C-Mac: Has a team that made World Series ever been 'picked apart' as much as 2024 Yankees?

Miguel Rojas has become the latest Dodger to rip the Yankees and their defensive struggle in the World Series, joining pitcher Joe Kelly, who wasn’t even on the Fall Classic roster for Los Angeles.

Rojas, barely a factor in the World Series, went on the Chris Rose Sports podcast and called the Yanks out for being “lazy” on defense and on the bases, helping the Dodgers win the title in five games.

Reacting to the interview, Chris McMonigle can’t believe the Yankees and their fundamentals has remained such a consistent talking point, and can’t come up with a suitable comparison to another team that came as close to a championship as these Yanks did, and heard this much criticism.

“I’m not saying there isn’t a hint of truth to it, and maybe even more than a hint. The Yankees were not good defensively,” C-Mac said. “But why are the Yankees getting picked apart like buzzards picking apart a carcass on the ground? They were in the World Series this year!

“I don’t remember ever a World Series where the losing team was picked apart like this on exactly what went wrong, and then asked the winning team to stomp on them.”

C-Mac believes the media has taken the narrative and ran with it as well, spending extended time critiquing the Bombers’ lack of execution in the field, which was front and center in game five thanks to a disastrous fifth inning that saw five unearned runs come across to score. But C-Mac can’t believe it’s still being talked about this much.

“I don’t remember any other team, whether it’s the manner in which they got to the World Series and who they beat…the Yankee flaws are on view more than any other team I can remember,” C-Mac said.