So, the Times ran its mighty baseball preview section today.
It was all of one page, consisting of an entire, sentence-long introduction, and included absolutely no predictions as to where any team might finish, or any analysis of them whatsoever.
Instead, it focused on statistical milestones various players might reach (Jogginson Cano, 2,500 hits!).
The lead one of these? Albert Pujols might get to 600 home runs and 3,000 hits. This was illustrated with a huge picture of Pujols, surrounded by the other men who have done it—Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, Barry Bonds, and Alex Rodriguez—dancing around the gigantic Pujols figure, holding hands.
I am not making this up.
In a year when the Yankees are loaded for bear and the Mets are fielding a surprisingly interesting team, we get statistical tidbits, focused on the doubtless juiced, over-the-hill slugger for a team an entire continent away.
But hey, c'mon! The Times had to run a massive, two-page spread on the training facility where Russia's athletes are built, complete with photos. Over a month after the Olympics have finished.
Nonetheless...there was enough on the Twin Towers, Judge and Stanton, in the baseball "preview" to count for a Yankees article. Combined with a big piece on Gary Sanchez improving his catching techniques by Billywitz, plus a short piece on the Greg Bird's Myster-o Injury, that qualifies for 3 entire, unanswered Yankees articles, their best one-day showing this year.
That closes the gap to Soccer 46, Yankees 29, on the year, and Soccer 19, Yanks 14 in March.
Let's face it, Hoss - - the sports section is NOT why I subscribe to the Gray Lady, out here in the hinterlands - - Tyler Kepner & Billywitz, notwithstanding. Their focus is elsewhere - - and of late, they are trying to build their cosmopolitan, global cred.
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