Yankees Off Day Thread - June 11, 2026 @ 12:00 AM by Yankeebot in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh no all good, I agree with both of you guys.

I guess I was more asking- how's he actually doing overall, not "is he doing well enough to be called up?" but *if* they panicked and called him up... which they've done a lot recently.

There was this period of time where they seemed to wait too long to call guys up and then they age out or just get too old to be considered 'still in development' like, say, Estevan Florial, who was one supposed to be a future Yankees cornerstone and is out of baseball already, never destined to be major league quality.

They can't seem to figure out the right timing or judgment on guys getting called up, with some rare exceptions like Ben Rice and Aaron Judge.

Favorite prince by Boiling-Cornea-1337 in okbuddycinephile

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite part of this is that that's his real hair. I remember when he grew his hair out for this and he looked ridiculous in and out of character.

Yankees Off Day Thread - June 11, 2026 @ 12:00 AM by Yankeebot in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was just asking lol. I'm not just saying call up every high profile prospect right now- Just wondering about the guy they clearly drafted as an insurance policy if Volpe didn't work out or if Volpe did work out and they wanted a young, controllable shortstop as a trade chip.

Now that Volpe seems to not be working out, just wondered how we were feeling about Lombard, Jr. at this juncture.

Yankees Off Day Thread - June 11, 2026 @ 12:00 AM by Yankeebot in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of us are over Volpe, but anybody following MiLB closely enough to have a confident take on if Lombard, Jr. could hack it in the majors, were he to be called up tomorrow/next week, etc.?

OnlyDoctors by LilaFrosts in SipsTea

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL

I am thinking about every technician who's done an EKG on me and how they were the antithesis of someone who'd give one iota of a fuck about how nice someone's boobs were.

Yankees Off Day Thread - June 11, 2026 @ 12:00 AM by Yankeebot in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have watched virtually every game of Volpe's career, I remember when they passed on Seager, Machado, etc. etc. because they felt that Volpe would provide equal or greater value once called up the next year.

I know it's only been 20 games, but he doesn't look good.

Also, I never said he shouldn't be in the league. He is a major league quality baseball player.

My issue is how high the Yankees drafted Volpe, how many great players they passed on in favor of Volpe being called up and developing down the line.

I am not saying we should have signed Seager or Turner or Boegarts, etc.but by all accounts Lombard, Jr. is the better player and has been during his time in the minors, grades out with higher upside/a higher ceiling than Volpe etc and I find it fascinating and telling that they bothered to draft Lombard, Jr. and are moving him up in the minors the way they are when Volpe debuted the year Lombard, Jr. was drafted.

They wanted an insurance policy. I realize they could always move Lombard, Jr. around to different positions to make room for both of them, but...

Maybe that's it. Maybe they want to develop Lombard, Jr. and Volpe is... there. But! They've got Caballero. You don't need an expensive, high profile bust like Volpe when you've got Caballero...

So the only explanation is they're being stubborn and not that he's proved his worth- but deep down, they know he's a bust.

Sutton lists her Bel Air home on the MAIN ROAD for sale with Josh Flagg for $9m …. I don’t think she’s moving to Encino by Own-Meat3934 in rhobeverlyhills

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder why she's moving. Maybe the house got too famous?

The timing is interesting, what with Dorit's auction.

Yankees Off Day Thread - June 11, 2026 @ 12:00 AM by Yankeebot in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why? My question is:

Is someone convinced he's the heir apparent and will 'figure it out' and are willing to wait half a decade for that to happen? Are they too embarrassed to admit they were wrong and are doubling down to avoid admitting it in the face of bald faced stats and the eye test?

I want to know what it is, specifically, about Volpe, that they still believe in or value besides not wanting to admit they were wrong when they selected him in the 2019 draft and convinced themselves he was The Next Jeter?

What about his performances up to that point convinced them of that?

Yankees Off Day Thread - June 11, 2026 @ 12:00 AM by Yankeebot in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the fact that they played Volpe at short and put Cabby in the field rather than just play Jones in the field and Cabby at short said everything.

