This Week on the Blog

Alright, the Giants made it an unexpected 2-0, the Yanks mostly kept serve, the Rangers did nothing and some of the Knicks seem to be off playing somewhere.  As I right this, the Yanks are dropping he 4th game to the Indians after earning at least a series split over games two and three.  Eh.  Let's see what else is cooking.

Yankees: Gleyber Torres is going to hit over 30 homers in his age 22 season. I a little surprised that New York and the entire sports media world aren't flipping out over what this kid is achieving. Odd.  Now we go to the other end of the spectrum.  CC Sabathia has expired as a viable MLB pitcher. It's brutal to watch him, and a reminder that keeping old players, whether they are CC, Eli or Hank, blocks organizational resourcefulness from being deployed, thus creating bigger problems down the very same road where they've kicked the can. I love CC (and Eli and Hank) and believe he is a Hall of Fame. But I don't want these occasional reminders of how far he's fallen, like today's. BTW, if I owned a team, I believe I would encourage any guy who says he's retiring after the coming season, to retire immediately.  Yanks could bring up more pitching help this week.

Giants: The Giants won again Friday Night, and though they were facing the Bear's 2's and 3's, the Giant 1's dominate the 2's, the 2's beat the 2's and the 3's beat the 3's.  The ones didn't play much and Daniel Jone's fumbles and first career incompletions came with the 2's. The first fumble (the snap) seemed like they were rushing a play to prevent the Bears from challenging the previous reception.  They have to come up with something a little simpler if all they are trying to do is prevent a challenge.  The second fumble came after Slade whiffed on a block and the DE had a clean shot at Jones - who made a TD saving tackle.  And that probably wouldn't have happened if Simonson hadn't dropped a pass that him him in the numbers and would have given the Giants second and short on the previous play.

Paul Perkins looked much better in game 2, and I still think the #2 spot is up for grabs, especially after Perkins made an explosive play off a Jones screen pass.

As for the Defense.  They are playing vanilla, but seem to have a group of shamble young athletes who may be productive running something like Betcher was running in AZ.

Rangers:  Kaapo Kakko is excited about Panarin and hopes to play with him. Fair enough.

Knicks: Here's hoping ice and rest are working for Big Mitch, and no one else gets hurt during all of these extra games and practices.

So there it is, the Yanks should start getting players back, the Giants have an interesting roster and a different sideline feel, the Rangers are mostly off, and the Knick need to be careful.   I hope all of you are safe, if not super careful - have a great one.