WHERE SHERMAN GETS THE YANKEE LOSS WRONG

Joel Sherman is a good Yankees writer, but he used his own personal "incident" with Joe Girardi last night to ignite anger among Yankee fans and today's column and missing the entire point of what the Yankees were angry about.  The Yankees never blamed last night's loss on Jerry Meals.  They blamed it on not continuing the game momentum BECAUSE Jerry Meals. It's frustrating and in life, if you've ever pushed hard for something you wanted badly and it was then taken away from you, you'd understand that. Sherman doesn't. But let me back it up for a second...

Sherman wrote the following, after he explained that even he could agree that Meals blew that call:

"...you know what was even more ludicrous last night: The Yankees blaming this loss on an umpire and not what transpired up to and including that play.

Meals did not throw one pitch for CC Sabathia, an ace in memory right now. He did not take a single swing for Nick Swisher or Curtis Granderson, two guys killing the lineup. And, by the way, if Meals gets the call right the score is 5-5. You think the Yankees as they are playing right now definitely win?

Like the entire 10-game lead they have blown the setback last night is the responsibility of the Yankees..."

(In Photo: Jerry Meals)

(Read Sherman's column HERE.) Everything Sherman is saying is true, and you know who knows that more than anyone? The Yankees.  The Yankees know they haven't played up to par lately.  Twitter blew up last night, not because Jerry Meals "lost the game" as Sherman writes, fans were frustrated because it's the worst way to end a game when the Yankees had a last ditch effort to make something happen. That's it, don't read more into it than it is.  I guess Sherman decided to hide in a corner after his tussle with Joe Girardi and ignore every other Yankee player who stated they were bummed out with the game and "their play".

I mean, did you hear Sabathia Joel? He didn't blame anyone but himself.  What you wrote is a cheap shot and you're using your incident to make waves...it's kind of silly.

Sherman takes a shot at the Yankees in this column, probably because he was man-handled by Girardi last night.  Whatever, it's his column, he has the right to do that, I can't blame him. But I gotta tell you, everyone was anticipating what "really happened" last night between Sherman and Girardi, yet, we still don't know. What was the question Joel asked? What really happened?

All I know is Sherman asked a some kind of question and Joe got heated.  Why? And for the record, do you blame Joe for getting heated? The dude manages the Yankees, he lost a 10 game lead in the AL East and the Yankees are struggling... PLUS, Jerry Meals made a horrendous call last night... it was a pile on, at least that's the way the Yankees and Yankee fans saw it. Anyone from the outside looking in could tell you that, but sometimes writers like to make more than it really is.

My take on this is simple, these guys are writers, they should write, not slant.  Just because Sherman got barked at last night doesn't mean the Yankees are blaming this entire loss and slump on Jerry Meals, that's ridiculous.  Be a writer, don't be biased against them.

And let me go further. Jon Heyman of CBS Sports acted like a child last night on Twitter, yet when I even asked him if he knew what happened with Sherman and Girardi, he never Tweeted back...twit.  Yeah, that's a familiar tactic by 80% of the sports writers out there. They like to tweet un-needed facts to twitter followers, and then, if the fans have questions, they move on only to review how many retweets they received later.  Out of frustration, I simply wrote Heyman this tweet last night:

He responded with this tweet below... Oh, so witty.

UM...I'm a Yankee blog, I'm a Yankee fan. If that's a sarcastic shot at "little me" because I write about my favorite team and you tweet tidbits that no one cares about...know this; I am biased, I've never denied that, and if you can't tell by the name of my website BleedingYankeeBlue.com, we have bigger problems. But let's be clear, I'm also pretty fair and all our BYB readers know that, plus, we actually interact, we don't sit on a throne and act like we're the King of the Castle. I call it like it is.  Why that gets away from some of the reporters who draw lines in the sand in their "unbiased" reporting if something I'll never truly understand. That's why I love guys like Pete Caldera of the Bergen Record, he's the man! Keep it up Pete.

But back to my point. The Yankees lost because the Yankees have slumped and they've done it to themselves, NO ONE is denying that, even the Yankees will tell you that.  Jerry Meals? He just piled on last night and made it worse.  That was the reason the Yankees and Girardi got upset, but Joel Sherman may have been feverishly writing his column at that point and missing what every other player was talking about.

Sure Meals added to the misery, but the Yankees know this is on them...and you know who knows that best? The fans. Sorry Joel, you missed.

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