 

Yeah, I'm really old.

[LabattBlue]

Cole has no one to blame but himself. WTF was he thinking on Betts grounder to Rizzo? The entire inning was a disaster, but him not running to cover 1st base was as dumb as dumb can be. 

[eball]

59 minutes ago, LabattBlue said:

Cole has no one to blame but himself. WTF was he thinking on Betts grounder to Rizzo? The entire inning was a disaster, but him not running to cover 1st base was as dumb as dumb can be. 

 

We were taught that in Little League.  Just a huge brain fart, particularly for a starting pitcher.

 

[dave mcbride]

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2024/11/1/24285263/world-series-new-york-yankees-relentless-losers-aaron-judge-aaron-boone

[BADOLBILZ]

3 hours ago, dave mcbride said:

https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2024/11/1/24285263/world-series-new-york-yankees-relentless-losers-aaron-judge-aaron-boone

 

 

Yep I posted my opinions of the 2024 Yanks sh!ttiness before the series started and we basically got to see all of those warts in the WS against a "good" but seriously wounded Dogers team.  

 

So they somehow still had a chance to steal a WS title in what was a REALLY hard year to watch.   They were about as fun to watch for a longtime baseball fan as that dogsh!t 2017 backed-into-wildcard Bills team whose offense I wish I could unsee.   Only fun for people who don't know how the game is supposed to be played.  

 

But the media and fans who think the Yankees blowing that 5-0 lead in the 5th inning was epic either didn't see Clay Holmes blow 14 saves during the season or are just exaggerating for effect.   They blew games in incredible ways all season.  That Errin' Buffoonery was not at all out of character.😂

 

 Not a great year for baseball.   Simply put, not nearly enough hitting.   League batting average dropped 5 points from 2023.  There were times when it looked like that batting average was going to end up the worst in 100 years.  The game being dominated by no-name relief pitchers who are gassed after 20 pitches is not what the owners should want.  Make the strike zone a circle that fits entirely inside the current square....eliminate those unsquarable corner pitches and these rock chuckers will have to ratchet down the velocity and break.   Watch the league batting average jump right back up 20 points where it should be.   It's no fun seeing lineups filled with sub-.250 hitters.  And subsequently more balls put in play will lead to sharper defense and more exciting baseball.

 

But even the randomness created by early short series format in the playoffs couldn't prevent this matchup this season........just too many bad teams......the only thing that really went right for baseball is that the Yanks and Dodgers finally met again.  43 years was far too long.