Another year, another champagne-soaked celebration for someone else - usually a familiar foe - in the expensive clubhouses of Yankee Stadium, while Hal Steinbrenner mutters, "I didn't pay to build that for you..." then does nothing about it.
This time around, it was the Toronto Blue Jays, who followed in the footsteps of the Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Dodgers by stomping all over the Yankees' once-proud tradition. To the victor go the spoils, and it just so happens that every victor in Yankee Stadium tends to want to take aim at their catchphrases and knock them down 10 pegs.
Pioneering AL East hardo Alex Cora took the first bravado-tinged shot of the Aaron Judge & Boone era, telling the Yankees to "suck on it" at Boston's 2018 World Series parade (after Judge tried a boombox trick in the halls of Fenway Park).
Now, it's Blue Jays manager John Schneider's turn. Schneider played with fire by going to the bullpen early and often in a Game 2 blowout, followed by a Game 3 collapse. With a bullpen game in front of him in Game 4, he somehow pressed every button correctly (and player after player delivered on his behalf).
That's the kind of performance that makes you want to tell the locker room to "start spreading the news, bitches," as Schneider did before "New York, New York" was ultimately cued up.
βStart spreading the news, bitches.β -Blue Jays manager John Schneider pic.twitter.com/iENR2IMGkq
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Blue Jays' John Schneider, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. take shots at Yankees' elimination
Again, if you don't want it to happen, then don't lose at home. It's really quite simple. And yet the Yankees continue to make it extremely complicated, becoming the first team eliminated from this year's ALDS.
To put the capper on everything, Blue Jays centerpiece Vladimir Guerrero Jr. joined David Ortiz live on Fox, reciting his newfound catchphrase, "DAAAA YANKEES LOSE!" which has outlasted John Sterling's broadcasting career.
Guerrero Jr. certainly went Ortiz Mode in this series, bludgeoning the Yankees with big home run after big home run. He was more than a nuisance at the plate; he took over.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit the classic Big Papi line: "DAAAA YANKEES LOSE" π
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(via: @MLBONFOX)pic.twitter.com/a3QN1j5U4X
The common theme here is a well-earned complete lack of humility that the Yankees did nothing to stop.
Perhaps next season, the Yankees will be the ones bullying with impunity. At this current new low, they feel so far from it.
