The Basement View

  Back at it again, another year another Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, I still don’t have an actual vote, but we’ll continue to work toward the BBWAA! Let’s not waste any time let’s dive right into a sneaky juicy ballot: 1. Alex Rodriguez Like Clemmons, Bonds, and to a lesser extent Curt Schilling, you cannot tell the story of baseball without Alex Rodriguez. For 20 years Alex Rodriguez had his fingerprints all over the framework of baseball. Rodriguez has the 5 th most home runs of all-time, yes aided by steroids, but those juiced home runs still count. A-Rod also has the 4 th most RBI’s ever, and more hits than Dave Winfield, Ichiro, and Rickey Henderson. As well as over 300 stolen bases and a .295 career average. To some, A-Rod is the most talented player they have ever seen. All of that is before you add up the World Series ring and three MVP awards. And when major of star players are lucky to play 140 games, Rodriguez played over 150 games nine seasons and possibly could h...

  The Jets season ended tonight against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Jets season ended because a team that is championship level decided to stay with Zach Wilson at quarterback. The roll of the dice that the Jets took on Zach Wilson with the second overall pick a draft ago came back with a final statement on Thursday Night and that statement is: “Zach Wilson is a BUST as a New York Jet.” The decision to stick with Wilson is a decision that might get a good General Manager, Joe Douglas, and a good Head Coach, Robert Saleh, fired earlier than they ultimately should. In a must win game at home Zach Wilson had a final line of 9/18 for 92 yards and an interception. As well as only scoring drive that Wilson contributed was the opening drive for the Jets that lost yardage and resulted in the only three points of the game for Gang Green. The decision to draft Zach Wilson is a decision that could be a move that stops this talented Jets team from living up to their full potential. The decis...

  It’s time for the Jets to move on from Zach Wilson. His time as a Jet has come to an end. No matter what the former number two overall pick does on Thursday Night Football against the Jacksonville Jaguars, he could play like Patrick Mahomes against Jacksonville—he still must go. And this is not to say that Zach Wilson is a bust. There are two former Jet quarterbacks who are playing well for other teams this season and additionally, we’ve seen countless other quarterbacks figure it out in a place where they weren’t drafted and years down the line. It is time for Woody Johnson, Joe Douglas, and Robert Saleh to admit they got it wrong with Wilson and move quickly to sign a veteran quarterback to help steward this team to their fullest potential. I’m not saying anything Jets fans don’t already know if their hearts—the only thing holding the 2022-23 New York Jets back is the quarterback under center. Zach Wilson is a big part of that but even with folk hero Mike White, he was the sign...

Aaron Judge is back. The New York Yankees have resigned the 2022 AL MVP to a nine-year $360 Million deal Wednesday morning pending a physical. However, Judge’s return to the Bronx is MUCH more than that. The Yankee right fielder is the heart and soul of the Bomber clubhouse and the fanbase. He is the presumed captain of the franchise. And for about seven minutes late Tuesday afternoon Aaron Judge was a San Francisco Giant, throwing away the legacy Judge built as a Yankee, and the doomsday situation that the Yankee faithful feared was reality… or so it seemed. The claim that Aaron Judge—or should I say Arson Judge was going home to the Bay was just that—a claim. Yankee owner Hal Steinbrenner made a statement rather than just hearsay; by putting the money behind the words he said in an early offseason interview. For a large part of the younger Steinbrenner’s ownership of the Yankees the label around the spending habits of the Bronx Bombers were painted “CHEAP” in big red spray paint acro...