2020 Yankees Season thread

[jacksonianmarch]

This team will be gangbusters if we can get healthy, the problem is, there’s no guarantee that the current Yankee iteration makes the playoffs. Our offense is literally dead right now

[Bellhorn04]

This team will be gangbusters if we can get healthy, the problem is, there’s no guarantee that the current Yankee iteration makes the playoffs. Our offense is literally dead right now

 

Gangbusters!

[dgalehouse]

Gangbusters . Too funny . They look like a bunch of fragile little toys . Their motto has to be , " Next man down. "

[Bellhorn04]

For any Red Sox fans like me who are into Schadenfreude, the NYYFans forum can be pretty damn entertaining when things are going sour in Yankeeland.

 

Yesterday on their thread about the trade deadline, a guy kept posting pictures of Cashman in a sleeping bag (the homeless thing he does every year).

[bkzwhitestrican]

If the Yanks don't win these next two games against the Rays then any chance of winning the East is pretty much shot. And even if they do win these two the odds are still pretty low. In a long season this is probably just a short blip (Yanks started out with almost the same record last year and finished with 103 wins) but with only a month of season left they can't keep playing like this with the hope of things turning around once guys get healthy. Before they know it they'll be at .500 and having to play a best of 3 series in the Trop or Oakland where they have historically sucked ass.

[Bellhorn04]

The Yanks have a pile of games with the Buffalo Jays.

[jacksonianmarch]

The Yanks have a pile of games with the Buffalo Jays.

 

They’re actually good this year.

 

What this comes down to is a team of injury prone players being asked to ramp up faster and in a far different way than they’re used to and injuries piled up. It’s not surprising. We just need to make the playoffs. Don’t care if it’s a “road” 2 out of 3. Nobody will want to face Cole and Tanaka in games 1-2. Nobody.

[Bellhorn04]

Nobody will want to face Cole and Tanaka in games 1-2. Nobody.

 

Doofus tends to pull Tanaka after about 65 pitches, though.

[Bellhorn04]

Also, Cole now has a FIP of 4.83.

[notin]

The Yanks have a pile of games with the Buffalo Jays.

 

The Buffalo Jays sounds more like a folk rock band...

[Kimmi]

They’re actually good this year.

 

What this comes down to is a team of injury prone players being asked to ramp up faster and in a far different way than they’re used to and injuries piled up. It’s not surprising. We just need to make the playoffs. Don’t care if it’s a “road” 2 out of 3. Nobody will want to face Cole and Tanaka in games 1-2. Nobody.

 

I'm thinking teams would rather face Cole and Tanaka over several other teams #1 and #2.

[Bellhorn04]

The Buffalo Jays sounds more like a folk rock band...

 

I'll switch to Buffalo Wings.

[jacksonianmarch]

I'm thinking teams would rather face Cole and Tanaka over several other teams #1 and #2.

 

Cole is one of the best pitchers in baseball, his last two starts notwithstanding. Tanaka is one of the best playoff pitchers in baseball

[notin]

I'll switch to Buffalo Wings.

 

I think that's what Buffalo should change their hockey team name to. All their other teams have bad pun names...

[Thunder]

I think that's what Buffalo should change their hockey team name to. All their other teams have bad pun names...

 

Too similar to Detroit

[notin]

Too similar to Detroit

 

I don't see that as an issue. The Canadian Football League has two teams named Rough Riders and no one has ever complained.

[Bellhorn04]

i don't see that as an issue. The canadian football league has two teams named rough riders and no one has ever complained.

 

Had!!!

[notin]

had!!!

 

Had? Sad.

 

Well, they had them both when the entire league only had 8 teams in it. That should have been their motto "The CFL. Eight teams. Two Rough Riders. Watch it!"

 

Also one could argue Red Sox/White Sox are similarly named and no one cares...

[Thunder]

I don't see that as an issue. The Canadian Football League has two teams named Rough Riders and no one has ever complained.

 

If Buffalo Wild Wings bought the Sabres and renamed them the Wild Wings, I would be okay with that, even though it's copying both the Wild and the Red Wings

[notin]

If Buffalo Wild Wings bought the Sabres and renamed them the Wild Wings, I would be okay with that, even though it's copying both the Wild and the Red Wings

 

No!!

 

I can handle corporate naming on stadiums, but please no on teams. I hated that Disney named their teams the Mighty Ducks, and that's not even a true corporate name.

 

Maybe one day teams won't even be identified by their cities, but by their owning corporations (like they do with Japanese baseball). So we could have the Nintendo Mariners playing the Liberty Media Braves? Uggh...

[Bellhorn04]

Had? Sad.

