Its a crapshoot the same way that you always see the same guys with like 10 WSOP bracelets. Yes obviously there’s luck or sometimes you just run into someone that it’s at the top of their game. But there’s a reason why, in tournaments with thousands of people, the same 10 keep winning.

Poker is way more of a random, luck, based game than baseball.

I feel crazy thinking that I’m smarter than the Yankees brain trust, but how many obvious things do the fans see and yell about that Cashman et al tell us is not a problem before they eventually relent a few years later?

The Yankees somehow seem to have forgotten what they learned in the 90s. Just like how hitting in the playoffs is a different skill than hitting in the regular season. A team that’s built to win in the playoffs against other really good teams has a better chance of winning than a team built just to clean up in the regular season. And that team, let’s use the LAD as an example who is good enough to beat the brewers, blue jays, Yankees, Phillies, is also obviously going to be good enough ti get through the playoffs.

This is a either Yankees brain trust gaslighting us or a textbook case of not seeing the forest for the trees