I'm just shocked Mary Worth got a new artist. I had to google it, and the old one didn't even die, but he is 90. I am glad to see the pure essence of Wilbur made it through the transition.
No, it isn't.The Red Sox could also be playing the Yankees in the divisional round if the Yankees beat the A’s in the wild-card game, so it’s important for the Red Sox to show they can continue to dominate the Yankees in the majority of the final six games between the two teams.
It's not your fault.Why is this "important"? Especially since the last weekend is going to be a moot point anyway (we hope). Yeah, I'm sure the Yankees are going to be scared of the Sox after Tsu-Wei Lin and Brandon Phillips rip a few balls of the wall.
Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I log on and read this thread. And we all go out we have a few drinks and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? It's for about ten seconds from when this page is loading and I read the first post. Because I think maybe I'll get up there and I'll read on the page that Nick won't be there. No goodbye, no see you later, no nothin'. Just left. I don't know much, but I know that.
We do?The Red Sox also want to make sure the Yankees don’t get too comfortable playing them. We all know that the teams who are hot at the end likely will stay hot in the playoffs.
The Yankees are 5-5 in their last 10, 8-8 in September, and 10-10 in their last 20.Don’t look now, but the Yankees seem to be peaking at the right time
Realize you're reaching back here for a metaphor almost no one will recognize, but you still picked an early TV personality, you need to get firmly back into the radio media era: you wanted Arthur Godfrey.The Yankees are 5-5 in their last 10, 8-8 in September, and 10-10 in their last 20.
The last time anyone peaked like that, Art Linkletter's daughter jumped out a window.
You should tweet this to him.The Yankees are 5-5 in their last 10, 8-8 in September, and 10-10 in their last 20.
The last time anyone peaked like that, Art Linkletter's daughter jumped out a window.
psychologically damning?After the Red Sox avoided what would have been a psychologically damning sweep to the Yankees by winning a 10-2 game
Once again. A kernal of a good idea swept away by another old-school priapism.So even though Brock Holt and Rafael Devers had horrific numbers against Luis Severino, he put them in the lineup anyway.
This was one of those nonanalytic moments. Cora simply had a feeling, a Joe Morgan hunch, that the two lefthanded hitters would do something significant.
Damn.Bill James destroying Nick on Twitter on that very issue:
The Globe can't afford an analytics department. They (like every other paper) can barely afford reporters and columnists. Which is why Wilbur still has a job. I think they mostly pay him in 2 for 1 coupons for the 99.If the globe had an analytics department Nick would be playing pinochle with Pomeranz.
Yes and no. Wilbur has a job because the newspaper union is incredibly strong. Firing Cafardo because he lost his fastball would take an act of God and I don't think that the Globe really wants to put the time and effort into showing Cafardo the door. I mean, if you're the Globe you look at Cafardo and you see a guy who can fill column inches, speaks pretty directly to their consumer and won't make any waves. When was the last time Cafardo wrote something that was marginally thought provoking or offensive.The Globe can't afford an analytics department. They (like every other paper) can barely afford reporters and columnists. Which is why Wilbur still has a job. I think they mostly pay him in 2 for 1 coupons for the 99.
Yes and no. Wilbur has a job because the newspaper union is incredibly strong. Firing Cafardo because he lost his fastball would take an act of God and I don't think that the Globe really wants to put the time and effort into showing Cafardo the door. I mean, if you're the Globe you look at Cafardo and you see a guy who can fill column inches, speaks pretty directly to their consumer and won't make any waves. When was the last time Cafardo wrote something that was marginally thought provoking or offensive.
I mean he tries his best, but the hills that he chooses to fight for (scouts vs. analytics for example) are battles that are long over. No one gives a shit any more because they've moved on. He writes for the 70-year-old guy who remembers baseball when it was a one or two division league and batting average, RBIs and wins were the best stats. Yes, it's important to have a guy like Shaughnessy on the staff; a professional troll, someone who can get people talking. But I think that the Globe wants the personification of soggy cereal like Cafardo.
And the Globe can afford people who write with an analytics bent, they have Speier Finn and to a degree, Peter Abraham. And they could completely wipe out the sports department (except for the columnists) and hire young, hungry, stats people right out of college. I guarantee that they could hire two to three journalism majors from BU or Northeastern or any Boston school every year and within five years, have a completely different and vibrant newspaper. But they don't want to do that/can't do that because of the union and because older people still read the paper. Older people (this is a generalization, I know) and people that normally read the paper don't want to read about new stats. They want the same mush handed to them every day.
Wilbur sucks. Especially for people like us who want a little bit of subtly or sophistication with our baseball reporting.
