Jun 16, 2024, 1:03 p.m. ET
Since 2012, when the Giants became NFL champions, New York City has experienced nothing but sporting failures.
Championship droughts are directly entangled with the DNA of any sporting discipline, because the probabilities of losing, especially throughout a season, are much higher than those of ending up winning. That is why there is a significant number of teams and athletes who, since their inception, have never been able to know the glory of lifting the trophy that accredits them as the top winners within their discipline.
However, from time to time, especially when we talk about American sports, cities appear that emerge as sports capitals, due to the success that several of their teams have or because of the attention they generate due to their great performance. Despite that, success is not forever and if there is a city in which its teams know what it is like to come close to success and fail in the attempt, it is the city of NY.
NY It is one of the most important sports markets with the most followers in the United States, but from 2012 to date, the city has experienced a pronounced drought of championships, totaling one hundred tournaments combined between its teams in the four major American leagues (MLB , NBA, NFL and HHL) without having a team that is crowned champion. The last title that a New York team achieved was during the Super Bowl XLVIin which the New York Giants they defeated the New England Patriots.
Since then, New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets, New York Yankees, New York Mets, New York Jets, New York Giants, New York Islanders and N.New York Rangershave failed in every attempt to win the championship of their respective leagues.
After their victory in 2012, the Giants They have 12 seasons without winning added to the 12 of the Yankees and the 12 of the Mets (not including the current 2024 season in both cases), as well as the 12 of the Jets and the 13 winless seasons they have Rangers, Islanders, Nets and Knicks (including the 2011-12 season of each league, as they concluded after that year’s Super Bowl), which totals the 100 combined seasons already mentioned.
Things get worse for NY When it is taken into account that the drought of the Giants 12 years is the shortest of all those experienced by the teams of those cities. Total, Yankees He has 14 seasons without winning (last championship in 2009), Rangers 29 (last championship in the 1993-1994 season), Mets 37 (last championship in 1986), Islanders 40 (last championship in the 1982-1983 season), Nets 48 (last championship in the 1975-1976 season as part of the ABA), Knicks 51 (last championship in the 1972-1973 season) and Jets 54 (last championship in the 1968 season), according to ESPN Stats & Info.
The question here is which team is obliged to end this championship drought and given the circumstances in which each of the city’s teams have developed, everything indicates that the Yankees of 2024 are the ones with the best opportunity to do so.
The Yankees At the time of this note, they hold the best record in the Major Leagues with a mark of 50 wins and 23 losses, they are, in general terms, the best offense in the American League and one of the best in almost all departments in MLB and their pitching staff has been dominant, even with the absence of Gerrit Colecurrent Cy Young of the “Young Circuit”, who will return at some point in the season.
Additionally, they have the best offensive duo that baseball has in Aaron Judge and Juan Sotowho have produced just as the team expected when they traded their top pitching prospects for the Dominican, which has been highly positive for them and has allowed them to get into the position they are in.
Having said this and analyzing the entire context of what is happening in NY At a sporting level, it is very difficult to see that it is another team, at least for now, which can culminate in the drought of championships that the city is experiencing, so the responsibility falls completely on the “Bronx Bombers”.
