Weak shtick.

The Yankees could win 162 games and Mike Lupica wouldn't find anything good to say:

"Everybody realizes it wasn’t some kind of insult to suggest a few weeks ago that we needed to see what the Yankees were going to do once they moved out of the JV part of their schedule, right?

Somehow, though, that notion seemed to offend people in Yankee Universe."

Just admit you were wrong. It will be a relief.

I don't even understand how he spends his time. 

Does he write a column and then scour Twitter for responses? How is "people in Yankee Universe" even a thing?

 

"So now we see how they’ve come out gangbusters against the Rays and Jays.

It is the real beginning of the 100-game season between now and the finish, and the Yankees have started it in high style, as they continue one of the remarkable first three months in their history."

They're playing .750 ball.

There is no need for an inevitable "but."

Just enjoy watching baseball and enjoy writing about baseball.

  

"But it’s always interesting the way the Yankees are still covered like the company in a company town, and when they look great again, as they sure do this season, it’s as if order has been restored to the baseball universe.

But what kind of order are we talking about with a franchise that has played in one World Series in the past 20 years, and hasn’t won once since 2009?"

Lupica really believes his role is to play cynic to all the "fanboy" reporters in "Yankee Universe."

The Yankees are playing .750 ball this year. 

When you search for holes in the dyke, you don't reveal flaws in the Coverage in a Company Town. You reveal your own hackneyed flaws.

"And here’s one more interesting question about the records of our two big-city baseball teams:

What would the Yankees’ record be if they’d gotten a total of eight starts from Gerrit Cole and Nestor Cortes the way the Mets have gotten just eight starts, total, from Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer?"

This is a very odd appraisal. Embarrassing, actually. Also, quite uninteresting, despite his insistence that his own question is interesting.

Cole is the Yankees' worst starting pitcher. They'd probably be fine if they plugged in an uninjured Green or an uninjured German, since we're playing 2022 MLB in an imaginary place where injuries don't exist.

Cortes makes league minimum, more or less, and you have the gall to compare him to deGrom and Scherzer simply because he has outperformed all expectations? Weak.

A more interesting question: Why are the Mets risking free agent money on elderly pitchers in the first place?

 

Lupica is neurotic.

Lupica is not happy that that Mets are 20 games over .500 and cruising to the playoffs.

He just needs the Mets to be better than the Yankees in the "company town," in the pretend Battle for New York, which is largely his own creation.

 Next up is a column about Mike Baxter from Archbiship Molloy and how he would have been better than Aaron Judge.

The underlying Forever problem with Lupica goes something like this: If you're seriously this slanted against one of the teams you supposedly cover ... seething anger; endless insistence that they're overrated or ruinous to MLB's competitive balance; animated solely by the idea that the Mets are going to TAKE OVER THIS TOWN ... if you spend a decade+ relentlessly crushing ARod for steroid use and shrug off Cano's steroid use ... you're simply not a reliable source of baseball information. Which would be fine if you were a tire salesman in Duluth, Minnesota, but you're a baseball columnist for the New York Daily News.