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Post by chiyankee on Oct 24, 2023 8:29:41 GMT -5
Rangers are what the Yankees should be..signed a couple superstars a couple years ago and now it paid off. While the Yankees thought Jake Bauers would be their savior. Instead the Yankees were loaded down with terrible contracts for players who performed very little, like Stanton, Donaldson, Rodon and Montas. |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 24, 2023 8:30:48 GMT -5
So if the cheaters pull this off it's their 3rd World Series in a row. 4th in the last 5 with the only missed one being the covid season. Also, the last 7 years the only 2 teams to prevent them to go to the WS would be the Red Sox and Rays which is even more embarrassing for the Yankees they had 3 shots at them while the Red Sox only had 2 and Rays 1. Thank you baseball gods for making this not happen. It's a good thing the Rangers had a big lead, because I don't trust anyone in their bullpen. |
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Post by Renfield on Oct 24, 2023 10:01:19 GMT -5
If Bruce Bochy had been with the Yankees from 2017 until now we’d have at least 2 WS Titles This is Bochy's fifth pennant with three different teams. He of course has the three alternate year rings with the Giants and was the Padres manager when they were swept by the great 98 Yankee team. He's had an odd career. With all of his success, his career record is still below .500 at 2,093-2,101. There are explanations obviously. All three teams he managed had been terrible for several years before he got there, and all three started improving quickly -- in the Rangers' case immediately. The other big reason for his (barely) losing career mark of .499 is the five consecutive losing seasons he had with the Padres after his 98 pennant. Life is too short for me to study the turn-of-the-century Padres for the reasons. My guess is that the 98 team vastly over-performed and simply returned to normal. In any case, if you win five flags with three teams that were lousy when you got there, plus three rings and counting, you're on your way to Cooperstown. And Connie Mack already blazed the trail for managers getting in with a losing career record. As he also unarguably deserved. Bochy's failure to strictly adhere to analytics will catch up with him. In the World Series. |
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Post by rizzuto on Oct 24, 2023 12:28:34 GMT -5
This is Bochy's fifth pennant with three different teams. He of course has the three alternate year rings with the Giants and was the Padres manager when they were swept by the great 98 Yankee team. He's had an odd career. With all of his success, his career record is still below .500 at 2,093-2,101. There are explanations obviously. All three teams he managed had been terrible for several years before he got there, and all three started improving quickly -- in the Rangers' case immediately. The other big reason for his (barely) losing career mark of .499 is the five consecutive losing seasons he had with the Padres after his 98 pennant. Life is too short for me to study the turn-of-the-century Padres for the reasons. My guess is that the 98 team vastly over-performed and simply returned to normal. In any case, if you win five flags with three teams that were lousy when you got there, plus three rings and counting, you're on your way to Cooperstown. And Connie Mack already blazed the trail for managers getting in with a losing career record. As he also unarguably deserved. Bochy's failure to strictly adhere to analytics will catch up with him. In the World Series. More likely, his bullpen. LeClerq is a bit better than the Hogan’s Heroes character. |
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Post by chiyankee on Oct 24, 2023 22:25:26 GMT -5
Back in April, who had the Rangers and Diamondbacks meeting in the World Series?  |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Oct 25, 2023 0:46:44 GMT -5
Rangers are what the Yankees should be..signed a couple superstars a couple years ago and now it paid off. While the Yankees thought Jake Bauers would be their savior. Instead the Yankees were loaded down with terrible contracts for players who performed very little, like Stanton, Donaldson, Rodon and Montas. Then did NOTHING at the trade deadline while only 3 out... We have an 84 win team vs a 90 win team in the World Series. Makes you wonder if the Yankees had gone for it at the deadline if they could have had a shot at it, but instead they kept up with the Jake Bauers types till it was too late then once they turned it around getting to .500 was the challenge. |
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Post by anthonyd46 on Oct 25, 2023 3:39:53 GMT -5
Joy they will be airing Tony Womack and Mark Grace Highlights on all sports programs this entire World Series. I'm sure Kaybli is thrilled at the coverage Womack will be getting.