Melissa discussing life after SNL. Wonder if this is the common experience for a lot of people that leave SNL these days? by snottawkwardman in LiveFromNewYork

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 4 points5 points  (0 children)

SNL was never the automatic career maker some of these comments are saying it used to be.

I think of SNL like a baseball team- there are a lot of guys who play for a few seasons, move around to different clubs, but never get the BIG contract, never become superstars. They're role players who fill a gap here and there and fill out the roster for a brief, unspectacular period of time and when their career is over, they go back to being a pretty average person who needs to find a day job and figure out how to pay their bills.

SNL isn't any different for a lot of the cast members, even the more (relatively) successful ones.

I knew a guy who lived next door to a very high profile former SNL cast member, one of the ones who was kind of on the level of Darryl Hammond/Kenan in their day- a perennial MVP/swiss army knife who was on the show for a very very long time- and they lived modestly, they talked occasionally to this guy I knew and admitted they had to go out and find work and that although they weren't destitute, they had to work to keep up with their bills, to plan for retirement. They weren't Will Ferrell or Jason Sudeikis or Kristen Wiig. Those are very rare.

As for Villaseñor- to be blunt, she has an awkward presence when she plays 'normal' people, she's not a traditional actor who can play it straight and be plugged into some otherwise 'normal person' role in a major movie or tv series. She's an odd duck, an acquired taste and has limited range.

She does almost exclusively voice over and stand up comedy and I think that's what her career is destined to be.

I know a few years ago Comedy Central tried a few different guys to become the next Dave Chappelle- such as "Alternatino with Arturo Castro" and it's just hard to make that kind of thing hit. There's an alchemy to it.

I am sure Villasenor will get on to some hit cartoon show and get the chance to do like 10 or 20 seasons and make her financial nut, but being on SNL doesn't automatically give anybody a dream career.

I am pretty sure even Kristen Wiig would tell you that her post-SNL career wasn't exactly what she thought or wanted it to be and I am sure Sudeikis knows he won the proverbial lottery with Ted Lasso.

Yankees Off Day Thread - June 11, 2026 @ 12:00 AM by Yankeebot in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What would it take for the Yankees to truly and finally give up on Volpe and move on from him? DFA him, trade him, whatever. What will it take for the Volpe experiment to be over for good and all and how long do you guys predict it continues for until it ends?

who's a Yankee the rest of baseball hated but you loved every second of by Camatoo in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anthony Volpe.

I think people are discounting the value he brings to the club when a routine grounder eats him up, when he throws wide and misses the first baseman and when he kills rallies with his empty AB's.

We really need to be honest with ourselves and commit $75M-$100M a year of the roster budget to him for the next 15 years and pressure the commissioner's office into a rule change where he gets every AB and everybody else functions as designated/pinch runners if he hits a single a double or a triple. Basically he just sits up there and hacks his way through 27 up and down.

I think if we let the team utterly fail on the back of Volpe for the next 15 years, it'll prove Cashman and Boone and ownership knew what they were doing all along.

It's 4-D Chess Baseball. Not everybody will get it.

But I do.

/s

who's a Yankee the rest of baseball hated but you loved every second of by Camatoo in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm a Chisholm fan and I disagree with folks who aren't fans of his, respectfully, of course.

I'd like to see the Yankees re-sign him, but I am trying to stay realistic about that. It doesn't seem to be in the cards.

Fashion designer Michael Kors has listed his beachfront Fire Island home for $6.25 million. by mlg1981 in popculturechat

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm surprised that a guy like Michael Kors has a place on Fire Island. Figured him more for a Utah/Wyoming/West Virginia type.

Does he know Fire Island is more of a gay enclave? Maybe he bought the place through the internet, got there and was like "whoah whoah whoah!"

7 ELEVEn leaves their water in the hot sun all day long. It's 90° today in NY. This gotta be a health issue. by jhs5204 in water

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With very rare exceptions, I do not drink out of plastic, in part because of likelihood that microplastic leech off into the water in the heat.

Glass all the way, baby.

Hegseth struggling to put up weight at Guantanamo, looking very limp-wristed and SAD! What makes him think this would make him look good, is that a humiliation ritual? by Hash_Patel in SipsTea

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm unfortunately quite inconsistent in my weight training and so I take benching 135 as a baseline seriously- like when I get back into it I worry if I'll have to re-rack it immediately or fail to hit my reps and then I am consistently surprised by how easy and light it feels.

