dear (______):

Dear New York City news media,

I care as much about the Yankees in a post season as I do starving children in the heart of Africa. They both are the product of terrible systemic problems. They both will cost millions of dollars to fix from one year to the next. They will both work themselves out to a point where no one will care again. And they will both have the same terrible systemic problems next year. Yes, there's drama, but how much of it is real and how much of it is picking at a sad scab for the sake of watching it bleed until it scabs over again?