One of the reasons I find it hard to not like Gerrit Cole is that his utter lack of sauce, as Bradford William Davis so succinctly put it, is completely in earnest. The man loves bone marrow! Who can forget the sheer deer-in-the-headlights expression we’d all probably make if we were directly confronted about cheating (via sticky-stuff) as he was. Cole being Cole is simply a hilarious presence. Smack talking has taken many forms over many centuries, but it’s been four days and I’m still not sure what, exactly, dear Gerrit thought this was going to look like as he walked back into the dugout after retiring the side in the seventh inning of the Yankees 3-1 win over the Mariners on Tuesday.
Yankees Sequence of the Week: Gerrit Cole pointedly retires José Caballero (6/19)
