<p>WIN!!!</p>
<p>100 wins on the season, best record in baseball, Cano and Jeter most hits of a double play team since 1800 something…19 wins for CC, AL division title…</p>
<p>did I miss anything?</p>
<p>So happy that old man Pettite got the win.</p>
<p>Love the Yankees! But don’t want to jinx them…</p>
<p>^^^ Jinx jinx jinx.</p>
<p>Steinbrenner is the devil incarnate.</p>
<p>(But Jeter really is pretty cool, even I as a Red Sox fan have to admit that…)</p>
<p>Ya gotta give it to Jeter. No matter which team you love.</p>
<p>Yeah, Jeter is like a fine aged wine…better as times goes by.</p>
<p>What a class act he has always been.</p>
<p>Jeter is fine–yankees on the whole represent what you get if you double what everyone else can spend. The mystery is why they don’t win 100 games every year…</p>
<p>That just proves that the money isn’t what wins it. They haven’t won the World Series since 2000 despite having the highest payroll each year. So if they win it this year, it can’t be just “because of the money.” It’ll be because they haven’t had as dominant a no. 1 starter as Sabathia since Guidry, or as good a late inning combination as Hughes and Rivera since Rivera-Wetteland in 1996, or as good a shortstop-second base pair ever (especially offensively), or as balanced a lineup in I don’t know how long.</p>
<p>It’s really nice to see Jeter, Rivera, Pettite and Posada get a chance to win another championship, and to see three of the four play today, with Pettite getting the win and Rivera the save. I remember when they were all rookies in 1995, the year before they first won it all. </p>
<p>As someone who’s been a Yankees fan since 1966, and saw Mickey Mantle hit a home run in the very first game I ever went to, in April 1967 – let’s go Yankees!</p>
<p>Donna</p>
<p>Best team money can (or can’t) buy. This year the Mets again are the team money can’t buy.</p>
<p>Donna–the fact tht they couldn’t win every year with all the money, that’s the mystery. And their payroll sure hasn’t hurt them this year.</p>
<p>NJres–point well taken. Loads of inside problems, but one of the worst rash of injuries in the history of b-ball, too. I dunno, I’m just glad I’m a NY Giants fan at this point. Baseball is a fading mirage. (But could become a nightmare with a Yankees/Phillies WS…I’m routing for LA/LA myself…or, well, anything else.)</p>
<p>If you want the team money can’t buy look at last year’s Mariners…first team with 100 losses and a payroll over $100 million…not a proud season.</p>
<p>I’ve never been a big Yankees fan (just because we don’t live near) but just finished reading “The Yankee Years” by Joe Torre. Great read with lots of great explanations how the franchise has been run. Also great info about major league baseball and it’s inner workings. I felt like I got to “know” some of the players that gave interviews for the book. Really enjoyed the book and will enjoy watching the Yankees more now. Also, really like Joe Torre now.</p>
<p>These Yankees sure do resemble the ‘old’ Yankees of 1996, 1998.</p>
<p>And old man Petite did it again.</p>
<p>Hope they can look like this against the Angels!</p>
<p>And the Yankees WIN again!</p>
<p>So Jeter gets a chance for a seventh World Series appearance, ARod his first.</p>
<p>Not sure that the Yankees won so much as the Angels uncharacteristically lost it.
East Coast Series, Yankees and Phils.</p>
<p>Go Phillies! Should be a good series. SRO tickets I’ve seen are going for over $600 Too rich for my blood.</p>
<p>H and I are native New Yorkers, now living in Philadelphia. I was a Mets fan as a kid, but H, growing up a diehard Yankees fan, has loyalties that are now really torn. Our S lives and breathes the Phillies and the Eagles, so H has slowly come around to rooting for them. I think he’ll continue to do so outwardly, for S’s sake, but will be secretly pleased if the Yankees win.</p>
<p>Should be a good series! I also have mixed loyalties, Booklady. I grew up in Phillies country (Wilmington) and now live amongst rabid Yankee fans in CT. When I was in high school the Phillies won & I remember about 1/2 the student body went into Philly for the parade.</p>
<p>I think the Phillies win this thing again. GO PHILLIES!!!
I am sad that my (step)father waited his whole life for the Phillies to do something and he died last year right before the playoffs.</p>
<p>I grew up watching the Phillies at the old, old Connie Mack Stadium. Lots of fond memories there, although I haven’t lived in that area for a long time. I had divided loyalties in '93 when they were playing my hometown team in the World Series and I have to admit that I cheered Joe Carter’s homerun to win it for the Jays. I was there that night and it’s one of my favorite sports experiences in a lifetime of attending all kinds of sports events. I was happy when the Phils won it last year and will be cheering them on against the Yankees this year.</p>
<p>I have always been a Tiger fan (live in Detroit area) and a Red Sox fan (unexplainable).</p>
<p>I have always hated the Yankees, good or bad.</p>
<p>So I guess it’s Go Phillies!</p>
<p>MomofWildChild – unless your stepfather was under 30 when he died, he DID have a chance to see the Phillies “do something” in 1980 (presumably when ELY was in high school). They had a pretty good run back then – won their division 5 of 8 years 1976-1983, two National League pennants, and one World Series win. Can’t complain too much about that, although people around here manage it.</p>
<p>Remember, folks: Essentially this same Phillies lineup blew up C.C. Sabathia the last two times they saw him. In Game 2 of last year’s NLDS, they had a five-run 2nd inning, including Shane Victorino’s only career grand slam (I think it was his only career grand slam). Last May, they had him beat in an interleague game at Yankee Stadium, before Brad Lidge blew the save and then the Phillies won it anyway in the 11th. They seem to match up well against Sabathia.</p>