Well, Yankees fans, it's time to say goodbye to your $200,000,000 boys of summer. They're dead meat. They were eaten by Tigers.
Those bad boys from Detroit got you. It happens.
Any given week, any team could take three games from another team in a five game series. A win here, a loss there, maybe a bad game, followed by a pitching duel, then one half-inning in a tie game, bam, all of a sudden you've won two, lost three. Happenstance and bad luck aside, this still looks like Boss Tweed getting his wallet lifted on 14th Street at lunchtime.
Let's not sneer at what $105 million buys you these days -- for Detroit it's a trip to the ALCS and a debate on whether a pitcher can win the season MVP trophy. New York's payroll has bought them a rubik's cube of hard questions and sobering facts, among them that Jorge Posada and Brett Gardner and Robinson Cano outhit all Yankees, including Alex Rodriguez, Mark Texeira, Derek Jeter, and Curtis Granderson, four names costing $77 million this year who each failed to hit .300 in this series against the Tigers. In fact Posada, el caballo viejo who spend an agonizing year being prepped for the pasture, had a phenomenal series by going 6 for 14 with 4 walks.
Among the many question are what to do with Posada, what to do with General Manager Brian Cashman, whose contract expires this year, and how to deal with CC Sabathia who may parlay his option into another round of negotations for a price adjustment, and you can guess he won't be asking for less. Cashman and the Yankees went through this before with their most expensive player Rodriguez a few seasons ago and ask any fan in the Bronx today what they think of that deal. O Capitan!
Questions for the Detroit Tigers right now are limited to what time is the bus and what time to we play?
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