{"id":121388,"date":"2020-11-27T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yankees-greatness-is-reality-check-to-mets-steve-cohen-mania\/"},"modified":"2020-11-27T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T04:24:14","slug":"yankees-greatness-is-reality-check-to-mets-steve-cohen-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yankees-greatness-is-reality-check-to-mets-steve-cohen-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yankees\u2019 greatness is reality check to Mets\u2019 Steve Cohen-mania"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Yankees\u2019 greatness is reality check to Mets\u2019 Steve Cohen-mania<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n According to the legend, this was before the 1934 baseball season. New York City was baseball flush, as always. The Giants had won the 1933 World Series<\/a>. The Yankees had won in 1932, and had won in 1927 and 1928, too. The Giants were about to break spring training camp in Miami Beach when someone asked manager Bill Terry about the other teams in the National League.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cardinals?\u201d Terry was asked. \u201cThey\u2019re very good,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Cubs?\u201d and Terry stroked his chin. \u201cThey\u2019re formidable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about the Dodgers?\u201d he was asked.<\/p>\n

And Terry smiled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dodgers?\u201d he asked. \u201cAre they still in the league?\u201d<\/p>\n

As the story goes, that was the first example of what we now consider \u201cbulletin-board material.\u201d Late in the season, the Giants and Cardinals were tied atop the NL standings at 93-58 with two game<\/a>s to play. The Cardinals won both of theirs, against the Reds. The Giants had to play two against the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn won the first game, 5-1, putting the Giants\u2019 season in peril. The next day, in front of a packed house of 40,000, the Giants jumped to a 4-0 lead, but the Dodgers scored twice in the eighth inning and then three times in the top of the 10th, burying the Giants for good. Afterward, the writers found the Brooklyn manager who was never terribly shy about sharing his thoughts, and was in as good a mood as a guy who\u2019d skippered a 71-81 team could be.<\/p>\n

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Steve Cohen and Hal Steinbrenner<\/span>Mets.com; AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI guess,\u201d Casey Stengel said, \u201cwe\u2019re still in the league, eh?\u201d<\/p>\n

Which brings us back to 2020. The Mets have owned November around here. Steve Cohen was app<\/a>roved as the team\u2019s new owner on the eve of the new month and every day has brought fresh Mets speculation. Who are they going to recruit to run baseball ops? What free agent(s) are they going to sign? What blockbuster trade(s) will they pull off?<\/p>\n

It has sort of felt like a one-team town.<\/p>\n

Which is funny, of course, because the Yankees are still the sporting centerpiece of New York, not just in baseball, but in all sports. The Yankees are still the unchallenged kings, not only of summer, but a 365-day (366 in 2020) vortex of expectation and achievement and ambition and expertise.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve just been a little \u2026 well, quiet lately.<\/p>\n

They have been laying in the weeds. The Mets get all the attention now because the Mets have the new owner, and the Mets are the team itching to figure out, after a while away, what it\u2019s like to be a big-market monolith of a team like \u2026 well, like the Yankees, the team that invented the big-market template.<\/p>\n

Now, neither Sandy Alderson nor Cohen seems especially inclined to channel old Bill Terry and tweak the beast. Good luck waiting for either of them to ask \u2014 either whimsically or seriously \u2014 \u201cAre the Yankees still in the league?\u201d Cohen insists he isn\u2019t in competition with the Yankees, but with each of the other 29 teams in MLB. Also: Who wants to poke the bear?<\/p>\n

And: It\u2019s worth remembering the Yankees are still the Yankees. They are two years removed from 103 victories, three years removed from 100 wins, they started 2020 like they planned on figuring a way to 50 wins before injuries and the Rays got in their way, but they still won a round of playoffs, still took the eventual league champs to the last inning of the ALDS.<\/p>\n

Also, they have apparently announced that they are surrendering New York to the Mets.<\/p>\n

Now, it is true that the Yankees lost a king\u2019s ransom to the pandemic-ravaged 2020 season, which may keep them from dipping as deep into their war chest as they usually might, or as deep as new-to-the-game Cohen might. They need to retain DJ LeMahieu. They need to shore up the starting rotation. They are not an as-is surefire bet for glory in 2021.<\/p>\n

But they\u2019re still awfully damn close. BetMGM has them at 6\/1 this instant to win the next World Series. Only the Dodgers (4\/1) have skinnier odds. The Braves, Padres and White Sox are all next, at 10\/1. The Mets are 18\/1. That\u2019s about as it should be as we enter the final furlong of November.<\/p>\n

Those numbers could all change in the weeks ahead, and, yes, much of that will be according to the Mets\u2019 agenda. But the Yankees are still the Establishment. They are still the gold standard around here, until proven otherwise. They are, indeed, very much still in the league. They\u2019re just a little quiet about all of that. For now.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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