Yankee4Life

You had the lead for over half the month!

6 out of 10, 71 seconds. Pitiful today. Simple as that. Here are the final standings for November. It was another close one. The reason why I believe Jim and I tied are for two reasons. First, at the beginning of the month he was still recovering from the hospital and secondly it was because of one question yesterday. It was something like 'what two players were never teammates." I KNEW the answer because it was a question that they basically give you the answer but I read it toooo fast and got it wrong. Had I got it right I'd of had four points yesterday instead of three and I would have finished one point ahead. Every day counts here! Now if we can get more people.

9 out of 10, 35 seconds. It was the classic case of reading the question wrong but when you go back and look at it you get mad at yourself because you knew the answer all along.

7 out of 10, 69 seconds. Today was kind of odd. I missed a question on Nolan Ryan but then on consecutive questions the correct answer was Walter Johnson and I got both of them right.

10 out of 10, 34 seconds. The frustrating part about today was not the questions. These were too easy today. Like who hit more home runs in a Cubs uniform and Ernie Banks was listed among three others that you knew never played for the Cubs. I hesitated on two of them and it cost me.

6 out of 10, 82 seconds. It's progress from yesterday but the time is terrible. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and Jim I hope you continue to improve each day.

7 out of 10, 76 seconds. These were very time consuming because I had to stop and think for eight of them.

Please never ask again when this mod or any mod is going to be released. These guys that make them work on them on their own time away from here.

3 out of 10, 35 seconds. Someone try to beat that! 😄

8 out of 10, 74 seconds. I got the first eight right but messed up the last two. Slow time but the questions I had to think about.

All I can guess Sabugo is that the people that did this were Americans visiting your country.

