Meacon Keaton

Alpha Boss 😯

The Yankees offense is slightly better than Oakland's. We fall somewhere in the Oakland, Detroit, Kansas City range of offensive ineptitude. I don't think people realize just how atrocious the offense is. The Yanks are 3 games over .500 because of the pitching. If we had even an average offense, we'd be 20 games over .500 and waltzing to the World Series. Aaron Judge has missed half the season and is still leading the team in home runs and runs batted in. Actually, I stand corrected; Gleyber Torres now has 44 rbi's and Judge is second is 42. I'm frustrated because the offense was abysmal last year too and instead of addressing it, Cashman sat on his hands and expected Josh Donaldson to turn back time and become an MVP again. The man has been the GM for 25 years. Hal Steinbrenner needs to find his inner George and clean out the front office completely.

We got a reliever, which is great considering we already have the best bullpen in baseball and still have an offense that averages 3 runs a game. #FireCashman

I wish my GM was doing something other than incorrectly assuming this weak ass lineup is going to remember how to hit. We should be selling and getting even longshot prospects at this point. Judge went 0-for-1 last night with 3 walks and we had 3 team hits. The playbook is out on how to beat us. Walk Judge and pitch to literally anyone else on the team.

Today Mets fans learned that baseball is still played in September.

There's also nothing wrong with coaching high school football.

It's the thin air. The man's high as f right now.

Specter Gadget

*updates GhostMachine notebook of things he likes and dislikes*

In a recruiting world where you can give kids millions of dollars, cars, and homes, Harbaugh still finds a way to break the rules. What a Michigan man. 😆

I'm with Srar. I honestly think there is nothing wrong with Washington Football Team. You know whatever those corny-ass, old, white men come up with is going to be just as lame as Commanders. Also GhostMachine suggesting they go back to the racist imagery makes me ashamed to call him a Yankee fan.

If you take Max out of this race, it was a blast.

And their cheerleaders should all be grandmothers playing Bingo.

I hate it, but it's much less noticeable than a lot of other teams, at least?

Lemme introduce you to our current captain and the one before him! I think the earliest one I can remember without looking it up is Eric Duncan. That was in high school, so 2001-2003? It was the first year I paid any attention to the draft, and I only knew who we took because of a fantasy baseball magazine that recapped the first round of the amateur draft and I studied it like nobodies business. The article was convinced he was going to be a stud, and thus, so was I.

I don't think casuals, even a lot of diehards, could name their favorite teams first round pick from last year. People, including the media, try to draw parallels to the NFL draft and it's such an entirely different beast. People carry over that "These guys will surely help us now!" mindset from the NFL Draft that they can't wrap their minds around not seeing these guys for four, five, or six years if at all. And you're spot on about positions. All these kids play shortstop or center in high school, just like pretty much every current MLB player did at that age.

Bummed for Nyck, but he's definitely had a rough first half. I thought they'd give him until at least summer break, but with them dead last in the Constructors, they need to start finding points immediately. I am very interested to see what Ricciardo has left in him.

They made out fine. The safety car did keep Piastri off the podium though. Loved seeing Lando up front though. It was fun while that lasted.

If the powers-that-be of other sports has taught me anything, it's that, apparently, more is more.

Wrestling names are getting more ridiculous every year.

Yes, doing something that's only been done twenty-three other times is still impressive. I've watched a little over zero minutes of the Mets this year, but most of the talk within this thread has been your criticism of Buck, so I've assumed it's been his managing for the most part that's put the Mets in the situation they're in. That's why I was suggesting giving him the Girardi treatment. Regardless of how many games they won last year, they're supposed to be in win-now mode, much like the Phillies were.

Perfect game!

I mean, the Phillies fired Giardi before midseason last year and completely flipped the script and ended up in the World Series, but a wealthy Mets fan still gonna let the Mets Met.

Back to Toro Rosso? I'm curious who they're considering to replace of De Vries. Riccardo's name keeps getting mentioned (by the media, that is) as a potential replacement for Checo, but I think Yuki would be more likely than Daniel at this point in their careers. I don't keep up with F2 enough to know who the up-and-comer of the year is, but I wonder if sitting out the first half of this season has humbled Danny Ric enough that he'd consider taking on a senior role with AlphaTauroRosso.

I don't think he'd be calling a presser to fire Buck. I think he'd would've just done it already.