And I went a couple driveways down the cul-de-sac and headed inside for the inevitable long night.Īt about 9 I grabbed one of Gran's carefully-planned-and-gathered gas-station glasses (brown and nubby, if that makes sense) and stood in the front window and raised the tap and filled the glass with some of the worst water ever considered remotely potable or drinkable or anythingable.Įverything was cool it was a nice day and the sun was setting over Ellison Park and it's nearby environs. I swam in the above-ground pool of a neighbor a little before the time when you stopped doing stuff like that when you're a kid happened. But from this distance, I remember it as beautiful. I wouldn't have noted that at the time because I'd have been busy counting down days until school started again and QED life rebegan its suckitude. Mom and Dad worked the system familywise to the extent that my sis and I spent most of August 2, 1979, with Mom's parents. My Munson Story, Though nobody asked: I was 13, hanging at my grandparents' house in WAY Upstate NY. Now it's time for a second courageous move: Let's see what Clint Frazier is made of. The Yankees this week made a courageous decision: They would not - in the face of Gammonitic outrage - sacrifice long-term prospects for a quick jolt of mediocre pitching. What better time than a four-game set with Boston, who might send out three lefties: Price, Rodriguez and Sale.
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Is he a generational batting talent, or just another free swinger who had a good month in May? We've seen him as a brash, arrogant and confident hitter. I think I speak for the Yankiverse in saying the following: It's time to see what we have in Clint Frazier. That leaves an opening at DH, with Stanton still in the Jacuzzi. Until then, our 1B depth chart is Edwin Encarnacion and DJ LeMahieu. Wednesday's trade deadline coincided with Luke Voit's "sports hernia" - whatever that is - which will likely sideline him until mid-September. Well, I think the juju gods are playing with Frazier and having a good old time. The Yankees will be stocked in the outfield, and Frazier - who'll be 25 next month - will never really get his chance in pinstripes. 220 or not - that Mike Tauchman and Cameron Maybin are for real, and Giancarlo Stanton is not the Second Coming of Jacoby Ellsbury.
This notion suggests that Brett Gardner will return. The new narrative - Gammonites always have one - goes that the Yankees will simply trade him next winter, when the market improves. Apparently, someone on the team's secret wonk panel valued Frazier enough to keep him. Then, to the shock of all, he wasn't dealt for some retreaded Jamie Garcia-type. By mid-July, they were commonly suggesting the franchise didn't like his smiling face and wanted him gone. Over the last month, Frazier's future in NYC looked - well, "hazy" isn't the word - let's say "non-existent." On nearly a daily basis, the Gammonites reported him being dangled in trades like a chunk of tenderloin over a crocodile pit. Soon after, Dean Wormer placed him on Double-Secret Probation. With the Death Star, he made three - seemingly all one night, in RF, on national television. This year, in nearly 40 Triple A games, he committed two errors. Over his last 10 games with the Traveling Wilkes Barres, "Red Thunder" is hitting. Last night, in a tough loss to the Kodak City Garbage Plates, Scranton left-fielder Clint Frazier went 1 for 5 with a double, and - most importantly - dropped not one pop fly.