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MLB 2009 Season

Hours after guiding the New York Yankees to a World Series championship, manager Joe Girardi stopped along a suburban parkway on his way home to help a woman who had crashed her car into a wall, the Westchester Journal News reported.

Early Thursday morning, Westchester County police officer Kathleen Cristiano congratulated Girardi on the World Series win as he passed through a drunken-driving enforcement checkpoint, according to the newspaper. Yankees left-hander Andy Pettitte, who had started in the Series clincher, had passed through the same checkpoint earlier, she said.

About 15 minutes later, Cristiano was among the first responders to a one-car accident on the Cross County Parkway in Eastchester. She was surprised to again see Girardi, this time trying to flag down assistance, according to the report.

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The guy wins the World Series, what does he do? He stops to help. It was totally surreal.

The driver of the car in the accident, 27-year-old Marie Henry of Stratford, Conn., was able to get out of the car by the time police arrived, and she was shaken but unhurt, according to the report.

Girardi, dressed in a T-shirt and jeans, then told them he "had to get going," according to the newspaper.

"The driver didn't know it was him until after I told her," Cristiano told the Journal News.

In stopping to help, Girardi took a risk by running across the eastbound lanes of the parkway near a notorious blind curve, county Sgt. Thomas McGurn said, according to the report.

"He could have gotten killed," McGurn said, according to the report. "Traffic goes by at 80 mph."
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A statement from the Boss just made

The Steinbrenner Family and the Yankees Organization are extremely proud of the members of the 2009 New York Yankees for bringing a 27th World Championship to New York City and our fans, the greatest fans in the world. Every World Series victory is special, but this one is especially sweet coming in the first year in our new home.

"The 2009 New York Yankees proved that we are the best in baseball. We beat truly worthy opponents in the American League Division Series, the American League Championship Series and the World Series. As we did all season long, we fought hard, never lost focus and gave a true team victory. Our players have a lot to be proud of. This group will become legendary - similar to the 26 World Championship teams that preceded them.
 
all I care is that Stinkadelphia got pounded :p haha crass I know but its how I feel ;)
 
63dot said:
If 7 games is too small a sample to show the better team, how many games in a series would you think would reflect a better team winning a statistically significant amount of times more than their opponent?
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Oh, I don't mean that we should have longer playoff series, just that regular-season records don't mean much when the postseason starts. Obviously we can't have a best-of-25 series or something like that. Baseball has so much randomness to it that having a single-elimination, one-game round isn't particularly fair, so it makes sense to play multiple games. And the important thing is that everyone knows how many games you have to win. If you win them, you move on, and that's it.

The better team usually does win the World Series, so I've never thought of it as a problem. Every sport has unlikely champions and that's part of the fun.

And congrats to the Yankees for fielding the best team, both in the regular season AND in the playoffs. That hasn't happened very often in the last 10 years or so!
 
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