Your attention please, ladies and gentlemen … now returning to the Yankees blogosphere … number 88 … Smoov … number 88 …

That’s how Bob Sheppard would announce my return to the blogging. (Hope retirement is treating you well, Mr. Sheppard.)

Anyway, yes everyone — I’M BACK!!!!!

After nearly another month away from the blog, I’m back at it again. I’m sure everyone has seen what has happened the last couple weeks, so I won’t get into why the Yankees can’t wait for Monday’s off day — their SECOND this month (17 games in 16 days, including the Detroit doubleheader) and FIRST since May 6.

Instead, in light of this weekend’s matchup with the Mets at Citi Field I decided to run another seven-game simulation (courtesy of the talented folks at WhatIf Sports), similar to the one I posted before the season opener. This simulation features the 1996 Yankees and the 1986 Mets — I didn’t wanna do neither a matchup with each franchise’s 2000 team (for obvious reasons), nor a ’98 Yankees vs. ’86 Mets matchup (already done by Lisa and Josh at Subway Squawkers). Here’s the schedule:

TONIGHT: Games 1, 2 (at Shea Stadium)
TOMORROW: Games 3, 4, 5 (at Yankee Stadium)
SUNDAY: Games 6, 7 (at Shea Stadium)

All I will say is this: one of these teams will lose the series in a very disappointing fashion.

Enjoy seeing the results from Games 1 and 2, coming up very soon!