It’s October and not only are the New York Yankees not in the World Series (again), but they didn’t even make the playoffs at all. Spooky baseball circumstances indeed as we cut to every New Yorker, including the crosstown rival Mets fans:
Granted, we’ve grown accustomed to the Mets missing out on October, but the Yankees? That was the late George Steinbrenner’s constant nightmare.
The worst part? Given his penchant for gutting the farm system to make a “win now” trade, he never realized that the call was coming from *gasp* inside the house!