My Thoughts on Recent Tweets (X) - 6/9/25

by Paul Semendinger

June 9, 2025

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My Thoughts - YES! Bring back the game. (If the Yankees need pitchers, I'll go out and throw. I'll throw for both teams if they want. Just play the game again. Please!)

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My Thoughts - I love seeing this, an old time great pitcher in a batting pose. Don't get me wrong, I love the DH. I also love this old photo.

For the record, Mathewson batted .215 for his career.

If I could pick a pitcher from that era to be on my team, I'd of course take Babe Ruth and make him an outfielder, but among the others, I would have a difficult time choosing between Mathewson and Walter Johnson.

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My Thoughts - Jazz Chisholm didn't make this error because he was doing an interview, but doing the interview and thinking about the fact that he was live on TV certainly didn't help him make the play. ESPN is ruining baseball with these in-game player interviews. They are horrible. They're boring. Nothing good comes from them. At all. We don't need to "interact" with the players. We need to watch them play baseball. More and more I watch baseball on TV with the sound off.

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My Thoughts - Aaron Boone usually says absolutely nothing in his interviews. I rarely listen to any of his interviews because of this, but I saw this tweet, read it, and, as I was reading it, I thought, "Wow, Aaron Boone is actually saying something. He is taking a stand. Interesting. Good for him. He doesn't like trash talk." And then, he says the opposite, "I don't like it, but it's okay."

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My Thoughts - You usually don't see graphics like this that shows only these five Yankees, who, it is becoming more and more clear, are the five greatest Yankees in history. DiMaggio's greatness isn't as recognized today, and I fear he'd be left off a Top-Four list, but,as great as he's been, Judge isn't DiMaggio. At least not yet.

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My Thoughts - This is an awesome photo.

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