This Week on the Blog

Alright, well, the Yanks finally have a new manager, the Rangers and Knicks are still interesting and the Giants performed a heel turn.  Even without a supportable football team, this should be a pretty interesting week.

Yankees:  The Yanks hired Boone, and now they need to surround him with talented coaches and an experienced Bench Coach.  Unfortunately, the Yanks lost their perfectly suited bench coach yesterday when Rob Thomson took the same job with the Phillies. This is a bigger loss than one might think, since Rob organized all of Spring Training and took joy in his Yankeeness and Logistics.  Don't know who's gonna run ST this year or which desperately needed all- world Bench Coach will be hired.

In other Yankee news, Ohtani was posted yesterday, and Cash says the Yanks will be aggressive.  There probably won't be much else going on beyond the coach hunt and Ohtani pursuit till the Winter Meetings, which begin December 10.  It's important that the Yanks not hire another DH while Ohtani is team shopping.

Knicks:  Enes Kanter returned the other night, and the Knicks got back to their winning ways even with just two minutes from KP, and a sick day for Frank. Kanter has an opt out after the season, but it seems like he's developing a love affair with the fans, and might just pull a Tanaka.  For years in this space and all around the digital universe, I have maintained that basketball D is all about effort and not about talent.  Earlier this this year Horny was Cleon Jonesing Kanter every time he dogged it on D, and guess what?  Now the effort is there.  He'll never be Bill Russell on D, but if he keeps trying it will get easier and he'll be even more valuable.

Rangers:  Rangers have been giving up early goals lately. Both the D and Hank have to be better than that.  They were last night as they gave up an early one then came back with 5 unanswered including a Hat Trick from Grabner. Annoyingly, AV is only playing Buch for 16 minutes again.  Which is basically stalling his breakout. This is bad for the team, and he needs to be replaced.  Chytil is ready, btw, but AV probably isn't.  

Giants: Classless.

So, that's about it, I take it the Yanks will introduce Boone at some point this week, but other than that it's just Knicks and Rangers.  Have a great week!