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Sports Title: National Writer: 'Yankees Earn Every Last Boo' Here’s what media members are saying about the New York Yankees after the Detroit Tigers took a 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series: Jeff Passan, Yahoo Sports: “New Yorkers understand a fraud when they see it. They pay for expensive seats, drink overpriced beers, buy exorbitant merchandise and fund a $200 million joke, a team that for the second straight game couldn't score a measly run off the Detroit Tigers' Nos. 3 and 4 starting pitchers. These Yankees earned every last boo.” Mike Greenberg, ESPN’s “Mike and Mike in the Morning: “The Yankees have hitters who are striking out more than 50% of the time they come to the plate. Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson are striking out more than half of the time they come to the plate. If they put a ball in play, it’s cause to alert the media.” Buster Olney, ESPN: “I cannot envision a scenario as we’re sitting here today in which (the Yankees) are going to win the series. The Tigers are up, 2-0, and their two best pitchers haven’t even thrown a pitch -- Verlander and Max Scherzer.” John Harper, New York Daily News: “The Yankees were never this comatose when it counted most, and let’s face it, if Jose Valverde wasn’t a complete mess these days, they would not only be down 0-2 to the Tigers in this ALCS after losing 3-0 on Sunday, but they probably wouldn’t have scored yet.” Erik Boland, Newsday: “Anibal Sanchez was the latest opposing pitcher to look like Sandy Koufax against the increasingly dead-men-walking Yankees, holding them to three hits in seven innings in the Tigers' 3-0 victory in ALCS Game 2.” Jon Heyman, CBS Sports: “Yankees manager Joe Girardi, obviously as frustrated as his troops, pointed his finger squarely at second-base umpire Jeff Nelson, who blew a call at second base, and umpire Rob Drake, who missed a close one at first base in Game 1. As if either of those two plays has anything to do with the Yankees' highly paid star-studded team suddenly going as limp as an overcooked noodle at one of the eateries in Little Italy a few miles south of here.” Justin Sablich, New York Times: “I’d like to take this time to wish Yankees manager Joe Girardi a very happy 48th birthday. He celebrated by earning his first-ever ejection in a postseason game, so there’s that. Seriously, that call was atrocious, Girardi had every right to go nuts on Nelson, and Nelson didn’t really have a right to toss Girardi after messing up that badly.” George A., King III, New York Post: “Plant the goal posts in the Yankee Stadium sod. College football is the headline attraction in The Bronx. No matter who howls why, the Yankees are two games away from being swept by the Tigers in the ALCS, and one fact is unavoidable: You don’t hit, you don’t win.” Mike Vaccaro, New York Post: “Curtis Granderson, the man who made the final out of the game? The people were sprinting for the exits by then, but many made a point to stop, watch him strike out for the third time in the game, fifth time in the series and 14th time in seven postseason games, and blanket him with one last round of boos for the road.” Jon Paul Morosi, Fox Sports: “At a time of year when we all love to make predictions, here’s one more: If the Yankees lose this series, we are going to hear a lot about instant replay in the months to come — and maybe, finally, see some substantive reforms. All of a sudden, there’s more riding on this Yankee season than the effort for one more world championship.”
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