So can we slow down?
Last week you'd have thought that this were 1927, not 2019, with Ruth, Gehrig, Lazzeri, Combs and Murderer's Row ready to steamroll the sport of baseball.
Boomer and Gio were already debating an 18-2 start, while Yankees fans were set to watch the club moonwalk to the pennant. The divison crown was a fait accompli, of course, just a box to check on a fiery path to the Fall Classic.
No doubt this year's Yanks are loaded, ready to blast bombs from the Bronx and beyond, to swat the ball from the Atlantic and watch it land in the Pacific.
So, naturally, the Bronx Bombers lost two of three -- in the Bronx, of course -- to the abysmal Baltimore Orioles, a club that lost 115 games last year and won't be much better this year.
It's not an omen. But it feeds us a quick chill pill, reminding us that very few teams in MLB history can go Secretariat for an entire summer.
Then the Yanks have become plagued with an injury bug normally reserved for the Mets. Miguel Andujar and Giancarlo Stanton on Monday joined a sprawling injured list that already includes Luis Severino, Dellin Betances, Didi Gregorius, Aaron Hicks and CC Sabathia.
On Monday night, the Yankees smoothed their record (2-2) against another happless bunch, the Detroit Tigers, a squad that only lost 98 games last year.
To give you a sense of how depleted the Bombers are, the heroes from that game were Domingo German and Brett Gardner. (Jacoby Ellsbury wasn't available because, of course, he's on the IL, too.)
While Stanton's biceps issue shouldn't keep him out more than a few weeks, word is that Andujar has a torn labrum that could end his season. He and fellow rookie Gleyber Torres were the twin faces of the Yankees' revival, primed to become this year's Aaron Judge.
For all the haunting losses on and off the field, keep in mind the real best team in baseball -- that would be the World Series champion Boston Red Sox -- are 1-4.
All it means is we fans, ADD-addled from the moment we found our favorite team, need to take a wider lens to sports in general and baseball in particular.
More than anyone, Yankees fans should know not only how interminably long a baseball season is, but also that the Bombers have never been judged by games from March to May.
The Yankees are measured by their deeds in long sleeves under brown leaves. Perhaps we should all recall that the 1998 Yankees, their best team since 1927, stumbled to a 1-4 start, with early rumblings about Joe Torre's job security.
The Mets look better than last year. But even the 2018 Mets dashed out to an 11-1 mark before plunging to the lower rungs of their division.
It's a good thing the Yankees don't have a superteam, because we know what always happens to a gaggle of mercenaries, disparate parts from different places. They end up imploding before the playoffs.
The Yankees don't have the pitching to post an epic record or lay waste to the American League. But they have the talent, and the time, to win 98 games and qualify for the only month that matters -- October.
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