"There are few things that are more American than the New York Yankees..."
Ok... Ok... Maybe that's not
totally true... But hold on, think about it though. If you lived in America's most famous city, you'd come home from school drop your backpack, grab your mit and your bat and then you'd head to the sandlot with your pals and pretend you were the next Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle. You'd hit dingers and make spectacular plays till the streetlights came on. Momma would come looking for and then you'd have supper, go to bed and do the same thing everyday you could.
Yes... That my friends
was the American dream...
...Until this guy decided to get old and call it quits.
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What's that? We still have A-Rod? Well... erm... you're not
wrong... But let's be honest here, is he really a legend for all the same reasons that guys like Derek Jeter, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Mariano Rivera and Whitey Ford are?
Hell no, boys and girls.
The Yankees don't have legends anymore. They don't have homegrown stars. They don't win championships. Folks, it's clear that something has gone wrong here! I know It's often been said that the Yankees don't rebuild. Look where that has gotten us since 2009 when they last took it all:
Something has gone wrong here. For any other team in the league, this mediocre record might be OK. But for the New York Yankees, that simply isn't good enough. Things have got to change. We've get to go back to the basics here: scouting, drafting, developing, bankrolling...
For those of you looking for a 162 game recap, this isn't where you'll find it. No... This is the story of how America's most historic sports franchise (Not the Dallas Cowboys, sorry Texas) saved itself from the depths of mediocrity to which it had fallen. This is the mostly untrue, but slightly true story of how the Yankees went from raging dumpster fire to the latest rendition of "The Evil Empire."
A-Rod will be blamed for everything that goes wrong, coaches will be fired for no good reason and loads money will be spent because we can.
Let us go now to Tampa...