Yankee4Life

Updated to 7-28 ...I may not be a big baseball fan like I once was and it is entirely the fault of the new rule changes which unfortunately are too many to say that I won’t go into them but even that has not kept me with at least one eye on the game. It wasn’t that long ago that Opening Day was here and I swear it almost seems like it was a few days ago. And now we await for Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. eastern time for it to be over. For me this is just as bad as your favorite team being eliminated in the playoffs because the Yankees have the annoying habit of trading top prospects for people that don’t help and everyone but Brian Cashman are aware of it. Frankie Montas immediately comes to mind. What I am wondering is who is this year’s Montas going to be and how much young talent it is going to cost to get him? And just because Jasson Dominguez is injured doesn’t mean they’ll won’t trade him. Juan Soto has been all that he has been made out to be and even more but it is going to take more than him to have this team able to go deep into October and win. There are too many holes and maybe too many to fill by tomorrow evening. ...Maybe just maybe last night's 11 - 8 victory over those degraded people from Boston will be the spark that the Yankees need to go forward for the rest of the season. There are so many questions to be answered and addressed and there is such little time to do it in. Two months from now the season is going to come to a close and you know how fast that will get here. Will Jazz Chisholm be as helpful as the Yankees think he will be? He is coming in with the same kind of hype that Joey Gallo came in with. And I have no idea why they could not activate Stanton for this Boston series. He doesn't do a lot of things well but he is a pretty good Fenway Park hitter. So of course activate him when they get to Philadelphia. I have no idea if they are going to win this year but with the lineup that they keep on throwing out every day I don't see how and if they think that Chisholm will be the missing piece to lead them deep into October then I better find something else to watch when the World Series is on like I have been for these past fourteen years. ...As far as I am concerned Nike has done more than their share of ruining baseball today without affecting the rule changes that baseball itself has already messed up beyond repair. This company, who is just as arrogant as Apple, first ruined baseball uniforms by putting their logo on the front of every jersey. It was very small like a black smudge on a white canvas. Baseball gave them a ten-year contract for this but you know as well as I do these will never be removed. This year they went even further as they came out with a jersey that was in their words "more breathable, lightweight and stretchy." I don't know if they are breathable or stretchy but I can see that they are very lightweight. All you got to do is watch a Yankee game when they are on the road and it's a very humid day. Those jerseys are soaked through before the fourth inning is done. I have never seen a jersey do that in all my years watching baseball. Now, this goes back a little bit but there was a pitcher named Ray Burris that comes to mind. Burris was a marginal pitcher who pitched for seven different teams in his major-league career but what I remember the most about Burris was that he would sweat profusely on the mound and not just on hot summer days but while the sweat would come down off of his head his uniform never showed any signs of sweat. I thought about this every time they Yankee jerseys turned a darker shade of gray in the humidity. There have been player complaints about this and it was more predominant in the spring so I am not sure if they are used to the uniforms now or they were asked to not comment on them any further. All I know is just by seeing these uniforms on TV and in photos they look a lot cheaper and flimsy as compared to the ones last year. The only way these are not cheap is if you want to buy one for yourself. For example if you want to buy those awful looking All-Star game uniforms all you have to do is part with $194.99 and it's all yours! ...Bo knows lawsuits, Dept: In another example of where you can choose your friends but not your family, former two-sport star Bo Jackson won twenty-one million dollars in a civil case against his own family after an extortion attempt coordinated by his niece and nephew. The two were accused of “relentless harassment and intimidation” in attempting to extort around twenty million dollars from their famous uncle. Jackson was threatened via social media posts like one from his nephew threatening to release photos, texts and medical records of his. Jackson has more of a chance to make a comeback in the NFL than seeing one penny of the money he won in this lawsuit but his niece and nephew are now required to remain at least five hundred yards from him and his immediate family and they must remove any content about the Jackson’s family from their social media pages and are barred from further posting about him. Now what are they going to do, get a job? Yeah I know I’m being ridiculous. ...I try not to write about the Kardashians because they are too easy to poke fun at and make jokes but there are times when you have to. Not too long ago Kim Kardashian, who is in no way considered to be the smart one of the family, announced that she registered with the California State Bar to study law with the hope of becoming a lawyer but because she has been too busy with her other business ventures to continue studying the law she has quietly backed away from this. It does take a lot of time and commitment to study law but when she actually took the time to open a book and study she saw Latin words in there that she did not know or understand like habeas corpus. She complained that the Latin guys she knows speak Spanish and not Latin so how come the stuff in these books are not in Spanish? Oh what a public defender this woman could've been! ...Not too long ago former Cleveland Browns bust Johnny Manziel opened up about his history with drug use and the end of his two-year NFL career. After Cleveland released him in 2016 he weighed 210 pounds and since he had nowhere else to go he went to Las Vegas and before he knew it he was weighing 170 pounds, a pretty dramatic weight loss. When asked how he did it he said that he was on a steady diet of cocaine. Well, that's one way to do it but if he wanted help to lose weight ozempic is way cheaper. This guy had everything except the desire to win and a willingness to work and he goes around bragging that he lost forty pounds this way. Makes you want to shake his hand and have your picture taken with him. With all the diet books that you can find in bookstores and online you can be sure that this will never be written about. ...It's bad enough that baseball lets there games be