Yankees: Brett Gardner needs to bring CC Sabathia energy to ALDS vs Rays

Yankees OF Brett Gardner talking some trash on the Rays is giving us CC Sabathia feels. But we need more.

More Yankees-Rays content! We can’t get enough! Don’t worry folks, we hear you, and we’re going to do our best to bombard you before first pitch on Monday night.

Giancarlo Stanton’s comments on the Rays celebrating the AL East title got us amped. Tampa Bay OF Kevin Kiermaier giving his two cents on the Yankees gave us more fuel. Now, we have Brett Gardner commenting on it all, from Kiermaier to seeing the Rays in the bubble in San Diego.

Yankees fans need more of it, and quite frankly, it’d be great if Gardner could bring CC Sabathia-like energy to the ALDS against the team’s heated rival.

Gotta up your game, Gardy. CC probably would’ve said “Hey b–tch” and kept walking. You’re the last remaining guy from the 2009 World Series team. It’s time to act like it. These comments are a start, but with a possible five games coming up against the Rays, who beat you eight times out of 10 during the regular season, upping the intensity would be a difference-maker.

Addressing what Kiermaier said is another start. We love it. But the feeling isn’t “probably” mutual. It has to be mutual. In fact, it has to be more to be mutual. The Yankees have to hate them more. There’s no other option.

Based on the endless trash talk and “chirping” we’ve heard from these two during the regular season (and how the Rays were obsessed with telling the media about how the Yankees do too much of it), Gardner has to be one of the main guys to keep it going so the Rays know this team isn’t messing around.

This is the first playoff matchup between these two teams. Make it count. Leave it all on the table. It’s now or never. There’s no holding back. Talk the talk. Walk the walk. The Yankees shouldn’t even be thinking about the trash talk backfiring. It should just be another layer of this dynamic roster.

And when it’s all over, you can say, “that one’s for you, b–tch.”

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