Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Washington Post: Tom Boswell: Yankees Are Monuments To Baseball Success
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posted on May 21, 2013 at 02:30 AM by The Yankee Clapper to aging, great baseball players, injuries, pennant race, veteran leadership, yankees
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Boz pays homage to the gritty, gutsy, scrappy, first place 2013 underdog Yankees:
Read More...Perhaps for the first time in their history, the Yankees now epitomize exactly the kind of team that always used to try to beat them: a group of inspired-by-adversity, too-old-or-too-young, one-last-chance players who band together to prove that baseball is a team game, not just an aggregation of talent and fat contracts.
Put a few all-star seasons, such as Cano’s 31 RBI, Kiroda’s 1.99 ERA and Rivera’s 16 ...
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1. Joey B. has ignited his October #Natitude posted on September 25, 2012 at 08:01 AM # hit 0 | hit 0I agree. Atlanta needs one more win or a loss for the Dodgers and Brewers to wrap one spot, and while the Cardinals don't have an easy schedule (after this series) their last six games are at home with the Nats and Reds, both of whom will be setting playoff rotations.
The Pirates' last six games are also at home, with the Reds and Braves who will both be in postseason mode. I don't know if that will help; the Bucs have been playing teams who have little incentive for most of the last month and have been awful, and winning seven of nine after being in free fall since the middle of August is going to be a tall order even considering the schedule.
FWIW, no team has ever finished under .500 after being sixteen games over during any point of the season.
-- MWE
You do know they play their last 6 games against the two best teams in the NL? If they split the next two in Houston (Jaime Garcia has always been terrible on the road) and go 2-4 after that, all Milwaukee or LA has to do is go 7-2. It's not like it's a 100-to-1 longshot.
Interesting. If memory serves, the '85 Cubs were 34-19 at one point and ended up under .500, but do they share that distinction with anyone else?
They'll be wearing the uniforms of the two best teams in the NL, but don't expect them to be the same players who earned those records. Davey Johnson is already on record that he will be resting his regulars.
wish the crew had wandered into washington a week later. the nationals had everyone in place versus the brewers.
alas
Maybe you were thinking of the 77 Cubs ... on June 28 they were 47-22 and finished the season exactly 500. That's way more impressive than the Pirates. Well, depending on how you define impressive.
McCutchen MVP chances aren't in the top 20 worst parts about this Pirate collapse.
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