Video: New School Protesters Beaten, Arrested (Again)
B&H Photo Video Sued For Gender Bias
Person Fatally Struck By G Train At 7th Avenue Subway Station
16-Year-Old Confesses To Shooting That Caught Girl In Crossfire
Sexual Harassment On Subways An "Underreported Crime"
- Yankees 7, Phillies 3: For the first time since 2000 and the 27th time in franchise history, the New York Yankees are the World Champions of baseball. The Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies four games to two behind the bat of Hideki Matsui and the solid pitching of Andy Pettitte. Matsui was 3-4 in the game, including two two-RBI hits off Phillies starter Pedro Martinez and two more RBI against Phillies reliever Chad Durbin. Matsui's first hit came in the 2nd inning when he crushed a two-run home run to right field to put the Yankees ahead 2-0. His second run scoring hit was a two-run single in the 3rd inning with bases loaded and two outs, putting the Yankees up 4-1. Matsui, who was 2-2 with a home run against Martinez in Game 2 of the Series, was found to be Pedro's "daddy" in a mid-game paternity test. In his third at bat, Matsui hit a two-run double off Durbin to put the Yankees ahead 7-1 in the 5th. Matsui, playing in what could have been his final game as a Yankee, finished the game with 6 RBI, tying a World Series record held by Bobby Richardson in 1960.
Pettitte, like CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett before him, pitched Game 6 on three days rest. While there was some question about how Pettitte would do on short rest, the 37-year old veteran with the most wins in MLB post-season history, pitched 5 2/3 innings, allowing three runs on four hits, but also allowed 5 walks. Pettitte was knocked out of the game after a two-run homer by Ryan Howard, which brought the score to 7-3. Pitching in relief for the Yankees, Joba Chamberlain pitched 1 inning before Damaso Marte came into the game for a huge two-out strikeout of Chase Utley with two runners on base. Marte faced one more batter, striking out Ryan Howard, before Mariano Rivera entered the game — to a special edition Enter Sandman sung by a fat lady — for the five-out save.
Pettitte, Rivera, Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada each won their fifth World Series title with the Yankees — one for the thumb, if you will. Following the game, Hideki Matsui was named the World Series MVP after going 8-13 with three home runs and 8 RBI in the series. - Devils 3, Capitals 2: The Devils were able to capitalize (mehehe) with two third-period power play goals by Niclas Bergfors against a Washington team that was without Alex Ovechkin. It was only New Jersey's second win of the season at home.
- Sabres 3, Islanders 0: Buffalo was able to avenge their loss to the Isles on Saturday and snap New York's four-game win streak.
- Nuggets 122, Nets 94: The Nets remain without a win, falling to 0-5, as the visiting Nuggets remain undefeated at 5-0.
- Pacers 101, Knicks 89: Indiana picked up its first victory of the season by outscoring the Knicks by 13 points in the 4th quarter.
Last Night's Action: Yankees Win 2009 World Series
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebookComments (59) [rss]
Post a comment (Comment Policy)
Tips
Newsmap
Contribute
Latest Tip:
Charming 2010 calendar of quirky illustrations and captions of New Yorkers drawn from life makes an
[more]
Fucking Yankees.
DAMN Yankees!
Clean it up Jen !
Sorry Jen, but he's right.
Fucking Yankees
the yankees - the mike bloomberg of sports.
screw 'em!
At least the classy Yanks Pettitte, Matsui and Rivera are the heroes instead of A-Roid.
Sad rat isn't so sad today
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/7015/barrat.png
Here comes the wave of Cheesesteak and Mets hate.
Best team money can buy. At least they have the slight decency to put Hal up front rather than the cringe inducing Hankenstein.
Congrats to the Yankees!!!!
Parade on Friday!
... and here comes the meathead parade ...
Oh well, at least the newer, spiffier Joe did what the older, washed up Joe failed to do for almost nine years if you catch my drift.
What a bunch of bitter douchebags you all are. I realize most of you are still tourists from Ohio and Indiana, but get a clue and pull for the home team.
That's 27!
tellin' it like it is.
Yeah, we ain't real New Jerseyites or Long Islanders or Westchesterites at all. C'mon...everyone hates the Yankees...it's what makes you smug pricks proud.
matsui must have banged kate hudson last night.
I'd like to think Hideki has better taste than Gay.Rod.
Hideki's married, anyway. Here he is with a sketch of her (guess he wanted to protect her privacy):
photo
HA!
It just shows that the legends never die. Yankees will always rule!
Now all those douches with the "26 Championships" crap will have to buy new hats, jackets, shirts, buttons, patches, posters, license plate frames, etc. Economic stimulus here we come!
