ARLINGTON, Texas — Sports fans, real ones, will understand what I’m talking about when I say: Winning teams aren’t the only things lacking from our sporting landscape as 2018 stumbles to a close. The winning is nice, yes, and in the year about to close, the lack of it was noticeable and it was aggravating.
But so was this:
The lack of any real, sustained heartbreak.
That’s how we can include the Yankees in our little sad-sack state of mind. The Yankees, you may recall, were actually good this year — they won 100 games, they actually spent a bit of time in first place in the AL East before the Red Sox started winning every day.