Yankees: NYY wish Gerrit Cole ‘Happy Birthday’ and the replies are brutal

All the Yankees wanted to do was wish Gerrit Cole a happy 30th birthday, but Twitter wouldn’t let them.

Can Yankees ace Gerrit Cole get a moment’s peace? Apparently, since we can’t, he can’t either.

The always-loyal followers of the New York Yankees have collected at the edge of the Twitter gutter in sludge piles lately, never prepared to share any sort of joy about the 27-time World Champions they follow, but always ready to swallow trash and belch some of it back out.

The team’s play on the field (really, really bad!), complemented by a legion of internet commenters out for virtual blood with every collapse, as made for a truly uncomfortable landscape in recent weeks.

Unfortunately, though Gerrit Cole’s 30th birthday should’ve been a momentary respite for fans on Tuesday, he’s become another target of the frustration machine. Since the team has so many other issues, Cole’s deviation from perfection has turned him into Sonny Gray in the minds of a few wild ones online, and so this well-wish didn’t go un-tarnished by a field of faceless angry men (yes, all men).

Yeah, that’ll do it, king. We’ll get right on that. One “pitch better” advice, coming up!

Though we certainly saw this coming, it’s doubly frustrating to see Cole become a target of ire in Yankees Universe. He was the perfect savior for this rotation: A lifelong Yankee fan sent from pitching heaven to be the final piece in a title run.

Unfortunately, the infrastructure has collapsed around him, the Yanks are several pieces short in this injury-ravaged year, and he’s left stranded on a melting ice floe that used to be a bullpen.

But don’t think for one second people are letting a three-start blip slide! Nope. They’d rather you think Cole’s been “like this” for his whole career.

Happy birthday, Gerrit. Your present from us? We’ll address that nonsense, so you don’t have to.

Cole had an “off” 2017 season where he allowed 31 homers, but whiffed 196 in 203.0 innings pitched in Pittsburgh, to the tune of a 4.26 mark. It got him traded, at a discount, to Houston. But before he leveled up there, he’d already posted some remarkable years in the ‘Burgh, like his 19-8, 2.60 year in 2014. The man is good.

Of course, there was at least one reply in this mess that we respected.

Some Yankees fans want to spit venom. Others, these days, simply want to talk about candles.

What Yankee Candle can we get you, Gerrit? Something with lemon? We’ll go with lemon.

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