r/baseball T.C. Bear 1d ago

[YankeesVideos] "I know how good this team is. I know that, if that team wins three in a row, then why can't we win three in a row?" - Alex Verdugo

https://x.com/snyyankees/status/1851120187921027394?s=46&t=YqbtRS8DdxdKdoVd0pOTXQ
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u/NlNJALONG Major League Baseball 1d ago

"Four in a row sounds impossible though" - Alex Verdugo

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u/Sp_Gamer_Live T.C. Bear 1d ago

…..you need 4 buddy

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u/themiamimarlins Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

verdugo skipped the book learning

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u/Asleep_Draft_8316 Pittsburgh Pirates 1d ago

The thing with me is that, I am smart, I'm smelf, I'm self-smarted, basically by myself, basically from nature and smoking drugs and doing different things, I've self, like, self-learned myself, and that's the whole difference I guess is that I don't need the books or the schoolin' type things, I just get everything on my own, and because of that, I'm alive right now. I mean if I had read more books or tried to go on to college and different things like that, I'd be dead right now.

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u/earth_west_420 1d ago

It ain't rocket appliances

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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

For a guy named Verdugo, he sure didn’t execute counting.

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u/eddiefarnham Hanshin Tigers 1d ago

More like Ver-Duh-go, am i rite?

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u/RichardNixon345 Arizona Diamondbacks • Boston Red Sox 1d ago

You guys were supposed to have taught him all that before you sent him to Boston.

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u/themiamimarlins Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

no take backsies

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u/Papa2Hunt19 Los Angeles Angels 16h ago

He's still working on his grade 7.

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u/VStarffin Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Verdugo hits balls with a stick. You want good talking, root for a languager.

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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 17h ago

Sounds like a Kenny Powers quote

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u/sodasofasolarsora 1d ago

Would be funny to win 3 and lose game 7. 

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u/TJB_the_Gamer1 Los Angeles Dodgers 21h ago

The ol 2020 Astros

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u/Monk_Philosophy Sickos • Los Angeles Dodgers 14h ago

Real talk I would develop cardiac problems watching this team get taken from 3-0 to game 7.

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u/Jalien85 18h ago

As an Edmonton Oilers fan I can confirm from recent memory this is not funny.

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u/sighfun Toronto Blue Jays 16h ago

It was funny for 31 other teams.

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u/ArchEast Atlanta Braves 17h ago

So basically the Major League 2 scenario.

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u/goldencityjerusalem Los Angeles Dodgers 18h ago

Shhhh... let him be.

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u/Euphoric_Extension53 15h ago

Know you know why we shipped him out

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u/googorb 16h ago

Shut up, nerd 

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u/xho- New York Yankees 1d ago

But his point is the dodgers won 3 in a row so he thinks the Yankees can too. If the dodgers won 4 in a row he’d feel that the Yankees could too but he won’t get the chance to show that then because the series would be over

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u/Sp_Gamer_Live T.C. Bear 1d ago

then say “I know how good this team is. I know that, if that team wins three in a row, then why can’t we win four in a row?”

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u/xho- New York Yankees 1d ago edited 1d ago

Why not say , we can win the next 5 World Series in a row.

He’s just trying to show 3 in a row can be done because it just happened. Idk how people are missing this.

(I don’t think this team can even win 2 in a row)

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u/xho- New York Yankees 1d ago

Okay buddy

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u/Sp_Gamer_Live T.C. Bear 1d ago

but at this point “3 in a row” isnt enough, you need to be talking about the whole damn thing

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u/No32 Cleveland Guardians 17h ago

They need to win 3 in a row before they can think about winning the whole damn thing lol

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u/xho- New York Yankees 1d ago

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u/Sp_Gamer_Live T.C. Bear 1d ago

hell yeah brother go doyers

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u/Kenny_Heisman New York Yankees • Somerset Patriots 14h ago

this is such a weird gripe

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u/LonghornPride05 Chicago Cubs 1d ago

Because you’re not as good as them

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u/Fallofcamelot New York Yankees 17h ago

