MLB 2023

[Dr. Medulla]

I recently realized that Volpe is wearing #11, Brett Gardner's old number. Guess Brett isn't coming back.

Huh. Classy.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/new ... g%20events.

Gardner's onto more noble, astral work.

[Mimi]

Hey, now, maybe he is a chrome dome, but I always liked him. He was fast and could steal bases.

[revbob]

Hey, now, maybe he is a chrome dome, but I always liked him. He was fast and could steal bases.

And gritty damnit!

[Dr. Medulla]

Hey, now, maybe he is a chrome dome, but I always liked him. He was fast and could steal bases.

And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.

[revbob]

Hey, now, maybe he is a chrome dome, but I always liked him. He was fast and could steal bases.

And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.

Grit

[Mimi]

Hey, now, maybe he is a chrome dome, but I always liked him. He was fast and could steal bases.

And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.

Grit and determination.

[weller259]

the Yankees did the same thing to Bernie Williams.

[weller259]

if I was a drinker that is.

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[Dr. Medulla]

Hey, now, maybe he is a chrome dome, but I always liked him. He was fast and could steal bases.

And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.

Grit and determination.

I think I remember reading someone on SoSH describing Brett Gardner as looking like every state trooper who pulls you over for a bullshit reason.

[Mimi]

Hey, now, maybe he is a chrome dome, but I always liked him. He was fast and could steal bases.

And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.

Grit and determination.

I think I remember reading someone on SoSH describing Brett Gardner as looking like every state trooper who pulls you over for a bullshit reason.

Yeah, I can see it.

[revbob]

Hey, now, maybe he is a chrome dome, but I always liked him. He was fast and could steal bases.

And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.

Grit and determination.

I think I remember reading someone on SoSH describing Brett Gardner as looking like every state trooper who pulls you over for a bullshit reason.

Yeah, I can see it.

But with grit and determination.

[Mimi]

And uncontaminated by human feelings like humour! Seriously, he always seemed to play the game with a Gossagey joylessness.

Grit and determination.

I think I remember reading someone on SoSH describing Brett Gardner as looking like every state trooper who pulls you over for a bullshit reason.

Yeah, I can see it.

But with grit and determination.

Very grit, much determination.

[Mimi]

the Yankees did the same thing to Bernie Williams.

The yankees are awful with this.

[Dr. Medulla]

the Yankees did the same thing to Bernie Williams.

The yankees are awful with this.

In David Halberstam's wonderful Summer of '49—if you haven't read it, you'd love it—he describes Frank Crosetti, former Yankee infielder-turned-coach, who was the blueprint for the humourless Yankee:

The Yankees were not just a family to Crosetti, they were a religion. Within that religion, arrogance was a sin. He was always on guard against it. If the Yankees won three in a row and the players started celebrating in the locker room, the Crow would look at them coldly and say, “Don’t be so gay when you’re all full of shit.” He did not congratulate batters who hit home runs except, it was said, Maris on the occasion of his sixty-first and Mantle on the occasion of his five-hundredth. He did not congratulate them because they had merely done what they were supposed to do.

Crosetti knew everything about Yankee baseball, and almost nothing about anything else. He had no time for the ancillary pleasures of the season. He did not attend the victory parties that celebrated World Series wins. His car was already packed as the Series wound down, and the moment the last game was over, he left as quickly as he could and drove back to California. In 1949 one of the rookies asked Crosetti if he had ever attended a victory celebration? Yes, he answered, once—in 1932, his rookie year. Why not since then, Crow? the player wondered. “No need to,” Crosetti answered.

[Dr. Medulla]

if I was a drinker that is.FwS5EyZXwAELDqH.jpg

Gotta wonder how patient Cohen will be, especially with the example of the Phillies turning things around after canning Girardi last year.