Teixeira's 0-for-4 with 4 strikeouts could sink the season.

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Over-reactions are dumb:

"Just in case Michael Pineda never makes it as a New York Yankee, he decided to prep himself for a second career as a stand-up comic. How else can anyone explain a 'Saturday Night Live' skit disguised as a Fenway Park start against the defending World Series champs?"

No one is defending it.


"Funny? This was Kevin Hart times Steve Carell funny. The same pitcher who used pine tar on his throwing hand in his last start against the Boston Red Sox, only to get away with it, decided to apply the same PED (performance-enhancing dirt) to the right side of his neck Wednesday night, in full view of millions of viewers and, ultimately, the umpire who tossed him from the game."

Funny? No.

No one said it was funny.


"If there's even going to be an October, that is. What if the Yankees end Jeter's career by losing out on a playoff spot by one game, or two, in part because one of their most talented pitchers got himself ejected and suspended over something so impossibly foolish?

Then Michael Pineda's comedy act at Fenway won't seem the least bit funny."

Way to bring it home.

No one said it was funny in the first place.


If the Yankees miss the playoffs by one game, or two, there are thousands upon thousands of reasons why. If their garbage $20 million first baseman hits 0 HRs this season, then they won't make the playoffs and Jeter will cry. Wait, what does this have to do with Jeter?


If the Yankees don't have enough pitching depth to cover two Pineda starts, they won't make the playoffs, anyway. Besides, there's no reason to think a Pineda start is a guaranteed win. Maybe Nuno will pitch 12 shutout innings and it's a blessing in disguise ... the Yankees make the playoffs BY ONE GAME and Jeter gets a ring ... and we can all thank John Farrell, in retrospect, for saving the Yankees' season.