The face of a franchise.
I’m a Mets fan so I can sit back today and bask in the glory of what is another Yankee failure.
I can almost hear the grating warble that is John Sterling’s voice reciting his end of game mantra,
You’ve got to love it and nothing is truly better than seeing A-Rod, the glaring symbol of Yankee excess standing at the plate and striking out to end the game. Taking a nice collar of 0 for 4 with him into the off-season, including an at bat where the bases were loaded and the Yankees walked away impotent.
Really, as Mets fans we should have all been rooting for the Yankees because their loss does nothing more than guarantee they will be active in the pursuit of Jose Reyes this off-season. But, that’s okay because truthfully as much as I love Jose, it’s time to call it a day. Nothing that can justify spending so much money over the period of so many years on a player who makes Rickie Henderson and his hammy look like the picture of health. Jose is an explosive player, he can be a game changer but, if there is anything Mets fans have learned over the last five or six years, it’s he is incredibly fragile and prone to injury.
So, watching the Yankees go down in a glorious if somewhat quiet defeat has a particular ring of satisfaction to Mets fans who have been told all season how bad their team is and how the front office (and ownership) can’t do anything right. Things won’t be getting easier for these Yankees now as C.C Sabathia will undoubtedly opt out of his contract (and leave $92 million on the table) in an attempt to squeeze even more money out of his employers.
This is a Yankee team that spent over $200 million this year only to watch it’s $31 million man swing at air when the whole season was on the line. The highest paid player on the team with the highest payroll in baseball came up short and as a baseball fan I love that because it speaks to the fact that money doesn’t buy you a World Series champion.
And of course, there will always be those great shots of Yankee fans shown throughout the game: crying, praying, looking as if their world was coming to an end. Awash with surprise and disbelief that their team was on the precipice of coming up short, contrary to what entitled Yankee fans embrace as their worldview. The same people who can’t shut up the rest of the year, the same fans who lord it over Mets fans, the same fans who for many (not all) it all comes down to following a winner, not so much being a fan of baseball.
It couldn’t have been written better, A-Rod, mighty A-Rod has struck out.
I’m a Mets fan so I can sit back today and bask in the glory of what is another Yankee failure.
I can almost hear the grating warble that is John Sterling’s voice reciting his end of game mantra,
“The Yankees lose!
The Yankees LOSE!
THE YANKEES LOSE!”
The Yankees LOSE!
THE YANKEES LOSE!”
You’ve got to love it and nothing is truly better than seeing A-Rod, the glaring symbol of Yankee excess standing at the plate and striking out to end the game. Taking a nice collar of 0 for 4 with him into the off-season, including an at bat where the bases were loaded and the Yankees walked away impotent.
Really, as Mets fans we should have all been rooting for the Yankees because their loss does nothing more than guarantee they will be active in the pursuit of Jose Reyes this off-season. But, that’s okay because truthfully as much as I love Jose, it’s time to call it a day. Nothing that can justify spending so much money over the period of so many years on a player who makes Rickie Henderson and his hammy look like the picture of health. Jose is an explosive player, he can be a game changer but, if there is anything Mets fans have learned over the last five or six years, it’s he is incredibly fragile and prone to injury.
So, watching the Yankees go down in a glorious if somewhat quiet defeat has a particular ring of satisfaction to Mets fans who have been told all season how bad their team is and how the front office (and ownership) can’t do anything right. Things won’t be getting easier for these Yankees now as C.C Sabathia will undoubtedly opt out of his contract (and leave $92 million on the table) in an attempt to squeeze even more money out of his employers.
This is a Yankee team that spent over $200 million this year only to watch it’s $31 million man swing at air when the whole season was on the line. The highest paid player on the team with the highest payroll in baseball came up short and as a baseball fan I love that because it speaks to the fact that money doesn’t buy you a World Series champion.
And of course, there will always be those great shots of Yankee fans shown throughout the game: crying, praying, looking as if their world was coming to an end. Awash with surprise and disbelief that their team was on the precipice of coming up short, contrary to what entitled Yankee fans embrace as their worldview. The same people who can’t shut up the rest of the year, the same fans who lord it over Mets fans, the same fans who for many (not all) it all comes down to following a winner, not so much being a fan of baseball.
It couldn’t have been written better, A-Rod, mighty A-Rod has struck out.
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