Dear Madams or Sirs:
You will do the Yankiverse -- and the world, for that matter -- a great favor this weekend if you win two more.
Just two more. That'll do it.
At that point, it will become clear as drinking water to everyone -- even the front office, currently in denial -- what is well known throughout the game: The long-prophesized collapse of the Yankees is here.
Hey, that's life. Nothing lasts forever. History is front-loaded with mountaintop gods, wanded wizards, swimsuit beauties and leaders destined for immortality. They crumble and fall. Every one.
Somewhere over the last 12 years, we forgot that no team automatically makes the playoffs, that you can't buy your way out of a problem, and that even Derek Jeter would get old.
We forgot.
You will one day, sooner than you think, wear our shoes.
But this weekend, they fit us.
End this charade...
Two wins, and we can start trading veterans, sparing them the harsh treatment that would be coming in August.
Two wins, and we can join everybody else in this country. We can maybe learn from all this hubris and start new in 2009.
Gentlemen, end it.
You will do the Yankiverse -- and the world, for that matter -- a great favor this weekend if you win two more.
Just two more. That'll do it.
At that point, it will become clear as drinking water to everyone -- even the front office, currently in denial -- what is well known throughout the game: The long-prophesized collapse of the Yankees is here.
Hey, that's life. Nothing lasts forever. History is front-loaded with mountaintop gods, wanded wizards, swimsuit beauties and leaders destined for immortality. They crumble and fall. Every one.
Somewhere over the last 12 years, we forgot that no team automatically makes the playoffs, that you can't buy your way out of a problem, and that even Derek Jeter would get old.
We forgot.
You will one day, sooner than you think, wear our shoes.
But this weekend, they fit us.
End this charade...
Two wins, and we can start trading veterans, sparing them the harsh treatment that would be coming in August.
Two wins, and we can join everybody else in this country. We can maybe learn from all this hubris and start new in 2009.
Gentlemen, end it.
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