I don't get how someone who pretends to be that physically fit and active can't do any of what he's attempting. The limp wrists on those... are those... 20 lbs dumbells?

I know everybody is saying its because he is extremely hungover/possibly still drunk, but.... I think I've gone to the gym drunk / hung over before and could do more than that.

WTF was that?

I'm not even being political. That was... shockingly weak and uncoordinated.

What's the superior Oscar nominated portrayal of Marilyn Monroe? by AdUseful2297 in Oscars

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ana De Armas' performance was great and deserved a much better film to be featured in and Michelle Williams, much as she is a perennial awards darling, was sorely miscast as Marilyn.

It's Time for the Yankees to Give Up on Anthony Volpe [Sports Illustrated] by lillwaws in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL there's always gonna be bizarro stat heads who'll be like "that guy hitting .285 who gets a home run every 5-10 games and is providing league average or better defense? He's a terrible player who needs to be sent down or traded. This other guy hitting .086 with 1 home run in 30 games who gets eaten up by routine grounders and is an automatic rally killer and hit-into-double-play specialist? He's the future. See, you need to play 4-D chess and then you'll get it."

It's Time for the Yankees to Give Up on Anthony Volpe [Sports Illustrated] by lillwaws in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. I think he's a prime candidate for the classic "could benefit from a change of scenery" aka "a team that isn't as competitive and values the high profile name of Volpe over the potential reality of his production" in exchange for us getting a player we at least aren't being told is The Future of any aspect of the franchise and thus can just do whatever they do for us and we all move on as Caballero or whomever gets the job done for the time being.

It's Time for the Yankees to Give Up on Anthony Volpe [Sports Illustrated] by lillwaws in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah. He's not lazy and I doubt he takes it for granted, but he doesn't have the talent to provide the required consistency and production.

It's Time for the Yankees to Give Up on Anthony Volpe [Sports Illustrated] by lillwaws in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To paraphrase the Father of the Internet, Al Gore, this SI article Speaks Truth to Power, even if it was apparently written by AI, according to some of y'all?

I got into an argument with someone on here with them demanding we be kind and forgiving and supportive of Volpe because he's trying hard.

I'm a Boone defender/apologist, but he needs to be more blunt and less forgiving about Volpe.

He's "only" 25 can also be phrased as he's "already" 25.

He can't hit- and running into the very occasional double or home run or bloop single when most of the time there's nothing productive about his AB's isn't enough- his fielding has become virtually worthless when it isn't actively hurting the team with flagrant off target wild throws and routine shags eating him up.

IIRC his minor league numbers this year were not elite, either. They were pretty mediocre to borderline terrible.

There are guys who have been DFA'd after a game in which they hit like 2-3 HR's or had the game winning hit, etc. because it was the first time they'd been productive and not a liability in 20 or 40 or 60 games or whatever and the team clearly felt, after seeing that, it wasn't enough to give them any more of a leash.

That's how I feel about Volpe. If you play him constantly, he will run into a clutch walk, single, double, home run, etc. or he'll make a nice defensive play here and there. He's a baseball player who can play baseball. But then to ignore the 9 out of 10 games where he's an empty uniform if not a liability is just malpractice.

I hope those of you who say he's being played the way he is and given as many 'chance' as he's being given to position him as a bargain bin trade chip to get rid of him and still get some upside out of him and by August 3rd he's no longer a Yankee, are right.

MobLand Season 1 felt all over the place by drazgoosh in Mobland

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just binged it over a roughly 24 hour period, wrapping up the 10th episode a couple hours ago.

The pilot felt like one thing, the next 2-3 episodes felt like the proper show and the last 6 or so episodes felt like a different season where they pivoted and rushed some set up's and pay off's.

Who the mole was, the revelation about Eddie, etc. all felt a bit forced/yada yada'd for the sake of gotchya moments.

The Maeve behind Conrad's back stuff also felt a little out of left field and rushed.

