Posted on 04/18/2020 2:51:47 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
For most players and teams, the baseball season ends basically at the end of September. Play 162 games and go home. The Yankees' season, however, is like a run-on sentence; it just keeps going.
The Yankees, of course, like it that way. George Steinbrenner pays them well enough to cover the overtime, and if they win 11 games in October (and, for this year only, maybe November), they are champions.
They reached the requisite number each of the past three years and four years in the past five. It was that odd year when they fell short of 11 victories that irked them; 1997 was not a very good year.
''That was the first year since I was about 12 years old that I didn't watch the rest of the playoffs,'' Paul O'Neill recalled yesterday. ''Didn't even watch the games. It just made me sick to my stomach, because I knew we were going back again and we didn't. As I look back, that was probably the most depressing time I've ever had as a baseball player. It was just frustrating.''
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You must be having some serious withdrawal symptoms.
Yanks had a great dynasty in the late 90s and early 2000s in spite of this loss in the 1997 playoffs. It’s a cliche but you can’t win them all. Playoff series can be a crap shoot.
For George, it was not enough.
George pays the players to win, if they don’t win, it’s ERUPTION in Tampa.
How do you think the Indians felt?!
It is good to remember and look back at sports and entertainment galore.
From 1996 through 2003 they went to the World Series six times and won it four times. That was quite a run.
Indeed. Some unknown journeyman comes out of nowhere to slay a giant and promptly returns to obscurity. Alomar does not fit that description- a family with a great baseball pedigree (the Indians would go on to to beat the Orioles and his brother Roberto in the ALCS that year). But that homer against Rivera was probably the biggest hit of his career.
Reminds my of 1988, when the Dodgers were down two games to one against the Mets late in Game 4. Gooden on the mound and Mike Scioscia hits a two-run shot to tie it and the Dodgers win game 4 in extra innings, come back the next day to win Game 5, and eventually win Game 7 to win the series and go on to beat Oakland in the World Series. The last World Series the Dodgers gave won btw.
When the Phillies played the Yanks in 2009,it sickened me when A-ROID and carpetbagging fraud Damon ripped our hearts out.
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