Same guy will say regular season doesn't count whenever the Yankees make the playoffs.

The Yankees lost a game to the Devil Rays and the season is only five games old. Today, Jeter will hit two homeruns and the season will be saved:

"The afternoon had that unmistakable ambience of so many others during the Yankee golden era – a flawless sky, happy home crowd, a young and inexperienced Rays team ready to be devoured by baseball's version of Microsoft."

The Yankees' goldenest era was 1947 - 1962. The Rays did not exist and neither did Microsoft.


"Andy Pettitte walking to the mound was the perfect finishing touch, too: Who better represents prosperity in the Bronx than this latter-day Whitey Ford?"

Whitey Ford never cheated, lied, or bailed on the Yankees to play for the Astros.


"Regardless of the origin of the crisis, Pettitte is all but naked without his two best pitches. Subtract the cutter and curveball from the menu, and all he's got left are the two-seam fastball (which he couldn't throw over the outside corner to right-handed hitters) and a four-seam fastball that once upon a time topped 90 mph, but no more.

...

There were no answers; only questions that, for one afternoon, managed to puncture the Yankees to the core."

Seriously?

This is a crisis which punctured the Yankees to the core?

If they'd won, they'd be 3-2. Instead, they are 2-3. The magic number for the Rays is down to 156.