Updated to 11-23 ... You have to hand it to the Yankees. Really, you do. They delivered on another tiresome and aggravating season for their fans and if you really had to be completely honest with yourself you should've expected this way back in February. It was aggravating because they had the same season almost the same way as they did last year and the year before that and so on. When I saw them start out with a decent record ahead of the rest of the teams in their division I said to myself just wait until June and that will tell you everything we need to know about this team. It turns out we found out exactly what a lot of us were expecting. The Yankees are afraid of the month of June and some people are of the dark. It usually takes them about two months to turn on the lights and start playing well but when that happened they saw that the Blue Jays came on strong and never let up. You got to salute Toronto because they are a team that puts the ball in play and when you do that things happen. Making contact, hitting and running and playing defense along with good pitching will win you games. Who knew? The Yankees are a PlayStation team come to life. Everybody in that lineup swings for the fences and if you strike out four times a game that's okay because tomorrow maybe you only strike out three times a game and hit a home run. Not counting Aaron Judge there is very, very little about this team that makes me like them. They don’t even look like Yankees anymore ever since they got rid of the facial hair ban. Now some of them look like the bums you see on any other team. I’ll go on record saying that having facial hair or not will not affect how well you play but it’s just one more thing that has been taken away from this team that is not the same anymore. This team can be pitched to and beaten at any time. The home run, while impressive as an offensive weapon, is all that they have. And that is all that most fans know. That’s why baseball throws all those stats at you when one is hit. How fast it went out, the distance and the launch angle. Information that means absolutely nothing. The 1998 to 2009 Yankees had one thing in common: a great shortstop, an all-time great closer and a good catcher. Do they have any of those things now? They are not even close because if you think Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells are somehow going to get better next year then you’d better find something else to do next summer. If you have been around here this summer you would've read us talk about how this team is in the shout box. Team management privately thinks that this season was a success because they want ninety-four games. The public will hear them say that they were disappointed and frustrated and they will do everything in their power to make next year be a championship year. You know, the usual gaslighting. They could care less because they know that the fans in the Bronx will come back again and again and the only real change is when they finally part ways with Cashman and Boone. And that is not going to happen so I might as well end this right here and when they get eliminated in the 2026 playoffs I can come back to this random thoughts post and just cut-and-paste it so I can use it again next year. At least they are consistent, right? ... Every year in the summer runners from all over the world come to Utica, New York to participate in something called the Boilermaker 15K Road Race. This is a big thing for runners of all ages and it has been going on for over forty years. There were thousands of runners this year including at one point a deer, which, for one unfortunate lady turned out to be an unwelcome surprise. Around the four-mile mark a doe ran out of the woods presumably because she was late in registering and ran directly into a female runner causing her considerable damage. The woman was taken to a hospital where she was treated for a bruised face, a black eye and a bloody ear. If only the deer stayed within the deer crossing signs this would not have happened. After the collision the deer turned around and ran back into the woods apparently because she did not want to be stuck paying for damages. ...Baseball sure knew how to give a good send off to the winter didn’t they? This was one of the exciting and interesting World Series in a long time and it outperformed just about everything from last year. While 2024 gave us Aaron Judge dropping a fly ball in game five to end the series, this year we got the amazing Yoshinobu Yamamoto winning three games. (Never mind the jokes about Boone probably yanking him out of the game early. That’s for another time.) The Dodgers won and the Blue Jays thankfully lost. Yes, I said thankfully because had Toronto won Fat Vlad would be doing his bat flips all over the Grapefruit League when baseball resumes next February. Toronto should have won it in six games but Addison Barger was too far off second base and he ended up getting doubled off on one of the nicest double plays you will ever see in the sixth game. That right there was what I thought was the turning point for game seven before the game even started. Even after Bichette’s home run I figured the Jays needed a few more. They only got one and the Dodgers chipped and chipped away and after Los Angeles turned a double play for the second straight night to end the game that was that. ...Why was it ok during the post season that the ghost runner was shelved and it did not create a problem? Of all the rule changes in recent years this one is right near the top of the ones I dislike the most. And while I am at it has anyone read any articles from former players who have gone on record by saying they approve of all the changes the game has had in recent years? I have not read one yet. ...There is one guy on this website that I think can step in and do a better job than Cashman in one month than that guy has in the last sixteen years and that is KCCityStar. The guy knows what’s wrong with the Yankees and what’s more is that he can easily identify the cause of the issue(s) and what the team is doing to add to them. That’s the first thing you have to do with any problem