My bad.

For the first time in my life, I briefly listened to Mike Lupica's radio show.


The initial attempt at humor was, "When I heard Jack McKeon was hired by the Marlins, my first thought was whether he got treatments at Bartolo Colon's Dominican doctor."

Implying with humorless humor that Colon's comeback is suspect and due to a treatment outside the purview of American laws.


Within five minutes, Lupica was claiming the Red Sox would beat the Yankees in the ALCS because the Yankees don't have Andy Pettitte anymore.

Mind you, this is June 21, 2011 and we're talking about Andy Pettitte and a fictional 2011 ALCS.


But, you know ... while Lupica is continually mocking the age of the Yankee players (such as Colon), he also criticizes the Yankees losing Pettitte, Matsui, and especially Damon ... though that criticism has died down as Granderson and Gardner have excelled in the plate, on the basepaths, and particularly in the field.

On the other hand, Lupica mocks the play of the youngsters on the Yankees, such as Nunez.

The narrative is that the Yankees have a deficient farm system.

So this narrative necessitates the dismissal of the contributions from Joba, Hughes, Robertson, Nova, Gardner, Cervelli, and even Cano.

The Yankees have nine guys in their bullpen with ERAs under 3.00. This is based on limited innings, of course, and ERA is not the be-all and end-all of pitching stats in general and reliever stats in particular.

But if Lupica is willing to pronounce Chris Young as the Mets' best pitcher after 20 innings, you'd think he'd notice the stellar performances across the board of the AAA Yankees.


Which is just a longwinded way of saying that Lupica is a hypocrite in various mediums.