Not sure if Mike Lupica watches baseball. Pretty sure he doesn't.

"The Yankees haven’t played half a season yet, and already the media have declared that all his [sic] forgiven with the Yankee farm system, it turns out to be a gold mine after all, forget what everybody was saying a year ago about how that same system was a ghost town."

"The media."

What media?

Who media?

Where media?

The only significant reports I have seen about the Yankee farm system lately is that top prospect Gary Sanchez has been benched for disciplinary reasons. But he hasn't been hitting, anyway.

Then, another report was more like a strategy change. Because the farm system is so dry in America, they're going to focus overseas.

Betances has been great and Solarte has been good. Did "the media" point this out and that's why Lupica says "all is forgiven"?

Or is it, like, Lupica had a private argument with a co-worker and now he passive-aggressively takes it public?


Why does this bother him so much? Why is it so important for Mike Lupica to endlessly and relentlessly obsess over the people who manage the New York Yankees? Some might say it's downright creepy, no?


"Sometimes the people in social media and the sports media this obsessed with LeBron James seem downright creepy."

Says the guy obsessed with Randy Levine and Damon Oppenheimer.


"Somebody needs to explain to me why the talent level with the Mets is Terry Collins’ fault."

Collins was, once again, given public assurances regarding his job security. Collins is seldom criticized for his team's continually awful performance. I'd even classify the Mets as underachievers this season and during Collins's entire tenure.

Maybe Lupica needs to explain why Collins gets more slack than Randolph or Manuel.

Watch a replay of that line drive single to left field and tell me that Chris Young was "busting his butt."


"Reports of Capt. Jeter’s demise have seemed slightly exaggerated on the West Coast this week, no?"

Well, since you asked: "No."

His batting average is .270, more or less a decent average.

He has one extra-base hit in June. He has 10 extra-base hits in the past 2 seasons (approximately 300 at-bats).

He has a .328 on-base% and a .318 slugging%.

He has 14 RBIs the entire season. Rey Ordonez-level production at that plate. Rey Ordonez without the glove.

Morte.