New York Yankees recent run prompts panic as well as changes to the schedule

Not Much, Really

However, to be clear, this guarantees the Yankees nothing in October. All we are talking about is what the team has done, not what they might do. They haven’t won the division or come close to securing a playoff berth. And nothing in baseball is certain.

But now, right now, they are the biggest, baddest, most dominating team in baseball, maybe all of sports.

In recognition of that and the feelings it can engender, I spoke with my source in the commissioner’s office. Some teams–I’m looking at you Oakland, Kansas City and Baltimore–are worried that the Yankees will do, well, exactly what they have been doing. Only to them.

So a compromise has been worked out. Certain “rebuilding” teams have agreed to forfeit their games rather than let their fan bases see the humiliating distance between them and the Yanks.

That allows for New York to play a series of exhibition games, which will all be better competition and ratings than, say, a mid-week series against the White Sox in early August.

And I have gotten a copy of that new schedule. I wouldn’t share this yet as nothing is official–you know, keep it just between me and you–but you can trust me that this is absolutely, 100%, you don’t have to leave me comments about it not being real, real.

Here, now, is not only a preview of these changes but also a small scouting report for each. Again, this all totally real. Totally.