Pride Of The Yankees? Nowhere To Be Seen in 2013

“This whole season has been a nightmare.”  -Derek Jeter

 

     The 2013 New York Yankees are just abysmal at best, by their standards, and now it seems that the whole team is throwing in the towel on this season.  Mark Texieria is out for the season, Curtis Granderson might not return, Michael Pinedia is questionable for return, and now Derek Jeter is out indefeinately.  Injuries have killed Mariano Riveria’s curtain call season, and to add insult to injury, Alex Rodriguez has brought a black cloud over the franchise with his steroid use and now suspension that may turn into a lifetime ban. 

     Alex Rodriguez is the biggest phony, not only in all of baseball, but all of sports.  We may never know how long he’s actually been on the juice. It is a fact,  since his time with Texas around 2003, as we all saw his crocodile tears to Katie Couric.  After the whole Barry Bonds fiasco, A-Rod was supposed to return integrity to the game, and crush the home run record honestly and truthfully, not make it worse..  Well, now that we see that he is just as full of shit as Bonds, if not more, the fans are stuck wondering just how credible baseball players really are.  How does this appeal, and quick few games that he is gonna play, help out his team?  There's the selfishness right there.

      Along with the syringes he used, he flushed almost all of his 600+ home runs down the toilet.  And now the fans are probably going to have to wait a lifetime before another player will even come close to the record.  And when that player does, we will be left with the suspicion of steroid use.  Thank you Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens, and Rafael Palmerio.  Your selfishness, and lack of integrity has lead to such a black eye for baseball, it’s probably going to take over a decade to get over, if not longer.

       For all of this to happen in Mariano Riveria’s final season, is just even more upsetting.  Riveria will go down in the record books as the greatest closer in Major League history, and for A-Rod’s drug use to put such a big damper on it, is really sad and very devastating.  Riveria is nothing but a class act, and such a wonderful guy, and he won’t be able to walk off in the sunset because of this “nightmare” of a season.

      The ship is sinking thanks to a big hole caused by A-Rod, and the captain (Jeter) and the rest of the ship’s crew are to hurt to keep it floating, and now it looks like everyone is about to abandon when the season is over.  I’m sure the fans that hate the Yankees, and God knows there’s a lot of ‘em, are watching and enjoying every moment of it.  Well, enjoy it while it lasts.  Now that the Yankees don’t have to pay Rodriguez’s ridiculous salary of $28 million dollars a year, they are going to go on a spending spree next year in the offseason.  That’s what they do, we all know it, and your welcome for the horror show that is happening in the Bronx. 

     This disaster will not last and hopefully the damn Yankees can put the pieces back together soon.  I thank God everyday that I’m a Yankee fan, but this is going to be tough to endure and move past.  Riveria is gone after this year, It’s going to take a lot of money to keep Cano in New York, and almost half the team will be free agents at the end of the season. Jeter will never be the same player he was, and the upper management is going to have to figure out what sort of direction they want to point the team towards.

     We will never see another player like Jeter, or Riveria again, so the Yankees need to find an identity and leader that they can put front and center, and honestly, I believe that player is in Colorado wearing number 2.  Troy Tulowitzki was given such an outlandish contract, that the Yankees are really the only team that can afford it.  The Rockies have plenty of run support and hitting power without him, but have never had a decent bullpen, or quality starting pitching to really become a legitimate contender in the NL west.  The Yankees have a great farm system, and have the pitching to put a significant offer on the table. 

     No, the Rockies may not get the same kind of value of a player like Tulo, 20+ home runs on a yearly basis, but Tulo hasn’t played a full length season in over 3 years, missing at least 50 games a year since he signed the long term extension in 2010.  The Yankees and Rockies have a good trade relationship, and since the Rox upper management doesn’t really give a shit about what the fans want, this deal could most certainly happen.

     The Rockies need any sort of decent pitching, whether it’d be starting or a bullpen that doesn’t constantly blow leads.  The Yankees have pitching, and also have the money to buy it, and trade it away, which they have done before.  (Cone, Wells)  Kuroda has pitched well at Coors Field, and would be a tremendous asset for the Rockies’ starting rotation.  But the Yankees would have to give up more, and probably need to throw David Robertson, an All Star relief pitcher in the mix to go along with another pitching prospect, and 2 position players from AAA.  The Rockies would have almost no choice but to give up Tulo.  Then, in the offseason, the Rox can sign Justin Morneau at first, and pick up a veteran SS along the way.  The Rockies would still have a solid lineup after that to keep around the true heart of the franchise, Carlos Gonzalez, and have veteran pitching The Yankees could then put Tulo at third base, and rotate him at third, shortstop, and DH, to keep him healthy, but we’ll wait and see what happens.

     In the meantime let’s all bid adieu to A-Rod, as Major League Baseball erases him from their record books, and makes his past as non-existent as his future.  See what happens to cheaters kids?