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The Dr. Sem Yankees Show (3/15/25)

Writer: Paul SemendingerPaul Semendinger

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"Well, the rest of the league also isn't good." Ugggg.


"We just have to be better than bad."



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fuster
13 hours ago

Yanks' road to contention in '25 is difficult, not impossible, despite injuries

Mike Lupica


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The Yankees have been hit and hit hard by injuries to their starting pitchers this spring, without question. Even before it was announced that their ace -- and former Cy Young Award winner -- Gerrit Cole would be lost for the season to Tommy John surgery, they had already lost Luis Gil, last year’s Rookie of the Year in the American League, to a lat injury that reportedly will sideline him for a couple of months at least.

It is a lot, without question. But it’s still not what the Dodgers had to endure, just with their starting pitching, last season. If the Yankees…



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fuster
3 hours ago
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was Ted Williams a great hitter

was he a great all-around player

when value comes exclusively from offense, it does not mean that the guy isn't valuable, Paul.


Joe D was not as valuable a hitter as Ted Williams

but he was a better all-around player

and his value was obvious.


Williams twice was named MVP


Joe D thrice


(and let it not be said that I resent that you're so very, very wrong and yet so insistent that you are not

I've long ago learned that people are strange and sometimes impervious to logic


and I've gotten used to hunting the snarK


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