Yankees proprietor Hal Steinbrenner talked about how he doesn’t get pleasure from doing put up mortems on autopsy Wednesday. And no, it can’t be enjoyable being reminded they did not meet their said, longtime purpose a seventeenth straight season under his watch. 

But I’ve got information for him: The followers like it even less. 

It’s actually the least Steinbrenner and Co. can endure as they barrel toward a third decade of failure (or nonsuccess, as he’d favor). Steinbrenner barely lowered his father’s bar Wednesday, suggesting it’s not a failure since they made the playoffs yet again (before being dismantled in a three-game sweep by the Rays, a staff with one-third the Yankees’ $320 million payroll). 

“Winning 93 games is not a failure,” Steinbrenner asserted. “I don’t believe I’ve ever called a season that we didn’t win a world championship successful. At the same time, I’m not going to say that everything that happened that season … was a complete failure.”