For the first time since 2003 the Yankees are heading back to the World Series.
You make that sound like a long time?
They should be in the WS every year and win it. Borrrring.
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You make that sound like a long time?
They should be in the WS every year and win it. Borrrring.
I agree. It's an insane team and should win by a large margin. Takes the fun out of it imo when you buy your way into this. Phillies...take them out! Angels sucked this series and beat themselves all over the place. Congrats Yankee fan (puke
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I guess. You can't say that the team is 'insane' and that the Angels beat themselves. It's an oxymoron! The Angels could have won this series but Figgins and Abreu didn't hit. Thank God or whatever alien life out there that likes the Yankees. WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This has been a long time coming!
This has been a long time coming!
Long list of reasons the Angels lost. Figg and Abreu not hitting and stealing, you can't win. All the errors they made. They just looked over matched..duh. The Yankees have a great team and should've put the lights out sooner. They need more people hitting heading into Philly's pitchers.
Would love a Philly sweep
I think the Yankees will be getting their fingers sized for rings. I guess I will watch the World Series. I didn't think the Angels had a good chance but at least they tried and were not shut out.
Long list of reasons the Angels lost. Figg and Abreu not hitting and stealing, you can't win. All the errors they made. They just looked over matched..duh. The Yankees have a great team and should've put the lights out sooner. They need more people hitting heading into Philly's pitchers.
Would love a Philly sweep
OK, my Mac brother, but keep in mind that the Angels committed 10% of the errors alll season in those 6 games. Saying the Angels should have lost sooner gives them no credit. They are a GOOD team. I knew this series would be tough and it was. They weren't overmatched. Maybe overpitched.
As for the Phils well we'll see them in a few.
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I honestly thought to myself heading into the ALCS that if the Yankees could put away the Angels, they'd be ready for whoever they faced in the WS. The Angels have had the Yankees number recently and I thought they would be the biggest obstacle to winning it all.
The Angels deserve a lot of credit. Despite the errors, the games were very competitive with no blow-outs (except game 4, kinda). I'm very glad that Sabathia didn't have to pitch a game 7 as I think Sabathia will end up having to match Lee inning for inning. I don't trust AJ with that...
The Angels deserve a lot of credit. Despite the errors, the games were very competitive with no blow-outs (except game 4, kinda). I'm very glad that Sabathia didn't have to pitch a game 7 as I think Sabathia will end up having to match Lee inning for inning. I don't trust AJ with that...
Okay guys,bring on all the Yankee man love If you think the Phils are going down easy,you got another thing comind. This will be a classic series,the Bronx Bombers vs the Broad St. Bombers Bottom line,It all comes down to pitching and defense...
Phils in Six...
If you think the Phils are going down easy,you got another thing comind. This will be a classic series,the Bronx Bombers vs the Broad St. Bombers Bottom line,It all comes down to pitching and defense...Phils in Six...
I will take your Phil's in 6 and see you a Yankee win in 6. I think the Phils will be strong at home....but I still think/hope the Yanks pull it out!
As soon as the Yankees won all the "haters" came out of the woodwork.
I think given the known "bandbox" quality of the new Yankee Stadium and Citizens Bank Park, expect a lot of high-scoring games this series. Fat chance we'll see a pitcher's duel this World Series!
I think given the known "bandbox" quality of the new Yankee Stadium and Citizens Bank Park, expect a lot of high-scoring games this series. Fat chance we'll see a pitcher's duel this World Series!
Not really true. The Yankees didn't really start massively outspending the rest of baseball until the Jason Giambi and Mike Mussina signings and then the Alex Rodriguez trade. (And even Rodriguez's trade wasn't as extreme as people imagined. The Rangers were still paying almost a third of his salary!) At the moment the Yankees payroll is as high as its ever been, around $210 million. If you're going to rant about the Yankees, at least use the right numbers.
I suppose one could argue that it started with the Clemens trade, but even that was a trade for prospects and players. It's not like the Yankees bought him outright.
That's exactly right. It was only when they started hiring mercenaries that they started falling short in the postseason. Expensive players don't guarantee playoff glory. It's mostly a regular season advantage.
I'm not sure you can really apply the same standards to teams before the amateur draft. Before the mid-1960s, a rich team like the Yankees really could buy any prospect they wanted. (For a while the Kansas City A's were practically their farm team. Seriously.) It's also difficult to compare with teams before free agency, since no one could literally buy a player before then (although there were ways around it).
