This Week on the Blog

This week wound up on a high note as Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees secured homefield advantage for the Wild Card Game, the Rangers made final cuts, Knicks camp hit full swing, and the Giant went lookinf for their second win. Let's take a look.

Yankees: Yanks came through last night and clinched homefield on their first opportunity. They went from the Tampa hell hole, to the Fenway hell hole and still got it done.  That was good. Importantly, Sanchez, Stanton and Judge are showing signs of life. Andujar has stayed hot and Gleyber is playing his most complete game. They also got back Didi and Hicks and Hicks went yard. Voit has continued his timely amazingness. Their in good shape for the Wild Card and the playoffs should they move on. Let's go, Yankees.

UPDATE: Luis Severino is starting the WC game.  His swing has been back, so this looks like the right move.

Giants: The Giants IR's Jonathan Stewart yesterday and called up JaWill Davis from IR. So Penny becomes the 3rd RB for this one and Davis, most likely, becomes the 3rd WR. Giants have had some weird games against Drew Brees over his endless career.  Fortunately, this one is outdoors, and the Giant D is starting to jell. We still haven't seen a TD from OBJ, and tht's just weird, because that's what he does.  Nor have the Giants, yet, established a consistent running game. Let's see if they can get that done, because they should be all about big plays and ball control.

Rangers: The Rangers will start their regular season on Monday.  Under Quinn, they have looked different and at times, disorganized, through their preseason games.  Buchnevich and Chytil looked like their best players, and that's been encouraging. In final cuts, they kept Brett Howden and sent down Lias Andersson. Seems like they're okay with making Howden a 4th line C to start, but want Andersson playing first or second C and all specials for Harford. They also sent down Hajek, who looks like he could be really good.  They kept Tony DeAngelo and his right shot, and he has looked better with the new coaches.

Knicks: The Knick will start playing preseason games, I think, on Monday, as well. So we'll get our first look at Fizball and the new culture. I has all sounded great, and, certainly, Knocks and Robinson electrified us during summer league.  Should be a blast.

So there we are. We're cool with the Yanks till Wednesday, badly need another Giant win tomorrow, and must keep fingers crossed for the Ranger season and the Knicks pre-season.  Have a great one!