Did you read that headline? Like, really read it? It’s an absurd headline. It sounds disgusting, abominable, distasteful. A cruel mockery of all other Yankee headlines. Out-of-wack, impossible, garbage-for-brains.
And yet, it’s happened before. And it will happen again.
Before the 1993 season, the New York Yankees were a growing, young team in need of veteran leadership. They’d acquired interesting buy-low pieces (Paul O’Neill), their rotation was fronted by an intriguing mix of calm (Jimmy Key) and erratic (Melido Perez), and Bernie Williams was ready to begin his first full season, setting into motion a much-desired youth movement.