TAMPA, FL – There was a song sung by the group Rose Royce called Car Wash, which had lyrics that preached “This ain’t no place to be if you plan on being a star.” It refers to working at the car wash.
The same can be said for any prospect that gets called up by the N.Y. Yankees. Frank Sinatra can belt out the words, “If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere,” when we hear, “New York, New York.” For those in the Yankees farm system, let it be known that the odds are against you.
The front office is great in bullsh1tting how great their future looks with their up and coming Baby Bombers. The hyping has been going on since the teams’ last championship in 2009. With the recent call up of Spencer Jones, I see right thru the wool that’s covering my eyes. Only recently The Martain, Jasson Dominguez, was billed as the next great one. He’s so great that the Yankees offered their upcoming free-agent of 2025 Trent Grisham a qualifying offer of 22 million bucks to remain, and remain he did.
I’m still waiting for the one time catcher of the future, Gary Sanchez to make me forget about Thurman Munson. What about Cito Culver to be the next Derek Jeter. (He even wore Jeter’s number 2 during his minor league stints.)
To go back even further, outfielder Ruben Rivera was billed as the next Mickey Mantle. The closest he got to a Gold Glove was stealing Jeter’s Rawlings model.
On the pitching side, Joba Chamberlain was on his way to stardom after pitching 16 innings upon his callup. The Joba Rules put an end to that. Ivan Nova came and went, and so did Manny Banuelos. The Yanks continued with their tricks by hyping up Deivi Garcia, who quickly disappeared and should be on the side of a milk carton. Now we’re supposed to get excited over the supposedly future legend in Jones.
Some did fall through the cracks and succeeded. Don Mattingly, the Core Four, Bernie Williams and of course Aaron Judge to name a few.
For the others, they might as well have gone to work at the CAR WASH!
