The Good: The Yankees won and are 2 games out of a Wild card spot!

The Bad: They eeked past the Royals. The Royals!!!! They haven’t been good in years!!! So, slipping past a team you should beat, not a real confidence builder.

The Ugly: The Bullpen…,again. Jonathan Loaisiga, Zach Britton, Chad Green, y’all can take a bow….because y‘all SUCKED last night! And Chapman is on the IL! Learn to pitch with a lead!

And I know. I’m sorry. Yankee fans, we’re spoiled. We had the greatest closer of all time basically throwing one pitch for years and he was awesome, but his greatest trait other than his Cutter was, there will only be one Mariano Rivera. Rivera never tried to be cute, he went after guys and made them look foolish.

The problem with the Yankees Bullpen is they try to be too cute. Just fucking pitch! Zach Britton you have a nasty slider, use it. Chad Green, you are better when you mix pitches and change the batter’s eye level, do that. Pitch to your strengths. Randy Johnson had one of the best fastballs and sliders of his era, his mantra ‘here it is, try and hit it.’ Spoiler alert, he was pretty good. Johnson was never like ‘welp, I’ll throw 98 but be ever so pissed if I don’t paint the corners or put it right on the black like Greg Maddux.’ He just pitched. That’s my point, be Zach Britton, play to your strengths instead of trying to be cute, just pitch!

The Good earlier was the Yankees won, but at what cost? The bullpen is taxed and we got a young pitcher throwing tonight. Ugh, I don’t even want to consider the negatives that could result.

It’s infuriating being a Diehard fan sometimes! But being a Diehard fan, I will end with this, the Yankees are my team thru the great and the maddening times.

Back tomorrow with Yanks in KC game 2 and a catch up on the Giants.