Yup, he's a lot like Jimmy Breslin alright.

"And so you know?"

Please let us know what you think, Mr. Lupica.

It's a nice way to ruin the optimism that surrounds Opening Day.


"I believe Commissioner Rob Manfred got it right with Jeurys Familia, giving him 15 games instead of the 30 he gave Aroldis Chapman a year ago because of an incident involving the mother of Chapman’s child. There was a gun involved with Chapman, even if all he did was, according to police reports, fire off shots in his garage. Doesn’t matter. He could have taken aim at the moon. A gun being anywhere near a domestic argument presents both the opportunity and the danger of a far greater tragedy."

Plus, I don't like the Yankees.


"And the Mets’ starting third baseman, Jose Reyes, was also suspended at the beginning of last season, when he was still with the Rockies, because he had been arrested by police in Maui the previous October – the same weekend, as it turns out, that Chapman’s girlfriend ended up hiding in fear outside his house – over an incident involving his wife."

And the NY Daily News sports investigative team was busy that weekend ... doing what?


"This isn’t steroids, or performance enhancing drugs, where if you test positive, you’re automatically gone; or when there was so much evidence against you, as there was with the world’s most expensive mentor and man-about-town, Alex Rodriguez, that you end up losing three times what Reyes got from Manfred, which means a whole season. With the exception of Ray Rice or Joe Mixon, where there was video, most of these cases involve two people, sometimes two versions of things, one bad moment. Sometimes a terrible moment that changes lives forever."

No.

It isn't "steroids or performance enhancing drugs." (Which reminds me: You can just use "steroids" or "PEDs" as shorthand for both. Nobody who reads this column is a chemist.)

It's a helluva lot worse than "steroids or performance enhancing drugs," wouldn't you say?


"Sometimes in a guys’ world, it’s not how you acted against a woman, it’s how much the guys in charge of hiring think you still have left in the tank. Whether they think you can still pack a punch or not. So to speak."

"Pack a punch."

Nice.

When are you going to retire?