Plato's Cave

In my blurry-eyed, Saturday morning stupor today I picked the NY Times off my doorstep and flipped through to the sports section, where I was immediately confronted by a huge picture of a Yankee lashing away at the plate.

Ah, I thought to myself, the Times has discovered Miguel Andujar! Whole columns of adulation and background info were sure to follow.

When I rubbed the rest of the bourbon out of my egelah, though, I saw I was mistaken. It wasn't the New Miggy at all, but our spring oddity, Russell Wilson, striking out.

The caption included the information that the Yanks won the game, but nothing else. There was nothing more in the entire sports section on New York's dominant team. No box score. No mention of Tyler Too's walk-off homer. No speculation over Red Thunder's brain pot or Ellsbury's o-bleak.

It occurs to me that if you got all your Yankees news just from the NY Times' printed sports section, you would be like one of those poor, ignorant bastards in Plato's cave, guessing at the shadow of things outside:

"Oh, we got Russell Wilson? He's playing baseball now? What position is he?"

Still, this counts for an article as far as I'm concerned.  Soccer 28, Yankees 18.