That’s a wrap on the first series of the 2025 season. The New York Yankees have swept the Milwaukee Brewers, outscoring them by a ridiculous 36-14 margin, after Sunday’s 12-3 win. A big topic of conversation has been the new “torpedo” bats, but we’ve discussed that at full length. It’s legal. Other teams are doing it.

That would mean “cased closed” in a normal world, but we live in Brain Rot Society where folks on social media can forward a conversation that has no business existing.

Yankees fans are familiar with that, right? Especially as it pertains to talk about how “easy” it is to hit at Yankee Stadium? That’s been an invalid perception for decades, despite statistical evidence to the contrary. Yankee Stadium has a “100” park factor, which is the standard. It’s completely average. Think in terms of OPS+; it’s a similar scale.

New York is tied with Atlanta, Anaheim, Houston, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and Toronto in that department. The Rockies and Red Sox have the two most hitter-friendly parks in the league (112 and 107 Park Factor) while the Padres and Mariners have the least hitter-friendly parks (96, 91).

That hasn’t stopped everybody from trying to undermine the Yankees’ home run barrage to start the 2025 campaign. Thankfully, the Yankees’ Twitter account came to the rescue when a random troll attempted to claim Paul Goldschmidt’s 413-foot home run on Saturday was the product of playing in a “little league park.”

Yankees Haters out in full force after New York’s Opening weekend performance

Similarly, a full 24 hours after it was confirmed, with proof, that the “torpedo” bats were completely legal and approved by MLB, there were still whiners on social media claiming that it’s a version of cheating, attempting to draw parallels to the 2017 Houston Astros.

Give it a rest, people. This only became a story because of the Yankees. Players across the league have begun using/experimenting with the new bats, which were designed by an assistant coach on the Marlins. Nobody seems to complain when pitchers have the utmost advantage in the history of the sport, but the second there’s a semblance of elevated offense, it’s immediately labeled as illegal.

Trevor Megill, a closer for the Brewers, but cosplaying as a random Reddit user on a conspiracy theory thread. Got it. I’m sure these same people will ignore Nico Hoerner of the Chicago Cubs using the same bat, in addition to the Orioles admitting they’ve had multiple players test it out.

Nonetheless, this version of Yankees hate at least feels good. When the Yankees are succeeding and rival fans are tearing their hair out, New York fans laugh at a distance. They know that these rival fans are essentially admitting they can’t handle watching the Yankees win.

The exhausting Yankees hate comes when the Yankees are bad or clearly compromised (ex. 2011-2024). When that’s the case, rival fans take more time out of their day to sniff out the Yankees’ failures instead of focusing on their own team’s successes. It’s embarrassing.

For a few days in March, though, everything seemed a bit more normal. The vitriol returned, but for reasons fans hadn’t recognized (at least excessively) since 2009. Let’s try and keep it that way, Yanks. Keep the line moving, make everybody forget about Juan Soto, and work toward making the Dodgers pay for their cheap commentary to make themselves feel better after 10+ years of postseason failure.