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Post by pippsheadache on Oct 25, 2023 5:13:11 GMT -5
Back in April, who had the Rangers and Diamondbacks meeting in the World Series? DoMe probably had a few grand on that. As well as any other possible combination of teams. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Oct 25, 2023 5:34:51 GMT -5
Joy they will be airing Tony Womack and Mark Grace Highlights on all sports programs this entire World Series. I'm sure Kaybli is thrilled at the coverage Womack will be getting. At least that team had a lot of recognizable names -- Grace, Jay Bell, Matt Williams, Luis Gonzalez, Steve Finley, Reggie Sanders and the mound duo of Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson. It was a very old team -- the youngest starting position players were Womack and catcher Damian Miller, each 31 years old. Four of their starting position players were 35 and older; Schilling was 34 and Johnson 37. This team has a lot of guys who weren't even in the major leagues two years ago. One of their key bullpen guys, Andrew Saalfrank, didn't play his first big league game until September 5 of this year. Their middle of the order hitters are Gabby Moreno, Christian Walker and an alternating Tommy Pham and Alek Thomas. Not a lot of household names. That 2001 Game Seven loss was probably the worst I ever felt as a Yankee fan. The only similar feeling was 1960, although even that was more anger than the empty feeling of 01 in a series the Yankees seemed destined to win. Forget 04. That was more disgust and I saw it coming three days beforehand. I thought 1981 and 1995 were bad too, but not at the level of 60 or 01. Hey, and then there was 1957.... |
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Post by pippsheadache on Oct 25, 2023 5:38:50 GMT -5
With Arizona advancing to the World Series, there are now 16 teams that have been in it since the Yankees last got there in 2009. Some GMs lose their jobs with a record like that.
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Post by inger on Oct 25, 2023 8:08:15 GMT -5
With Arizona advancing to the World Series, there are now 16 teams that have been in it since the Yankees last got there in 2009. Some GMs lose their jobs with a record like that. It seems that some owners should get run out of town too. The money in sports is insane to begin with, but when you take risks (like Donaldson, Stanton, etc.) you have to be able to cover them if the risk fails. Sadly, in sports that means you have to spend more to erase your mistakes. That’s why Cashman is still around, I believe. He was doing the owner’s bidding, therefore the owner is putting much of the blame where it belongs, on his own shoulders. The same with Boone. He’s supposed to have the kind of team where all he needs to do is fill out a line up card and stay out of the way. Given too many problems to handle at once, he stirs the pot furiously and then it spills over… |
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Post by rizzuto on Oct 25, 2023 11:50:37 GMT -5
Joy they will be airing Tony Womack and Mark Grace Highlights on all sports programs this entire World Series. I'm sure Kaybli is thrilled at the coverage Womack will be getting. At least that team had a lot of recognizable names -- Grace, Jay Bell, Matt Williams, Luis Gonzalez, Steve Finley, Reggie Sanders and the mound duo of Curt Schilling and Randy Johnson. It was a very old team -- the youngest starting position players were Womack and catcher Damian Miller, each 31 years old. Four of their starting position players were 35 and older; Schilling was 34 and Johnson 37. This team has a lot of guys who weren't even in the major leagues two years ago. One of their key bullpen guys, Andrew Saalfrank, didn't play his first big league game until September 5 of this year. Their middle of the order hitters are Gabby Moreno, Christian Walker and an alternating Tommy Pham and Alek Thomas. Not a lot of household names. That 2001 Game Seven loss was probably the worst I ever felt as a Yankee fan. The only similar feeling was 1960, although even that was more anger than the empty feeling of 01 in a series the Yankees seemed destined to win. Forget 04. That was more disgust and I saw it coming three days beforehand. I thought 1981 and 1995 were bad too, but not at the level of 60 or 01. Hey, and then there was 1957.... The 2001 was such a magical, exciting series. The slight drizzle that affected Mariano’s throw was luck. The drawn in infield was a mistake by Torre. Luis Gonzalez’ soft liner barely made it to the grass. Regular depth and it is two outs with Mariano one out away. I will likely never get over that loss. |
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Post by kaybli on Oct 25, 2023 12:18:07 GMT -5
Joy they will be airing Tony Womack and Mark Grace Highlights on all sports programs this entire World Series. I'm sure Kaybli is thrilled at the coverage Womack will be getting.  |
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Post by inger on Oct 25, 2023 12:47:47 GMT -5
Joy they will be airing Tony Womack and Mark Grace Highlights on all sports programs this entire World Series. I'm sure Kaybli is thrilled at the coverage Womack will be getting. That Womack acquisition was as foolish as the Donaldson pick up, albeit much less expensive. For him to be selected on the basis of a career best 34-year old season in St. Louis was a foolhardy move that was doomed to failure. When they found him lacking at 2B they even tried to keep his obviously regressed bat in the line up by experimenting with him in all three OF positions, with LF being his primary position. He simply was given far too much time on the field. Proof being in the pudding, the following season and a mere 2 teams and 28 games later, Womack was out of baseball. Kudos to him for his 27/5 base stealing for the Yanks, though… at 35, that part wasn’t bad… |
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Post by domeplease on Oct 25, 2023 18:38:41 GMT -5
Back in April, who had the Rangers and Diamondbacks meeting in the World Series? DoMe probably had a few grand on that. As well as any other possible combination of teams. Had/HAVE $$$ on Texas and also had Balt. But never thought about Arizona...go figure. |
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