And I love that whenever I think of baseball cards I can instantly smell the chalky gum.

…I switched to watching Investigation Discovery Channel – was hoping to see an episode about who or what poisoned the Yankees offense!

And consider the young and exciting players whom you cite: Joba is surely not at all fun to watch, especially as the organization appears to have un-developed him with their crack young pitching prospect development plan (the same one that has made the even younger Phil Hughes un-fun to watch). Pineda—who is that? Oh yeah, he’s the guy they traded their one blue chip prospect for, the one homegrown prospect with whom many of us had developed that irrational bond. I have no connection to Puneda. Maybe I would have had he not suffered from a catastrophic injury, which may prevent him from pitching effectively again. Gritner is already 28—he’s not young, though he is exciting. DRob is already 27 and was the EIGTH INNING GUY before assuming the closer role and getting hurt. Maybe it’s me, but I don’t get that excited about relief pitchers.

So, when your “young” and “exciting” players are 27 and 28 already, and are hurt, you’re not talking about a very exciting ball club, at least in this regard.

The only player I am interested in at this point is Jeter…he’s the only player that interests me on a visceral level, even when he plays poorly. Just like Mattingly back in the day, he’s the only player whose stat line I anticipate seeing in the box score every morning.

I think they are boring because they are underperforming. It’s boring to watch ARod rarely drive the ball… boring to watch Teix suck in almost every way… boring to not see Cano do amazing things with the bat. It was NOT boring watching Grandy late last year, or Jeter early this year.

I don’t think the players themselves are boring. I just think the way they are playing is boring. I mean, weak grounders, DPs and non-stop RISP fail are ‘boring’ to watch.

They have more interesting players on the DL than most franchises have in their entire system.

They’ve been frustrating but this isn’t a horrible team. Flawed, for sure. And this might be one year where Cashman has to do some something to shake things up. But it could be far, far worse. This isn’t the late ’60s Yanks or the 1990 Yanks or even the 1987-88 Yanks.

Long time left. A good week or two and we’ll have more faith.

Never have I been more sick of it than when I watched ARod break into his “I’m wonderful” dance for a shot to the warning track. Jesus. Put your head down and run, fancy boy!

And it’s nearly the end of May and our best hitter is Raul Ibanez!? Boy was I wrong about that one. That is the only move keeping us out of the cellar!!

Definitely Hard to Watch.

We like it when they win and they hit and pitch. We don’t like it when they lose and make outs. Some of us take our frustrations out on the manager and his lineups, some of us on the GM and his roster, and some on the players and their slumps.

And when they start winning, we’ll be psyched and make up reasons about why we’ve come around on the team just in time to enjoy the streak.

I wonder what we would have said about the ’78 Yanks if the Internet had existed back then.

Hopefully there is a few more weeks of exciting NY hockey, and then the attention will return to the Yankees. Maybe things will have turned around by then. I remain a fan for life, but I can’t let this team get in the way of instead of enhancing life. We’ll see.

But this team is dullsville.

Maybe when their most exciting young position player comes back, the 28 y.o. Brett Gardner, they’ll be slightly more interesting.

And I’ve watched some pretty hopeless teams.

While it was to be expected, Jeter has cooled down (in an early 2011 way) over the last 2 weeks, and his OPS and dropped .130 pts.

Swisher, since coming back, has lost about .100 OPS pts.

Grandy is still hitting well, but has also dropped a bit.

Basically, aside from Raoooooooooooooooool and Robbie, everyone has been shit the last 10 days.

And now CC has a mini-meltdown, and a slump busting Win turns into a loss.

I have been at this a loooooooong time, and am not a bridge jumper.
But Holy Shite….. this is not just ugly, but depressing.
When I ewatch games now, as opposed to expecting the Yanks to Win, I just hope they don’t lose. Semantics? Maybe… but this team is missing something. They are actually playing like losers. It’s like watching vintage KC teams over the last decade…. just waiting for the ball to drop.

I need a serious Winning streak here, because this team is so depressing now, they are hard to watch.