Wednesday, September 24, 2008
And So It Ends
With Cleveland handing Boston a victory last night, the Yankees have officially been eliminated from the postseason chase for the first time since 1995. Most of us have known this day would come for a while now as their postseason odds have been at less than 10% since August 11, but it’s just weird. I’m not really upset or disappointed, because at this point making the postseason for the Yankees has just meant losing anyway, and this kind of feels like that.
So I’ll root for Moose to be healthy enough to make his last start of the year at Fenway and get win #20, or at least vulture a win from someone. I’ll root for Mo to get a few more shutout innings in and complete what arguably may be his best season ever. I’ll root for everyone close to hitting .300 to stay above it, even though I know batting average isn’t the most useful statistic around. I’ll root for Phil Hughes to make one more start and pitch well. I’ll root for the Yankees to sweep Boston in Fenway, because I dislike seeing happy Red Sox fans.
This is NOT a bad team. With the right moves they should be a contender again next year. Next week I’ll start looking at what went wrong and why the Yankees underachieved this year. Here’s an early hint for some people out there though, you can’t blame any one individual player, especially the best one on the team. Well, I guess you could, but you’d be wrong.
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