Since I think I might have been the first -- or only -- Yankee centric comment.
Agree it was a horrific inning no matter the opponent. But I dont agree that people's reactions to the horrifc-ness aren't in part related to the fact that its the Yankees. I'm not sure how that's more insulting than the ones that you would "buy," but YMMV.
As I said, I think there's an element out here of "Its the Yankees we gotta do everything we can to beat them." And I think Farrell might have treated them as just a team 8 games back in the standings and -- with a posible eye toward the future -- tried to see what he might squeeze out of Peavy or salvage from Thornton. (the answer was "less than zero" on both counts). And I think that if last night's opponent had been the Royals, the level of angst would be lower -- along the lines of "that sucked, thank God there's another game 24 hours later, we'll beat their assess tomorrow" and not "that sucked, and it really shakes my faith in the manager's ability to manage tight playoff games, and this clearly inferior team is now going to sweep the Sox." And if the Division was tighter, he might have done things differently, regardless of the opponent.
Finally, I suppose if it literally "goes without saying," then I wouldn't say it, but (it goes without saying) no insults intended.
EDIT: Concidentally, Game 142 in 2011 was the Toronto debacle in which they gave up 5 in the 8th, but did not come back.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/TOR/TOR201109070.shtml The loss left the Sox at (drum rolll)...... 85-57.