Whenever I’m slightly objective about the Yankees, I’m branded nouns unsuitable for family programming — particularly on Twitter, the toxic waste of human dialogue.
Well, then I’m writing this in my HAZMAT suit.
The Bronx Bombers are bristling at the idea of paying Alex Rodriguez $6 million for hitting his 660th homer. And while you won’t find much sympathy for the disgraced third basemen in this weekly space, the Yankees are either being obdurate or childish, or childishly obdurate.
Nine guys from the 2000 World Series team were on the Mitchell Report, but we celebrate the Joe Torre days like a puritanical time, like the Boys of Summer, when the game of baseball was a stand-alone emblem of virtue.