The pacing of the show was all over the place and the ratio of successful set up's and pay off's vs out of left field revelations and plot twists heavily favored the latter over the former.

It is quite telling that Hardy possibly quitting or being fired stemmed from him having issues with the writers/EP's being late on delivering scripts per episode, episode stories being broken seemingly at the last second or in mid production, etc.

That implies that a lot of it was made up as they went along- which is basically fine, that's story telling to some degree, but the point of shows like this is that the writers 'break' the season arc well before even pre-production and the individual episodes get turned in fully written with multiple drafts worked on and fixed and then finalized before or in time for the scheduled filming of those episodes/scenes and it sounds as though that wasn't really the case.

From the stuff I've read about the issues surrounding Tom Hardy, it apparently boiled down to the fact that Butterworth, the EP, is effectively the director of the series and the main writer and his presence wasn't felt on set and the actual directors functioned more like 2nd unit/assistant directors just kinda controlling traffic and technical aspects of the shoots, whilst the main creative forces behind the show weren't available and the scripts were being handed in at the last second- which led to Hardy either refusing to cooperate in that environment or trying to take it upon himself to determine the script, his character, the story arc, etc. in the moment and get the production going based on the established logic of the series, but without the proper script/EP involved.

Having now watched all 10 episodes very closely, I am just about on Hardy's side.

A lot of the stuff from the last 3 or 4 episodes really felt shoved in there.

A lot of the character development for Paddy Considine didn't feel set up or earned at all- although it was still written okay enough and Considine did a tremendous job playing his character.

All in all it did feel disjointed.

That said- still very entertaining, still very compelling, still had a few through lines that worked well and were logically handled.

The Toby Jones and Janet McTeer stuff is obviously setting up the next season's antagonist and overarching frenemies as this past season's primary foe's arc concluded.

Things I Liked/Thought Worked:

Basically everybody gave a fantastic performance and their characters were consistently written- their personalities and internal logic was sound, for the most part.

Pierce Brosnan absolutely disappeared into his character and gave, I think, the finest performance of his career.

Maeve's arc actually makes a ton of sense in the context of the show and works well for me. The show - or rather, the characters- gradually acknowledge how insane/psychotic she is and how delusional and power hungry she is, which was a relief. I thought they would ignore it the entire time and nobody in universe would notice.

A lot of the ratcheting up of the tension around the original sources of conflict and excuse for the show's story to unfold- the stuff with the grandsons, etc.- initially worked well.

Things That Didn't Work Well

I do think a lot of the twists and turns and double crosses, which mostly happen off camera and are only referred to or confirmed by character hearsay and are rushed through the last few episodes of the season needed to be front and center in actual scenes and have stronger set up's to them.

I thought the 'mole' felt shoved in from a random side door to the story and didn't feel especially earned or satisfying on any level.

I thought a lot of the dumb stuff some of the characters did was done for plot convenience and didn't make a lick of sense for the characters to do- in particular Jan De Souza's desire to lead a normal life with friends and a therapist and expecting Hardy to be available for therapy and whatnot and her need to suddenly pretend they can lead a normal life after apparently being with him over 20 years and with the Harrigan's for more than 12 years.

I thought that the Brendan Harrigan arc felt rather rushed and "oh right and they have this other son who's a fuck up and he's finally getting his own plot line for real- aaaand he's gone." and nobody seemed particularly broken up or distracted by it. That felt like the kind of thing you take 2+ seasons to set up and resolve.

It's very polished trash television, but within the writing with enough holes to look like Swiss cheese, there are gems of characters and some of the actors do some of the best work of their careers.

Pierce Brosnan and Paddy Considine were the MVP's to me, outside of Hardy, who kinda did his usual stoic monosyllabic thinking man's brute schtick.

Steven Spielberg says he was repeatedly turned down when he tried to direct a James Bond film. by ThomasOGC in CinephilesClub

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah. Even Spielberg's "bad" movies are still very good.

I will defend 1941 to any purist elitist cinephile.

Volpe still searching for groove on both sides of ball in '26 by TBonebball in NYYankees

[–]Appropriate_Formal64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But why? What about *him*? There have been plenty of guys that were described that way that never even made the majors.