Blog Focus: The New York Yankees are Back in the World Series
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For the first time since the year 2000, despite spending more than $100 million in payroll every year, handing out big contracts to the likes of Carl Pavano, Jaret Wright and Jason Giambi, the New York Yankees finally found the right combination of high-priced talent to get them back to the World Series.
The will face the Philadelphia Phillies, the defending champs, but of course the Internets were busy talking about the Yankees today.
The LoHud: "I’d guess the Yankees will use four starters – Chad Gaudin being the fourth – and pitch them in this order: Sabathia, Burnett, Pettitte, Gaudin. If the Yankees were trailing in the series I could see using Sabathia on short rest in Game 4 but a fourth starter is pretty much a necessity; otherwise, you’re asking two guys with health concerns (Pettitte and Burnett) to also go on short rest in their second starts and I just don’t see that happening."
Pinstripe Alley: "First, a tip of the cap to the Angels for a great series. As much as we like to complain about our hitters not coming through, it was because we faced one of the best pitching staffs in the league. These were some of the tightest games I can remember- the margin of error in every game but Game 4 was razor thin."
River Avenue Blues: "Baseball experienced a welcome change in 2008. From 2002 through 2007, the World Series featured at least one Wild Card team. Some of those teams — notably the 2002 Angels (99-63) and the 2004 Red Sox (98-64) — could make a case for being there. But in other years it was an inferior team getting hot at the right time and knocking off better teams. That’s the idea sometimes, but to have a Wild Card team in the World Series for six straight seasons? That’s a bit much, at least to me."
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