The Yankee victory in Game 1 should be the most ominous sign of all. They usually lose when they win the first game, don't they?
They lost Game 1 in the World Series last year, but lost the series. But they've also won Game 1s before and won series, as well as lost them. There's not necessarily a correlation. At any rate, baseball is a marathon, not a sprint, so I don't get to dancing in the streets over one game. I found it annoying when Yankee-haters trash-talked the Yankees when they lost Game 1 against the Twins, so I'm not going to consider the series won because the Yankees won game one this time.
Fox showed a graphic last night that showed the Bombers are something like 7-1 in the ALCS all time.
Now lately in the Series it has been a different story.