\u201cWell, here you are, in the ninth, two men out and three men on. Nowhere to look, but inside, where we all respond to PRESSURE.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, I would have preferred to use lyrics from the better and more meaningful song \u2014 \u201cUnder Pressure\u201d by Queen and David Bowie \u2014 but the sports metaphor in Billy Joel\u2019s 1980s hit \u201cPressure\u201d was a better fit to get us into the following exercise for today\u2019s newsletter.<\/p>\n
Wednesday was that rare day on the yearly sports calendar with no games scheduled in MLB, the NBA, the NFL and the NHL. (Yes, there was a full slate in both MLS and the WNBA, so no angry emails, please!)<\/p>\n
But we decided to use the inactivity to break down those local sports figures facing the most pressure for the remainder of 2025, beginning with the second half of the baseball season for the Yankees and the Mets:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWell, here you are, in the ninth, two men out and three men on. Nowhere to look, but…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,27432,48428,49262,3693,12942,49263,24282,1266,405,403,1305,2228,5226,5225,5228,5227,2229,62,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-69949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-beyond-the-back-page","10":"tag-brian-cashman","11":"tag-brian-daboll","12":"tag-juan-soto","13":"tag-justin-fields","14":"tag-mika-zibanejad","15":"tag-mike-brown","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-new-york-mets","20":"tag-new-york-yankees","21":"tag-newyork","22":"tag-newyorkcity","23":"tag-ny","24":"tag-nyc","25":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-sports-plus","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-united-states-of-america","30":"tag-unitedstates","31":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","32":"tag-us","33":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114868735354728883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}