The Basement View

  There is a crossroads in the Bronx in between River and 161 st Street right now. As New York Yankee Manager Aaron Boone likes to put it “[the season] is right in front of them.” The second half of the season is for the taking. As we move into the dog days of summer the Bronx Bombers are nine games out of the division and now a game and a half out of the AL Wild Card race following a disappointing first series in Colorado. With that, the historic starting Tampa Bay Rays have cooled off, going 3-7 before the break while showing signs of being mortal. Baltimore, who has been keeping pace with Tampa, didn’t look like a Superpower when they split against the Yankees two series before the break. The AL East is still a Spartan Training Facility with every team above .500, the Orioles holding the first Wild Card spot, and the “struggling” Boston Red Sox tied the Yankees in the Wild Card race. And unlike Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire, help is not on the way. Aaron Judge’s toe is still a m

  The New York Yankees gift wrapped their game this afternoon and the first series post All-Star Break to the worst team in the National League. Even with another Cy Young performance from Gerrit Cole—it just didn’t matter. In a time in their schedule and with every game important in a playoff race; the Yankees clearly didn’t know that the All-Star break ended. The Bronx Bombers left 11 runners in scoring position and in 13 chances to drive those runners in, they were successful just three times. Two through four in the order (Stanton, Rizzo [then Oswald Peraza], and DJ LeMahieu) were just two for 13 with Stanton walking twice and one lone RBI. The Yankees had nine hits in 11 innings against a starter for Colorado, Chase Anderson, who had an ERA north of 18 in his last four starts. In true 2023 Yankee fashion, Anderson held the Bombers off the scoreboard only allowing three hits and walking two in five innings. As Yankee Ace, Gerrit Cole, put it “[we’re asking ourselves] what can we ha

  Even without some familiar faces, this years’ Wimbledon has been extremely entertaining. We got to see the meteoric rise of an American in Christopher Eubanks—who was contemplating retiring from tennis to pick up a microphone and commentate, so to be able to get to the quarterfinals and on the brink of defeating the third ranked player in the world, Daniil Medvedev will hopefully be a sign of incredible things to come. The English Garden has also got to see the dominance of the all-time Grand Slam Leader, Novak Djokovic, and the hottest player on the planet over the past year and a half, Carlos Alcaraz, which will be the final on Sunday morning. How the final got to be is perhaps the easiest possible path made by Djokovic and Alcaraz through the semifinals. Each one in straight sets and each capitalized on a ton of unforced errors by both Jannik Sinner and Daniil Medvedev. The most momentum that Sinner had was after a bizarre hindrance call made by the chair umpire against Djokovic,