Going crazy in New York City

The wackiness of Major League Baseball is just about enough to drive a fan/team/manager/front office, pick one or all, crazy at times.

It just doesn't seem right when a clearly inferior team, long since hopelessly out of any playoff contention, can waltz into the home park of a team they're a colossal 30 games behind in the standings -- and knock them off.

But that's exactly what the Detroit Tigers just did to the NY Yankees. Further, the puddy-tats out-bombed the Bronx Bombers by swatting five home runs. Worse, two of those round-trippers came off the bat of one Victor Martinez, the modern day Methuselah who hasn't been able to field a position -- ANY position -- in years, and who's speed on the base paths can be timed with a sundial, not to mention barely hitting his weight in recent times. Two dingers from THAT guy? Get outta here.

These are the same Tigers that just got smoked in KC, losing two games to the last place Royals by a combined score of 16-4. And before that, dropping three of four to the lowly Chicago White Sox.

What's also true is that the Yankees would be in first place in any other division in baseball, except the American League East. And even minus slugger Aaron Judge, out with a wrist injury, are very close to being on track to set the all-time single season record for home runs.

Problem is those pesky Boston Red Sox. The Sawks are ten games better than ANYBODY else in MLB, with over 130 games played in the regular season. That's a bunch.

Try as they might, the Yanks can't seem to close the gap to less than six games. So if this holds, and it likely will, the second best team in baseball will face a wild-card, one game elimination when the playoffs start. And anybody can win one game.

Could they possibly catch the Bosox with about a month left in the regular season? Sure, but they'd have to get mighty hot, like winning at a .750 clip, and hope the Fenway folks played maybe .500 ball for the remaining thirty or so. Odds of both happening? Slim, at best.

Needless to say, EVERY game is important to the Yanks these days.

So yeah. It's probably just about enough to drive them bonkers when a slip-shod, minor-league-ish team like the rag tag Tigers come into Yankee Stadium and hang a loss on the home town heroes.

Somehow it just doesn't seem right.