Nine walks, four errors, and George Costanza bobbleheads: Generous Yanks give away a game. Will the season come next?

Where do you start...? 

We all know what happened last night. You saw it. I saw it. Hal saw it. 

Putin, Springsteen, Brad Pitt - Ghislaine Maxwell, in her new luxury suite - they saw it. A million people - kids in Borneo, Eskimos, Floridians - everybody saw it. 

We saw the famous NY Yankees - the team of Ruth and Danny Tartabull - snivel at the perfumed feet of their millennial masters, the Redsocks of Boston, who actually represent Everywhere But New York. 

It was brutal. Pathetic. A phoned-in loss on national TV, a winnable game squandered by mental lapses that - at least this week - belong in Williamsport. Amazingly, it was commemorated by given-away bobbleheads for George Costanza, the mythical Seinfeld character who, in an episode from 1997, was fired by a fictional George Steinbrenner for napping under his desk.

Last night, the Yankees napped on the field. How awful was it? Well... 

1. They halved their loss column lead in the AL wild card race. (They're now one game ahead of Boston.)

2. They welcomed Boston's rising star, Roman Anthony, by botching an easy play at first base, then feeding him a wheelhouse burger for an upper-deck shot. It was reminiscent of Rafael Devers' 2017 three-run shot off Aroldis Chapman, a blow that set the table for seven years of torment by Devers. Here we go again?

3. They welcomed Chapman back home by going 1-2-3 in the ninth, the heart of our lineup, lunging at balls out of the strike zone, failing so quickly that El Chapo - an emotionally unstable perspiration machine - could even think about melting down.

4. They committed four errors - a fifth, by Ben Rice, was mercifully discarded by the official scorer.

5. They walked nine Redsocks. Nine. From six pitchers. Unbelievable. Every inning, Boston threatened. Every inning. The FOX hosts kept marveling at Boston's failure to break open the game, until - of course - they did.

6. They continually gave away leads, then abruptly shut down in the late innings, as they so-often do. Aaron Judge, in particular, looks lost since returning from his tweak. We're seeing the only thing worse than a lineup without Judge - a batting order where Judge is mired in slump. 

7. They relived not only the Costanza episode, but Game 5 of the 2024 World Series, when a cavalcade of errors led to Gerrit "The Pointer" Cole failing to cover first. Big game = defensive collapse. Sad.

8. They ended a five-game winning streak that, for a night or two, seemed to suggest they were making a run in the AL East.

9. They gave up the 2025 season series to Boston. If the teams finish tied, Boston will have the advantage. On the year, they are 6-1 against us.

I can go on. What's the point? You saw it. We all did. That pitcher from Frisco? Doval? Yikes. I never thought I'd say it, but we dropped Marcus Stroman, for this? Where's Scott Effross? What happened to Ian Hamilton? And that Bird guy? And Brubaker? Has he gone undercover into another prison system? Clayton Beeter? Wait. He's now a Nat. Who's going to pitch the 7th, 8th and 9th tonight? Dunno. But I can tell who won't: Max Fried. Holy crap, we've waited and waited for this showdown. Are we going to be undressed? For "YES," bobble your head.