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Joe Girardi Denigrates the New York Yankees’ Great World Series Performances

New York Yankees have won 40 pennants since 1921. They have been World Champions 27 times.

Joe Girardi is a smart man. So are Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher. They all know that based purely on mathematical probability, a team that plays in 40 World Series should win 20 and lose 20.

So Joe, tell us, how did the Yankees win seven more World Championships than expected and lose seven fewer?

Sitting in an interview a few days after the 2011 Yankees' season ended at the hands of the Detroit Tigers, Girardi used the term “luck” 10 times when rationalizing why the Yankees' vaunted offense failed in the clutch.

"Please, make no mistakes. Detroit wasn't lucky. Detroit beat us. But some of your at-bats ...

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