The New York Yankees are going to hit more home runs than your team.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
It does not appear anybody cares.
.
Au contraire, kneejerk.
I care.
AG
Until he wrote that, no one had commented. nalbar’s was the first comment.
Ergo, ipso facto, presto chango, prima facie, (exactly as he wrote) it did not appear, from the then-available evidence, that anyone cared.
Therein lies the cleverness of the comment.
Get it yet?
Thank you, oaguabonita. That pretty well sums up the whole fallacy of the neocentrist argument.
Since “you” (neocentrists like yourself and nalbot) have not yet heard from anybody on your narrowly defined acceptable information systems…you know, the systems where the people who are not defined (by you, of course) as deplorables are most likely to dribble their kneejerk reactions…no one who matters cares!!!
Nice.
Ironically, you and nalbot include Booman in that deplorable group by your elitist, entitlement-poisoned position, because apparently Booman does care or he would not have posted this idea.
You represent the other side of the counterfeit coin, the opposite side of which is Trumpism.
Heads or tails…we all lose.
Two-dimensional thought enshrined as wisdom.
Sad.
Check this out:
Almost completely alone among all of the media-covered bullshit, “sports” opens a window on the competition between well-meaning, passionate, individual human beings…most of them easily dismissed as “deplorables” by you elitists..trying to do good work on themselves towards a sentient goal versus the efforts of the controllers to control them.
As above, so below.
The corporate structure of the sports industry is a (relatively) smaller picture of what is going on in the larger…and also corporate-owned…control system that we laughingly call the federal government.
Smaller and thus easier to observe and understand, but no different at its root.
“Cleverness?”
From a compulsive downrater?
Downrating is not clever…it’s just a weak copout.
Weak, weaker, weakest.
Go away.
Later…
AG
Honestly, AG…time and place.
The whole point of a weekend post like this is to give people (starting with Booman himself) a break from the depressing political topics that otherwise dominate this page.
Save your metaphors (accurate and otherwise) for the rest of the week, when they don’t read liuke a turd in a punchbowl.
That said, you’re spot on about team chemistry. The Astros had it last year, with a core of a lot of home-grown stars who rose through the minors together. The Yankees? Not so much. And all the statistical analysis and psychometrics in the world can’t create or predict it. When the Yankees lose, that’s almost always been a major reason underlying it. This year? We’ll see.
You write:
Oh.
I guess I didn’t get the memo. Where was it posted?
I wrote in a serious manner probably because “weekends” do not exist for me as they do for people who work 9-5 jobs or otherwise buy into the control system that we laughingy call “the calendar.” Y’see…I work every damned day of the year, pretty much. And I take every day of work seriously, too.
Also…”As above, so below” really means something to me. If you really want to understand how a particular control system works, it is always easier and more instructive to inspect relatively smaller aspects of it.
Anyway…gotta go now.
Work beckons.
Later…
AG
This is very funny.
. . . motivation to read that through, start-to-finish, for the first time.
Prompting (not “begging”!) the question: just how drunk (or high — acknowledging your frequent claim to musicianhood and the associated stereotype) were you when you spewed that?
. . . appears to gainsay your conclusion with [garble garble garble].
I swear, you couldn’t script it.
I wonder…
Sometimes “a lot” turns out to be simply too much.
Kinda like HRC’s campaign hopes.
They have a lot of money and a lot of stars, but they also have a front office that just fired a very successful manager who is still in his prime because…because he managed by the seat of his pants instead of totally believing believing the polls.
The statistics.
Then they hired a manager who has no experience in the job, sounds like he wants to be a miliennial-style “nice guy” and has obviously promised to obey the
DNC…oops, I mean the front office, none of whom have everwon an election. I mean…a pennant, let alone a World Series.We’ll see.
Won’t we.
Who’s gonna the “the” star? Stanton or Judge?
Who’s gonna immediately have his nose out of joint ‘cuz he’s not getting the hype? (Hint, hint…he’s a catcher/home run hitter.)
Who’s going to get traded…a veteran or two who are who are leaders in the clubhouse, most likely. Can’t have no naysayers in this millennial-dominated/tech-dominated world.
We’ll see.
Altruve almost singlehandedly busted the Hollywood Corp. Dodgers just by being talented, passionate and a little…crazy.
Do the Yankees have an Altruve?
We’ll see.
My bet?
Trouble in the clubhouse by June.
Watch.
AG
We’re truly in bizarro world when both “neo-centrist” and HRC are invoked in a thread about fucking baseball.
Hope the deal Gardner, and make Hicks the regular centerfielder, and I hope they win 100 games and lose to the Astros in the playoffs again.
And I hope the deal ends up working out as well as the A-Rod deal (minus the title).
Yeah, Jeets
I’ll weigh in on this since I grew up as a true Yankee fanatic (who couldn’t eat or sleep in they lost a big game when I was a kid) but have been out of New York for so long that I don’t really pay more than a passing attention anymore. I’ve nothing against them and in fact there’s still a bit of a positive pull, but not enough to cause me to follow baseball.
Stanton’s obviously a great power hitter in a park built for power hitters. Together with Judge, the Yankees seem poised to dominate home run statistics and become a true powerhouse again. But we’ll see how it plays out. He’s shown a propensity for injuries in the past. Fivethirtyeight.com posits there’s a significant risk of regression to the mean. The Yankees have spent huge money on big-name free agents on numerous occasions. Some have panned out beautifully. Others have been disasters. We’ll see.
Still, it’s a big-time move for which Cashman deserves credit. The Yankees gave up very little for Stanton other than money, and that’s the one resource for which there’s no shortage in New York. So in that sense there’s no risk. What’s Stanton’s contract to a team with a 1.5 billion dollar TV deal in a league with no real revenue sharing. The Yankees can afford to take this chance many times over. And they get the opportunity again and again because teams like the Marlins can’t afford to play at this level.
It’s nice when other teams can figure out how to put together great teams without big money. However, those teams can’t be held together for long. The rich teams are the ones that can be at or near the top of the standings year after year.
My sympathy goes out to Marlins fans, if there are any left after today. This Stanton trade is just one more reason to hate the Bombers, as if I needed one.ive enjoyed watching big money teams with their superstar lineups crap out against small ball teams in postseason for the past few years , and it is my fond hope that the Yanks do it again in 2018.
Looks like Jeter is as good an owner as he was a defensive shortstop.
What a dirtbag.
A true profile in courage.
That Jeter, he screws the fans and the city of Miami the right way.
Christ, what an asshole.
The Yankees will also give up more home runs than my team.
As others noted, the beauty of baseball is that talent on paper doesn’t always translate to win totals. But beyond that, it’s been almost a decade since stats-dominated teams moved away from high-power, low OPS lineups. You need a lot of other factors (pitching, speed, defense, people on base) for sluggers to seal the deal. The Yankees have some of those elements.
Others…we’ll see.
The Marlins haven’t won much in recent years, either. And trading Stanton, by itself, doesn’t mean they’ll be awful next year. Gutting their entire roster of talent, however, does. Again.
Poor Marlins fans. A top ten market that’s operated like a bad small market franchise for decades, and used two flukish seasons to justify it.
Fuck the Yankees every day and twice on sunday. Fuck them with a telephone pole or maybe a cruise missle.
Death to the evil empire.