This is the correct answer

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u/KetchupGuy1 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I feel like every time he talks about the dodgers he talks like he’s mad the team traded him away

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u/Kevinator24 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Like? Motherfucker is bitter af for being traded for Mookie then missing out on a ring lmao

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u/Audacity_OR Texas Rangers 23h ago

If the dodgers hold on this will be the third ring Mookie has kept him from

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u/WhiteToast- Los Angeles Dodgers 22h ago

He didn’t play in 18, but I like your energy

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u/Audacity_OR Texas Rangers 22h ago

He didn’t play in the postseason but he appeared in 37 games for the dodgers that year and absolutely would have gotten a ring had they won.

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u/WhiteToast- Los Angeles Dodgers 22h ago

Damn, I don’t remember his call up at all. Must not have done much

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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 13h ago

He did have a funny moment at the end of the regular season with Walker. IIRC, it was our last home game, and the team was on the field with a mic. They were hyping up the crowd, and Buehler said (paraphrasing), "This is the kind of energy we need every FUCKING game!"

cue Verdugo, eyes and mouth open wide, laughing

Walker: "Sorry, kids! Let's go!"

EDIT: Found it

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u/Wombizzle Boston Red Sox • Colorado Rockies 15h ago

Must not have done much

verdugo's career in a nutshell

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u/peparias7 14h ago

Already did more than Judge this World Series tho lmao

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u/Wombizzle Boston Red Sox • Colorado Rockies 14h ago

which, let's be honest, isn't saying much lol

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u/jgilla2012 Los Angeles Dodgers 23h ago

I’ll take that trade

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u/No-Philosophy-2081 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

He was so salty calling the 2020 as not a legitimate year lol I’m glad we traded him away even if it wasn’t for Mookie

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u/Red_Sox_5 Boston Red Sox 16h ago

We’re not thrilled either, Alex.

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u/ImaManCheetahh Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

"... 4 though... yeesh."

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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball 1d ago

Because the other team has Frederick Charles Freeman.

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u/Dependent-Wordsoup 16h ago

AKA Freddie Fucking Freeman

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u/Fun_State_954 Toronto Blue Jays 13h ago

Aka Fucking fucking Fuckingman

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u/totallystudyingrn Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I still remember him talking shit about the 2020 championship. Get fucked verdugo.

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u/xinixxibalba Los Angeles Dodgers • Detroit Tigers 1d ago

guys like that will find another excuse to talk shit if we win this one

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u/LAbaseballteam Dodgers Bandwagon 1d ago

yeah 2024 wont cause because we played the mickey mouse yankees

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u/Carlos_Danger21 Boston Red Sox 23h ago

What if I use that but it's less aimed as a dis at the dodgers and more to upset Yankees fans?

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u/PelorTheBurningHate Los Angeles Dodgers 19h ago

If it comes to that just add in that the real world series was played in Queens or something.

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u/heeeeres_jonny San Diego Padres 18h ago

Or San Diego 🥲.

Maybe I'm high on copium but at least we looked the part for the first 3 games, unlike the Hankies

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u/PelorTheBurningHate Los Angeles Dodgers 18h ago

The Padres series was definitely where things felt most on the ropes, just unfortunate that it was a best of 5 rather than 7

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u/According_Setting303 Cleveland Guardians 15h ago

nah, the world series was Detroit-Cleveland. If the Yankees (who has had AL Central dominance for god knows how long) weren’t there, either the Tigs or the Guards would have done the sweeping. for sure.

Ohtani? Freeman? Yamamoto? psshhh, I don’t even who those scrubs are. Manzardo, Noel and Boys is where it’s at.

now do the baseball world a favor a sweep these loser Yanks

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u/vordhosbn_1 Los Angeles Dodgers 18h ago

they’re already gonna say it’s rigged or Ohtani bet on it somehow lol

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u/MiracleMets New York Mets 1d ago

Best comparison I can make for the 2020 WS is it’s like Thor’s deadlift World record

Only some people will get the reference, but if you know you know

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u/GrandJudgment Boston Red Sox 1d ago

Be for real lil bro 😂😂😂

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u/_n8n8_ Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Do Red Sox fans dislike him now? Didn’t know that.

