Masterbather

Laurer hoping for the Bassitt rain shortened complete game special.

Well this is fun.

FIDO!

Holy s*** Clement!

All three records are so close right now I don't know how you can definitively state this. Given the East is the toughest division in the American League, wouldn't that mean that it's more likely that the team that wins the East will have the worst of three division winning records?

This team was trending downward since 2021. If you were happy with this team then you were happy with scraping into the playoffs. They clearly were not a great team especially in the past couple of years. Especially last year, terrible year. I was here at the beginning of the season, I saw everyone's expectations for this team, people figured they might squeeze into a second or third wild card at best. And that's not factoring all the things that went wrong this season. Now everybody wants to dunk as if they saw this coming, nobody saw THIS coming. Congrats Spanky, your blind cheerleading might have finally hit the jackpot. I'm thrilled, some incredible things have happened to put us in this position and now we are legitimately a couple of pieces away from an actual World Series contender.

Brewers at least there was a catalyst with Miz and Woodruff, they added a couple of ace caliber arms to an already talented team. Nothing obvious like that happened with Toronto. Barger to some extent, but this all kind of came out of nowhere. There's reasons for it of course but a lot of it we didn't see coming. If I had told you about Santander, Garcia, Varsho and Scherzer's injuries and how much time they would miss. If I had told you that by late July Vlad Guerrero was stuck on 13 home runs and 20 doubles and Bo was solid but not spectacular. That Francis was the worst starter in baseball for nearly half a season. You would have had every right to assume the season would be in the toilet and people would have been fired. And yet we're on this magic carpet ride. Baseball...

That's a phenomenal Series win. Tremendous first six games out of the All-Star break considering the pitching we've faced.

Do as you please I just don't understand why anyone cares about what New York fans think. It's such a weird obsession to me.

It was too close to overturn. Remember it's not when Vlad closes the glove on the ball it's when it enters the pocket area. It's too tough to know for sure if Judge touched the bag before it was in the pocket.

Don't be cute with their power potential. See how quickly things got tense in the last inning?

Wow! Too close to overturn I guess. Bruihl you f***ing wizard.

I thought he was safe live.

That's the risk of bringing in Bruihl where they did. If he doesn't get the outs now he's got to face Aaron Judge. If they were going to bring him in they should have let him have a clean inning. At least you could have brought in a righty here.

BO!! Honestly thought that was a fly ball to the warning track.

Yankees are absolutely embarrassing defensively. Holy s***. I mean you don't want to have to rely on that every time but what the f*** are they doing out there?

Bit of a conflicted day for Bassitt. Three home runs, not good, but that's about all they did off of him, seven innings is really nice so all in all got to be pretty happy. Vladdy also makes up for his garbage play with a nice one.

Myles Straw! We all had that on our bingo card I'm sure!

Wow. Don't really see that happen here outside of day games.

Well the power differential between the teams really coming to the forefront in this series. We get a lot of traffic, we need to string together hits and walks, and they just crank away. Both teams are somewhat extreme. You need a little bit of both approaches, but we really need more power production.

What are they saying now that Judge just crushed the tying home run? Stop with this childish nonsense.

Sorry my expectations are World Series contender, your expectations are scraping into the postseason in order to make a quick exit. So what the hell are you on point about? I guess by your mediocre standards you're right lol. By my standards I'm right, this team's not been close for a team that sells itself as a World Series contender. By the way, I was a huge fan of the 2021 team. My only criticism is that they should have gone all in because that was obviously a World Series contender with one or two key pieces especially if they added better bullpen arms and sooner. It's the teams since then that have been a problem. If you predicted that Springer and Kirk were going to have bounce back All-Star caliber campaigns, that Barger was going to emerge the way that he has, that Laurer was going to essentially save our rotation, that we would get so many contributions from bit players, go ahead and dunk, but you didn't see all this coming, nobody did. I'm thrilled with doing well, I really am, I want to win a World Series, but this team has exceeded all expectations because things happened that we didn't think would happen. All that being said: Vlad is still a problem. If he were doing what he was capable of doing we might be one or two pieces away from actually being a serious World Series contender this year with the way things have fallen in place.

I didn't complain about his lead off base hit, I didn't have a problem with it. And I didn't say Vladdy doesn't have power but he's not hitting for power. I don't care how many pitches he parks into the seats during batting practice. And what does us playing well have to do with the fact that Vlad isn't hitting for power and that the team isn't hitting for power? We're trying to win a World Series and one of the things that could inhibit us is our lack of power. It's a legitimate talking point. No different than talking about the things we want to add at the deadline to help us going forward. So it's obviously worth talking about especially when our half a billion dollar man, who should be one of the most powerful hitters in baseball, isn't. You can be a blind cheerleader all you want I don't care but this is relevant baseball discussion.

Remember when Ji Man Choi suddenly decided to try that against us a few years ago? Struck out in his first at bat and then hit a first pitch rocket into the seats in his second at bat. I think he did it for like 10 at bats and then never did it again.

When you look at the lineups we throw out there against lefties it really does make me think we can use another platoon right handed hitter because even if we get healthy, Varsho and Gimenez are left-handed hitters. Between them and Barger that's too many left-handers in the lineup and none of them hit lefties well. And we can really use Clement breaking out of his current slump. And if Vlad can actually be a superstar slugger that would be nice, it's asking a lot I know.