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Posted by Ed Valentine in New York Yankees
February 5th, 2008 at 4:53 pm ET |
The New York Yankees are dead. The American League East, and the American League in general, are now property of the Boston Red Sox.
The pre-season previews are already coming out as Spring Training approaches, and what I’m seeing so far is dismissing the Yankees. Check out this from Yahoo! Sports.
And then it wasn’t really about the New York Yankees anymore. Not the way it was, anyway, when four championships came in five years, running the big count to 26, decorating the baseball world in navy pinstripes and Yankees fans in glee.
No, just when it seemed the Yankees would go on forever, and Tino Martinez would always have one more good at-bat in him, and Derek Jeter would always lead champions, and Joe Torre would always find a way, baseball leaned instead toward parity, and then the Boston Red Sox took that too.
Eight of the last 15 World Series champions – and two of the last four – have come out of one division, the AL East. And now the AL East belongs not to the Yankees but to the Red Sox.
Maybe so, but I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the Yankees.
I don’t know about you, but I love the direction of this franchise. I am anxious to see how well the young pitching the Yankees are banking on — mostly Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy — develops.
I am anxious to see how many of the other prospects in their well-stocked farm system can make an impact in the next couple of years.
I am anxious to see what the Yankees do when gargantuan contracts like Jason Giambi’s, Mike Mussina’s and Bobby Abreu’s come off their books in another year.
With all the young pitchers they will be relying on, I don’t know if the Yankees have enough to make a World Series run this season. They may not even have enough to get to the playoffs. Who knows?
What I do know is that with the talented youngsters they have coming, and the resources they always have available, I wouldn’t go dismissing the Yankees just yet.
There may not be a title in the Bronx in 2008, but I feel confident there will be at least a couple more championship banners hanging in the new Yankee Stadium over the next 10 years.
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I like the start of your last sentence “There may not be a title in the Bronx in 2008…”
It’s refreshing. Let’s not all jump off a bridge if they don’t win it in ‘08, or make the playoffs for that matter. I have to agree with you: the young guns of Joba, Hughes, Cano, Kennedy will be exciting to watch.
Indeed. We’ve been spoiled. We as Yankee fans are not entitled to AL East and World Series titles. We will have a very good, interesting team to watch. If it wins, great. If not, so be it.
I totally agree with Ed. I am so looking forward to rooting for My Yankees from My Yankee far system. I want the team to stay together and form an identity.
I think this team will be very competitive this year, and outstanding next year. We might not make the playoffs, but we’ll have a great Yankee team to root for-not a bunch of overpaid hired guns. Let Cashman do his thing. I think it will be great.
Excuse me Grim, is the title of this post coincidence ?
WOW, this is weird!!! Yankee fans being ok with their team not making the playoffs for a year!!
Weird? Hardly. Just another sign that the George Era is over. No more desperation trades of prospects for overpriced, over-the-hill “names” at the July 31 deadline. I can live with that.
Now just go out and get me some good middle relief.
Refreshing! Yes indeed that there are others out there who can appreciate building a franchise from the ground up. With the advent of free agency I became wrapped up with George going out and coraling big name talent for us. Then when some of that talent didn’t pan out so well or went south, how apathetic I was toward those players. No problem George will just go out and get someone else. Then it became a situation of the Have’s and the Have Not’s. That didn’t sit to well with me. But it became exciting when a Mattingly, a Rivera, Pettie, Posada, Jeter and now the group of youngsters. Keep up the good work Brian and Co. This is truly a blessing, a light in the darkness. Go Phil, Joba, Ian, Chien Ming, Robby and……..
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Throwing mega millions at such greats as Kevin Brown, Jared Wright, Randy Johnson, and Carl Pavano has not produce anything for the Yankees. The late 90s Yankees were built on a good farm system and smart trades. I find that easier to cheer for that than a group of over paid egotistical cry babies.
Plus it’s exciting to see who the next Cano or Ching-Ming Wang might be.