We will never forget you 'til somebody new comes along.

All of this is wrong.

"But here is why Sanchez matters the way he does these days, whatever he eventually becomes in baseball: He has made the Yankees interesting again. Sanchez has become somebody for Yankee fans to want to watch and to care about. And, boy, do they ever care about this kid. You get the idea that as you've been reading this, Sanchez might have found a way to go deep on his way to get coffee."

Ha ha ha. Coffee.

I don't get it.


"This isn't about whether the Yankees can make an improbable run at the second Wild Card in the American League, because it will take a small miracle for them to do that, or a few teams ahead of them simply deciding to go home. No. This is about the Yankees' farm system producing the first young hitter people really want to watch since Robinson Cano was a rookie. In 2005."

This revisionist history is untrue. I don't feel like listing all the names. Fans were excited when lots of bigshot minor leaguers came up. Only in retrospect has Sanchez buzzed past them.

I can list three Yankee catchers: Cervelli, Montero, and Romine.

The buzz died down because their play didn't live up to the hype. But a year ago, Romine was a bigger deal than Sanchez.


"We know the Yankees don't develop lasting, frontline talent in starting pitching any longer. The last homegrown kid who became a star in their rotation was Andy Pettitte."

I will just say Chien-Ming Wang again because I feel like I have to ... and if the Yankee homegrown superstar pitchers all end up in a dominant bullpen rather than the starting rotatino, that isn't so bad.


"If you don't believe that history doesn't sell quite the way it used to at the new Yankee Stadium, turn on a Yankee home game and take a look at those expensive blue seats down closest to the field. It sometimes seems to be as wide an expanse of blue as you would see standing on the beach and looking at the Atlantic Ocean."

Right.

Except for ARod's bizarre last game.

Guess what? Sanchez ain't filling those seats any time soon.


"But now here comes this kid to hit home runs in bunches. He really has taken the stage as one of the Yanks' famous Jurassic Park All-Stars, Alex Rodriguez, is sent home to Miami."

... and the rest of the article is about ARod.

Which is the last time Lupica will write about ARod. I promise.