Follow your bliss.

"The New York baseball season hasn't happened yet, has it?

Unless you think this is all the Yankees and Mets have.

Really, this is what the baseball season in New York has been so far:

One start for Joba.

All the talk about Willie Randolph's job."

At the time of this writing, the Yankees had played 61 games in the 2008 season.

Lupica was only interested in one of these games.

He missed some very exciting baseball games.

Win or lose, a lot of these games have been interesting.

Hughes, Kennedy, Wang, Rasner, Pettitte, and Mussina are too boring for Lupica to watch. He can't even find a single storyline with any of these non-Joba pitchers ... can you?


"And Hank Steinbrenner talking, constantly, almost every day, every news cycle, as if somebody has injected him with truth serum, talking about everything and everybody as if talking can turn him into his old man."

Hank Steinbrenner is not talking, constantly, almost every day, every news cycle.

You are lying.


"Hank really likes to talk about Joba, especially, about how all the Baseball Experts he knows, and I'll bet he knows a lot of them, tell him that even though Joba has just one big-league start in the books and a handful of starts in the minor leagues, he is a surefire bet to be a stud ace for the next 10 years."

Nobody has said that Joba is going to be a stud ace for the next 10 years.

You are lying again.

You are making up an imaginary counter-argument and then bravely defeating that argument.


Tell us again how Pedro's nine wins per season have been worth it for the Mets. Or how ARod can't field at third base. Or how Coco Crisp is better than Johnny Damon. Or how great Oliver Perez is going to be.

See, Hank Steinbrenner is surely a fool. An easy target. Yet, Steinbrenner accidentally knows more about baseball than Lupica does.


"There is so much that we don't know about these two teams after more than two months of the season."

We?

There is so much we don't know about these two teams?

Speak for yourself.

If you have any questions about the Yankees, you should ask me. I watch a lot of the games or listen on the radio or get a recap online. Because I like to follow baseball.

That guy wearing #14 is Wilson Betemit. No. It's pronounced Bet-E-Mit. Yeah. He was actually on the team last year, too. Yeah, they traded Scott Proctor for him. No, Scott Proctor isn't on the Yankees anymore. He's been gone for a while, actually.


"First there is the business of one last season at Yankee Stadium, one at Shea.

Two old parks.

Two old-looking teams right now.

One game under .500 going into yesterday."

Hughes, Kennedy, Joba, Rasner, Ramirez, Cano, Cabrera ... do the Yankees look old?

They don't look particuarly good ... but do they look old?


What difference does it really make, anyway?

So the Yankees are a .500 team so far.

Maybe they'll be a .500 team this entire season.

If the Yankees win 60 games this season, Lupica will complain that they stink. If the Yankees win 100 games this season, Lupica will complain that they stink. If the Yankees win the World Series, Lupica will complain that they have too many free agents, or something. Lupica has a friend who doesn't like ARod and the Yankees charge too much for their tickets.

We get it, already.

You don't like baseball in general and you don't like the Yankees in particular.

For you, writing about baseball is just a joyless exercise

You are a fraudulent hack who sold out to this Breslin Wannabe shtick.