The Boston Daily News.

"By the way?

We keep hearing about the Yankee starting pitching, and I happen to think it’s better than what the Red Sox have, even though the Red Sox have Sale, Price and Porcello at the top of their rotation.

Maybe one of these days Price will make you believe he could ever get a game off the Yankees in a big moment. He just hasn’t done it yet."

Mike Lupica writes about David Price more than he writes about any player on the Yankees or the Mets.

He also writes about the Red Sox as if he was writing for a Boston newspaper.


"After this season, Major League Baseball needs to take a look at the Wild Card system, as a way of making it more fair."

Get rid of it.

"There is great fun, for sure, in having do-or-die games in both leagues for the two Wild Card teams.

So often games like that have provided great drama."

Cheap thrills.

"At the end of it, if you have won 95 games or 100 or more than that, you should earn the right to do more than go up against a hot starting pitcher and lose to him the way you can lose to a hot goalie in hockey in a one-game season."

Boo hoo. Sports aren't fair sometimes.

If you want real drama, imagine the 2018 season with no wild card.Every game would be precious and you'd check the out-of-town box scores for three months.

I think it's great when a 100-win team misses the playoffs.

When Lupica complains about this situation, I can't help but think he's just worried about his beloved Red Sox getting knocked out by Seattle in a one-game playoff.