broadcast on many different streaming services but now the NFL is going to do the same thing as they gave Amazon exclusive rights to a 2024 playoff game. That means of course that if your team is fortunate enough to make the playoffs their game may be on Amazon prime and if you don't have it then you are out of luck. And so it starts. Pretty soon every NFL game will be on a paid service. Maybe not this year or next year but it's coming and maybe ten years down the road Amazon or Apple will get the Super Bowl and the NFL will act like it's the greatest thing that has ever happened. I hope I'm wrong. ...Last week former Denver Broncos Hall of Famer Terrell Davis was unjustly escorted off of a United Airlines flight from Denver to California when a flight attendant came by the area his family was sitting in and Davis says the attendant didn't respond when his son asked for a cup of ice. Davis then tapped the flight attendant on the shoulder and the attendant suddenly shouted out "Don't hit me" and went off to another part of the plane. When the flight landed the captain made an announcement that everyone should remain seated. FBI agents then came onto the plane and handcuffed Davis and took him off the plane for questioning. What happened next showed the proper way to handle situations like this. Davis, while justifiably confused and upset over what was happening did not react in a loud or violent way in front of his family or the other passengers on the flight. He simply got up, cooperated with the authorities and exited the plane. He set a great example and a lesson for everyone on how to act even when you are not in the wrong. United Airlines said that they took the flight attendant out of rotation while the matter is investigated which means that they are probably getting ready to fire him or that they will promote him to upper management. Davis has filed a lawsuit over what happened and it doesn't take a crystal ball to figure out what is going to happen. United is going to settle and when they do that they will make a big speech condemning what happened and saying that it never should've taken place to begin with. No kidding. In this day and age with everyone carrying around smart phones there is no way that someone is going to get away with acting up on a plane or a bus or train without people recording their every move. I'm not usually someone that agrees with all these lawsuits that seem to be thrown around these days but I'm glad he's suing them and holding them accountable. ...Good news for all Kansas City Chiefs fans. Brittany Mahomes is now fully recovered from a fractured back and she will be at Arrowhead Stadium for the Chiefs first game in September. Mahomes declined to say if she fractured her back carrying around her enormous ego and sense of self worth or if she hurt it after Kansas City won the Super Bowl this past February after rumors that circulated in the press about a train that she pulled in the victorious locker room. 😀 ...The color of money, Dept: I think that Paul Skenes pitching for the Pittsburgh Pirates is one of the bright spots of this 2024 season but I still cannot help but be worried about how hard he throws on every pitch. It's like he is a Tommy John surgery waiting to happen. Sure he's on the top of the world right now and he shows that he belongs in the major leagues and it doesn’t hurt that he has a beautiful girlfriend in Olivia Dunne. One look at this couple and you have to wonder how they are together. First you have Dunne, someone who does not seem to own anything but bikinis, which of course is perfectly fine because she was made to wear them and then you have Skenes who has a mustache that belongs on a saloon keeper in the old West instead of a major league pitcher. What keeps them together? Oh yeah, money. As soon as Skenes says hello to Tommy John he will say goodbye to Olivia Dunne. ...It's obvious that Bill Belichick's twenty-four-year-old girlfriend is only going out with him because of his good looks and outgoing personality. I mean who can't see that? ...I don't want to bring up politics too much on our website but I want to salute President Biden for his decision to put the country first in his decision to step down as the leader of our country. I support Kamala Harris and I look forward to seeing the first female president in November. I think she can beat the loudmouth on the other side and as a lifelong Democrat she had my vote even before she had been officially nominated. Okay, that's it. A couple of sentences about politics is all that I want to write about. ...Hey, the Olympics are on! Ah hell I'm busy. ...Before I go on I understand that people are only going to read what they want to read and will disregard everything else. That being said I want to say that baseball's decision to allow Negro League statistics into the official major league records is one of the worst decisions that they have ever done. The player who will benefit the most from this is Josh Gibson, one of the greatest catchers the Negro Leagues has ever seen. Gibson will now surpass Ty Cobb as the all-time career leader in batting average (.372) and move ahead of Babe Ruth for slugging percentage (.718) and OPS (1.177). And he will be doing this without ever playing a game in the major leagues. Yes, I know he was prevented from doing this but as competitive as the Negro leagues were they did not match up to the major leagues and his stats were inflated for two reasons. First the competition was not as good and secondly the record-keeping in the Negro leagues was not accurate at all. That is probably the most important point. Satchel Paige was asked one time how many games he started and how many victories he had and he couldn't give an answer to it. You can also that of the reason why he did not know was because he played for so many years and lost count but there was no place for him to go back and look and accurately see how many games he won and lost. He probably had a good idea but the true wins and losses are lost to history. The same could be said for Gibson and hundreds and hundreds of players who played in the Negro leagues. Did Gibson have less hits then he was given or did the record books not record some hits that he earned? I do not believe that the Negro league records should be admitted into baseball because of this. I have no problem and I am happy that Gibson is in the Hall of Fame but I believe that is where the line should be drawn. ...If you want to know what real bravery is look no further than Sarah Langs. The woman knows more baseball than than I ever will and her love of the game is indisputable. What’s more she continues to work every day while fighting amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. A disease that as we all know too well a cure has not been found. This has not slowed her down and she continues to work every day for the sport she loves. To me that is a hero.

