"If you look at the way Jonathan Papelbon and John Lackey and Josh Beckett pitched last season for the Red Sox, you can make a reasonable case that the Red Sox, even having been established as a favorite in the AL East, have as many pitching issues as our hardscrabble, $204 million kids in the Bronx do."
Forget about the "underdog" tag ... that's just marketing / sportswriter drivel.
Did Lupica really just turn on Papelbon and Beckett?
I thought Papelbon is better than Mariano and ... why aren't you mentioning the game Beckett pitched against the Yankees in the 2003 World Series? Lupica, you love that game! You always bring up that game and you don't even mention Madison Bumgarner.
"As long as the star Yankees still play like stars, there is no reason why they don't win 95 again, why they don't win the East again. But what was an aging team last season is still an aging team. This was a spring to hear, once again, about young pitchers in the farm system, and maybe this is the year when one of them steps up the way Phil Hughes did last year as a starter, and the year before as an eighth-inning guy."
Dude: You're the one who always says the Yankees are old. That's the Lupica Doctrine. Now you sound like Rumsfeld criticizing Obama for not having a well-defined exit strategy.
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