Remember when Yankee fans thought they were invincible? Remember when Yankee fans thought their stars would never get old and would play forever? when Yankee fans thought their money and 27 titles could solve every problem or argument? Yeah, that's the thing with this year's Yankee team, they are all a bunch of "Remember when's" if they are even healthy enough to be in the lineup.
I have been a perennial Yankee hater for as long as I can remember. Whether it is the 2000 World Series still leaving me a bit sore, their ignorantly conceited fans, or simply their corruption of baseball lore, I detest the Yankees, and quite frankly I am in my glory right now. The best part about it, the Yankees and Mets might actually finish in the same place in their division this year. The Mets are on the rise, and the Yankees are entering the part of the franchise's cycling pattern where there is nothing special about them, at all.
The only current Yankees I respect are Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter, and both suffered major injuries last year. Not that I wish ill on people, but I was ecstatic watching the Tigers close out the Captainless Yankees in the playoffs last year. The cosmos was aligning for me. Add Alex Rodriguez's horrific postseason slump, along with the knee operation, and potential involvement with Anthony Bosch's bio-genesis clinic, it seemed like my life could not get any happier. Then Mark Teixeira joined the injury parade with a strained wrist tendon, 10 days after Curtis Granderson suffered a forearm injury sidelining him for two months. Not just the players are catching this plague. The notoriously free spending GM, who's surname sums up his approach to free agency, Brian Cashman joined all the players he used to buy World Series titles on the DL earlier this week. Cashman broke his ankle jumping out of a plane to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project.
Now, all the offensive weight is on a second baseman with a nonconformist approach to the position and game. And the Yankees want to sign him for 10 years? What is wrong with them? Have they ever heard that history repeats itself? Remember when A-Roid, excuse me A-Rod, was thought to be locked up for good? He was one of the best players in the game, and sure enough the stories began coming out, harming his reputation and plea for Cooperstown, along with a collapse under all the publicity and pressure. A single player cannot carry a team for 2 months. Suppose Cano wears out under this pressure or even suffers his own injury, what happens?
The Yankees are not used to manufacturing runs. They rely on the long ball too much. Now they will need to figure out how to incorporate Ichiro's speed and OBP along with Kevin Youkillis's walks into their offensive gameplan, if they want to even have a chance at keeping up with other teams in their division. Just like the Mets, the Yankees are in too good of a division for any error. With teams like the new look Blue Jays, the young and promising Orioles, and the always scrappy Rays, there is no room for the Yankees to dig a hole; too deep for them to dig themselves out of. Is this the end of an era in the Bronx?
I would hate to be the health care provider for the Yankees right now.
I have been a perennial Yankee hater for as long as I can remember. Whether it is the 2000 World Series still leaving me a bit sore, their ignorantly conceited fans, or simply their corruption of baseball lore, I detest the Yankees, and quite frankly I am in my glory right now. The best part about it, the Yankees and Mets might actually finish in the same place in their division this year. The Mets are on the rise, and the Yankees are entering the part of the franchise's cycling pattern where there is nothing special about them, at all.The only current Yankees I respect are Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter, and both suffered major injuries last year. Not that I wish ill on people, but I was ecstatic watching the Tigers close out the Captainless Yankees in the playoffs last year. The cosmos was aligning for me. Add Alex Rodriguez's horrific postseason slump, along with the knee operation, and potential involvement with Anthony Bosch's bio-genesis clinic, it seemed like my life could not get any happier. Then Mark Teixeira joined the injury parade with a strained wrist tendon, 10 days after Curtis Granderson suffered a forearm injury sidelining him for two months. Not just the players are catching this plague. The notoriously free spending GM, who's surname sums up his approach to free agency, Brian Cashman joined all the players he used to buy World Series titles on the DL earlier this week. Cashman broke his ankle jumping out of a plane to raise money for the Wounded Warriors Project.
Now, all the offensive weight is on a second baseman with a nonconformist approach to the position and game. And the Yankees want to sign him for 10 years? What is wrong with them? Have they ever heard that history repeats itself? Remember when A-Roid, excuse me A-Rod, was thought to be locked up for good? He was one of the best players in the game, and sure enough the stories began coming out, harming his reputation and plea for Cooperstown, along with a collapse under all the publicity and pressure. A single player cannot carry a team for 2 months. Suppose Cano wears out under this pressure or even suffers his own injury, what happens?
The Yankees are not used to manufacturing runs. They rely on the long ball too much. Now they will need to figure out how to incorporate Ichiro's speed and OBP along with Kevin Youkillis's walks into their offensive gameplan, if they want to even have a chance at keeping up with other teams in their division. Just like the Mets, the Yankees are in too good of a division for any error. With teams like the new look Blue Jays, the young and promising Orioles, and the always scrappy Rays, there is no room for the Yankees to dig a hole; too deep for them to dig themselves out of. Is this the end of an era in the Bronx?
I would hate to be the health care provider for the Yankees right now.
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