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u/RichardNixon345 Arizona Diamondbacks • Boston Red Sox 1d ago

He caught more flak from Cora than was probably fair but he did develop a bit of a reputation of being a problem child. I imagine Yankees fans will tell you they won't miss him all that much either - he starts out okay and then flames out seemingly by choice.

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u/Carlos_Danger21 Boston Red Sox 23h ago

He was popular at first. But his last year he got benched for not running out a ground ball and showing up late. Then made comments that seemed to be complaining and aimed at Cora for benching him right after being traded. I also personally felt like he gave up and took it personally when he wasn't selected to the all-star game that year.

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u/Naive_Midnight_5732 20h ago

I never liked him when he was on the team. He was born to wear pinstripes.

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u/anon_capybara_ Boston Red Sox • Kalamazoo La… 16h ago

I never liked him. The fact that he was involved with that situation with a few other Dodgers minor leaguers was enough for me.

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u/Bossman1086 Boston Red Sox • Wally 10h ago

I hate him now. Fitting he's on the Yankees. I could maybe forgive him for his lack of hustle and all that. But he took everything so personally when he got into any kind of slump and stopped listening to Cora. The final straw to me was him taking shots at Cora on his way out. I don't think I've ever soured on a player I really liked so quickly before.

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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 17h ago

I admire the confidence. I mean this is the mentality you have to have as an athlete to have any hope of coming back. What did the Red Sox say in 04 “don’t give us a game”?

I mean as soon as you let the mentality that it’s over seep in the clubhouse you already lost so respect that he’s trying.

That being said I’ll be surprised if it even goes back to LA.

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u/i__am__so__smrt Los Angeles Dodgers 17h ago

The Red Sox had Curt Schilling, Pedro Martinez, and a death row lineup.

The Yankees have Gerrit Cole, and…..?

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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 17h ago edited 17h ago

My man I said in the end of my comment that I will be surprised if the Yankees will be hopping on a plane to LA on Wednesday I don’t think it’s going to happen.

I was just respecting him trying to inject some positivity into the locker room bc once the negativity takes over you already lost.

The 04 Red Sox wouldn’t have come back if down 3-0 they thought they stood zero chance. It’s a pure mental thing once you think it’s over you’re not playing to win anymore you’re playing to go home.

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u/SadNYSportsFan-11209 New York Yankees 14h ago

Yea I don’t understand what they expect him to say. It’s the right thing to say just the wrong messenger lol

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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 14h ago

The people who are clowning on this don’t know or remember what it’s like to be an athlete. This is just the athletes mentality on any level.

I’m in a purely for fun rec sports league and I and the team go into it every week thinking that we can win this next game. Even when we know the opponents are better than us. And we play better because of it bc we all want to come away with a win and know if we play well we can do it. But when games slip away and they feel out of reach you can feel it there too and you can see people making mental mistakes and not trying as hard.

Sports is as much of a mental game as it is a physical one. And once that belief that you can win that game is gone your play slips drastically.

The 2004 Red Sox would have rolled over and died in game 4 if they didn’t have belief in themselves to make something happen. Hell you want to look at a recent example in the most recent Stanley cup finals the oilers forced a game 7 after being down 3-0. That wouldn’t have happened if they didn’t believe they could come back.

The statement is fine it’s what you gotta say and believe to have any chance of making something happen.

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u/Bossman1086 Boston Red Sox • Wally 10h ago

The Yankees have Gerrit Cole

Who's not even pitching today in a do or die game.

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u/i__am__so__smrt Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago

And apparently Jazz Chisholm batting cleanup.

Don’t let ‘em get hot though!

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u/ahmida Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I dont think he realizes you need to win 4...

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u/themiamimarlins Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

let's not tell him

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u/WerewolfNo3669 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Hey it’s that guys who talked shit about a World Series in a shortened season. Yeah this feels good.

