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Post by rizzuto on Jul 1, 2021 17:05:06 GMT -5
It is the whole season, including defense that matters. Not one portion of it. Why throw out april and may. Because it’s not commensurate with what he has done in Pinstripes (why throw out the last two years), and he was hitting ground balls at the highest rate of his entire career, which was obviously a mechanical problem that he seems to have corrected, as he’s been swinging the bat like his old self again in his last 144 plate appearances, which actually began in late May, to be precise. Defensively, he’s been playing out of position essentially the entire season due to two IL stints for Voit and the failure of Ford et al to man the first base position and provide any reliable offense. He also leads the Yankees with 84 hits. More than a hit per game played. Therefore, it’s rather dubious to write that LeMahieu suddenly aged out at 32. And, even if you were to take this entire year’s stats in total, he would be 12th with a .273 batting average out of all 37 MLB second basemen with at least 40 games played this season. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 1, 2021 17:58:24 GMT -5
There seems to be no consequences for underperforming or for stupid play. Plus the front office to this point appears convinced that it has put together a championship caliber team that will eventually play at the highest levels if they just keep rolling the same people out there. They might be right if they ever rolled the same people out there 2 days in a row. You're not joking either, earlier this week I heard Kay say that this was the first time all season that the Yanks played the same lineup two games in a row. We're at the half way point of the regular season. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 1, 2021 18:12:05 GMT -5
I'm glad I went to be after Chapman's second walk, I couldn't take it anymore, plus I was really tired. Just when you think this team has reached a new low, outscored 9-1 after taking a 7-2 lead in the first. At least Judge and Geo will be well rested for today's game, if they even play it.  Your local entry out there also blew it after scoring seven runs in the first, which is the first time ever two teams on the same day scored that many runs in the first inning and still lost. Are Cubs fans howling about Schwarber's home run spree with the Nats? Or is it lost in the debris with so many other bad things going on in Wrigleyville? My wife and her entire family are Cubs fans, so we are a Cubs/Yankees household, yesterday was a brutal day for sure. So brutal, it went from June into July. Schwarbs was popular on the Northside, so most Cub fans are happy for him. This HR binge he's been on is amazing but it's getting lost a little with all of the attention going to Ohtani and the pitcher's sticky stuff crackdown fiasco. I'm watching the Nats/Dodgers game right now and the announcer, Joe Davis just said Schwarber starting June going 0-19 and didn't hit his first HR of that month until June 12th. He then went on to hit 15 more! |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 1, 2021 18:22:26 GMT -5
Your local entry out there also blew it after scoring seven runs in the first, which is the first time ever two teams on the same day scored that many runs in the first inning and still lost. Are Cubs fans howling about Schwarber's home run spree with the Nats? Or is it lost in the debris with so many other bad things going on in Wrigleyville? My wife and her entire family are Cubs fans, so we are a Cubs/Yankees household, yesterday was a brutal day for sure. So brutal, it went from June into July. Schwarbs was popular on the Northside, so most Cub fans are happy for him. This HR binge he's been on is amazing but it's getting lost a little with all of the attention going to Ohtani and the pitcher's sticky stuff crackdown fiasco. Thanks for the word, Chi. A Cubs/Yankees household shouldn't be too tense, since the last time they met in the postseason was the 1938 World Series. A four-game sweep for the Yanks, incidentally. Cub fans must be more forgiving than Yankee fans. If the Yanks let a guy go who turned around to do what Schwarber has done, the fans would be screaming. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 1, 2021 18:29:40 GMT -5
My wife and her entire family are Cubs fans, so we are a Cubs/Yankees household, yesterday was a brutal day for sure. So brutal, it went from June into July. Schwarbs was popular on the Northside, so most Cub fans are happy for him. This HR binge he's been on is amazing but it's getting lost a little with all of the attention going to Ohtani and the pitcher's sticky stuff crackdown fiasco. Thanks for the word, Chi. A Cubs/Yankees household shouldn't be too tense, since the last time they met in the postseason was the 1938 World Series. A four-game sweep for the Yanks, incidentally. A called shot (or maybe not) from the Babe at Wrigley Field. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 1, 2021 18:42:52 GMT -5
Thanks for the word, Chi. A Cubs/Yankees household shouldn't be too tense, since the last time they met in the postseason was the 1938 World Series. A four-game sweep for the Yanks, incidentally. A called shot (or maybe not) from the Babe at Wrigley Field. My money is on not. There are pictures of Babe pointing, but in the context of the bench jockeying going on between the two teams it seems more likely that he was pointing at Cubs pitcher Charlie Root, basically saying "I'm going to put it down your throat." Root was a tough old bird. He always maintained that if Ruth was pointing to a home run shot, the next pitch would have been in his ribs. That sounds more like 1932 baseball. |
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Post by inger on Jul 1, 2021 19:23:17 GMT -5
A called shot (or maybe not) from the Babe at Wrigley Field. My money is on not. There are pictures of Babe pointing, but in the context of the bench jockeying going on between the two teams it seems more likely that he was pointing at Cubs pitcher Charlie Root, basically saying "I'm going to put it down your throat." Root was a tough old bird. He always maintained that if Ruth was pointing to a home run shot, the next pitch would have been in his ribs. That sounds more like 1932 baseball. Ruth pretty much had the same goal every time he batted. Truth be known, we’d say he was “only right 714 times” when he predicted he’d hit a home run… |
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Post by rizzuto on Jul 1, 2021 19:27:25 GMT -5
A called shot (or maybe not) from the Babe at Wrigley Field. My money is on not. There are pictures of Babe pointing, but in the context of the bench jockeying going on between the two teams it seems more likely that he was pointing at Cubs pitcher Charlie Root, basically saying "I'm going to put it down your throat." Root was a tough old bird. He always maintained that if Ruth was pointing to a home run shot, the next pitch would have been in his ribs. That sounds more like 1932 baseball. I agree. And, it looked like Ruth continued whatever he was saying at the plate as he was rounding the bases, which appeared to be I told you I’d push it up your… |
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Post by rizzuto on Jul 1, 2021 19:34:44 GMT -5
Someone refresh my memory:
Am I correct in thinking that when Ruth played, where ever a home run ball landed determined if it was fair or foul? So, many foul balls then would have been home runs today with the perspective of the ball passing on the fair side of the foul pole, before landing in the seats in foul territory?
