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Yankees Stink Up October Again.

Just read last year’s article and the year before that and, well, you get the picture. The Yankees continue to fail in October. Pretty soon, baseball fans will start chanting 2009, and I’m not kidding.

The Astros smoked NY in a sweep to advance to the World Series. It was same old, same old for the Yanks. Not enough pitching, a lack of clutch hitting, a manager mismanaging the bullpen, injuries, Aaron Judge being a below average postseason player and pre-game scripts in the analytic world that dictate who does what, when, as opposed to actually making in-game decisions and playing baseball.

Oh, how about just trying stuff for fun? Harrison Bader led off a game and didn’t even know it. The Yanks placed Oswald Peraza on the ALCS roster. What took so long? He should have been playing months before. You don’t just try it out and play him in October. By the way, both teams, Philadelphia and Houston, started rookie shortstops in the World Series for the first time in baseball history. What a joke.

This team is so clueless it’s hilarious. They are irrelevant and will continue to be until the owner, Hal Steinbrenner, cares about winning. He is too busy closing soccer partnerships and collecting checks from the Aaron Judge home run chase and YES ratings. Same GM and same manager and same choking in October. Funny, I haven’t heard from social media trolls after my “no faith in this team” tweet. I guess they are trolling someone else or trying to play spin zone on a different social media application.

Sad to say, this article can be written next year and the year after that and for many years, really, until changes are made.

Hey Hal, go look at the football NY Giants in the same city. New GM. New head coach. WINNING. New ideas. New defensive coordinator who uses his players correctly. For as much as sports are different, they really are the same. Just not the Yankees. They try to outsmart you with arrogance and stupidity when they just keep hurting themselves. They are the definition of insanity.

I’m not saying you have to get every deal right and win a title every year. But the Yankees? One World Series win in 22 years? Haven’t made the Fall Classic since 2009 and haven’t won it since the same year? All the resources and the huge payroll? It’s a circus in the Bronx.

Other problems for this team:

Gerrit Cole is not an ace.
The roster is aging fast.
Giancarlo Stanton is a waste of time and a bad contract.
They still don’t know how to develop prospects.
Bryce Harper and Rob Thomson (interviewed for the Yankee managerial job but it instead went to Aaron Boone) dominated in Philadelphia this season. Both wanted to be lifelong Yanks. Another Cashman screw up.
Aaron Judge is a free agent. No right move here. Sign him to a huge deal at his age with his health problems and the contract kills you eventually. Don’t sign him and you’re even more irrelevant.
The Astros aren’t going anywhere.
Derek Jeter and Don Mattingly are sitting out there to be GM and manager and save the franchise. No one knows the market and team and pressure and uniform more than these two. But they won’t even get a look because the owner is sleeping.
Manny Machado was dominant in 2022 for the Padres. He was available, like Harper.
Same thing for J.T. Realmuto on the Phillies. An all-around catcher who has been clutch from the start until November.

The Yankees are a piece of burned toast that has been burning for over a decade. They’re irrelevant and never built for October. Nothing will change in the Bronx anytime soon.

Our pal Hal is why.