Also, is Bill James crapping all over him and Joe Pos joining in a sign of the apocalypse? Or perhaps a sign from above that without the protective aura of Joe Sullivan maybe Nick might be headed for the exits?Nick has the sentiments of a 12-year old:
No, it isn't.The Red Sox could also be playing the Yankees in the divisional round if the Yankees beat the A’s in the wild-card game, so it’s important for the Red Sox to show they can continue to dominate the Yankees in the majority of the final six games between the two teams.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/redsox/2018/09/12/red-sox-wins-only-prelude-greatness/zXMxMVfNHUyYbAD37QcPhP/story.html
Nick is nothing if not predictably wrong.While we are all dunking on Nick, it's worth noting that this aged well:
Also, is Bill James crapping all over him and Joe Pos joining in a sign of the apocalypse? Or perhaps a sign from above that without the protective aura of Joe Sullivan maybe Nick might be headed for the exits?
IDK. I would guess probably not, but if you're a circulation manager and want to admit that the war is over (ie: you won't ever be able to land younger readers) then keep rolling Nick Cafardo and his ilk out. But if you want to try something new and load the sports page with information that they can only get at the Globe or Herald or which ever paper is their choosing, you may as well try it. The Herald will probably be dead within five years, it's a shitty newspaper that even Steve Buckley has given up on.Are there people who aren't old that still read the newspaper?
edit: Online edition, I suppose.
The funniest part is when he spends15 paragraphs talking about what New York will do and his quote from Cashman is, “we haven’t had our off season meetings yet, so I’m not sure what we’re going to do.”This week the Red Sox advanced to the ALCS, and now the World Champion Astros are coming to town with the pennant on the line. So naturally, Cafardo's Sunday Baseball piece is all about... the Yankees and their offseason plans.
What a clown. Who wants to read this crap about the fucking Yankees right now? And I don't think he is actually trying to troll people, I think he is so dumb and so obsessed with trying to predict trades that he actually thinks that is the best use of his Sunday column right now. No need to talk about the Red Sox, or talk about the Astros, or even look at the NLCS. Nope, Yankees offseason plans, that's what we should be thinking of right now.
He is the biggest waste of space in sports media, and that is hard to accomplish.
At least this week we FINALLY got an update on the contract status of JP Ricciardi! Everyone's been wondering how many more years his contract will run.
Rough season apparently means hitting .000 forever.He was part of a Sox offense that went silent against Justin Verlander in Game 1. You don’t expect Bradley to be the offensive star after the rough season he had offensively, but when the playoffs begin much of that stuff is tossed out the window. Bradley decided he was going to make his mark in at least one of these games. He sure did.
Which is actually good for the rest of the teams...draft picks and solid prospects (like the Yankees have) are worth more, IMHO. Go ahead and weigh yourself down with long-term committments, NYY..just like George used to do.From the 108 Sitches Newsletter:
THEY’LL START SPREADING THE CASH: Nick Cafardo, in his Sunday Notes, looks at a fascinating offseason that awaits the Yankees.
Of course he does.
Now the trick is for Eovaldi to repeat that against the Astros. You see, Eovaldi’s DNA is opposite that of David Price’s. Eovaldi loves pitching against the Yankees and now he must love pitching against the Astros, his hometown team.
Biologists help us out here, if the DNA is opposite the normal pairing, but everything was mirrored, wouldn't it express in the.............Either Eovaldi or Price has a chromosome problem:
There are some big names on the table. The Winter Meetings should be fascinating.I know that most everyone is waiting for Tuesday and the World Series; talking about match-ups, who's going to slot where in the rotation, lots of good stuff like that. But I'm really pumped for Nick's column on Sunday. I am dying to find out what the Yankees are thinking about doing this winter.
That's the real World Series.
Manny Machado could be Nick's Yankee/World Series Venn Diagram.There are some big names on the table. The Winter Meetings should be fascinating.
But first, the slog through yet another World Series with some other, more fringe media market teams from around what's left of the league.
For sure. And there's always the hope that Bryce Harper can engineer some kind of ARod-style World Series interruption and announce a big Yankees deal.Manny Machado could be Nick's Yankee/World Series Venn Diagram.
You gotta think the Yankees' have the momentum going into 2019.I know that most everyone is waiting for Tuesday and the World Series; talking about match-ups, who's going to slot where in the rotation, lots of good stuff like that. But I'm really pumped for Nick's column on Sunday. I am dying to find out what the Yankees are thinking about doing this winter.
That's the real World Series.
No doubt! They’ll be extra motivated .You gotta think the Yankees' have the momentum going into 2019.