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Who would have thought that the Yankees would have reason to feel proud about a sweep over the Devil Rays? Well, the Yankees shouldn't feel proud, just satisfied, with their performance in St. Petersberg this week. Given their struggles against the Devil Rays this season, a sweep comes as a pleasant development, but that just shows how inconsistent this Yankee club has played all year. With Boston's loss to Oakland, the Yankees trail the Red Sox by just 1.5 games in the American League East and Oakland by a game in the wild card. Should be an exciting finish.
The Yankees, of course, are fortunate that their worst year has come in a terrible year for the American League. Boston's down, Chicago, the team with the league's best record, can't get out of its own way, and Anaheim and Oakland worry few out west. The playoffs will truly be wide open, and no team is guaranteed a spot (even the White Sox are just 4.5 games up on Cleveland now). Is this good for baseball? Gothamist loves excitement, but excitement is better when its between quality teams, which don't exist this year in the American League.
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It's not like the NL is overflowing with superiority. There are two excellent teams, Atlanta and St. Louis; San Diego may win the west with a .500 or sub-.500 record; and 4 decent teams going for the WC.
I enjoy the parity. Or I did until the Amazings ran into Atlanta and St. Louis on that road trip, and became the Mets again.
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Uhm...? Sour grapes much?!?! Guys like you make me laugh...
If you had said at the start of the season that the Yankees would lose Wright for half the season, Pavano and Brown for nearly all of it and that Johnson would be a shell of his former self and then take Giambi's "troubles" into account and that and the end we'd be 1 and a half back would you believe it? Me neither. Yet here we are, so much closer than we should be. And Boston lost who this year? No one right? Just Schilling for a bit? And there we are, at his heels - so no reason to celebrate?
Nonsense. Tons of reasons. What's Pedro
Martinez doing this October?
ari, you're kinda stacking the deck in comparing the yankees and their problems to the red sox and their problems. who did the red sox lose? pedro martinez! also, saying that randy johnson looks like a shell of his former self and then saying the red sox lost schilling "for a little bit" is a little incongruous... schilling hasn't been close to even looking as good as a shell of his former self this year. and factoring in kevin brown's injury problems is just silly. it's kevin brown. he hasn't been healthy for ages. the yankees knew that when they signed him.
We lost 3 pitchers, they lost one. We are 1.5 games back, behind last year's world series champs, and Yankee fans should have little to celebrate? That's just ridiculous. The Yanks got WAY further than they should have - that alone is impressive.
geez, ari, take a pill. the yanks aren't that great this year, and the mets actually were doing rather nicely for a time. do you get out much?