you have. You have to acknowledge that there is one and only then you take steps to solve it. The Yankees, because they still consider themselves the mighty Yankees, still believe their approach to winning is working because the team is a constant playoff participant. That’s fine but someone else always ends up winning the World Series and the Yankees have to answer questions yet again as to why they couldn’t get the job done and after all this time they have their excuses armed and ready to go. The Yankees have troubles and I’m not going to pretend that there isn’t. KC observes the same things that I do but he sees it first. I wanted Anthony Volpe sent to the minors back in June but he kept on saying that it was the Yankees approach to hitting that is causing some of his problems. Really? Maybe so! I just think that because of what I have seen that Yankee prospects, with the exception of Aaron Judge, are overrated and it shows once they reach the major leagues. Look at the recent top prospects - Sanchez, Andujar, Frazier, Everson Pereira, Oswald Peraza and now Volpe, who was the worst shortstop in baseball and Jasson Domínguez, who in two years will probably end up being traded to the White Sox or Pirates. They all have turned out to be disappointments that have never been worth their hype. All flops. The reason the Yanks have a high payroll is their total inability to produce players from within their system. There are no three words that are a bigger jinx than "prized Yankees prospect" and a big reason for that is the fault of the Yankees which I believe KC sees. ... Good work if you can get it Dept: What is that old saying about a fool and their money being soon parted? This woman in San Francisco is doing exactly that to couples who give her money to help name their babies. For some people that want some personalized name recommendations they have to pay her close to two hundred dollars. That includes each name’s meanings, origins, spelling variations, popularity history, and “vibes”-whatever that means. But when the client has money that is when it gets ridiculous. She charges $30,000 for add-on services that include some impressive-on-paper things as “identifying a unique name aesthetic,” “baby name branding,” and getting a genealogist to compose a list of names from old parts of the family tree, or even hiring a think tank to discuss options. Somehow I cannot picture people getting together in a room tossing out baby names to each other. I feel sorry for the kid that has to go through life knowing that his folks paid thirty grand because they couldn't come up with a name for him by themselves. I think I can do this job for half the price and if the people do not like the name I come up with I will go back and come up with another. Someone has to do this job in upstate New York and it may as well be me. ...Two things that immediately came to mind when I learned about what happened with Cleveland pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz. First, even though they traded money for information, bet on themselves and transferred money across state and international lines, this is not over by any means. They’re facing up to sixty-five years in prison but now the lawyers are going to get involved and it’s going to be long and costly. You can do just about anything in baseball but you better not have anything to do with gambling. Secondly, if by any chance they are allowed back in baseball they will never play for the Indians again. I just wonder why they did this at all. Clase is in the middle of a five-year, twenty million dollar contract and Ortiz is earning the league minimum $760,000. Poor guy. And they still want to put a team in Las Vegas? ...A lot of people don’t know this about myself only because the subject never came up but I am a big fan of Selena Gomez. I like how she conducts herself, she’s a good business woman, her albums seem to sell well although I don’t own any and she’s a very good actress and finally she is extremely beautiful. So, I wish her all the luck with her career. I also heard that she got married some time ago and when I took a look at the guy she married I thought he looked like a young Bob Dylan. That’s the polite way to say that he looks like a homeless bum. As long as she’s happy. While not originating the saying “love is blind” Shakespeare popularized it several of his plays. In this case life imitates art. ...A woman by the name of Sarah Jane Ramos who happens to be the fiancé of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott recently had $40,000 worth of property, including designer goods from Chanel and Louis Vuitton stolen from her vehicle because she was going to a pilates class and on her way inside it began to rain heavily so she hurried in and neglected to lock her car. When she returned to her car that is when she noticed that her designer handbags and wallets from Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Prada, as well as computer software and cash were amongst the estimated $40,000 worth of pieces stolen. Well, at least we know that among all the stolen items they did not take a playoff ring from Prescott. It is obvious that he is not with her for her intellect. The outside of my car is not even worth $40,000. What any reasonable person would think after reading this is that if you leave forty grand worth of goods in your car unlocked and left alone so you can go and participate in an exercise class you then deserve to lose forty grand worth of goods. Not to worry, he’ll get her more. ...Fly me to the moon, Dept: Kim Kardashian is well known for a multitude of things but intelligence is not one of them. This is a woman who at one time was married to Kanye West. She’s attempting to become a lawyer in the state of California but unfortunately for her she failed the bar exam. She was surprised it was a written test because she had memorized every mixed drink in the bartender’s handbook. During a recent episode of The Kardashians she blurted out that the “moon landing was fake and it didn’t happen.” This is coming from a woman who doesn’t even know where the moon is. She provided proof for anyone who