Can you imagine what a dopey analysis that would be? Just the stupidity and pointlessness of obsessing about a long-ago version of your team?
This pretty much happens every day with the Yankees.
In case you thought last night's win over the Blue Jays erased all the Yankee woes, Joel Sherman verifies that it did not.
Still, winning is typically better than losing:
"Nothing has worked out as the Yankees imagined. They thought they were constructing a wonder of the world and, instead, have seemingly forfeited one of the great home-field advantages in sports."
The Yankees had one of the great home-field advantages in sports?
The Cavaliers just went 39-2 at home and that was only because they benched Lebron in the last game of the season.
Even with the rigging of a lefty power hitters, you really think it was the loud fans that helped the Yankees win? Not the players so much?
"The fans closest to the field are either quiet, absent or inside private clubs stuffing their faces with the free food that comes with their take-out-a-mortgage tickets."
Maybe so, but I don't know if that explains Damaso Marte's inability to get out right-handed batters.
"Those farthest away from the field are angry at both being herded into second-class status and the content of their team."
I don't think this is really true.
But even if it was true, it still doesn't affect the performance of the players on the field.
"But what is disturbing about this group is not how physically fragile they are, but how mentally weak they appear. Roy Halladay is special, but the greatest pitcher I have seen was Pedro Martinez in his prime. The dynastic Yankees nevertheless found a way to win when he started, in part, because of a grinding credo that turned each at-bat into war and regularly shortened Martinez's outings."
Paul O'Neill woulda hit three homeruns against Halladay on Tuesday night.
That's basically what Yankee analysis over the past eight years boils down to: "Paul O'Neill woulda."
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