Yankees not ready for prime time
Quit your whining Knicks fans. Bench brawl in Baltimore
Good morning, all!
Let’s cut to the chase. The New York Yankees are not ready for prime time. I took some heat a month ago, when I wrote that the defending American League champions were a mediocre baseball team, hovering around .500. Then the club took off and jumped to 15 games over .500, building a seven-game lead in the AL East.
The Yankees fattened that record by beating bad teams and benefiting by playing in a weak division. Put them up against the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers and they wilt faster than a plant in the August heat. Friday night their ace Max Fried, who has been one of the league’s best pitchers, was taken to the cleaners by the Dodgers. Saturday, they were totally embarrassed, losing 18-2. The game was over before it was over, and I am sure the Fox Sports suits were wrinkled, after building up the game and the series as the greatest thing since Reggie Jackson vs. Tommy Lasorda.
And do not give me this excuse about injuries. All teams have injuries. The Dodgers have 14 pitchers on the injured list, Mookie Betts is hurt, and they manage to win. Don’t give me that nonsense about the Dodgers having deep pockets and buying all these players either. I talked to some scouts the other day and they all tell me Los Angeles still has a strong farm system. Can the same be said about the Yankees?
Right now the Dodgers are in the Yankees heads. They embarrassed them in the World Series and are rubbing their noses into the Dodger Stadium turf this weekend.
Anyone who thinks the Yankees will win this year’s World Series is delusional. As presently constituted, the Yankees will not even win this year’s pennant. Their current record is a mirage, inflated by beating bad teams. When they are confronted by good teams like the Dodgers, they collapse faster than a Jenga tower.
Quit crying Knicks fans
It is all over for the New York Knicks. They lost to the Indiana Pacers Saturday night, 125-108, and were never really in the game in the second half. The Pacers dismantled the Knicks in six games and now advance to their first NBA Finals since 2000. Kudos to them.
As for Knicks fans, they quickly took to social media, complaining how this season’s finals, featuring two small market teams in the Pacers and Oklahoma City, will be the lowest rated NBA finals in years. So what was the NBA supposed to do, rig the playoffs so the Knicks could get in?
If the biggest concern of Knicks fans are the ratings for the NBA finals because your team is not in, you need to come to grips with reality. The integrity of sports maybe hanging in the balance with legalized betting on sporting events, but we have yet to reach the stage where league’s should be fixing events so only the marquee teams land on the biggest stage. Not yet, anyway!
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