10 out of 10, 44 seconds. I hesitated on one question and look what happened. 😠

7 out of 10, 82 seconds. Slow today because of tough questions. I missed the first three but got the next seven.

9 out of 10, 49 seconds. I couldn't get going today and was stuck on one question that I ended up getting wrong anyways. This is going down to the final day this month.

I hope you are doing ok now.

3 out of 10, 62 seconds. Odd one today. I got the first seven wrong but then I had baseball questions for my last three. Who won the Premiership's Golden Boot award, three where-did-he-go-to-school questions and picking out a Arsenal footballer. You know, easy stuff like that.

7 out of 10, 70 seconds. Anything beats yesterday!

I'd of never known that. Thanks.

2 out of 10, 67 seconds. When the first question was "What colour shoes did Michael Johnson wear?" I knew I was in trouble. First, I didn't know the answer and secondly who the hell is Michael Johnson?

6 out of 10, 67 seconds. Considering these questions this was a good day.

9 out of 10, 32 seconds. I am so mad right now that I have to step away from the computer. I tried to go so fast that I completely skipped over one question and what's worse when I went back to look at it I knew the answer. Oh my God. ☹️

6 out of 10, 60 seconds. Another day when I thought I did better than I ended up with.

10 out of 10, 42 seconds. Happy Friday! Everyone's favorite day! Especially you Jim. 😃

4 out of 10, 95 seconds. Another day of this! This is my third day in a row with a lousy score. Four on Tuesday, five yesterday and four today. But tomorrow's got to be a better day!

5 out of 10, 85 seconds. I was lucky to get five right. What a set of questions!

4 out of 10, 95 seconds. I stood no chance today with the questions that they threw at me today. Wow.

9 out of 10, 59 seconds. Oh what a lucky day.

7 out of 10, 72 seconds. It was another game where I thought I did better than my outcome. I have a lot of these kind of games.

See what I mean? Jim killed me!

10 out of 10, 40 seconds. Good of course but my time is going to be beat by everyone.

6 out of 10, 70 seconds. I was lucky because four questions were baseball ones.

9 out of 10, 55 seconds. Oh I got messed up on a trick question!

3 out of 10, 107 seconds. Oh what a day.

8 out of 10, 82 seconds. These were challenging today!

9 out of 10, 40 seconds. Should of had a faster time and I am upset with my results too. Oh well.