The fans got rightfully roasted by SNL Weekend Update.
You kind of had to know this was coming.
Saturday Night Live — which featured the real Kamala Harris in the cold open — had it’s usual Weekend Update sketch with Colin Jost and Michael Che, and of course they roasted the New York Yankees fans who grabbed Mookie Betts and pried the ball out of the Los Angeles Dodgers star’s glove.
The joke started with Jost noting that Dodgers fans looted a Nike store after the win.
“That is just disgusting,” Jost remarked. “Yankees fans would never steal sporting goods, unless it was during the game.”
The Yankees have a $36 million decision to make with their ace
Gerrit Cole may be a Yankee fan today, tomorrow, forever, but that didn’t stop him throwing New York’s front office a curveball on Saturday by opting out of his contract.
According to ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel, the Yankees’ ace informed the team of his decision to forgo the remaining four years and $144 million on his contract to become a free agent.
However the Yankees don’t have to let him walk away. The team can nullify Cole’s opt out clause by adding an additional one year and $36 million to his contract and lock up the pitcher through 2029 (bringing his remaining term to five years, $180 million).
New York has until Sunday night to invalidate the opt out and, according to Passan, the belief is that he’ll stay put:
The expectation is that the Yankees will add the $36 million to keep Cole at the top of their rotation and ensure that they don’t potentially lose multiple integral players, with star outfielder Juan Soto hitting free agency.
It’s certainly a bit of awkward timing for the 34-year-old righty who signed a Yankees’ franchise record nine-year, $324 million contract in 2019.
While Cole won the American League Cy Young Award in 2023, he only pitched the second half of the season in 2024 while dealing with an elbow injury. In Game 5 of the World Series against the Dodgers on Wednesday, Cole contributed to five unearned runs scored by L.A. after not covering first base during New York’s meltdown in the fifth inning.
If the Yankees decline to meet Cole’s demands, the pitcher will be among the most sought-after players on the open market.
Patrick Mahomes continued his war of words with ex-#Chiefs WR Gehrig Dieter when the #Yankees lost to the #Dodgers in the World Series.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has always been an avid baseball fan and took his affinity for the game to a new level by buying a minority share of the Royals in 2020.
Earlier this month, the star quarterback went viral for giving former Chiefs wide receiver Gehrig Dieter, a lifelong New York Yankees fan, a hard time during the Royals’ ALDS run.
Though New York would ultimately take the series and defeat the Royals before punching their ticket to the World Series, Mahomes and Dieter continued sparring about the Yankees on Twitter throughout the MLB playoffs.
When the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated New York in the World Series last night, Mahomes took one last jab at his former teammate:
Good morning, Winners! Thanks so much for reading the Morning Win today. We appreciate your time. Happy FTWeen! Ok. Sorry. That’s corny.
Let’s talk about this World Series, man.
It looks like the morons who tried to snatch off Mookie Betts’ glove in Game 4 are actually the luckiest (yet, simultaneously, the dumbest) Yankees fans in the world. They didn’t have to watch their team forget how to play baseball in Game 5.
The top of the fifth was an absolute nightmare. Aaron Judge couldn’t catch anymore. Anthony Volpe forgot how to throw. Gerrit Cole didn’t think it was important to cover first base. Maybe most importantly, Aaron Boone decided it was the perfect time to just vibe out? It was truly bizarre.
But that’s also the perfect way to describe the series. ESPN’s win probability formula gave New York an 88.7 percent chance of winning the game then, much like the Yankees had a 96.5 percent chance of winning Game 5. Both leads were blown. What could’ve been a 3-2 series lead is, instead, a Dodgers’ World Series win.
That’s devastating. New York basically just handed the Dodgers a dynasty.
And I know what you’re thinking. “Dynasty? It’s way too early to talk about dynasty.” But, folks. Is it really? This Dodgers team is good. It will be good for the foreseeable future. The version of this team we saw this year isn’t even the best it will be.
Let me remind you that LA just won it all with Shohei Ohtani batting 2-for-15 in the series. Let me also remind you that he hasn’t pitched all season. The team’s starting rotation will get one of the best arms in baseball next season without actually adding anyone.
They’ve got some key guys hitting free agency, but Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Tyler Glasnow, Freddie Freeman and Yoshinobu Yamamoto are all under contract through 2027 at the very least. The core of this team isn’t going anywhere.
So I suggest we buckle in, folks. Yes, it’s a little early to talk about dynasty. Baseball is a bit random and anything can happen from year to year. But this certainly feels like it could be one in the making.
Now that Ohtani has finally won it all without having shattered some obscure record, he’s free to live his life again. Here’s Charles with more:
“For years while on the Los Angeles Angels, Shohei Ohtani would do amazing, miraculous things and the team would somehow continue to lose. It inspired a meme back in 2021 — @matttomic posted on X (formerly Twitter) this statement: “every time I see an Angels highlight it’s like “Mike Trout hit three homes runs and raised his average to .528 while Shohei Ohtani did something that hasn’t been done since ‘Tungsten Arm’ O’Doyle of the 1921 Akron Groomsmen, as the Tigers defeated the Angels 8-3′”
But Ohtani struggled mightily in the World Series and hurt his shoulder. Yet the Dodgers still won.”
