The Basement View

Last night was a game that George Steinbrenner would personally address the team, Michael King and Nick Nelson would receive the first bus ticket out of the Bronx, and Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman would be in the papers with their jobs hanging in the balance. I have watched every single Yankee game this season, I’ve watched about 80% of the action in the games (sometimes forgetting the time the game started or the YES app buffering for an inning and a half), last night I turned the game off after the bottom of the 5 th . I had enough. The fans also had enough when they started throwing balls back onto the field in the 8 th inning with the collective asking the same question the Bombers themselves are asking: “why is this happening and how can it be fixed?” Like the balls returning into the field of play last night in the bottom of the 8 th , blame has been thrown around in every direction. The offense is anemic with little to no ability to drive in runs without hoping to run into a...

  The daily soap opera is officially back; here’s a taste: Bellinger’s first homer of the season was a single, a cat that looked like a Gameof Thrones animal delayed the Rockies game, Nick Castellanos got suspended for a standard dunk celebration, Jacob deGrom was taken out of the Mets opener which he was dominating after throwing 77 pitches, and the extra inning rule snake bit the Yankees, twice… On the topic of the new rules, the extra inning rule has been under the microscope the most in the first week. This rule seems to be here to stay along with seven inning double headers, with the universal DH, no shifting, and larger bases following at the end of the season. I’ve talked a lot about the casual fans experience over the past year since the public fight over money happened in the papers last summer. With the new rules, most fans brushed off the changes as “pandemic rules,” and now that they are seemingly here to stay, are not happy about it . So, with the uneasiness to chan...