I don't agree at all.

Again, what else are you going to write about?

The Yankees will benefit from the delay and so will the Mets.

Guess why?

You get one guess.

That's right.

Because they currently have players on the DL and this gives those players time to get healthy!


Well, guess what?

It also gives Verlander, Ohtani, and Sale time to get healthy.


The Yankees' biggest strength is their depth.

While lamenting their injuries last season, you can't ignore the fact that they won 103 games.

I'd put the under/over at 100 games played.

"Officially, Major League Baseball has not yet abandoned the hope of playing a 162-game schedule. Unofficially, that possibility all but evaporated when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended no gatherings of 50 or more people for the next eight weeks. That recommendation carries through May 10 (and could be extended based on the trajectory of the coronavirus spread)."

There is also a possibility the whole season will be cancelled.

I'd say it's a small possibility.

I also thought it was a small possibility that the Prime Rate would fall to 0.00 and my 401(k) would take a 35% "correction."


Now, I've got nothing against Tom Verducci ... and what is he supposed to write about when no baseball is being played?

His genius observations are that a shorter season would have an impact on the outcomes of the season ... in all the obvious ways you thought of right away.

When you put it that way ...

"You can argue, as President Roosevelt did during World War II, that an anxious nation is heartened by the continued normalcy of its games. But these games don’t even count. No one is heartened by the continued normalcy of watching a series of Double A relievers try to master their curveball."

Bad news for Aaron Judge, the Yankees, Yankee fans, and the Yankee trainers.

Good news for ... Pete Alonso?


No, I'm not reading another Lupica article about Alex Rodriguez.

I'm sure Lupica is right to some extent.

I don't understand ARod's resurgent popularity and ARod has no credibility when it comes to cheating. On the rare occasion I listen to what he's talking about, I  find him somewhat inarticulate and unimaginative in his baseball analyses.

Why are we still talking about Alex Rodriguez?

ARod retired from baseball in 2016.


As news of Judge's stress fracture makes the rounds, here's an awesome take:

"If Aaron Judge can’t stay on the field this season, after missing a total of 110 games the past two, then Pete Alonso has a chance to be the baseball star of the summer."

Good on Pete Alonso!

I suppose Lupica means New York Only baseball star of the summer?

Which, of course, Alonso could be even if Judge is healthy?

So Pete Alonso is good is your point?

Can there be more than one New York baseball star of the summer in 2020?

Is Healthy Judge just going to steal the spotlight from Alonso, ruining Alonso's bid for baseball star of the summer?

Or can they both co-exist, along with several other stars of the summer?