Less remembered: the Yankees didn't buy Reggie from the A's. The A's traded him to Baltimore before the 1976 season, knowing that they couldn't pay him what he would demand at the end of that year. Reggie played one very good season in Baltimore before becoming a free agent. The A's lost Reggie because of free agency, not specifically because of the Yankees. At the time, the Yankees didn't want free agency any more than any other team did.
It's very easy to forget now that the Yankees haven't always been a dominant team, just a famous and wealthy one. The teams of the mid- to late-'80s were expensive but not successful. They went over ten years without making the playoffs. (Amazingly, the same years that Mattingly played there.) And the Yankees from about 1965 to 1972 weren't very good either.
I would go so far as to say that they haven't been a dominant team recently either. Dominant teams win championships (or come close) every year. The Yankees really haven't come close in six years. They haven't won a championship in nine. If they're buying championships, they've been wasting a lot of money doing it.
Slight digression: an even better example is the Dallas Cowboys, one of the wealthiest teams in the NFL. They get a lot of press, get a lot of people excited, and haven't won a playoff game since the mid-1990s. I really don't want to hear another ***** word from the Cowboys until they win a playoff game.
Seriously? You really believe that? Let's not pretend that any of us know how much any player was helped by steroids. And let's not give the players on our favorite teams the benefit of the doubt either. I'm sick of hearing about steroids and think everyone should just move on and take the stats with a grain of salt, but let's not sugarcoat anyone's career either.
Agreed. I think it could get pretty wild. Then again, both teams could suddenly forget to how to hit with runners on and we all look stupid. Isn't baseball great?
What kind of hitting coach will Mark McGwire be, ok here are some needles get hitting?
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4596303
And in happy news, ESPN fires Steve Phillips.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0wD1WEFYCiIamX6o3r2QZMYZ6uQD9BISM3O4
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4596303
And in happy news, ESPN fires Steve Phillips.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g0wD1WEFYCiIamX6o3r2QZMYZ6uQD9BISM3O4
It does seem like a weird hire, doesn't it? Not that McGwire doesn't have any knowledge to pass on to today's hitters, but you would think that the Cardinals wouldn't invite controversy that way. And is he now going to start talking to the press? Or stay mum on "the past"?
It seems like this will either be the beginning of McGwire's public rehabilitation or prove to be distracting to the team.
Like any Yankees fan has any room to comment on other players taking steroids
Will be interesting to see what kind of hitting coach he will be. What he did in the past doesn't matter. He's not playing.
The media circus already started during LaRussa's press conference a couple hours ago. They didn't seem to have any real questions, just questions about what McGwire did in the past. Mac is just going to have to come out and say "Look, I screwed up, I'm sorry, blah blah blah" to hopefully shut them up and not be a distraction next year.
The difference is that the Yankees don't have a hitting coach who lied to Congress about taking steroids.Like any Yankees fan has any room to comment on other players taking steroids
When did he lie? He pled the 5th, big difference. Whether taking the 5th was right or wrong doesn't matter, he never lied.
Didn't he originally say he did nothing wrong. Then all of a sudden he clams up about it. Like it or not but A-Rod admitted to it, far more then what McGwire has done.
Having McGwire as a hitting coach is like having a pedophile teach kindergarden.
well after watching both the nlcs and alcs, i think we can all say that the yankees are quite possibly one of the worst teams ive ever seen enter the WS. This series isn't even gonna be close. Phils in 5 cuz hamels screws up game 2. suck on that, white stains.
I'm not a huge fan of Baseball (Seeing as how the DC team Sucks ), but I did keep up with NLCS and ALCS. I wanted the Yankees and Phillies to win, and face off in the WS, so I'm pretty happy about that. I'm going to go with Phillies winning the WS.
), but I did keep up with NLCS and ALCS. I wanted the Yankees and Phillies to win, and face off in the WS, so I'm pretty happy about that. I'm going to go with Phillies winning the WS.NYs pitching is shaky at best, CC is gonna get hit outta the game by the 3rd inning. The middle of NYs batting line up is highly questionable... nobody I'd want on my team honestly, and to cap it all off, the defense struggles to get outs. I'm not sure how they made it this far.