Pinstripes is the nothing personal word of the day.

Today is Wednesday, October 26th, 2022. The word of the day is Pinstripes.

It's been about 72 hours for Yankee fans and Yankee front office and players to come to grips with the reality that their season ended in complete disappointment, expected disappointment, but disappointment nonetheless.

There is no difference when the season starts and everyone predicts that you are going to win 60 games. And then the season ends and you win 60 games.

That is not a satisfying season. You don't say that you played up to what we thought we were going to be. We played up to our potential.

You feel the same when in 60 games being predicted to win 60 as you do when you win 90 games and you're predicted to win 60 and 90 games does not get you to the playoffs.

There is no front office. There is no player who goes into a season no matter how much you're tanking. Even the tanking teams all have delusions as they start their season.

Hey, we're not tanking. Hey, maybe the owner says we're tanking, but we're going to band together in this group. We're going to look each other in the eyes as men and we are going to outperform.

We are going to find a way to win games. We're going to sign Corbin Brunson and the guy from the Geico commercial or all states. And we're going to do great.

But the fact is when you don't do well, no matter what that means and when it happens, every player has the same reaction. They all take a couple of days.

They take a couple of days and they're supposed to before they say anything.

There are these exit interviews you do with the training staff when your team loses. It doesn't matter if you lose at the end of the regular season or if you lose in the World Series or if you win the World Series, you have an exit interview, an exit physical.

A plan, an off-season mental health plan, an off-season physical health plan. And the front office of each team gets to work about 24 to 72 hours after the final game.

The reason it depends on timing, if you have a very disappointing end like the Yankees did on Sunday, they're getting back to work on Monday. If you win the World Series, then you're taking an extra couple of days because you've got the parade. If you had an amazing year in your mind where you outperforms so the media is laying off you, you can take maybe one extra day. But it's always 24 to 72 hours.

And the first thing that the teams are doing, and this is all 30 teams, it's just a matter of when, not if all 30 teams have to start figuring out next year because next year is the most misleading statement in all of sports.

And it all started, I think, with Ernie Banks. Wait till next year was the Chicago Cubs line because they never won a World Series.

And it really should have been wait till next season. And I don't mean baseball season. I mean, almost literally the four seasons of the year. Because right now we're in October, spring training, this is insane to say, but November is in four months, that's a third of a year.

Four months, there's a spring training game. So think about that. It's one third of a year. So pinstripes are what the Yankees have. And what the Yankees have is the domino of dominoes. Every year, there's free agents where we say this person is going to be the last one to sign or the first one to sign where this short stop is going to set the market for the other short stops.

Lindor is going to sign or Corey Seager is going to sign for 325 million and then other short stops will slide in underneath.

This is an interesting off season because I don't recall another situation and I'd have to think back and go team by team. I don't recall a better platform season for a free agent than Aaron judge.

Now it's easy to say that because he obviously broke Maris's record. He holds the American league record for home runs. He is likely to win the MVP, though not by landslide, not unanimously, at least in my opinion, but still a historical season because history was invoked throughout this home run chase.

That's what makes it historical. The numbers are outstanding, but they're, you know, stand in 2017 is quite comparable to judges 2022 and people do not look at stand season is historical. They view it as MVP, which you won, but not historical.

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