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 1, 2021 19:50:40 GMT -5
Someone refresh my memory: Am I correct in thinking that when Ruth played, where ever a home run ball landed determined if it was fair or foul? So, many foul balls then would have been home runs today with the perspective of the ball passing on the fair side of the foul pole, before landing in the seats in foul territory? Rizz, as near as I can figure out, that was the case until about 1918, although it was never an actual rule, it was more like a custom, at least according to Robert Creamer's book on Ruth. Until sometime in the the late 1920s, a ball that bounced into the stands was credited as a home run rather than a ground rule double. There is no evidence that Ruth ever hit a home run that way, and for sure none of his 1927 homers, which were very well documented, bounced in. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 1, 2021 20:16:35 GMT -5
My money is on not. There are pictures of Babe pointing, but in the context of the bench jockeying going on between the two teams it seems more likely that he was pointing at Cubs pitcher Charlie Root, basically saying "I'm going to put it down your throat." Root was a tough old bird. He always maintained that if Ruth was pointing to a home run shot, the next pitch would have been in his ribs. That sounds more like 1932 baseball. I agree. And, it looked like Ruth continued whatever he was saying at the plate as he was rounding the bases, which appeared to be I told you I’d push it up your… You probably know that some of that animosity grew out of the Yankees taunting the Cubs about only voting a half share to former Yankee Mark Koenig, who joined the Cubs in August but did a great job replacing injured shortstop Billy Jurges. As was often the case, Babe was the ringleader in jeering at the Cubs as cheapskates. So that led to increasing ill-will as the series went on. Mark Koenig was the last surviving member of the 1927 Yankees, passing away in 1993. I can remember hearing an interview with him around 1991 on WFAN. He was interviewed by the normally sarcastic Yankee-hating Steve Sommers. But Sommers was like a kid, he kept saying he couldn't believe he was talking to a member of the 1927 Yankees and hearing these stories about Ruth and Gehrig and Lazzeri and Dickey and Miller Huggins, who even then had been dead for over 60 years. Koenig was an amazingly literate guy who read Greek and Latin classics in his leisure. I'm sure he and Babe had a lot of late-night sessions discussing Homer and Virgil and Sophocles. |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 1, 2021 20:17:48 GMT -5
My money is on not. There are pictures of Babe pointing, but in the context of the bench jockeying going on between the two teams it seems more likely that he was pointing at Cubs pitcher Charlie Root, basically saying "I'm going to put it down your throat." Root was a tough old bird. He always maintained that if Ruth was pointing to a home run shot, the next pitch would have been in his ribs. That sounds more like 1932 baseball. I agree. And, it looked like Ruth continued whatever he was saying at the plate as he was rounding the bases, which appeared to be I told you I’d push it up your… lol, don't you guys love a good baseball story that Ruth called the shot because those mean Chicago Cubs players were talking trash to the great Babe? |
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Post by chiyankee on Jul 1, 2021 20:19:47 GMT -5
Koenig was an amazingly literate guy who read Greek and Latin classics in his leisure. I'm sure he and Babe had a lot of late-night sessions discussing Homer and Virgil and Sophocles. lol, those train rides were long. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jul 1, 2021 20:24:34 GMT -5
I agree. And, it looked like Ruth continued whatever he was saying at the plate as he was rounding the bases, which appeared to be I told you I’d push it up your… lol, don't you guys love a good baseball story that Ruth called the shot because those mean Chicago Cubs players were talking trash to the great Babe? Babe of course was a Hall of Fame trash talker himself. For sure, he was regarded as very mortal by his opponents who never had a problem comparing him unfavorably to apes and questioning his personal hygiene. |
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Post by inger on Jul 1, 2021 20:30:59 GMT -5
I agree. And, it looked like Ruth continued whatever he was saying at the plate as he was rounding the bases, which appeared to be I told you I’d push it up your… You probably know that some of that animosity grew out of the Yankees taunting the Cubs about only voting a half share to former Yankee Mark Koenig, who joined the Cubs in August but did a great job replacing injured shortstop Billy Jurges. As was often the case, Babe was the ringleader in jeering at the Cubs as cheapskates. So that led to increasing ill-will as the series went on. Mark Koenig was the last surviving member of the 1927 Yankees, passing away in 1993. I can remember hearing an interview with him around 1991 on WFAN. He was interviewed by the normally sarcastic Yankee-hating Steve Sommers. But Sommers was like a kid, he kept saying he couldn't believe he was talking to a member of the 1927 Yankees and hearing these stories about Ruth and Gehrig and Lazzeri and Dickey and Miller Huggins, who even then had been dead for over 60 years. Koenig was an amazingly literate guy who read Greek and Latin classics in his leisure. I'm sure he and Babe had a lot of late-night sessions discussing Homer and Virgil and Sophocles. RUTH: “Sophocles? Sure, I know about it, Mark. Hell, the doctors said that’s what I had in 1925. Damned near killed me”… |
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