The Yankees stink. There is no reason to misrepresent the case.
There's no reason to say the Yankees would have lost even more games to the Mets if Reyes and Wright didn't make errors. By the same token, Mussina would have beaten the Mets on Friday night if Tino could catch a line drive and Bernie could catch a pop up and Mussina could make an accurate pickoff throw to second. When the Mets make errors, the Yankees are just lucky. When the Yankees make errors, the Yankees are bad fielders.
There's no reason to belittle the 16-2 run vs. Oakland and Seattle (two teams that the Nuevo Mets couldn't beat). If Lupica can take away those 18 games, can't I at least take away the 13 games vs. Tampa Bay and Kansas City? If I am allowed to do that, then the Yankees are winning the wild card race. Whoopee! We're #1!
But I'm most intrigued by this nugget of Lupica Logic, where the Keyboard Hero talks tough to Randy Johnson:
"Boy, I hope I don't miss Randy Johnson's next lecture to sportswriters he thought had written him off last month.
Here's a memo for the Big Unit:
Nobody wrote you off.
Nobody wrote any eulogies.
Most writers just did what they're supposed to do, which means they wrote what they were seeing.
And what they were seeing is a guy who isn't the scariest pitcher in the world anymore, and probably isn't going to be that ever again."
Huh? You just said that nobody wrote Unit off and nobody wrote any eulogies. Then you said, in the next sentence, that Unit isn't the scariest pitcher in the world anymore, and probably isn't ever going to be that ever again.
So Lupica just just wrote Unit off and wrote Unit's baseball eulogy... right after he said nobody ever did that.
If Lupica doesn't want to miss Randy Johnson's next lecture, he should go see him after the game. Unit is right in the locker room with all the other players.
Go ahead, Lupica. Say it to his face.
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