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Guinness Poetry Open
@YouTheReader Guinness is for everyone! You should see the other Guinness poster that Aunt M sent me, it’s the centerpiece of the apartment…
…Really brings the kitchen together…
My Favorite Tweeter
I have to get back on the Yellow Jacket train, I’ve been slacking. Why did all these shows decide to come out at the same time? Too many good shows, playoffs, and Yankees. @MyFavoriteTweeter maybe @Showtime will give us an answer on Yellow Jackets bye week.
Since May 3rd ‘18, Jacob deGrom has been placed on the injury report or sidelined for the following: hyperextended right elbow, hip, back tightness, neck, hamstring, side, right side, elbow, shoulder, forearm, forearm, shoulder, wrist, elbow. Jacob deGrom may need a new bionic head, shoulders, knees, and toes…
NY Yankees & Jets Talk
4/27 ‘23
Who do we want to draft tonight? I hope we get a lineman.
Lineman - I think there are a bunch. And if there are a couple left I could see them trading back to get another late pick.
O-Line is the smart move. If they go elsewhere, Kancey or Bresee (DTs) I’d be happy with. JSN, Johnston, or Hyatt I could probably be convinced is a good pick if I watch a highlight tape.
Same. Receiver would be more exciting but I think we keep building the trenches.
I hope it isn’t bad, and if it isn’t they should probably shut him down for a little while anyway. Jets taking Jaxson Smith.
I bet Packers do. Judge has “right hip discomfort”- that’s a disaster. Steelers taking the last o-lineman. So we are relying on Becton again. I bet we trade back.
What r we doing ??? They are hugging - what did they do ?? Who is this guy?
The guy who jumped over a car.
Oh my
Don’t know anything about him
He is going to be a beast. Just based on the reaction from the coach and JD.
Don’t feel great about this one. But we’ll see! He’s old. Turning 24 during the season
Why did we take an old guy?
Don’t love it either. Will probably just have to watch a ton of highlights and we’ll see. (@YouTheReader after watching a ton of YouTube highlights I’m convinced Will McDonald will be a double digits sack master.)
Had such good vibes from the last couple of days with Aaron Rodgers. I hope I didn’t screw this up.
Spin zone, they aren’t going to pay him after his first contract with the team bc they’ll have to give Sauce, Wilson, and Hall all their money. Might as well draft the old guy. He’s “NFL ready”.
Does this mean that they’re out on Jermaine Johnson and/or Bryce Huff tho? And if they aren’t and those guys are still gonna play a lot, is this dude even gonna see the field? We still have Carl Lawson too. And JFM and Clemons. Just weird.
Yeah probably means at least one of those guys is gone.
I think they just resigned Huff? Comp is Randy Gregory - I’ll take that.
Whatever. I don’t know anything anyway. Let’s hope he’s good!
Espn putting up a 0.1% chance a player would still go unpicked must be brutal. I guess they come up with it with the betting lines?
Ya, I’ve been wondering where they get that too. Feel bad for that guy. He’s lost out on a lottttt of money tonight.
This kid is gonna be a beast. Maybe we could have gotten someone else - but watch some videos. He is going to be fun to watch and I trust Saleh will know how to use him. Oh, and we have Aaron Rodgers so who cares.
Very true
A disgrace he keeps being rolled out there.
Literally, what is going on?
I don’t think a team with 0 budget would put out a guy that stinks and the fans hate out there as often. It is very strange what they are doing.
It’s become like an actual joke. He looks so angry all the time too
4/28 ‘23
Hyatt, Washington, Simpson, Henley, or Schmitz would be fun.
I’m out at dinner. Keep me posted.
Who is Joe Tippman ?
Center from Wisconsin.
Center? Let’s go.
The Big Ten o-line is usually good.
JD knows these guys.
This is what an offensive lineman should look like. I am a fan.
If Becton stays healthy… this line could really be something…
Agreed. Risky but has a lot of potential. Also: deGrom is throwing a perfect game against us tonight. He’s thrown 30 pitches through 3 innings.
Great haha Willie Calhoun at cleanup, sheesh
I hope Minaya and the other guy are letting Steinbrenner know what a clown show this is.
He needs to be fired. Cashman. They are a joke. If Judge is out for an extended period, Cashman is going to use the excuse that we had a bad season because we lost Judge and Stanton for a while. And try to cover up the fact that the roster is full of guys who should not be in the major leagues. Franchy Cordero is legitimately one of the worst players I’ve ever seen. And he’s not even the worst player in our outfield right now!
