"You Can't Always Get What You Want"

It Ain't Easy Being thegrowlingwolf
While the Mets were celebrating a most glorious win, the Yankees were losing to the Chicago White Sox--Yanks fourth loss in five games.

The Mets scored 5 runs in the ninth to beat the Cubbies 6-5--ex-Yankee Willie Randolph vs. ex-Yankee Lou Pinella--and two times this week the Cubbies have had big-run leads and gotten whacked in the 9th to lose. Lou's so god-damn mad he's threatening to send the current Cubbies down to Triple A and bring up the best of his Triple A players--could Lou do that, you ask? I suppose if the GM went along with him he could. But the Cubs have a lousy General Manager--general managers: the ruin of modern baseball--and the Cubbies made some really stupid trades in the near and distant past--but then the Cubbies weren't created to ever win a World Series ever again after 1908 when they beat the Tigers for the flag--since then the Cubbies have been cursed--and unlike the Red Sox, unable to break their curse. Maybe Lou can do it, but Lou's suffering the same frustrations as his Yankee manager replacement Joe Torre is with the slumbering, lumbering, losing Yankees this year. On the computer screen Joe sees the potential offense he has--the first game of the year the Yankees were what they were supposed to be for the whole year--totally dominating on the mound and at the plate--but on the field and in the games Joe sits stunned watching reality--stunned beyond redemption--Joe's only hope is now for a holy-roller miracle--maybe having to bring his nun sister to the ball games--exorcise the F-ing stadium. Maybe the ghosts of the old Yankees are cursing this new bunch who are getting a new modern stadium that is the house the Mafia is building and a house Babe Ruth will have absolutely nothing to do with building.

Very soon for the Yanks that first game proved to be a fluke and from that game on it's been the scariest Yankee team I've seen in quite a long time. This team--supposedly the best money can buy--looks like total losers--this is the worst Yankees start since the one they came from a host of games down, was it 11 or so, to take over first place to not lose it again--but the team they chased and caught was the Baltimore Orioles who everybody knew wasn't going to be able to keep up the ferocious start they got that year--13-0 or something whacky lucky like that--but this year it's the Boston Red Sox, the best team in baseball at the moment, who they're chasing, already, after today's loss, 9 games behind Boston in the loss column--at this rate they are chasing Boston by taking two steps backwards and then hopefully one step forward every now and then.

The Yankees are now going over to Shea tomorrow to play the Mets in a 3-game series--and then Monday, the Red Sox come to Yankee Stadium for 3 games--and this sextet of games will tell the tale on the Yankees this year--if they are swept by both the Mets and the BoSox, the Yankees would be 15 games behind Boston. Adios Yankees for this year; also adios Joe Torre; also adios Ron Guidry (a terrible pitching coach); also maybe adios A-Rod--his option is up this year; and adios for sure Abreu--what a joke he is this year; and adios Johnny Damon--he's totally worthless this year--no help at all; and adios Jason Giambi--totally worthless this year; and they'll built a new team around Jeter--keeping Cano, Cabrera, Matsui, Posada, and add on from there--I'd even trade Matsui if I were the Yankees general manager. And I would certainly dump the whole pitching staff and start anew with young promising pitchers and then trade all of the has-beens, Mussina, Pettite, Pavanno, Valone, maybe even Mariano Rivera in case he is washed up--and pick up one of those up and coming superstar pitchers from the Red Sox or from the Chicago White Sox or somebody. [Yes, I noticed Randy Johnson struck out nine in his first MLB appearance with the D-backs t'other day.]

That's a scary 6 games coming up for the Yanks. Beating the Mets will be hard enough--I think the Yanks may spring the Rocket on the Mets--but in the first game against the Mets the Yanks are pitching this Rasher kid or whatever the hell his name is--he's pitched two great games lately but he's also capable of giving up 8 runs in one inning like he did when he first came up from Double A ball to become a MLB starter. I've never seen a sadder Yankees team than this one--and I go back to the Major Houk days when the Yankees couldn't finish for the life of them above .500.

Baseball is one of my relished entertainments--I hate losers, too, so I hate to see my season end so soon--though I still have the Mets (Yankee fans are never supposed to admit they like the Mets even if they do) and Willie Randolph and that well-put together offense Willie's got. I'll watch the Mets if the Yankees end in Chaos--like if they're 15 behind the BoSox after Wednesday night--hell yeah, I'll watch some National League ball. Yankees fans would never go to another American League team to root--HELL NO. F the American League.

I got my Mojo bone out. Hope it's workin'.

thegrowlingwolf
for The Daily Growler