It only took 2 days (and an NSFW Blue Jays chant) for Yankees to confirm loser status

The New York Yankees exorcised some of their postseason demons when they bounced the Boston Red Sox from October in the Wild Card round, but the job was hardly done. They still needed to face the AL East champion Toronto Blue Jays in the ALDS, which really felt like the start of the playoffs.

The result? A likely 0-2 hole after the Yankees surrendered 22 runs over the first 14 innings of the series. Impossibly bad. How do they fool us every year at different junctures into thinking they are legitimate championship contenders?

Just look at what the Dodgers did against the Phillies last night. The Yankees haven't done anything like that in a decade. They have not flipped the script or shown astute resilience against a superior/equal opponent in the Aaron Boone era. It's just the truth.

After the Yanks eliminated Boston, there were renewed hopes. Fans got a little cocky. They wanted to support their team. And they believed they had a chance against the Blue Jays, who have shown their flaws down the stretch and didn't seem to have a complete rotation. But right off the bat, Gausman had his way with the Yankees in Game 1, and rookie Trey Yesavage made history against them with 11 strikeouts across his first career five postseason innings in Game 2.

The Yankees, who have consistently built this roster to boast otherworldly power, have gone silent in October dating back to 2018. So why would this year be any different? Just because it was a new season and a chance to turn the page? That's the only tangible reason we can think of. Even though there was confidence coming out of the Red Sox series, the concerns surrounding the offense were well documented.

When they didn't break Saturday's game open, that felt like a horrific omen. And it was! The Yankees allowed 20 unanswered Blue Jays runs after that moment until Cody Bellinger's meaningless two-run homer when they were down 11-0 on Sunday.

They've done it again. The Yankees have given the baseball world a reason to point and laugh at them. They've immediately helped the Red Sox and Boston fans feel better about the Wild Card result. They puffed out their chest, told the media and fans that they are the ones drumming up stress/drama, and took the momentum from Cam Schlittler's historic outing in Thursday night, only to waste every ounce of it.

After Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s grand slam in the fourth inning on Sunday, the entire Rogers Centre erupted in "Yankees Suck!" chants. They woke up Red Sox and Mets fans from their football viewing to join in on the fun. The sad part is that every Yankees fan, deep down, knows that this team far from a championship winner — they were just holding out hope because the rest of the AL wasn't much more impressive.

... until now. The Blue Jays showed why winning the division is incredibly important. The Yankees let that opportunity slip away (they had the same record as Toronto but lost the regular-season head-to-head tiebreaker) when they decided to fall into a slumber for three months but assure us everything was fine and that it was all right in front of them.

They'll need a miracle to come back from this one. We'll be watching. We'll be cheering on. We'll be keeping the faith. But they continue to let us down in new, unfathomable ways. So when they're eventually eliminated, this organization is going to hear it like never before. And they'll deserve it.