When our Chinese overlords find out who stimulated their economy and who didn't, we douches will be spared as the rest are shipped to the salt mines.
Perhaps it's only me but baseball has always struck me as a lowbrow sport that appeals to the masses...
yes, you're the first person to ever utter such words.
OK, so you've never paid attention to it enough to see that it's arguably the most complex of the major sports. You're not alone; a good part of the clueless masses agree with you.
But the season's over, you can go back to watching "professional wrestling".
Well then, back to opera, caviar, and in-breeding for you, you genteel, noble soul.
Maybe you can look down your nose long enough to realize that the term "lowbrow" really doesn't carry with it any significance. It's a meaningless attempted criticism. A hollow word. It entails no evidence at all.
Now, "appeals to the masses"...now, you're saying something. Okay, so a lot of people enjoy it. And the problem would be?...(Sound of silence follows due to ignorance.)
sounds like you were last picked
Yankee haters can go choke, sad lot of human beings. Go Bombers!! Freddynyc your a true moron...
The definition of the delusional Yankee fan is a person who says "us" and "we" when referring to the team. Unless you are actually playing in the game, you had zero to do with the victory.
Budget cuts force cancellation of World Series winning riot.
It's amazing what $200 million can get you these days...
It's also amazing what $138 million can buy. http://letsgomets.vox.com/library/post/2009-mets-payroll-as-of-12509.html
Congratulations, Yankees! Well done.
good for the Yankees, they where the better team...
But this was no Wade Boggs on a horse moment. Was more like Goldman Sachs announcing quarterly profits.
and by my count, Andy said god over 20 times in his post game interview. I'm really just sad that god hates Philadelphia.
You sir (redhookreject) are a class act and I mean that. If your icon is to be believed you rooted for the other team and still gave credit where due. I salute you.
So finally I can admit something I've been pondering since the dark days of late 2001.
To recap the Yankees had a string of championships from 96 thru 2000 (interrupted only once, in 1997, due to hubris-induced collapse- parallel and similar to how billy clinton was almost derailed by his ego) and then, suddenly with all the talent and emotional narrative (post 9/11, broken hearted city) required to win it all, the yanks fell. and then in 2002, fell. and then in 2003 fell (to arizona no less) and then in 2004 (the biggest fall of all) and it continued that way...for just as long as Bush was in office. Yeh I know how that sounds but I've been sharing this view with a select few for years and I gotta say Republican presidential politics are these Yankee's kryptonite.
So let the Obama led Yankee dynasty continue. (unless the Mets some how sneak in there and take it all)
See ya at the parade, which to whichever corn husker suggested, does not come with riots in NYC. Paper buffoonery, yes. Victory riots, no.
It looked like half the stadium was filled with Goldman Sachs employees last night, at least the front rows of people you could see on TV. Lots of Blackberry shuffling and distracted glances in the 7th and 8th innings, when any other ballpark would have been going insane with a 4 run lead about to win the world series.
I'm pleased the Yankees won, but not the way I have been in the past. It was more a relief than anything else.
I heard that during the game, some guys in the Goldman Sachs luxury suite sold Iceland to a chinese construction firm for $185 million.
Only ONE suite?
I find the whole "bought the series" salary argument absurd. At the end of the day what ever you call it a club, a team, an organization, etc...the NY Yankees are first and foremost a business. They invest in great talent as well as develop talent in the farm system. It takes a lot of work for a team to win and "buying" a championship implies simply laying down cash and having it handed over to you. It's amazing that the anti Yankee contingent can so easily disregard all the hard work it takes to get there. As as for the "we" and "us" argument in every single interview the players thanked the fans. If you've ever attended a game at the stadium then you are very much aware that the fan support is vital to the dynamic of the team.
I'm a firm believer in the best team always wins and in this case it was the New York Yankees. Don't like the Yanks? Suck it up and move along.
The payroll argument was sure as hell brought up when the Yankees weren't winning it all. It was shocking when the team with the highest payroll failed to make the playoffs last year. That a low rent team like the Tampa Bay Rays even made it to the World Series-the heresy!!!! The Yankee nation was stunned! Something must be done. Cashman must invest and get more players!!!So when they finally do win the championship, their payroll can no longer be discussed? They invested approximately $50 million in three players-Burnett, Sabathia, and Teixeira. They didn't buy the world series, they bought the best available players—assembling a wrecking machine in the process.
Has anyone ever noticed that the Yankee-hating whiners who whine about the Yanks' payroll are somewhat akin to the affirmative-action whiners? Oh, they're richer than us, so we can't do as well...it's not a level playing field...boo hoo. Instead, of overcoming disadvantages, they whine about it.
