This Week on the Blog

Alright, so the Ranger are good all over, the Knicks are good at home and terrible elsewhere and the Giants have been muddling on as we all wait for their offense to ignite.   And the Yanks still haven't done anything stupid in awhile.   Let's take a look at what's coming up.

Giants: The Giants face another must win game against the Bengals in a couple of hours.  Every game remains a must win because they dug themselves an early season hole by losing three games, two of which they should have won.  If they have improved they should win tonight, but that will be tough without Justin Pugh, who's grading out as the best OG in the league this year.  He's gone for the next for or so.   Also, Cruz doesn't look like he'll go, so we really need Sterling Shepard and a TE or a back step up to help Eli and OBJ in the passing game.   Sterling has to trust his speed.  That's something Jim Skipper spent two and a half years teaching Tiki to do, before his career took off.   Sterling should get there sooner.

Rangers: The Rangers are good, and though we've felt they'd trade for a pucking moving D all year, who would you trade?  All the kids are excelling, and they can't aford to trade anymore picks for the foreseeable future.  They have one more game on their sojourn to Western Canada, and should have Bouch back, but not Kreider who has left the team for further analysis on his neck.  So they'll probably call up a forward.

Knicks: People are getting really impatient with the Knicks. Sometimes they've looked like a playoff team, while other times they've looked like the Knicks.  In any event, they're still figuring out how to play D, and Noah's defensive acument and leadership hasn't really shown up much yet.  But it's a long season and kids like Billy and Kuz and starting to look like rotational steals, so that's fun.   And KP still isn't getting the ball enough most nights.  Hopefully, they'll figure things out.  Both Rose and Jennings have shown why the offense could end up being quite formidable.

Yanks:  I don't think that the Yanks have added Enns to the 40 yet.  They should.  And the only upshot from the GM meetings was that the Yanks want pitching and may be in the market for a DH/1B.  I'd rather have the kids take all the at bats, and I've never understood the utility of an Old DH.  Why not have a young DH or young kids splitting DH while they approach and get into their primes.  They won't be missing at bats that.  Oh, and meanwhile, Gleyber Torres might be even better than we thought when the trade was made.  Oh, and Kap seems healthy and still has the velo he's picked up the end of his junior year and the beginning of his pro-career.   The injury didn't dull it.

So let's get a Giants win tonight and exhale.  Wishing you all the best of weeks.