Perhaps the most dispiriting thing about losing this game was the fact that it was started by one of our top pitchers, AJ Burnett. In a failed bid to even pitch 5 innings, Burnett was pummeled for 7 runs, more than enough damage, in 4.2 innings. That left the bullpen to get pummeled some more, and it all added up to another defeat, this one embarrassing.
After losing twice to a team, it's unusual to get blown out in the third game against the same team. Usually a team fights back, especially with their top pitcher out there. But it just didn't happen today. A game like this tends to scare fans into thinking the team can't win and has no hope of a championship, and it tends to elicit sharp criticisms and overreaching by analysis in the media who think they have evidence for a future Yankee collapse.
Guess what?
The fans are overreacting and need to cool off.
And the media never really knows what it's talking about anyway. It's full of geeks who think they know a lot about one sport. The only reason they have their job is because they can write reasonably well, they wrote for the school newspaper when they were younger, and they know a little something about ONE SPORT. Problem is, and you see this time and again, especially with the baseball writers at the NY Times, they know so little about other sports that they can't analyze their own sport in any meaningful way.
And that's why you should be reading my blog.
After losing twice to a team, it's unusual to get blown out in the third game against the same team. Usually a team fights back, especially with their top pitcher out there. But it just didn't happen today. A game like this tends to scare fans into thinking the team can't win and has no hope of a championship, and it tends to elicit sharp criticisms and overreaching by analysis in the media who think they have evidence for a future Yankee collapse.
Guess what?
The fans are overreacting and need to cool off.
And the media never really knows what it's talking about anyway. It's full of geeks who think they know a lot about one sport. The only reason they have their job is because they can write reasonably well, they wrote for the school newspaper when they were younger, and they know a little something about ONE SPORT. Problem is, and you see this time and again, especially with the baseball writers at the NY Times, they know so little about other sports that they can't analyze their own sport in any meaningful way.
And that's why you should be reading my blog.
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