The Yankees aren’t the Yankees anymore, except in name.
This isn’t about the team failing to win, let alone reach a World Series since 2009. It isn’t even about owner Hal Steinbrenner’s years-long indifference to general manager Brian Cashman’s growing incompetence.
No, it is about that for a team that makes such a show and fuss of pomp and circumstance every offseason about how powerful the Yankees are; how this is a team built to win a World Series; how this is a great and excitable Yankees team, everything falls short to the point where the system has become automatic.