My Baseball Break
The Yankees last played on Sunday.
They don’t play again until Friday, and each year I take these few days off to regroup and get ready for the second half.
This year, the Yankees are six and a half up, and they’re definitely in the running for #28.
It will be a lost year if they don’t win it.
Still, I enjoy the break.
Of course, I watched a lot of the HR Derby and a few innings of the all-star game, but that was just to see how the Yankees players were doing.
Sanchez doubled, Tanaka was the winning pitcher and Chapman locked it down.
One of the things that drives me nuts though is that baseball is the one sport where all we ever hear about is:
“What’s wrong with baseball?”
Over the last few years it was all about shaving a few minutes off the game time. Evidently a two hour and fifty-eight minute game is better than one that goes three hours and 2 minutes.
This year the bellyaching started with Justin Verlander who leads the league in giving up homers.
“The ball is juiced so there are more homeruns!” He whined.
Maybe it is.
Perhaps the league figured more bombs would take away talk about the three hour games.
Maybe Verlander is right, but is All-Star week the time to bring it up?
The derby was fun.
They play the only all-star game that’s worth watching.
There’s good young talent all over the place...
...the Yankees, Dodgers, Astros, Twins, and Braves all have really good teams...
...there are about six more teams who are pretty decent.
Stop bellyaching!
Buck and Smoltz are always whining about how much better the sport was back in the day.
Pitchers don’t pitch complete games anymore.
Hitters don’t move runners or bunt.
There are a lot of strikeouts...
...but it’s still baseball.
It’s still world’s better than any other game.
Go Yankees!
Hoping Verlander loses game 7 to the Yankees by giving up 8 bombs.
Big baby!
Back at it on Friday.
They don’t play again until Friday, and each year I take these few days off to regroup and get ready for the second half.
This year, the Yankees are six and a half up, and they’re definitely in the running for #28.
It will be a lost year if they don’t win it.
Still, I enjoy the break.
Of course, I watched a lot of the HR Derby and a few innings of the all-star game, but that was just to see how the Yankees players were doing.
Sanchez doubled, Tanaka was the winning pitcher and Chapman locked it down.
One of the things that drives me nuts though is that baseball is the one sport where all we ever hear about is:
“What’s wrong with baseball?”
Over the last few years it was all about shaving a few minutes off the game time. Evidently a two hour and fifty-eight minute game is better than one that goes three hours and 2 minutes.
This year the bellyaching started with Justin Verlander who leads the league in giving up homers.
“The ball is juiced so there are more homeruns!” He whined.
Maybe it is.
Perhaps the league figured more bombs would take away talk about the three hour games.
Maybe Verlander is right, but is All-Star week the time to bring it up?
The derby was fun.
They play the only all-star game that’s worth watching.
There’s good young talent all over the place...
...the Yankees, Dodgers, Astros, Twins, and Braves all have really good teams...
...there are about six more teams who are pretty decent.
Stop bellyaching!
Buck and Smoltz are always whining about how much better the sport was back in the day.
Pitchers don’t pitch complete games anymore.
Hitters don’t move runners or bunt.
There are a lot of strikeouts...
...but it’s still baseball.
It’s still world’s better than any other game.
Go Yankees!
Hoping Verlander loses game 7 to the Yankees by giving up 8 bombs.
Big baby!
Back at it on Friday.
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