 

Well, they had them both when the entire league only had 8 teams in it. That should have been their motto "The CFL. Eight teams. Two Rough Riders. Watch it!"

 

It was actually:

 

Ottawa Rough Riders

and

Saskatchewan Roughriders

 

I kid you not, they were different.

 

It's now Ottawa Redblacks LOL

 

I've said it before, the CFL and NFL make a perfect metaphor for Canada and the US. We are like the minor league of the US.

[Thunder]

No!!

 

I can handle corporate naming on stadiums, but please no on teams. I hated that Disney named their teams the Mighty Ducks, and that's not even a true corporate name.

 

Maybe one day teams won't even be identified by their cities, but by their owning corporations (like they do with Japanese baseball). So we could have the Nintendo Mariners playing the Liberty Media Braves? Uggh...

 

I personally don't know how I feel about that, but I think we are headed in that direction. The NBA was the first to advertise directly on the uniform, I can see the NFL and MLB doing that in the not so distant future. The plus side of corporate named teams would be that it would allow fan bases to grow. I don't think fans would be as regional as they are now, and certainly as streaming platforms begin to grow, every team's games could be accessible virtually anywhere in the world. But, the down side to that is that there would be far less local pride. You take the Boston out of the Red Sox, or the New England out of the Patriots, and people stop caring. It would also promote rooting for players over teams, which wouldn't have to be a bad thing. There's players now that I really love, but who play on teams I don't love. Like Springer.

[notin]

I personally don't know how I feel about that, but I think we are headed in that direction. The NBA was the first to advertise directly on the uniform, I can see the NFL and MLB doing that in the not so distant future. The plus side of corporate named teams would be that it would allow fan bases to grow. I don't think fans would be as regional as they are now, and certainly as streaming platforms begin to grow, every team's games could be accessible virtually anywhere in the world. But, the down side to that is that there would be far less local pride. You take the Boston out of the Red Sox, or the New England out of the Patriots, and people stop caring. It would also promote rooting for players over teams, which wouldn't have to be a bad thing. There's players now that I really love, but who play on teams I don't love. Like Springer.

 

Just look at Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan.

 

The Nippon Ham Fighters are owned by Nippon Ham. (There is no city in Japan named Nippon - which is the Japanese word for Japan - and the team is not the Ham Fighters, despite how awesome that would be.)

The Yomiuri Giants are owned by Yomirui Shimbun Holdings

The Hanshin Tigers are owned by Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc.

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks are owned by the majority shareholder in Softbank Holdings.

The Chunichi Dragons are owned by Chunichi Shimbun Co Ltd.

 

I think only the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp are named after actual cities in Japan.

 

Almost all of these team play their home games in Tokyo, too, I believe...

Edited September 3, 2020 by notin

[Thunder]

Just look at Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan.

 

The Nippon Ham Fighters are owned by Nippon Ham. (There is no city in Japan named Nippon - which is the Japanese word for Japan - and the team is not the Ham Fighters, despite how awesome that would be.)

The Yomiuri Giants are owned by Yomirui Shimbun Holdings

The Hanshin Tigers are owned by Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc.

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks are owned by the majority shareholder in Softbank Holdings.

The Chunichi Dragons are owned by Chunichi Shimbun Co Ltd.

 

I think only the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp are named after actual cities in Japan.

 

Almost all of these team play their home games in Tokyo, too, I believe...

 

I mean on paper I don't hate the idea, but the concerns I mentioned I think are pretty universal.

 

Think about if we still had the Acme Packers today... How weird would that be, especially to have some teams with corporate names, and some without

[Slasher9]

Cash puts together competitive teams, that's for sure.

 

But one World Series appearance since 2001 is not exactly a feather in his cap.

 

there was that 2003 WS appearance. Mo choke job.

[Bellhorn04]

there was that 2003 WS appearance. Mo choke job.

 

Right. One WS appearance since 2003.

[Thunder]

Right. One WS appearance since 2003.

 

More importantly, since I have been old enough to remember:

 

Red Sox WS Appearances: 4

Red Sox WS Wins: 4

 

Yankees WS Appearances: 1

Yankees WS Wins: 1

Yankees Postseason Chokejobs: 5

 

Just like your signature says

[Kimmi]

Memo to Luke Voit: Put on a freaking undershirt.

[dgalehouse]

The " gangbusters " blew another one today.

[Kimmi]

The " gangbusters " blew another one today.

 

The Jays are now tied with the Yankees. It almost makes me want to root for the Jays for the remainder of our series. Almost.

 

Something of note is that the Yanks and the Jays have 10 games against each other in the next 3 weeks. Each team controls its own destiny for 2nd place.