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Schadenfreude 284: (A Continuing Series)

The Yankees are in sole possession
of the worst record in the American League
for the first time in 23 years.

In Michael Lewis' legendary book "Moneyball," the protagonist, Billy Beane laments, "My [bleep] doesn't work in the playoffs."

The 2021 Yankees have seen that concept and raised it: Their (bleep) isn't working at all.

What an embarrassing display of baseball Friday night at Yankee Stadium. What a shocking, distressing start to the Yankees' season. This early in the schedule, they are threatening impressively to post the sort of nightmarish campaign, with the attendant consequences, they haven't registered in a generation.