Calamity!

"The Yankees are set up for the same calamity this year that befell them a season ago. They have areas of real fragility and little in the way of strong second-tier options."

If the Yankees' 87-win, third-place finish is a calamity, I wonder what noun Joel Sherman uses to describe Toronto's 2013 season .... or Houston's 2013 season.


"In 2013, as they used a franchise-record 56 players, that meant fire-drill acquisitions of underwhelming players such as Ben Francisco, Lyle Overbay and Vernon Wells, and too many at-bats ultimately for lightweights such as David Adams, Reid Brignac and Luis Cruz."

Overbay was 2nd on the team in RBIs and one of the best investments in the league. The Yankees got 14 HRs and 59 RBIs for $1.25 million. Not that Overbay was overwhelming, he was just wasn't that underwhelming.


"Well, 'The Day After Tomorrow 2' is in pre-production. The Yankees began the offseason with voluminous holes and budgetary constraints on how much could be laid out for 2014. They went big for Carlos Beltran, Jacoby Ellsbury, Brian McCann and Masahiro Tanaka. The result is the Yankees have a terrific top 15 players on their roster."

Awesome.

Let's hope they stay healthy and the Yankees win the World Series.

In the meantime, I'll rent "The Day After Tomorrow" so I can keep up with your pointless pop culture references.