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NBC SportsThat’s Bob Klapisch’s view in his column this morning anyway. A-Rod and the Yankees couldn’t get a key hit against Joaquin Benoit or Max Scherzer last Thursday because, well, they just couldn’t will it to be so:
He blames the 2011 Yankees’ failure to make it out of the first round on “a killer instinct that never was honed.”The past-era Yankees had a ferocious trait that couldn’t be quantified. It was an intangible expectation of victory – even if that very term now is politically incorrect among baseball’s intelligentsia. Girardi, who was part of the championship run from 1996-2000, is so brainwashed he suggested those four rings were influenced, in part, by luck. Try running that by Tino Martinez, Paul O’Neill and David Cone.
But that’s how the present-day Yankee family is making peace with their collapse against the Tigers – it was the wrong time, the wrong set of circumstances, just the wrong karma.
I think it's ridiculous. They still won 97 games this year. They had a weak piching staff and that's that. They failed to capitalize in big moments.
Seems like they're just trying to generate another story to catch the headlines. It's all BS.