wanted it to simply go to TikTok and watch the videos themselves. Going to TikTok to learn about something like this is like having the evening news be broadcast on Nickelodeon. If the moon landing was fake Russia would have been the first ones to expose it because we were in a race with them. They traced the progress of the missions and they have not disputed the landing once in over fifty years. That fact has probably not made it on to one of those videos. ... Not too long ago when my cousin came home after taking a flight to Florida she was telling me she could not make up her mind what was more annoying on it as she described children constantly leaving their seats to run around, which seemed to annoy everyone except their parents or when one of them noticed that another passenger had an emotional support animal along with her. When they found out that a dog was on board every one of them had to go back there to see it for themselves. The dog was very quiet before the kids noticed it and most people sitting near the lady didn't even know she had a dog with her but when the kids began aggressively playing with and touching the dog that is when the barking started. She really couldn't blame the dog but with the barking and the kids running around it made for a very tough flight. It reminded me of another incident on a plane where a passenger brought his emotional support animal on the flight with him but in this instance no one bothered the dog. You see, the dog that the guy brought on the plane was a Great Dane and nobody wanted to get too close to him despite the fact that Great Danes are known to be affectionate and very sociable but just in case he may have been in a bad mood they gave him his space. A lot of people were not too happy with having a dog that size on their flight because as you can imagine he took up a lot of space. The reason why a dog of that size is allowed on flights is because the airlines have been allowing it so naturally people have been taken advantage of it. If you can’t leave the house without your security blanket (living or inanimate) it’s best that you stay home. There is a big difference between emotional support animals and service animals. Service animals are highly trained helpers for the people that they are with and emotional support animal is just a pet getting a free ride. If you are so mentally distraught that you need an emotional support animal to travel, perhaps getting into an aluminum tube with two hundred strangers and flying to 40,000 feet just isn't for you. ...NFL check-in and all that jazz, Dept: The nice thing, if you would like to call it that, is that if you are a fan of the Oakland Raiders like I am your season is over each year before the World Series even begins. It's hard being consistently bad every single year. I mean you always see a different team coming out of nowhere and having a great year but the only thing that you can count on about the Raiders is that they will not be one of those teams. A new coach and a new quarterback and an offense that looks good in preseason but when the bell rings the scoring stops. I remember a few years back the Raiders lost a game to Minnesota 3 -0. How the hell do you lose a game 3 - 0? And the worst part is wasn't the worst loss that they have had over the years. This one just stands out because they cannot score. Just recently they lost a game to the Denver Broncos by the score of 10 - 7. Denver by the way is this year's surprise team. The Raiders surprise no one. They don't have a lot of good things going for them but at least they did not go out and sign Devondre Campbell after the 49ers released him last year. Campbell was the guy who refused to go into a game in the third quarter against the Rams late last year. San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan suspended him for the remainder of the season and no one has had the sense to pick him up this year. The Raiders used to be famous for reclamation projects but all of those players actually wanted to play. It's a good thing that Campbell has his high school diploma to fall back on because he'll never be hired on the NFL Today. ...Lastly I want to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving to those of us here in the United States. For those of you anywhere else in the world please just continue on as normal. Enjoy spending time with your families and if you are someone who gets the long weekend off from work, have fun by doing nothing. I already know when I get there on Thursday the same relative is going to slap me on the back and say to me “what happened to those Yankees this year?” like I am supposed to know. I always tell him I wish I knew and I am convinced from the same response that I give him that he believes I know nothing about the game. Anyway, again Happy Thanksgiving and for those of you who are going to have one eye on the turkey and one on the TV as you follow the NFL games that day here are the three games on. First it’s the Green Bay Packers at the Detroit Lions. That’s on FOX. Then the game I look forward to every year, the Dallas game. I watch the Cowboys every year because they always manage to put me to sleep. It’s either that or the turkey. Anyhow, the Kansas City Chiefs will be visiting Dallas and that game will be on CBS. Just for laughs count how many times the camera shows Taylor Swift during the game because you know she won’t miss being there. Finally the evening game will be the Cincinnati Bengals at the Baltimore Ravens and that will be on NBC. Someone will watch that game. It’s just not going to be me. Have a great holiday!

10 out of 10, 45 seconds. My hand slipped off the mouse and by the time I grabbed it again and got going I lost a lot of time. What a messed up time.

Not really my friend. I got two questions that should have been in the easy category. What team did Phil Rizzuto play his entire career with? (Yanks of course) Where did the Yankees play their games in 2002? (Yankee Stadium, naturally. They provided three made-up stadiums for answers.) I got lucky today. But Tuesday is waiting for me.

10 out of 10, 41 seconds. Finally a day I can be satisfied with.