In times of peace, the warlike man attacks himself.

Mike Lupica often creates bizarre counter-arguments and then disproves them:

"By the way, it is worth repeating that the Yankees have no excuses the rest of the way."

Since day one, the Yankees have had no excuses. It doesn't matter if they did, anyway. Look at the standings to find out how good your team is.


"Not a single one, and please don't talk about Giambi, only saps expect Giambi to have injury-free seasons for the rest of his Yankee career, however long that career lasts."

Weird.

The only time I've heard anybody mention Giambi (Jason, I'm assuming, instead of Jeremy) over the past couple of months is to claim that the Yankees are better off without him.

"I wish everybody would please stop talking about Carlos Almanzar every time the Yankees have a problem with their bullpen."


"The Yankees have the team they were supposed to have, and have added the great season-saver, Roger Clemens.

They have the bullpen they were supposed to have, the closer they were supposed to have, they have all the position players on whom they should have been counting in place."

Well, yeah. The players are in place.

Except for the fact that a lot of these supposedly good players have been bad.

I don't think there are any excuses for that, nor have any been offered up.


"If they don't make the playoffs, then it is on this general manager, this manager, these players. It is on all of them."

Not Posada, Rivera, ARod, or Jeter.


"Guess what?

The Mets have had to overcome more adversity than the Yankees this season."

Well, the Mets are an underachieving $120 million team. That's what gets your batting coach fired. Just not quite as underachieving as the Yankees.

No excuses for the Mets, either.

Only saps expected Pedro and Alou to stay healthy for the lengths of their contracts, right?