Wednesday, July 25, 2012

THAT TIME OF THE YEAR


If you are a Yankee fan and just looked up, they lost 4 straight to the Oakland A’s! The reason I mention this is that this the time of year when collapse is a nasty word to a first place team. Granted there is a lot of room for the Yankees at this writing, a 6-game lead, but it was 10, which should look very insurmountable and daunting.

Most teams have to hit the skids at least once in the course of the season, and so the Yankees are hitting theirs, or, are they? This is either the start of something big or just a blip on their way to the pennant. The teams in their division are not so great this year, in spite of their records.

Of course this point of view is from the top looking down, looking upward is the Baltimore Orioles, Nee; St. Louis Browns. While the Yankees lost four straight, the Orioles were winning 5 straight! Picking up those 4 games is what starts a team on a surge right up to the end of the season. Once they get hot, the leaders start looking over their shoulders and the pressure builds.

This is not a prediction, but something to consider: the Orioles have managed to surprise everyone this year, they helped themselves over the winter and they have a very capable manager in Showalter, who has no one particular hitter or pitcher carrying the team, and there lies the possibility of a miracle run for the birds. It seems everyday someone else picks them up.

If the Yanks don’t take all their games from the slumping hitters on the Mariners, then the hunt is on.

That’s all I wrote, folks!

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