my favorite number for many reasons now add yet another, Thank You Yankees for a memorable year, the end of a painful period for Yankee fans. We watched as front office politics, right wing politics invaded baseball. The owner of the team that was at the epicenter of steroids in baseball- Bush and the Texas Rangers, launches a crusade against steroids, and the fallout douses the Yankees, led by a partner in the Red Sox. Then it turns out the Red Sox have steroids too, if you believe they help players perform, then the Red Sox won to titles aided by steroids.
So in this season two idiot dragons were slain, the Red Sox pretensions at winning, and the myth of Yankees somehow at the hub of steroids. The Yankees seemed to lead the league in players whose trust and confidence in baseball was betrayed by political connivance or incompetence...you choose. I am gald to see it dead and buried.
Next season is already beginning, and the Yankees will demonstrate the loyalty to their success by holding on to some players, show that they have learned by letting some go. No doubt making some more great moves and some later to be regrets too. Matsui and Jeter, CC and Mo, Pettitte and ARod, even Damon and Melky these to me especially have given Yankee fans a great season, one to savor even while we relish the off-season race to the starting line.
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