Crisis Stabilizing

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Readers, I'm facing yet another crisis. I hope to be posting again soon. Congratulations to the New York Yankees, the 2009 World Champs!

Like Sugar, Game 2 Is Sweet

The World Series features the best players in the world going after one of the most prestigious prizes in all of sports. Only about 700 men are blessed with enough talent to even have the slightest reason to believe that their Fall Classic dreams can become a reality. For AJ Burnett and the Yankees last night, reality got a little better, as they won Game 2. I am sure it was sweet as sugar.

Sugar is also the name of a feature film that looks at the other side of the pro-baseball spectrum: the guys who never make it past rookie and A ball. I've been wanting to see this movie ever since it came out last year. This week I finally got the opportunity.

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The 2009 World Series Preview

The Yankees will face their toughest opponent this postseason when they face off against the Philadelphia Phillies tonight at the new Yankee Stadium.

How do these two teams stack up against each other? Here's a preview:

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These Are Not The 2004 Yankees

Ladies and gentlemen, meet your 2009 American League Champions, the New York Yankees:

After the Yankees won the ALCS last night 4 games to 2, it was pretty clear that these are not your 2004 "choke's on us" Yankees. Actually it was clear before that, but for Yankee fans, it probably was hard to see the proverbial forest for the trees.

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Kevin Long Interview: LockerBlogger.com

I received an email yesterday promoting a new sports site called LockerBlogger. It's a sports social networking site. Pretty cool. Anyway, they wanted to tell me about an interview they did with Yankee hitting coach Kevin Long.

It's a good interview. Long talks about how different each player on the team is, how his approach for one player might not be the same as it is for another player. Also, his answer to the question of who he thinks would make a good hitting coach one day is pretty interesting.

Have a look:

Angel Stadium: Where No Yankee Lead Is Safe

Last night the Yankees played their last game at Angel Stadium for the year 2009.  The West Coast Chamber of Horrors has been closed down until next season (as far as the Yankees are concernesd. It remains to be seen whether the Phillies will set foot inside.).

With the exceptions of that last regular season series and giant trump card CC Sabathia, the Yankees never seem to get ahead against the Angels in Anaheim.  Just about every single time they get a lead at Angel Stadium, be it early in a game or late, they lose it.  Last night was a microcosm of life for the Yankees in La La Land.

Luckily, for the Yankees and their fans, the next game (and the one after it, if necessary) will be at Yankee Stadium. I'm pretty confident that they will take one of the next two games, but if they want to have a decent chance in the World Series, they need to win the Satruday game, Game 6. Otherwise, CC will need to pitch Game 7, which means he will not be available for Game 1 of the Fall Classic.

Go Yankees!!!!!!!!!

I Want To See CC Go Yard In The World Series

CC Sabathia, with help from Alex Rodriguez, has put the Yankees up 3-1 in the ALCS, one win away from the World Series. This is so exciting! It's exciting not only because he'd pitch in the Fall Classic, but there's a chance he could hit a home run.

He could do it. He has three career home runs. Here's the link to one of them:

Sabathia Goes Yard

[Photo: Simmons/Daily News]

Joe Girardi: All Guts, No Glory

The man's got guts. That's for sure.  Joe Girardi has at least that going for him.

Yesterday, Girardi removed a perfect David Robertson with two out in the 11th inning in favor of Alfredo Aceves. We all know what happened after that. The Yankees got beaten at their own walk-off game.

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Yanks Head To Disney Up 2-0: Is It A Small World, After All?

Thanks, in part, to miscues by the thought-to-be fundamentally-sound Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Yankees head to Anaheim up 2-0 in the 2009 ALCS. Andy Pettitte will be on the mound, trying to give his team a commanding 3-0 lead. If they win, I hope they'll be no fooling around by Joe Girardi. Just plug CC Sabathia in for game 4, Joe,  and wrap the darn thing up.

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