There’s nothing that places me in a very good temper fairly like the primary 24 hours after Yankee Elimination Day! Birds (in all probability Blue Jays) are singing, the leaves are turning a wealthy tapestry of colours, and there’s extra playoff baseball on the best way at present that doesn’t contain the Yankees. (Simply typing that out put a smile on my face!)
It’s not simply me both — Individuals throughout baseball are celebrating Yankee misfortunate. Right here’s a few of my favorites, beginning with David Ortiz and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. celebrating on the Fox postgame present final night time, whereas A-Rod and Derek Jeter had been compelled to simply awkwardly sit there and watch:
Ortiz additionally introduced hats to additional spice issues up:
In the meantime, within the Blue Jays clubhouse:
Contained in the stadium, Yankee followers had been leaving the sport early earlier than the ultimate out was even recorded as a result of they didn’t wish to be a part of the Yankee Elimination Day festivities once more.
On-line, Blue Jays followers had been reminding Michael Kay of when he chided them this summer time for “hanging on the rim” after they swept New York and moved into first place in July. Looks like that collection was extra of a harbinger than Kay gave it credit score for.
Our personal Fitzy Mo Pena additionally gave some insightful commentary on how the Fox broadcast dealt with issues.
I’m actually, actually glad he introduced this up. The Yankee honks within the media are so anxious to shift the narrative round Aaron Decide within the postseason that the push again comes off as compelled and in the end inaccurate. You’ll be able to’t write the script in October, solely the baseball gods can, and so they like to make folks appear to be idiots. For now, Decide’s most memorable postseason second stays his dropped fly ball in the World Series last year.
(Now, to be honest. Was Decide good this October? Sure. Was that three-run bomb a candy second for Decide and the Yankees? Additionally sure! Was it clutch? Completely! Is it going to stay the best way it could have if the Yankees made it a lot additional into the postseason? Hell no! Higher luck subsequent yr.)
In the meantime, the trolling on-line from each nook of the sports activities world continued.
However beneath all of the enjoyable, we’re truly additionally getting near the bone of a problem that has some large stakes as Max Mannis touches on under.
Legacies are on the road for a bunch of massive identify Yankees as we transfer into the following couple of seasons. The final time the Yankees gained a 5 or seven sport playoff collection towards a crew that wasn’t within the AL Central was within the 2012 ALDS towards the Orioles. They simply haven’t come via in October in a monumental method in additional than a half a technology now, and if it doesn’t change quickly, it would perpetually outline this group.
Let’s simply put it this manner: George Steinbrenner died in 2010 and so they haven’t gained the World Collection since 2009. You’ll be able to say what you need about how his schtick would play within the trendy MLB panorama, however a zero within the World Collection column since his dying is a evident quantity for the Yankees and what they’ve develop into as a franchise.
And what makes every little thing right here much more compelling is these important and defining seasons forward for the Yankee core come simply because the Crimson Sox are on the rise and the Blue Jays stamp their supremacy on the AL East in 2025. (Who is aware of, perhaps Toronto even walks away with the World Collection trophy this yr.)
Yankees followers considered the Wild Card collection win towards the Crimson Sox as a giant turning level of their battle to beat Boston in any large second since 2004. This was speculated to be their breakthrough. However in the meantime, Crimson Sox followers see their younger, thrilling core and assume they’re on the verge of a brand new period after failing to complete with a greater common season report than the Yankees in any yr since 2018 (they tied in 2021). This can be a conflict ready to occur, and all of it comes with the Blue Jays flying excessive of it. What a wild few years we’re in retailer for within the AL East!
And that’s all earlier than we even get to the Cam Schlittler layer of this. After telling Crimson Sox followers to “begin getting ready for the Bruins” season final week, Crimson Sox followers had been coming again at him final night time.
Now to be honest, Schlittler additionally made his background black and gold this morning, so he’s sadly charming and will get it.
Upon seeing all of this, I can’t look forward to the primary time Hunter Dobbins and Cam Schlittler get matched up towards one another. That degree of theater is field workplace materials.
In different phrases, the Crimson Sox vs. Yankee rivalry is as robust proper now because it’s been in years. So glad Yankee Elimination Day to all who rejoice, and regulate the place all of that is going. Subsequent yr might be fairly a trip!