We stink. deGrom is a mess. The Rangers look stupid with those uniforms on.
Agreed on all 3 counts.
Haha what’s the deal with their uniforms?
I turned on the game - saw some dude warming up in the bullpen and thought it was a fan or something.
Hideous
Mockery
Clarke Schmidt's stat line: 5 innings, 10 hits, 5 earned runs, 1 walk, and 8 k’s.
I’ve rooted for this guy since they drafted him. Unfortunately, he stinks.
I feel like the only starting pitching they have ever developed since Pettitte they got lucky with.
Yup. I think he could possibly be good in the bullpen tho. His stats against lefties vs his stats against righties are crazy. Lefties are literally hitting like .400 off him. Sevy could’ve been that guy Thomas if his arm wasn’t made out of paper mache.
Yup true haha that happens but like Cortes, Montgomery, and German (to an extent wasn’t a top prospect). All their big names end up better off in the bullpen. SP is allegedly tough to find though so could just be baseball in general.
Andy Pettitte was developed by the Yankees - before you guys were born. That is ridiculous.
It’s crazy. Maybe Chien-Ming Wang could have been the next guy but I’m not even sure if he was hyped as a top international prospect or if they are just lucky with him haha and he was done after like what 2-3 years.
Monty, you could say they successfully developed into a competent MLB starter, but he’s the best they did this whole era because Sevy is always hurt.
They traded Monty for a guy in a boot, when we had no pitching.
4/29 ‘23
This is cool
Yes, it is. I hope we go wide receiver here. Oh nvm, we just traded with the Pats.
What did we get?
Moved back 8 spots and got a 5th or early 6. The Pats moved up for a kicker.
Strange. Went with an offensive tackle. Was hurt last year but apparently has some upside
Name?
Carter Warren. Pitt.
I think Michael Carter is gonna get cut
Maybe, they also cut Ty Johnson tho so could keep 4
I like Michael Carter
Ah, I didn’t see they cut Johnson. I hope they keep all 4
Yeah I didn’t either, it was weird bc I think they just resigned him earlier this offseason. Another trade 170 for 204 and 220.
The Jets are going to be awesome this year - no doubt.
I think Hicks is drinking in the dugout before playing the outfield. There’s no other explanation for him out there.
Yanks call up Bauers and he’s hurt in 2nd inning. Something is just wrong with this team.
4/30 ‘23
15-1.
Mockery
Cashman is hiding. He should do a press conference tomorrow to apologize to the fans. We are in last place. Maybe Boone will show the team highlights of the Red Sox winning the World Series again to motivate the team.
If Steinbrenner trusts these clowns to figure it out, then he gets what he deserves. I think Jay Dee is trying to make sure the Jets can’t use injuries as an excuse, so building depth. The Yankees don’t seem to have any of that.
I’m sure the team’s sleeping coach will fix this nightmare. Jay Dee is the man.
Steph Curry: good at basketball
Because of these 2 guys - we are winning a Super Bowl. I don’t know when, but we are winning a Super Bowl !!!
They are awesome. I hope you’re right
5/1 ‘23
We stink
Wtf is Boone doing?
The book said to take him out.
They weren’t touching Domingo all night. And if you’re going to take him out, put in King. Not the guy that f***** blows.
King probably threw too many pitches in the bullpen. Team stinks.
Every single fan of the team knew what was going to happen there. How is it possible that the manager of the team didn’t?
Terrible. Can’t wait to watch Hicks strike out to end the game. Wandy looks like he should be playing in an over-40 league. Holmes stinks. They should make Sevy the closer.
Anyone but Holmes. He is so bad.
Turned back into a pumpkin pretty fast.
This is bad.
Just unacceptable.
Unfortunately, everything is acceptable. No accountability. And there was 0% chance Hicks was not striking out. Zero.
Horrible
5/2 ‘23
This is making bad Yankees easier to deal with.
I can’t believe I’m saying this on May 2nd but the Yanks should give the SF Giants a bag of balls to bring Gary Sanchez back. They have nobody on the active roster rn that should be DHing (which is insane). Gary will probably hit .180 like the rest of the team but at least he might get a hold of 1 or 2 until Stanton comes back.
I agree. He’s a pretty cool guy. If he doesn’t have to catch maybe he’ll get back to you close to being what it used to be. Probably not, but I always root for him and they should try to get a Joey Gallo back…. Kidding, they should never try to bring him back. He was the worst player in all of baseball. That is saying a lot since Aaron Hicks was on his team.
