WHY IS SWISHER LOST?

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Nick Swisher is not Nick Swisher. To be honest I’m not sure what has happened to our Yankee hero, but one thing is for sure, in a high pressure cooker of the New York Yankees Universe where fans have no patience and the brass have less, something needs to be done with Nick fast.

The best thing that Girardi has done for our man Swish is sit the guy. Nick needed to sit, reflect, think about things and work with Long. Something’s off, in his head, in his mechanics, something. Maybe those last 2 days of watching and not playing will start to recharge the battery and start a new. Yesterday wasn't great either, but you can't just expect 2 days off will having him slamming homers. Yes, it will take time, but how much time?

All of Yankeeland loves Nick for his animated, fun nature. In fact, we’ve been talking about the popularity of Nick in several posts on BYB, all of which are always the highest read by you guys. WHY WE LOVE SWISH comes to mind including the constant promotion of Beth Hucke’s WE WANT NICK SWISHER TO HOST SNL, the guy is a God to all of us here at Bleeding Yankee Blue. That being said, a slump's a slump and if you keep slumping, fans start to get frustrated and lose interest. Let’s be blunt, losers don’t have fans, winners do and if my man Nick doesn’t start to be Nick, those fans will move onto the next one. It's sad but true and Nick Swisher knows it. In fact, We held a recent poll based on Grant Cederquist’s SWISHER OR ETHIER: THE DEBATE BEGINS and the results are tight, but not surprising...Ethier won the debate which means in a nutshell, if the Bleeding Yankee Blue fans had to choose right now, they'd let Nick Swisher walk. Wow. I was shocked by that. Here are the results:

My point is, the Yankee fans want Swish hitting, not sitting and the toughest part of this scenario is waiting. The worst part for Swish is Mr. Personality needs to work this through on his own, unfortunately, we can't help him. Long can give advice, Swish can take BP, but ultimately there is some type of disconnect between his brain and body and it needs a shock wave to get going.

Personally, I think the sitting will help Nick, he’s not the type that can just sit there and wait for it to happen, but he sure can work through the motions in his head and get the at bats in when needed. Look, if anyone can get through this, Nick Swisher can, after all, as of right now, we’re all behind him, we just want our Swisher back, ASAP.

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