Yankees break new ground using Jazz Chisholm's lollipop as hilarious rallying cry

Sometimes, small moments of angst may not be as big a deal as the forehead-vein-bursting portion of the Yankees fan base wants them to be. Or, actually, wait ... they might be a big deal, but in a positive way? Even if Aaron Boone's gone on record that the net-positive thing really "pissed him off"? Sorry, the Jazz Chisholm Lollipop Saga is hard to follow. We're not used to swirling social media discourse turning into something hilarious the team embraces instead of something detrimental they end up getting trolled for.

Imagine going on a 48-hour hike in a service dead zone like Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns and John Starks in that endlessly repeated commercial, and emerging to Aaron Boone quotes like, "The lollipop kid came through tonight. He can have all the lollipops he wants now." What would you think happened? Maybe the Yankees rallied around a terminally ill bat boy? No, this has to be sarcastic. Boone has to be stone-faced, addressing another instance where a rival got the better of him head-on. This sounds like, I don't know, Yandy Diaz hitting a walk-off homer on Wicked Night at The Trop as the Lollipop Guild song rained down from the decades-old untouched catwalk speakers.

No. No, actually, what began as a Boone/Chisholm semi-controversy — it really sounded like he was laying into him on Talkin' Yanks! — ended in the greatest way possible, flipping instantaneously. The Yankees began Tuesday's game in Detroit stranding runners (again) and allowing two-out runs (again) and it all felt very fruitless until Chisholm socked a home run to deep right-center in the somehow-feels-like-it's-still-expanding ballpark downtown. He returned to the dugout begging for a lolli on the hot mic, then displayed a box of Blow Pops to the camera. It got funnier when Austin Wells — Austin Wells! — added on, and Fernando Cruz escaped trauma, and Brent Headrick did Brent Headrick things, and Jasson Domínguez caught a shoestring, and David Bednar erased 1 1/3 innings, and what do you know?

Suddenly, the Yankees had a rallying cry where a demerit had been mere hours prior.

Yankees' locker room somehow more unified than ever after Jazz Chisholm Lollipop moment

Or — OR — if Aaron Boone was genuinely angry ... is this a BOONE MUTINY?!

No. No, it's not. It's just good. And maybe, just maybe, it's an anti-swoon pivot point in a week packed with frustrating pitching challenges amid debilitating lineup depletion.

If the Yankees are going to survive this battered patch, Chisholm being an engine instead of a detriment will be a massive part of the path forward. On Tuesday, at least, his impressive clout helped spoil Casey Mize's day, and his boisterous nature — and the mellifluous voice of Lil' Wayne — fueled the men in that locker room to reclaim a deeply silly narrative.

And no, I will not be taking questions at this time about Jazz classifying his talk with Boone as a discussion of a "safety issue". Let's just have fun here.

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