Let’s go
World Series is back on. Still fire Cashman tho
5/3 ‘23
I think Gerrit Cole should pitch more.
I like it
Can’t hurt
He’s gonna help for sure. Also, Anthony Volpe is really good.
Gleyber Torres stinks
What happened?
0-4 tonight with an error. Had a chance to give us the lead with Volpe on 2nd, 2 out bottom 8 - lazy fly ball.
The Yankees mid-game posted “Rake Bauers” as if they won the game. These things only used to come on their Instagram after wins. This is pathetic.
It’s very cringe. Boone just took Marinaccio out with 2 outs in the 9th, no one was on. He’s thrown 23 pitches and has looked dominant and he brings in Clay Holmes.
I shook Roger Ferderer’s hand lol
What?!?!? The dude is a legend.
Yeah randomly outside of a bar.
Awesome.
Was shocked.
I saw him play years ago. I was at center court. Ridiculous seats.
That’s insane. Clay gave up 2 bloops and we’re losing. And Bader just got hurt.
What a disaster.
Literally no reason. Marinaccio was dominant. 2 outs in the inning and their 8 hitter coming up. NO REASON.
How bad did he get booed? How do you let the same guy blow 2 games in 3 days while making the same mistake?
He’s getting booed loudly by the 5 people still at the game. It’s pouring rain. He decided to put our shakest pitcher into the game for 0 reason at all.
Cashman said injuries in every sentence during his “press conference” earlier.
Well, Peraza just got hurt stealing 2nd base. So more injuries for them to make excuses about. He either just f***** up his knee or pulled a hammy
Trey Sweeney time.
Good lord
Yup. Our only trade chip now done
(I do like Sweeney tho). They may just have to sell all their assets. Sorry - they don’t have any. What channel are the Yankees on?
Amazon. Hopefully, Grandma and Grandpa don’t have Amazon on their tv so they haven’t had to watch this debacle.
The Yankees are awesome !!!!
What happened?
Trevino (one of the only players on the team with a pair of balls) walk off.
Hip hip
Bauers, Calhoun, and Trevino drove in our runs. We are in a lot of trouble. Marinacci should never have come out. Boone fault. IKF should have caught that ball. Cashman's fault for not getting a LF. And why would Perazza no slide? The team is a mess.
Critiquing Critics - Mean Girls
It’s a classic. Mean Girls was a bit of a Lindsay Lohan comeback. People forget that in ‘04 Rachel McAdams starred in this and The Notebook, only to follow that up with Wedding Crashers. I want it Noted that I was a fan of Rachel McAdams since the Hot Chick and of course, I watched Parent Trap and was convinced there were two Lindsay Lohans in the first 8 years of my existence. Tina Fey as a teacher and Amy Poehler being a cool mom was also funny. It would be tough to hate this movie…
Damn Dorothy, back at it again with negativity…
Steven admitted he wouldn’t make it out alive as a Plastic, very big of him.
I would say that Todd has to find Jesus but he already works for him on the daily.
I actually respect Garth just putting in the bare minimum without commenting. Very mysterious.
Hmmmm…
… as I always say, nobody knows high school girls better than Jackie K. Cooper and Robert W. Butler did back in ‘04.
Random Athlete Group Chat
While drinking Guinness Pints last Sunday in the rain, I stumbled upon a group of guys at the bar who know sports. They have a Random Athlete Group Chat that is strictly used for Random Athletes of yesteryear. This was the invitation afterward…
Tom, great meeting you. It’s Jake from the bar earlier today. Please send a starting 5, 6th man, 2Qbs, 2rbs, 2wrs, 2te’s and I’ll enter you to our random athletes group chat. Will be sure to promote the brand.
Likewise Jake great meeting you guys 🤝
Here’s what I got
PG: Devin Harris
SG: Lucious Harris
SF: Devon George
PF: Leon Powe
C: Aaron Williams (A Train)
6th Man: Michael Finley (Spurs era)
2 QBs: Patrick Ramsey and Mark Brunell
2 RBs: Lamont Jordan and Warrick Dunn
2 WRs: Harry Douglas and Chris Chambers
2 TEs: Anthony Fasano and Anthony Becht
MLB Wild Card: Enrique Wilson
@YouTheReader How do you think I did, random enough? I don’t think the guys realize that one of my long-play schemes with Week to Week Notes is to have every man, woman, and child in the Tri-State area know who Enrique Wilson is.
Rooster Cup Chatter ‘23
Uh-oh, the boys are prepping for Scottsdale… Arizona watch out…