With unbridled schadenfreude, I ridiculed the Yankees for failing to make it to the World Series again. Most notably, I pointed out the folly of continuing to spend so much for so little.
In “October Woes Continue for the Yankees. Time to Play ‘Moneyball,’ October 24, 2019, I quoted the following to highlight this recurring folly:
No storyline in ‘As the Yankees Turn’ provides more off-season fascination than watching the Yankees spend obscene amounts of money to lure the best players to New York only to have them play – during the critical October pennant race and World Series – as if they were bought with phony dollar bills.
(“Yankees Return to Their Losing Ways…,” The iPINIONS Journal, October 26, 2010)
Sure enough, here they go again:
Prized free-agent pitcher Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees have agreed to a record nine-year, $324 million contract. …
Cole, 29, the runner-up to teammate Justin Verlander for the AL Cy Young Award, was dominant in 2019, posting a 20-5 record in the regular season as the Houston Astros led the majors with 107 wins.
(ESPN, December 11, 2019)
Talk about throwing good money after bad. But here’s to the New York Daily News for summing up this off-season folly with this play on a seasonal idiom:
All signs point to Yankees wanting it to be a happy holiday by getting … a Cole in their stocking!
(November 29, 2019)
Ho Ho Ho…?
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