WHEN IT COMES TO THE YANKEES, LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY...

Are you mentally checked out? Let me put it to you this way: Have you stopped investing time and money in the 2023 Yankees? I am looking for a series to stream and other hobbies to occupy my time between now and the World Series. I ran over 130 miles in the month of July, can I do 150 in August? Where will you allocate your time now that the Yankees have sent a message that they are no longer competing? Honestly, I don't even know if they are building.

Source: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports

"There was no enormous trade-deadline splash in The Bronx on Tuesday. No 6 p.m. gasp at Yankee Stadium when a game-changing trade hit social media or lit up the pre-game blather on the scoreboard. No thunderous bat for left field. No starter who might replace the struggling Luis Severino or even just add insurance to the pinstriped rotation," reported Yahoo Sports.

Just status quo. Nothing brewing. No sense of urgency. They have given up. And therefore, so have I. Work is a lot. Plenty of other things to do than watch the Yankees piss their talent and season away. Just need to figure out what to do with all my newly opened calendar space.

According to CBS Sports, "The last place Yankees -- made two minor trades at the deadline, picking up relievers Keynan Middleton and Spencer Howard in separate deals, and that's it. They neither bought nor sold, and they didn't address their season-long left field problem either." 

"We're in it to win it. We stayed the course because of that," GM Brian Cashman said after the trade deadline. "This was the best play for us with the team we have, still within striking distance," reported CBS Sports. Are they serious? What world are they living in? And it must be nice to simply not care and get paid a lot of money to not care.

"The trade deadline makes you wonder whether anyone upstairs, specifically Cashman and owner Hal Steinbrenner, has a grasp on reality and the team's current situation. Are they honest with their self-evaluation? Do they understand they have an aging roster and have struggled to finish off the development of their young players at the MLB level, or that the other four teams in the AL East are on the rise? They're so sure of themselves even though the team on the field inspires no confidence," reported CBS Sports.

The Yankees have been coasting since 2009, living off their prior wins and complacent with where they are. They are not racing toward anything. They are stuck in the salary mud, with deadbeat, used to be players not interested in doing anything but giving us lip service that they are trying.

Let's put it this way...if the Mets are two years out from having a championship team, unloading key fixtures in Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander to AL teams that are contending, where are the Yankees? Three years, four years out? What are they doing to improve? 2023 was a disaster but unless the Yankees are going to have a hard look at that themselves in the mirror will 2024 be any different? 

--Suzie Pinstripe
BYB Senior Managing Editor
Twitter: @suzieprof