Professional sports is not your typical business. It's not like Toyota having the upper hand on GM because of cash on hand. It's SUPPOSED to be a level playing field, and when it's not it undermines the integrity of the game/business/industry. That's why other pro sports leagues have salary caps, revenue sharing and the like.
the fact is that there is a level playing field. as level as in any professional sport. the fact is there have been 8 world series winners in the past 10 years. in your precious salary capped/profit sharing league, the nfl, there have been 7 super bowl winners in the past 10 years. 8>7, meaning that the playing field is more level in baseball? because more teams have won?
kind of destroys your theory when numbers are involved huh
and i'll take it a step further. the nba has a cap and there has only been 5 champions over the past 10 years.
As level as in any pro sport? When the Giants play the Eagles no one talks about money. But the Yanks outspent the Twins by over 200% and the Angels and Phillies by around 85% each. How that can be as level as a league where all the teams spend roughly the same on payroll is a mystery to me. And the fact that the Yankees spent poorly in the past doesn't mean anything. Have some more Kool Aid.
when the patriots play the lions does anybody think the lions have a shot to win? no. why is that? because they are an inferior organization that was run by a moron for years. if anything, the fact that the lions CAN'T spend their way out of their problems makes it that much more difficult for the lions to succeed.
and you proved my point exactly. the yankees spent stupidly for years and won nothing. do you have your numbers to back up your argument because mine are above, disproving your lame argument.
you lay out the same tired salary cap/profit sharing/socialist agenda and ignore the results of what ends up happening in the long run. all the cap does is make it easier for the best teams to win year after year because they know how best to manipulate the system to their advantage.
so until you can prove to me that more teams are winning in capped sports (thereby trying to argue that 8
It's irrelevent to compare how many different teams win in different sports. Basketball is all about a few players. Team Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen with the Three Stooges and they'll still win the title.
The Lions suck because they draft poorly, are coached poorly and play poorly. When the Patriots draft well, are coached well and play well that's not manipulating the system, it's performing better than their opponent. But they do it within a set of fair rules that apply equally to everyone.
And finally, while you can't buy championships you can buy yourself a much greater chance of winning one. The Yankees have proven both those things to be true.
just like i said, ignoring the be all end all, which is which system breeds more different winners. a level playing field should mean that more are successful, right? it is hardly "irrelevant" to state which league sees more winners. in fact, it is the most relevant thing there is in this argument. you are choosing to ignore the outcome of the system in place.
in baseball, if you suck, you are allowed to spend to stop your team from sucking. in football, if you suck, you're going to suck for a long time because nobody wants to play for or coach a crappy team.
Yeah, you're allowed to spend. But if you don't have the money then you can't.
when carl pohlad, owner of the twins died, forbes estimated that he was worth $3.6 billion. forbes estimates george steinbrenner's net worth at $1.3 billion. try again.
You can't fault a guy for not subsidizing the team with his own cash. I doubt Steinbrenner does that. None of them are in business to lose money. Show me that the Twins turn a $135 million/yr profit (the difference between what they spent and what the Yanks spent) that they don't invest in payroll and I'll be impressed.
glad you asked
http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/33/biz_baseball08_The-Business-Of-Baseball_Rank.html
actually, steinbrenner does subsidize his team. the yankees turned an operating loss of $47.3 million last year while the twins turned an operating profit of $23.8 million. the most profitable teams in mlb last year were the florida marlins and the washington nationals, two of the teams that take luxury tax money from george.
does this discussion need to go further or will you start paying attention to the facts/outcomes?
Yeah, and according to that chart the two teams that "lost" the most money are the Yanks and Red Sox, who both happen to own their own television networks. Where's that money accounted for? Gimme a break. Here's a chart that's more relevant:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/wire?section=mlb&id=4054660
Sucks for Nationals fans, but what do you say to Royals fans? They could sink their entire $7 million profit into payroll and still not make a dent. In fact, all these other teams could spend until they just break even and they still wouldn't come close to the Yankees.
I think this guy sums it up better than anyone:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/ben_reiter/11/05/yankees.construction/index.html
Money isn't the only thing, but it's an important thing. Nice talking to you.
the Yankees literally went from not making the playoffs to buying the three best free agents available by outbidding every other team to go on and win the world series. what is it about this argument that you don't buy?
The yanks may have the largest payroll, but when teams like the mets are rollin in $135 million a year, the least they could do is make the playoffs.
the payroll argument is bullshit. get some new material. the yankees are a new york legacy and in this case, this year, the best team.
Every other team CAN win, the Yankees are SUPPOSED to win. That's the difference and most years, it doesn't work out for the Yanks but this year it did, so NO BITCHING.
Jesus Christ you miserable people, who cares how much $ went back and forth, were you going to get it? No. So shut up and enjoy the damn moment - smiling is still free.