These Games Count Just As Much, But It Still Is May

I was going to start off by quoting something Suzyn Waldman said on the radio yesterday, but making fun of her is too easy.

So I'll make fun of some guy I met walking to my car from the train today. I wear a hat everyday, and for a while now the one most worn in my collection has been this disgusting Yankees hat. It's disgusting because how dirty it looks not because it is simply a Yankees hat, it's no longer navy blue, and looks like I spilled gasoline all over it. Anyways, since I wear it regularly I get a pretty good amount of Yankee chatter from Dads as we walk to our cars. Sometimes it's nice, like when Melky hit the game winning homer, a Dad informed me. Sometimes it's kind of annoying, like today.

So as usual this dad starts up a mini Yankee convo, I'm wearing a Yankee hat, I must be a Yankee fan, that assumption was correct. He's wrong to assume I share his plight in how the team is doing. He goes on to tell me that there is no way the Yankees can get into the playoffs, that they will be completely out of it by August. He says he would rather the Yankees be 2-30 right now to save the heartache. Then we parted ways before I could say my $0.02 and he drove home in his 100k Mercedes convertible. I assume this gentleman makes a nice living, either that or he spends a significant portion of his salary stupidly on a car that he drives 7 miles to the train station. So I'll also assume he has some sort of intelligence, but those comments are just stupid, something Skip Bayless would say, in fact I bet they drive the same car.

The Yankees are 13-13, 4.5 games back in the division. I hate when people say we'll play better when it matters when these games matter just as much as a game in September. However, it still is only May. The Yankees were 14-15 in April last year and won 89 games, 9-14 in April in 2008 and won 94 games, 13-10 in April in 2006 and won 97 games, 10-14 in April in 2005 and won 95 games, get my point? I'm not saying the Yankees are a lock to win 95 games, or even 90 but it's still May, and yet smart people are saying the Yankees will be out of it by August. The Yankees sure don't look all that great, but they are still in a fine position to make their yearly postseason run, even Suzyn Waldman would agree.