Dear Yankees fans
I know times have been tough , frustrating , agerevating , disappointing, basically all the type of words you can use for mad, but we need to come together here.
Since July 26th when Judge went down , we have been in a tough stretch of mediocrity, but especially these couple of weeks .
We have faced the White Sox , A’s , Tigers , and the lowly Twins , and have gone 7-9 .
Everything just came down out of nowhere, and that has cost us mightily in the standings .
As I write this on (9/14 /18), we are about to lose the AL East , we so desperately coveted in the beginning of the year especially if it was going to be the Red Sox in second .
But now , we are 10.5 games out with 16 to go, and now the Wild card race , has forced us to stop looking up at Boston, and get that big heat off our necks , the Oakland Athletics.
We are basically a “ Hunk of junk” playoff team if we have to go play the Oakland Athletics in. Oakland for the Wild card game , especially after the way we played there last week.
Being only 1.5 games up over Oakland , and with a record of 90-56, we should be nervous, but proud .
Proud of the way , that this team, has somehow, stayed ahead of the A’s ( Who have been red hot since really the start of July) , for this long even after Judge went down . How this team has not entirely collapsed, and are playing mediocre baseball. How the new guys including Happ , and Mccutchen have helped us right away even though it is hard to adjust in a new environment especially if it’s the New York Yankees.
Proud of how the rookies Andujar, and Torres have carried the team lately , despite Giancarlo Stanton being in a slump.
I know a lot of you guys have pointed at manager Aaron Boone for all of this , but I just don’t think that we should place so much negativity on our manager.
Ok yes, I know he is not Joe Girardi, or Joe Torre, but he is our manager, and even though sometimes he might make some questionable decisions that almost , or lost some of the Yankees games this year , some of this blame needs to head to the players as well.
Sonny Gray , seems to have lost that” I’m one of the best pitchers in this league “ mentality , the bullpen ( minus Betances , Robertson, and Brittion who have been great ( in Delin) , or at least solid pitchers since Aroldis went down ) seem lost without closer Aroldis Chapman, even though we know the bullpen is better then this , CC Sabathia, , , and Luis Severino are in slumps for the ages , even though Severino showed signs of life on Wednesday night in Minnesota .
Gary Sanchez has forgotten how to catch , and overall our offense has gone missing.
Ok now that we got all that out , let’s relax and look ahead , take a deep breath everyone , for what I am about to tell you.
It’s ok .
It’s ok that this is happening, because if you squint you will see some satisfaction in this team , that they are going to be fine .
The reason why they are going to be ok is because this stretch , the final 16 games , and the playoffs, is what they have been auditioning for the whole season!
You see them , when they really need to , they come out hard , they are one of those teams , that needs something to motivate them enough to play their hearts out .
No they don’t need talks from Aaron Boone , or Larry Roschild.
They need the spotlight, sure the pressure has been on the Yankees this whole year especially after the Judge injury, but if we are being honest , that was “ Auditions” this is the real deal, this is the real spotlight , this is our time !
Not only from the players , but us fans as well, we need to rise up together, just like last year, when the crowd in the Bronx turned the clock back to 2009, or better yet, the old stadium, I was lucky to be
there multiple times last year , to experience that , it was great !
Even though this year isn’t last year , and even though we are one of the top teams in the MLB this year in attendance, we can improve!!!!
Look at the Dodgers fans , every game is a playoff game to their fans , they are a packed house like every night !
Are we going to sit back and let the Dodgers be better than us?
Last year in the playoffs, a strikeout brought the crowd in the Bronx to their feet , or even two strikes on the opposing hitter !
Especially in the Wild card game last season, Luis Severino departed , Chad Green got two strikes on the next hitter , and all of a sudden , after that strike out , it was like we were back in the game , even before that huge 3 run blast by Didi Gregorius.
Let’s start from tonight against Toronto, build that up , instead of booing our players , let’s keep our heads up , give them a pat on the back , give them some courage, because they need it more then ever right now !
You saw last year , how our noise affected the players on the field , for the other team , it put a scare into them , for the Yankees it motivated them , and they went 6-0 at home!
Want proof from this year , oh I’ll give you proof , Yankees, Red Sox in May in the Bronx , boom! Felt like a playoff crowd , and you saw how it affected the guys on the field, especially late in the game !
I don’t care , if it isn’t the Red Sox , we need to show that intensity now from pitch one , and it starts tonight against the Toronto Blue jays in the Bronx !
I need to see some energy out there!
Some passion, some belief !
This team is a group of youngsters , so they need some motivation to power there way through , so let’s get out there , and let’s go rip those Jays, and the rest of the league apart!!!!!!!
Lets do this !!!!
LETS GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!
Tonight:
Blue Jays vs Yankees
Game time 7:05
Marco Estrada vs Masahiro Tanaka!
Let’s do this !!!!!
Love Marvin Azrak
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