My Thoughts On Recent Tweets (X)...
- Paul Semendinger
- Apr 30
- 2 min read
By Paul Semendinger
April 30, 2025
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My Thoughts - I don't want to be greedy, or anything, but is it too much to ask that the Yankees do this 50 more times this year?
My Thoughts - Jason Werth is WAY off base here. A fan can root for whatever team he or she wishes. Why not root for the Mets? I can think of a gazillion reasons to root for the Mets. (For one, they have a great ballpark.)
The funny thing regarding the Mets and the Phillies though is that for most of their history, the Phillies have also been a second division team. The Mets actually have a higher overall winning percentage than the Phillies. Both teams have only won two World Championships. (Both have alson been defeated by the Yankees in the World Series.) For a member of the Phillies to talk down to the Mets is silly, on its face.
By the way, in 2025, the Mets are in first place... over the Phillies.
My Thoughts - Why would the Yankees move their Gold Glove shortstop to second base - especially temporarily?
So often so many fans assume that players can simply move positions seamlessly. They cannot. There is a learning curve. Anthony Volpe has played all of 2 games at second base in his entire professional career. (He also made two errors there.) Moving Anthony Volpe, during the season, to second, makes no sense. At all.
My Thoughts - (And, I suspect I will be writing about this a ton more in the coming years....)
I love statistics and all of that. Stats are a great way to measure a player's greatness, but for some people, the stats simply do not tell the story. There are players who are outliers.
Joe DiMaggio is an outlier. By the end of his career, Aaron Judge's lifetime numbers will eclipse DiMaggio's. This will cause some people to claim that Judge should be considered one of the four greatest Yankees ever, along with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Mickey Mantle. No. No way. DiMaggio was greater than great. He was bigger than big. DiMaggio was a legend in a way no player today can ever be. DiMaggio was greater than the numbers he put up.
But, if one wants numbers, DiMaggio played 13 seasons. The Yankees went to 10 World Series in DiMaggio's career. DiMaggio's team won 9 of those World Series.
I love Aaron Judge. He is one of the greats. But, no matter what numbers he puts up, he'll never be Joe DiMaggio. DiMaggio's place should be very secure on the Yankees' "Mount Rushmore."
My Thoughts - The Yankees, and every team, should handle promotions like this. Give the fans what they came out to receive. Congratulations to the Pirates for doing the right thing with this!
My Thoughts - Another tweet about the Pirates?! In short, this call was one of the worst, ever.
was there any more context to the suggestion of having Volpe play 2b for a few games? I feel pretty confused for what reason that would even come up? it seems more than extremely obvious that Volpe has proven that he can handle the defensive side of his job. why in the world would the Yankees be thinking about moving him? beyond that, WHO would be moved to SS?
Also, the Phillies won their two championships over 120 World Series opportunities. The Mets won their two in 62 opportunities, nearly twice the rate. Werth's comments aren't quite as bad as John Rocker's, but they are still pretty "werthless," shall we say. If I were Werthless's teammate, I'd privately tell to STFU about the team that 4.5 games ahead of us, and also not to dig in too hard for his first PA on June 20.
As for Valdez, I'm sorry he got hurt, and it's a tough result, but he came off the bag voluntarily. There's no "oops, I'm hurt" exception to a live ball. This is just a different version of what we see with some regularity: …
You never, ever come off the base to call time.