Late Spring Clean-Up

Observe the detritus from the Yankee's multi-million dollar locker room:

Location:  East 161st street and River Ave
Time:  7:13am today

All the jerseys, bats, jock straps, cleats, gloves, linseed oil bottles, ace bandages, canes, walkers and other personal belongings from the "one run per game" temporary position players have been discarded by the Yankee maintenance crew.

Recently thrown out ( without lament ) are identifiable items from the brief Yankee careers of:

Ichiro
Francisco
Johnson
Breiniac ( I have no idea how this guy's name is presented)
Adams
Nix
Overbay
Nunez
Wells
Romine
Boesch

Only Cano ( a true player ) and Gardner ( who tries very hard ) are worth holding onto.  Stewart stays because we are required by law to have a .238 hitting catcher with no power, to protect the umpire from mayhem.

In fairness, all of these dudes gave it their best and kept us in the AL East race through May 31, 2013.  My hat is off to them. One day, they will bask in the memory that they " were Yankees once and did okay."

 However, when they could not push across more than one run in any game against one of the national league's worst teams, a team that has gone public with its re-building program, it is time to say; "  your run is done,  not one of these guys ( old or youngish ) is going to be of any meaningful help to us in the future."

And since we currently have no one who can play better, from AAA or AA, the team is likely doomed for as far as one can see.

 As I said on day one of the season, this team needs to bite the bullet, realize its time in the sun is over, and bring up more young guys.  Even if they suck, or are heavily mediocre ( like Adams, Nix, Nunez, Romine, etc ), it is worth looking at them.

  Some of our young pitchers show promise ( until we send them back to hell, where they will rot and falter ), let's roll the dice on Almonte or Heathcott.  Anyone.  Heathcott can hit .200 and probably play better than Ichiro.  So what's the loss?

It would be a lot more interesting watching them than waiting for Vernon Wells to swing at the first pitch and pop it up, every f****** time.

Editor's note:   With Yukilis's return to pinstripes tonight, I now turn off my TV until he is injured again.

Keep me posted on how things are going.