Thursday, May 28, 2015

Streaks and slumps.

"In case you haven’t noticed, caught up as you may have gotten in the Rangers’ daily Stanley Cup playoff torture, up in the Bronx we are witnessing one very wacky, head-scratching baseball season."

It's wacky.


"The Yankees — those same Yankees who for 11 days looked like one of the worst Yankee teams in decades in going, on merit, from 21-12 and four games up in first place to 22-22, 1 1/2 games behind — headed for the West Coast on Wednesday once again division leaders after sweeping, of all teams, the defending AL champion Kansas City Royals."

So what you're saying is that the Yankees - those same Yankees who for 11 days looked like one of the worst Yankee teams in decades in going, on merit, from 21-12 and four games up in first place to 22-22, 1 1/2 games behind — headed for the West Coast on Wednesday once again division leaders after sweeping, of all teams, the defending AL champion Kansas City Royals.

That sentence is quite a testament to needless loquacity.


"So just who are these Yankees besides being the beneficiaries of playing in the most inept division in baseball? Are they the team of spotty pitching, sloppy defense and a lineup that drops off the cliff into a dark hole after the No. 6 spot? Or are they the team that, for three heady days in the Bronx, outscored the Royals 23-4?"

They're a bad team who played three good games against a good team.


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