Although I was inwardly cheering just as loudly as anyone in Comerica Park yesterday, it's times like this that I get close to feeling sorry for the players on the Yankees, but also for Joe Torre and Brian Cashman. The bottom line in these short playoff series is that the best team doesn't always win. The Yankees had great teams in the late 1990s, but they also had a remarkable run of luck, which is an absolute necessity if you're going to win 4 out of 5 World Series, as they did.
And it's already begun. If you believe this, then Joe Torre's job is in jeopardy, and Brian Cashman needs to begin thinking about ways to get out of the no-trade clause in Alex Rodriguez' contract. But my favorite line in the article is this:
But, clearly, these last couple of postseasons would be failures on anyone's scale.
I suppose so, but perhaps it makes more sense to laud the Yankees for being the only team in the American League to make it to the postseason for the past two postseasons. That will never happen, but it goes a long way towards illustrating the reason that the Yankees deserve an extra bit of credit when they do go all the way - who in their right minds would want to put up with this all the time?
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