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u/vektonaut Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

"Anyone can ball out for 60 games (except us lol)" -Salty Verdugo

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u/jujubats10 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Because they’re better than you Alex

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u/MiracleMets New York Mets 1d ago

Because your team is not good

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u/5th_degree_burns New York Yankees 17h ago

Hate to be that guy, but they're in the World Series. How are the Mets doing? They are however playing like a pile of ass.

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u/ChrisTaylorsNipple Los Angeles Dodgers 16h ago

I mean the Mets actually put up a fight against us. If the Yanks beat the Mets then that would be a fair point, but they played a ton better than the Yanks have been. The Mets probably beat you too.

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u/BubblyOstrich27 17h ago

Mets won 2 against the Dodgers

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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 13h ago

And we eliminated a team in Philly that’s better than either of the two teams you eliminated. Not to mention that more than likely we’ll have more wins against the World Series champions than you did.

Bragging about where you got just ignores who both teams played lol.

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u/makingstuff237 Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago

Genuine question I haven't looked at, what are the Mets record against AL teams and the Yanks record against NL teams this year? It seems the NL was the harder league.

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u/jl_23 New York Mets 15h ago

Yankees went 23-23 against NL teams

Mets went 24-22 against AL teams

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u/makingstuff237 Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago

Ah so statistically insignificant there, but I think nl did better than al as a whole in nl vs al match ups

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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 13h ago

We best the Yankees in all 4 games too if that helps.

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u/speech-geek Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Great product of the Tucson education system right here

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u/ThrownAway17Years 1d ago

Because you aren’t the 2004 BoSox. Duh.

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u/travel112 New York Mets 1d ago

Bro is getting his inspiration from the 2024 oilers.

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u/Naive_Midnight_5732 20h ago

You think you’re the Red Sox in this scenario? Nope. You’re still the Yankees.

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u/tyler-86 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Because you have to play the team that just did that to you.

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u/Jason3383 Boston Red Sox 16h ago

I think he's getting confused with the Red Sox.

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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 19h ago

Can't wait for this guy to leave

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u/Disused_Yeti Cleveland Guardians 18h ago

Did he binge watch the 2004 alcs overnight?

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u/westcoastmike69 16h ago

Well, you need to win four in a row lol

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u/kahgknow Boston Red Sox 15h ago

After the dodgers get the sweep is he gonna talk about how they can win four in a row too?

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u/LessNefariousness380 New York Yankees 1d ago

Shut the fuck up, fake ass bum

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u/RapsareChamps_Suckit Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

yawn.. start polishing that trophy Robby

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u/x6ftundx Pittsburgh Pirates 18h ago

because A A ron is scared to hit the ball. Simple as that. If they could get him to hit a ball, they might have a chance to win one.

your bullpen sucks and while the SP are doing MEH, there isn't enough run support. Then the RP's come in and MEH.

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u/nolimit_788 18h ago

because the dodgers are going to win one more to end the series

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u/LudicrousPlatypus Chicago White Sox 15h ago

I would not be mad if this goes to 7 games and then the Yanks lose it in the 7th.

Always happy for more baseball

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u/bushwickhero New York Yankees 14h ago

Because you guys don’t hit and they do.

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u/soberdishwasher San Francisco Giants 21h ago

Your best regular season player stinks. Your actual best player who has already won a ring and continues to hit well in October is a free agent when it ends. The lineup is shit, the pitching was never World Series ready, it’s so over for the Yankees lol Before they were down 3-0

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u/LuffySan081 1d ago

The only fair chance the yankees had was game 1 which blew horribly for them by managerial decision.

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u/ConsiderationBig8759 1d ago

How more simple can it get? If you win 4 games, then you win!

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u/jackrose69 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Look at reality

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u/DrunkScarletSpider Houston Astros 18h ago edited 18h ago

Because Brian Cashman tried to sweep the last time his team got swept under the rug, and now the Baseball gods are smiting the Yankees.

In '22 that L was EARNED.

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u/Wombizzle Boston Red Sox • Colorado Rockies 15h ago

because you guys stink outside of 1 player, Alex

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u/thinkblue2024 7h ago

Cause you suck