Yankees suck

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays, unable to depart Tampa until early afternoon today due to Hurricane Frances, made it to New York too late to get in the first game of their scheduled doubleheader with the Yankees. The Yankees, in a characteristic display of sportsmanship, asked the commissioner's office to award them a forfeit for the game they were unable to play today.

Now, supposedly the Yanks were told that Tampa would leave either after their game Friday night or Saturday morning before Florida airports shut down. After all, the visiting Detroit Tigers left Friday night, knowing that the weekend games had already been postponed. However, the D-Rays wanted to stick around town to be with their families until the Hurricane passed.

So this makes it all the more weasly that the Yanks would try to cop out. It's not like they won't be able to make up the game as a doubleheader before one of the three remaining games in this series. But the Yankees have seen their 10.5-game lead over the Red Sox dwindle to 2.5 games, they've been struggling and they're on the verge of a colossal meltdown that will in all likelihood cause George Steinbrenner to explode. So, instead of being sporting (or showing some simple human understanding), they want the easy way out. Why play by the same rules as everyone else when you can throw your weight around? It's the Yankee way.

At least this should bring the Yanks bad karma.