No, this is not an rant against the Evil Empire, I actually believe the Yankees winning it all periodically is a good thing, for baseball without the spirit of its ghosts just wouldn't be the same.
No, the article title is to be taken quite literally, I'm miffed about the trophy ceremony itself, where Commissioner Bud Selig first handed his Commissioner's Trophy to Hal Steinbrenner—one of his bosses, no less. For a moment that should be such a crowning glory, the first championship in the new Yankee Stadium, it's almost anticlimactic, ...
Unthinkable!
After the New York Yankees won the World Series of Baseball for the first time since 2000 I had a chance to sit down with some of the players, namely Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez (herein referred to as A-Rod), and World Series MVP Hideki Matsui!
What followed was an honest interview between three celebrity baseball players dosed with champagne and one serious reporter with a mission to expose the truth.
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Drew: So guys, how does it feel to be you ?
Jeter: I feel amazing. I really love myself. I really do.
A-Rod: Me too. I ...
I am from Connecticut. I am a DIEHARD Red Sox fan. And I know one thing about the New York Yankees—there is no other team more deserving of a championship in 2009.
I can already read what the comments on this message board will say: "They just bought their title"..."Girardi's terrible, anyone could manage that roster"..."ARod and Pettite took steroids." Those are excuses for yourself and for your own team.
ARod and Pettite did just fine without performance enhancing drugs this October, so let's get that out of the way right off ...
The New York Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 Wednesday night in the Bronx to win their record 27th World Series championship.
The Yankees, who went 103-59 to establish 2009's best mark in Major League Baseball, simply outclassed the Phillies over the course of six games.
“I really believe in this club,” said Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who was widely scrutinized for his decision to utilize a three-man rotation throughout the playoffs. “I’ve always believed in this organization, the job the Steinbrenner family has done, Cashman and his staff and it’s ...
The Yankees' 27th World Series title is a testament to what money can buy.
The Yankees bid farewell to high-priced (but aging or diminished) players like Mike Mussina, Carl Pavano, Jason Giambi, and Bobby Abreu last offseason, and then replaced them with younger, fresher free agents.
The team signed CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett in a $423.5 million offseason spending spree. It's the kind of money few other teams had the capacity to spend. The three players were immediately amongst the top five highest paid players on the Yankees' very expensive ...
This picture disturbs me.
Why, you may ask?
Well, if C.C. Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, Mark Teixeira, and Nick Swisher had not come to the Bronx...
THIS PICTURE WOULD NOT EXIST!!!!!
Why is everybody crediting the coach for the team's success?
Let's take a flashback.
2008 NBA Finals
Doc Rivers, just a year before, had coached the Celtics to a 24-58 record, a winning percentage of .293!
But now, Doc gets all the credit, because he has just led his team to a championship.
Without Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and some really clutch bench playing Celtics fans dream to get back on top would have ...
With all the cards now on the table, and the trophy safe in Derek Jeter's arms, the overwhelming majority of fans are going to remember 2009 as the year Alex Rodriguez broke out in October, and call that the Reason they won. And in the grand scheme of things, they won't be completely wrong—but they won't be entirely right, either.
Over the fifteen postseason games that the Yankees had to play to win their 27th world championship, they got thirteen starts of six innings or more out of their three starting ...
With all of the hullabaloo surrounding the New York Yankees winning their 27th World Series title, I figured I would weigh in. It's a well-known fact to anyone that knows me that I am a huge New York Mets fan. So this year, with the World Series being played between the Yankees and the Mets' bitter enemy, the Philadelphia Phillies, there was no clear-cut team that I could root for. Ultimately, I chose to support the Phillies, for two simple reasons.
One, they play in the same division as ...
The pain of giving up two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game Seven of a gut-wrenching 2001 World Series defeat to the Arizona Diamondbacks has finally been alleviated.
The shame of falling to an overmatched Florida Marlins team in six games in the 2003 World Series is now an afterthought.
The sheer humiliation and infamy of allowing the Boston Red Sox to erase a 0-3 deficit and win the ALCS in 2004 has been replaced with the euphoria of a king reclaiming his throne.
Money isn’t the only reason ...
So many times this decade, the Yankees seemed to have a championship screenplay written only to go off-script at the exact wrong time.
There was Rivera's stunning failure in 2001, Josh Beckett's coming out party in 2003, the Series That Shall Not Be Named in 2004, the fishy resurgence of Kenny Rogers in 2006, and Joba & The Midges in 2007.
In each of those years, the promise of a 27th championship ultimately rang hollow. It was enough to take the wind out the sails of even the most boastful fan.
The Yankees ...