The Yankees just suffered through a wet, lost weekend in Detroit. Fortunately, the one game they did play, they won. Meanwhile, El Tigre’s showed why they are one of the worst teams in baseball in a cringe-worthy display.
The New York Yankees and Major League Baseball have a plot. Yes, I know that is hard to believe, but it’s true: It seems the two powerful entities want me to be an obnoxious pest.
Some readers might very well be sniggering about that one. My wife is sitting next to me and just asked, “Want you to, BECOME?”. She mumbled something about a ship already sailing or some such nonsense, but I need to finish this article.
And it’s important to all of you that I do and to her. If not, the Yankees might never play another game.
It all started on Friday night: The New York Yankees versus the Detroit Tigers. The display of baseball prowess put on by Detroit may have actually set the game back 100 years. And the Yankees chipped in, as well. In the first inning, for instance, I watched a Tigers outfielder duck under a ball hit right at him.
He actually ducked.
Now I understand infielders and pitchers ducking, and I get protecting yourself by putting your glove up. Sometimes you even get lucky and catch that ball. But I’ve never seen an outfielder—his back two feet from the wall—duck his head down and not even try to make a play.
And I Saw a Baseball Bat
I’ve seen the Jose Canseco ball-off-his-head-play, but at least he was trying to make one. I’ve seen the dropped pop-up, and Hosmer overrun that ball the other day. Heck, I’ve even seen a boardwalk and a housefly, although seeing the same from a cute gray elephant remains on the bucket list.
But I’ve seen just about everything when I see a major league baseball outfielder duck out of the way of a ball hit right at him. And that was just the beginning.
When it was all over, the two teams only had two errors, but the game was played a lot worse than that. Detroit proceeded to play so poorly that some fans suggested taking the “D” from the title of the team.
The Yankees made their own by-now signature contributions to the screwball comedy as well. Their current infield is not exactly challenging that of the ’09 team as perhaps the best in Yankees history, or replacing Tinkers-to-Evers-to-Chance in the baseball lexicon anytime soon.
Okay, they’re not horrible, but they need to improve, a lot.