This has been an unbearable and unwatchable stretch of baseball from the New York Yankees. The time of patience in the media and during broadcasts is over, and the ugly numbers are constantly being repeated. After another quiet loss last night, they’re 2-9 in their last 11 games, and they have the second-worst record in the American League since the All-Star break at 8-17.
And yet the Yankees still have a 10-game division lead over the Toronto Blue Jays, the preseason favorites to easily take the crown. Luckily for the moribund Yankees, the Jays are stuck in a miserable stretch of their own and the Rays just passed them for second in the AL East at nine back of New York.