The Yankees are self-destructing. How much fun is that? They’ve found that $215,000,000 won’t necessarily buy your way out of last place. Ha ha ha.

When the Yankees are losing, I indulge my schadenfreude by reading the New York tabloids. Today’s Post has a couple of fun reads, starting with an analysis of why they’ve gone downhill

The ramifications have hit the Yankees at once, like a perfect storm, leaving their roster old, overpaid, inflexible and with few prospects to address the difficulties through promotion or trades. This is an old, brittle team that should only become more brittle with time.

2005 mirrors 1965, the first year of a 12-year drought.

Bobby Richardson had a sense that the ‘65 team was nearing the end and it wasn’t just because of age and injury. The Yankees had been to the World Series 14 of the previous 16 seasons. There were subtle signs that this mid-’60s team had become a little selfish. That showed itself in the delving out of World Series shares. The Yankees, throughout Richardson’s career, had always taken care of young players and clubhouse attendants and the like, but the 1964 the team was not as generous as a new generation of players came into power.

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