Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Washington Post: Tom Boswell: Yankees Are Monuments To Baseball Success
(www.washingtonpost.com)
posted 5 days ago 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 2Not at all. I was merely attempting to inject a bit of jocularity into the discussion.
All I really know is that, however they got there, the A's came into the final series needing to sweep the team ahead of them to win their division, and they got it done. They could have made it easier on themselves by winning their series in Arlington the week before, but they split it, and the Rangers at that point were doing exactly what they needed to do: tread water long enough. And the Rangers even salvaged a game from that putrid Angels series that followed. And then Oakland just handed them their ### :)
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