I will be complaining about this franchise quite a bit in this piece, so I’d like to make something clear at the outset: I am not expecting, nor asking for any rubbernecking reader to feel sorry for the plight of the 2023 Yankees fan. 500 (about the mark they’ve played at over their last 200 games), which would be good for first in the AL Central and second or third in several other divisions, but they play in the most competitive division in baseball, and they’re the Yankees. Just last week, this Yankees team became the first since 1990 to find themselves in last place in their division this late in the season. I have made this journey, and suffer this line, seeking not “just” a burger I could get anywhere in this vast city of burgers, but answers, a metaphor in sandwich form. These sorts of fatalistic, angry, and unproductive thoughts are oddly appropriate as I stand in a long line, in the otherwise empty stadium of this last place AL East team, waiting, along with many others, for the privilege of spending $20 on a concession stand cheeseburger. Today it’s the former, 87 degree heat with 55% humidity in a mercilessly cloudless sky. ![]() It has been alternately sweltering and pouring in the city over the past month, two types of shitty weather that suggest the grim and apocalyptic future the sun and sea level have in store for this coastal island. ![]() start of the 99th game of the New York Yankees’ season in the South Bronx. I’m in left field, section 223, and it’s an hour before the 1 p.m.
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