If the Yankees launch their 2016 championship quest as scheduled Monday, it’ll occur in nasty conditions. Wet. Windy. Chilly.
Not ideal when you’re trying to cure a hangover.
Then again, it’ll take more than a day to move past what the Yankees are experiencing. This condition calls for a treatment that can take multiple years to fully work through the system. This is a rare case of dynasty hangover.
“It’s very hard to replace icons like Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Andy Pettitte, [Jorge] Posada, Paul O’Neill, because people were with them for a decade or more,” Yankees president Randy Levine said Friday in a telephone interview.