The Plan is Coming Together
That looks to suit the plan for this year’s Yankees just fine: Pain for their opponents and glory for them. All they have to do now is prove it.
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To go out and play 162 like each is an elimination game, and warm-up for the postseason. To hit and to hurt and to play through the pain because winning is everything, and the only goal that matters is a title.
That is what the fans expect with this much talent and this much raw power on one team. They expect the Yankees to win it all and restore the crown to it’s by far and away most frequent home: Yankee Stadium. That would be title 28.
But they also expect one more thing: Season-long home run highlights of repeated beat downs in the Bronx, and beyond. They want to see demoralized opponents on the wrong side of lopsided scores, and All-Star relief pitchers with their heads hung low.
And they might get it.
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This is a season Yankees fans have been waiting for. You can almost hear them holding their collective breath in baited anticipation, years stuck in the throat. That’s because the Yankees have the pitching and the hitting, and all the homegrown talent the fans could want. And the power, that scary good power.
So now, finally…Play Ball!