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Yankees Win, Major League Baseball Loses

In a decade in which greed and excess have been dominant themes in all walks of life, it may be only fitting that the final major sports championship would be claimed by the franchise that best personifies those qualities, the New York Yankees. No team in all of sports has been as blatant or as successful in turning money into championships. In all, the Yankees have won 27 World Series Championships since claiming their first title in 1923. And, the Yankees have been leveraging their economic advantages ...

The New York Yankees: Old Heroes and New Redemption

When New York Yankees fans wake up tomorrow morning, they will feel something very strange; something they have not felt in almost a decade. It is not the heartbreak of Game Seven of the 2001 World Series. It is not Game Six of the 2003 World Series. And it will certainly not feel like the 2004 ALCS. No, this is something Yankees fans, after taking it all in, will remember feeling back in the late 90s. Yes, start spreading the news, the New York Yankees are champions of baseball for the ...

Worth the Wait: New York Yankees Win First World Series in Nine Years

On the night of Nov. 1, 2001, I was sitting alone in the second-floor lounge of Shaw Hall on the campus of Syracuse University, having been banished there after cheering too loudly in the room of two Red Sox fans following Scott Brosius' game-tying two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth. After Alfonso Soriano singled home Chuck Knoblauch in the bottom of the 12th to win Game Five and take a 3-2 World Series lead on the Arizona Diamondbacks, I celebrated by obnoxiously banging on the door of the room ...

For Mike Mussina, Today Is Not a Good Day

Mike Mussina is one hell of a guy. High school valedictorian and Stanford graduate with a wife and kids, he even runs his own charitable organization, the Mike Mussina Foundation. He was also a great Major League Baseball pitcher, but you knew that part already. But today is just not a good day for him. Mussina, who may just make it to the Hall of Fame with 270 career wins and nearly 3,000 strikeouts, never won a World Series. After the New York Yankees hoisted a trophy for the 27th time in their ...

Hideki Matsui Powers New York Yankees to World Series Championship

If Mark Teixeira doesn’t beat you, then Alex Rodriguez will. If Alex Rodriguez doesn’t beat you, then Jorge Posada will. And if Teixeira, Rodriguez, and Posada don’t beat you, then Hideki Matsui will. Playing in perhaps his final game as a New York Yankee, Matsui went 3-for-4 with a home run, a double, a single, and six RBI, as the Yankees beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 to win their 27th championship. Matsui did the majority of his damage against Phillies’ starter Pedro Martinez, who didn’t have much last night. Martinez, who was ...

Baseball’s Captain: Why Derek Jeter Deserves to Be MVP

In Major League Baseball, the MVP award goes out at the end of the regular season. It goes to the athlete who has stood out as being the most valuable, above all the rest. To an individual player, it is a huge accomplishment and honor considered being the elite in your field. Within baseball, two players, one from the American League and one from the National League respectively, receive this prize each year. The award's terms incorporate the obvious, which are stats and production for the season. Baseball has more stats than any ...

$200 Million Buys the Yankees a World Series Championship

Very quickly, congratulations to the New York Yankees on becoming World Series champs. There was nothing overly dramatic about Game Six or the series in general; however, good for the Yankees for coming out on top. But for the New York Yankees organization, anything less than a championship this year would have been an utter disappointment. So after missing the playoffs for the first time in 13 seasons, they went out and snagged the best free agents on the market in the hopes of building another winning team. On Managing... ...

Yankees Win 27th World Series: Boss Man, This One Is for You

As the quote goes, "You can't script October." Well, that may be true, but there is no doubt this was the way for the Yankees to win their 27th World Series in franchise history. Andy Pettitte is baseball's Brett Favre, except without the diva portion. He is a great player who still looks and plays like he's 22. Mariano Rivera is the one man deserving to still hoist the great Jackie Robinson's No. 42. Jorge Posada and Derek Jeter are arguably the two greatest players, not only in Yankee history, but the ...

Yankees, World Champs: What Is Going Through My Mind Right Now

The Yankees are once again World Series Champions. Here is what I'm thinking right now: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, but there are other things too. There's the obvious things: the first win in the new Stadium, A-Rod winning for the first time, and Matsui being the first DH (and Japanese player) to win the World Series MVP. Oh, and the over-discussed comments about Joe Girardi changing to number 28. (For the record, I bet he will.) There's also the money discussion. The Yankees spending has finally paid off. CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, and ...

Phillies-Yankees: Game Six Notes, Watching the Guillotine

Coming into tonight's game, despite my love for Pedro Martinez, I knew that a win was going to be all on the offense. They weren't ever going to win a 2-1 game in New York, not against this offense, and not with this bullpen. There was hope that they could slug their way to a win, of course; the Yankee starters weren't used to working on three days rest, and the bullpen wasn't airtight. It's still a disconcerting way to start a game. I tuned in a little late, as part of my ...
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