People on this thread who say they hate the Yankees, haven't said who their team is. I doubt its the Angels.
I congratulate the Angels. They out played the Yanks all around and deserved to win.
I knew there was something not right this year. It was the combination of losing colorful baseball personalities in O'Neil, Brosius and Martinez and replacing them with low key guys like Mondesi, Ventura and Giambi. Good players for sure, but never known as team leaders. Rondell White was a bust and Jeff Weaver has a long way to go before he's taken seriously. The Yanks of 1996-2001 are gone and it will take a while before these current crop of Yankees, show if they have what it takes to win in the post season.
Next year should be real interesting.
I'm still in shock. It seemed like a better team this year -- last year, I was upset that they lost in the last inning of the last game of the World Series, but the Yanks had basically gotten there on a wing and a prayer as it was. This year seemed like a more solid team, but I never saw them play as sloppily this year as they did against the Angels. The thought crossed my mind more than once while watching today's debacle that they were throwing the game -- that's how badly they were playing. I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but they just didn't seem to have it this postseason.