I’m so glad we can finally let this rest. I bet Ohtani is, too.
Bronny did the thing
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Bronny James scored his first NBA bucket while the Lakers were getting blown out by the Cavaliers.
But it’s the how here that makes me chuckle. He put a bit of flare on his dad’s signature move to get it done. It was one of those patented LeBron James stepback jumpers that wasn’t really a step back.
It really does run in the family. The Cavaliers let Bronny cut down the net where he scored his first points. That’s a pretty cool gesture from an organization that didn’t have to do that. What a nice moment.
The biggest name by far on the free-agent market this winter in Major League Baseball had just lost the World Series with the New York Yankees, but with a big payday on the way no matter where he goes, Soto basically said he was open for business.
He was also spotted taking a moment in the dugout at Yankee Stadium and pointing to the sky. You can read into any of this any way you want to, but it all makes sense for the superstar as he prepares to hear from anyone — including the Yankees — who wants his services.
Juan Soto was asked if he expects the Mets to go after him in free agency:
"I don't know what's the teams that are going to come after me. Definitely, I'll be open to this and every single team. I don't have any doors closed. I"m gonna be available for all 30 teams pic.twitter.com/3VICeWeney
Juan Soto was the last player to leave the dugout, pointing to the sky in thanks before departing. Was this his last moment in a Yankees uniform? pic.twitter.com/8lnvw15wvs
The New York Yankees lost Game 5 of the 2024 World Series on Wednesday night as they dropped their series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-1.
However, some controversy bubbled up as Jomboy shared Yankees Stadium still played Frank Sinatra’s classic song “New York, New York” after the Dodgers’ win.
That got baseball fans in a frenzy, but it’s the song that Yankees Stadium plays after every game whether New York wins or loses.
It might sting a good bit after the team lost a championship to hear Sinatra’s legendary song, but it’s just business as usual at Yankees Stadium to play the song.
Yankee stadium is blasting New York New York by Frank Sinatra. What do we have to do to stop this? How could you possibly play THE YANKEES WIN SONG as the Dodgers celebrate eliminating the Yankees on the field?
When The Captain calls out the Yankees, you know it’s bad.
It takes quite a bit for Derek Jeter to speak ill of the New York Yankees. He is The Captain, after all. Yet not even two of the most famous ballplayers to don the pinstripes could spin what happened in the Bronx on Wednesday night.
After the Yankees completely melted down in the fifth inning of Game 5 — blowing a 5-0 lead by giving up five unearned runs to the Dodgers — Jeter and former teammate Alex Rodriguez struggled to comprehend how the Yankees could make such mistakes on the Fox postgame show.
If you’re going to be on a national baseball show, you’ve got to speak the truth about what you saw, but you know that had to feel super uncomfortable for the former New York legends.
The Dodgers are World Series champs once more, and the calls of the final out are stellar.
The Los Angeles Dodgers won the 2024 World Series on Wednesday night in New York after taking Game 5, earning the team’s second title in the last four years.
As the final out came in and the Dodgers players flooded the diamond to celebrate their series win over the New York Yankees, Fox Sports’ Joe Davis delivered a fantastic call of the moment.
The Dodgers Radio Network’s broadcast also did a swell job of calling the moment, and you can hear both of these broadcast moments below.
For Los Angeles fans, these are calls you’ll remember for the rest of your life. Enjoy the moment, and keep these videos on a loop for the rest of the week.
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Where was the Yankees’ manager during this meltdown?
Is Aaron Boone awake? Or did the Yankees manager decide to pack it in for the day after watching Giancarlo Stanton’s mammoth home run in Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night?
That’s going to be a serious question asked all winter long across baseball if the Dodgers clinch the championship after the disastrous fifth inning at Yankee Stadium.
With New York up 5-0 and Gerrit Cole absolutely cruising on the mound, the Yankees unraveled. First slowly, then all at once as the Dodgers put up five unearned runs in one frame thanks to three mistakes most little leaguers would be able to avoid.
First it was Aaron Judge dropping a shallow fly off the bat of Tommy Edman.
This was Aaron Judge’s first and only error all year (regular and postseason). pic.twitter.com/TDoebaCt7U
But it seemed like the Yankees were about to escape after more masterful pitching from Cole induced a weak grounder from Mookie Betts to first baseman Anthony Rizzo. With Rizzo playing back, Cole was expected to cover the bag and secure the put-out. For reasons passing understanding, the Yankees’ ace stopped running after a few steps and watched helplessly as Betts not only reached safely, but brought in Edman from third.
The play was scored a hit for Betts, but there’s no escaping Cole’s mistake.
You can absolutely guess what happened next. The Dodgers smelled blood and pounced. Back-to-back doubles from Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez knotted things up at 5 before the Yankees were able to get off the field.
You may also have noticed that at no point during these mental mistakes from New York did manager Aaron Boone leave the dugout to settle down his team.
It was wild to watch play out in real time. Baseball fans were stunned Boone didn’t go out and buy some time for his players to catch their breath and break the tension.
Does Aaron Boone think he’s watching this game from home?
