Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards. Well, sometimes you can live life backwards too:
The Yankees signed 34-year-old Marcus Thames to a minor league contract. Recently released by the Dodgers, Thames will report to Tampa and work out at the minor league complex before being assigned to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
I’d be shocked if Thames had any meaningful at bats for the Yankees, but you never know when one of your outfielders might get hit by a bus, mauled by a bear or taken up into a spaceship by a bunch of rogue grays trying to make human-alien hybrids.
(h/t to River Ave. Blues)
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- aburns77 - Jul 22, 2011 at 10:23 AM
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sadly, thames probably has a better chance of getting significant playing time with the yankees than montero because he’s the all important “proven veteran”
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- yankeesgameday - Jul 22, 2011 at 10:30 AM
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Please, please, please tell me all they want is for him to provide guidance and experience on a peer level to vazquez, Monterey, romine et al.
Most likely they’ll bring him up in September to pinch hit against lefties. But its like replacing Andrew Jones with Andruw Jones.
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- yankeesfanlen - Jul 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM
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Pretty soon we’ll be buying dormitory space at John Sterling’s Hebrew Home in Riverdale.
Marvelous rooms overlooking the Hudson
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- yankeesgameday - Jul 22, 2011 at 11:32 AM
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I didn’t understand a word of that, but it made me laugh out loud.
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- yankeesfanlen - Jul 22, 2011 at 12:48 PM
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It’s just Sterling gushing over a sponsor of retirement homes during broadcasts. Follow “FakeJSterling” on twitter, the guy’s a hoot!
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- proudlycanadian - Jul 22, 2011 at 10:45 AM
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Laughingly, I did predict this.
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- ditto65 - Jul 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM
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It ran through my mind in this fashion: “Well, he can always sign with the Yankees.”
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- proudlycanadian - Jul 22, 2011 at 10:53 AM
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If my memory is right, I wrote “The Yankees could use him.”
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- deathmonkey41 - Jul 22, 2011 at 11:07 AM
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Meh, it’s a minor league deal. No harm, no foul. If he comes up and pops a couple out against lefties, then who cares? It’s not like they can lose in this.
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- yankeesgameday - Jul 22, 2011 at 11:35 AM
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Except those POP outs will be we a pinch hitter in game defining/game changing situations when Giradi wad looking for a homer.
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- seanmk - Jul 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM
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remember that story back in paril or march about the LA beat writer openingly hating thames? yeah that was uncalled for
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- seanmk - Jul 22, 2011 at 12:05 PM
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april* DAMN YOU NO EDIT BUTTON
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- pisano - Jul 23, 2011 at 12:06 AM
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He’s an improvement over Andruw (strikeout) Jones. He played well for the Yankees last year, unlike Jones this year. I can’t believe the Yankees have kept Jones this long, it must be his fielding they feel safe with, because he can’t hit his ass with both hands.
