“Listen, if you can’t spot the sucker in your first half-hour at the table, you are the sucker.” – Mike McDermott in the opening line of “Rounders”
The Yankees began a nine-game stretch Monday against a trio of teams that played poorly enough in July to fall from contention to sellers. It opens with their historic patsy, the Twins, at home, then three on the road in St. Louis and then two in their Steinbrenner Field home away from home against the Rays.
To end this month, the Yankees have a seven-game stretch against the Nationals and White Sox, the worst teams in the majors in the non-Rockies division.
To end this season, the Yankees have 13 games (the last six at home) against the White Sox and the two biggest sellers at the deadline, the Twins and Orioles.
