The real ace of the city?

It's Mike Lupica.

Now put on your typewriting shoes and write us a New York article, you wondrous dandy.

New York, New York
It's a helluva town
The Bronx is up
But the Battery's down

"You know, the new guys for the Yankees aren’t doing nearly as well as they were a couple of weeks ago."

There are no new guys on the Yankees, other than Didi Gregorius, who is doing better than he was a couple of weeks ago. Like, now he has been upgraded to an F instead of an F-minus.

I suppose a bunch of anonymous bullpen pitchers are also new, but who cares?


"And by the way?

One 16-strikeout performance from Michael Pineda didn’t turn him into the ace of the city."

Because there is no such thing as ace of the city.


Objectively speaking, now that you bring it up, Pineda has had a better 2015 quarter-season than Matt Harvey -- the supposed ace of the city you're implicitly referring to.

Pineda: 5-2, 3.59 era, 57.2 ip, 5 hrs, 59 k, 4 bb.

Harvey: 5-2, 2.91 era, 58.2 ip, 6 hrs, 60 k, 10 bb.

Pineda has the disadvantage of home games at Yankee Stadium, pitching to a designated hitter, and horrible defensive support.

Am I right or wrong?


I caught a bit of the Mets game yesterday and I saw Harvey walk the bases loaded. Cervelli was the batter.

The next batter was A.J. Burnett and I changed the channel. How can NL fans deal with this garbage game after game?

Turns out, Burnett had a sac fly and the next batter doubled in a couple of runs.

But anytime a pitcher strikes out another pitcher, that stat should be stricken from the record.


"The bottom line for baseball New York right now? 

We’re not riding quite as high around here as we were a few weeks ago."

First of all, don't say "we."

It suggests a collegiality and rapport that simply doesn't exist. You bridge and tunnel it back to Lawn Guy Land and act like you're raving at after parties in the Meat Packing District.

But even in the collapsed universe of New York baseball writers, don't say "we." You don't care about baseball, you couldn't name the Yankees' starting rotation, much less their current leader in OPS.

The Yankees have lost 9 out of 10, just gave up 25 runs in back-to-back games to the lamentable Rangers, Ellsbury and Tanaka are on the DL, and they are no longer in first place.

"Not riding quite as high around here as we were a few weeks ago." Thanks for the insight, sport.