The Phillies played a gutsy Series, particularly considering that they wound up with only one viable starting pitcher. But the Yankees proved themselves once again the best team in baseball and, with 27 world championships, 3x the number of any other club, they remain the most successful franchise in all of sports. Perhaps most importantly for the present moment, they have banished the ghosts of 2004, defeating Pedro Martinez twice and wresting the title of Team of the Decade from the Boston Red Sox, who had as many world championships in the 00's, but only half the pennants and merely one-eighth the division titles.
What is most amazing about this championship is the crucial play of the men of the nineties, a 35 year old Jeter, who hit 400 in the Series, after hitting 334 all season, a 40 year old Rivera, who was again little short of perfect, a 36 year old Posada, who had the key hit in Game 4, and a 37 year old Pettite, who amazingly won everty clinching game this postseason, boosting his record number of playoff wins to 18, and with his 230 plus regular season wins, making a strong case for hall of fame consideration.
The cream has risen to the top once more and it is sweet indeed. For all you Yankees haters out there, like JackassChicago and Stab (yourself in the face), know that your disgust makes it all the sweeter.
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So I will be entirely straightforward with you. You know nothing at all about baseball, which is why you cannot respond to excellence except with the ressentiment that marks you as a loser even more clearly than your sorry ass prose. Now why don't you go to bed and sniffle some more about how Joe Nathan isn't really the choke artist his performance in the postseason seems to indicate.
I don't live in the New York metroplex. I live in Illinois, just like you. So my view is "what it looks like" out here in the fields just as surely as yours is. As for the snapshot, consider this: the Yankees have played in ten full decades. In those ten full decades they have been the team of the decade 7 times (20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 90's and 00's). That my friend is not a snapshot, it is an epic movie, The Longest Day, combined with Gone with the Wind, with the Godfather trilogy thrown in. But thanks, I will enjoy it, and I hope whatever team you root for wins one soon so you can enjoy it (provided that is that you don't root for the Red Sox).
Hold on, gotta run to the dictionary to check out "ressentiment"... re-sentiment? sentiment again?
Well, it's a bummer to hear I know nothing about baseball. I love baseball. I hope someday to know something about it. Like how I'm supposed to be impressed by a team that wins championships when they are able to spend twice or three times or 5 times the amount of money other teams are able to spend.
Clearly you want fans of your vanquished opponents to bow down. Do it on our teams' payroll and we will.
Oh, and the old "oh your owner is just a cheapskate and our owner cares about us and our team so he SPENDS the money... don't whine cause your owner is a cheapskate"... um, yeah, check your Forbes lists of team valuations. The Yankees have twice the amount of cash as the #5 team in MLB... lots of teams would be operating at a severe loss if they tried to pony up like the Yankees can. So... my team's owner is supposed to act in a fashion that would make him the laughing stock of the business community just so he can appease the puerile ignorami like myself who have nothing better to do with their lives than the whine about the fact that their team can't compete with the Yankees?
dagnabbit... looked up ressentiment... I lose on that one.