BRITTON'S A YANKEE & WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE NO LONGER IMPORTANT

Photo: USA Today

It was a stealth move by Brian Cashman and a suggestion made by non-baseball insider Mike Lupica.  We wrote about it the other day on Bleeding Yankee Blue in a piece titled LUPICA SAYS MAYBE IT SHOULD BE ZACH BRITTON...

And then it actually happened.

I must point out that Lupica is a non-baseball insider because it's the baseball insiders that typically throw all kinds of crap at the wall and see how many clicks they get. Lupica has a following, this is true, but he's not looking for all that garbage.  He's looking for quality.  One of the last good ones I must say.  After all... what the publications like the New York Daily News, Newsday, New York Post don't seem the realize that in their haste to cut back on solid sports writers salaries... they have cut the meat and quality from their sports pages as well. In other words, they are killing themselves.  I'm a sports reader. But me and thousands of others have no reason to go to those newspapers anymore as long as guys like Harper, Marchand, Klapisch and Matthews are gone.  Now sure, the icons like Davidoff and Caldera are still there in their respected publications, but it's them I seek, not their companies pages.  Lupica is still kicking, but reality will tell you that these guys, all of them, have the following because of their quality of work... not because the paper has backed them.  In this day and age, these genius and witty writers can run the table by putting out independent columns and tweet them to their fans.  To hell with big time papers.  Truth be told, I told both Wally and Marchand when they first were released from their respected papers that if they ever want to write a guest column on BYB... they can. Why? Because they are iconic in New York and it would be an honor.

Why am I telling you this? Simple. I didn't find that Lupica nugget about Zach Britton because I wanted to read the Daily News.  I read it because I wanted to read Lupica.  Point being... these papers, while saving a few bucks are losing readers rapidly and they are too stupid to realize that.  All because some big wig in a corner office can get their bonus at the end of the year because he kept costs down.  Whatever man.  Remember this... it's the people that make the sports stories great... never the paper.

Anyway... where am I? Oh yeah... Zach Britton is a Yankee. Lupica had it first last week... here's my man Jack Curry of YES now.

Britton to Yankees is a done deal, says @JonHeyman. Dillon Tate is reportedly one of the players the Yankees will send to the Orioles. https://t.co/quE0w8sH3B

— Jack Curry (@JackCurryYES) July 25, 2018

It's a big deal.  Remember Dillon Tate? Yes... he's now gone.

Yanks bolstered their pen even more.  And now Yankee starters don't need to go 7 innings... they can go 5... or 4, depending on the day.

Nice move Cash.  I wonder if there will be more. Stay tuned.