Playoffs

Momentum and the "what has just happened???!" skewed perspective of sports really screws with reality. As in now we're gonna hafta spend the next 48 hours screaming and crying about how the Yankees let a game in which they were down 4-0 after about 11 seconds "get away." 109 wins thrown aside, catastrophe coming, why should the Yankees even show up Saturday night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The reality is that at this very moment there are 28 other teams in the league who would kill to be in the position the Yankees are in...INCLUDING THE VERY TEAM THEY'RE FUCKING PLAYING!!!!!

So calm the fuck down. If we lose, we lose - the Angels aren't here because of some freak accident. But I refuse to play a part in some Wagnerian death-spiral over-hyped panicky nonsense.

Hey, it's a long fucking season. Just yesterday, A-Rod was apologizing to his teammates for taking 'roids and was going into surgery. Next thing you know, he hits the first pitch he sees for a 3-run bomb in Baltimore and the 13-15 Yankees start to warm up.  Then the Yankees slump and play like crap until Girardi gets thrown out of the game in Atlanta, and next thing you know the Jeter Lifetime Award Season has begun, A-Rod is going for 7  rbis in a single inning for the season finale, and the Yankees are up 2-0 in the ALCS. Then Girardi spends 24 hours being the goat of the city and is about to be run outta town until CC Sabathia suddenly makes him a genius again. And now here we are. Let the shit unfold. At exactly NO point during the season if you had asked anyone "how'd you like to be one win away from the World Series?", from Game 1 to game 162,  would they not JUMP at the fucking chance. Camon. Nobody remembers it took the Yankees 6 games to win the ALCS in 1998 and 2000, they just remember they won the World Series.