Lets Go Yankees!!

Baseball season is almost over and football season is taking over the season, at least as far as sports go. Football is on everyone’s minds now especially since most of the baseball teams have been eliminated due the playoffs. This is probably true for almost everyone who is not a Yankees, Angels, Dodgers or Phillies fan, since those are the only teams that are remaining in the 2009 postseason. For fans of those teams it is probably the most exciting time of their lives especially in my case, since I am Yankees fan and they have not won the World Series in a long time, and this is somewhat of a redemption season for them.

The Yankees are almost to their goal that they set when the season began. They went out and got more players to improve their roster, and are well on their way in the postseason, especially after sweeping the Twins in the first round of the playoffs behind strong pitching from two of the three big people that were brought in to improve their team. CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett are having an amazing postseason with their earned run average under two. This is different from the previous Yankees teams that have made the postseason, as they have always been carried by strong hitting unlike this year when they have been carried mostly by strong starting pitching.

The third player that was brought in to improve the team was Mark Teixeira. He is a first basemen and is probably one of the best young players in the major leagues. After a slow start to the season he picked his offense up and now is in line to win his first regular season MVP or most valuable player award for the American league. He has not only brought over his strong batting skills but also a spectacular glove over at first base. Sometimes is seems like nothing gets by him, that’s how good he can be.

Now, getting back to the post season, the Yankees are one game away from going to the World Series which is the goal for almost every team in the league when the season begins but only two get the chance to play in this matchup between the two best teams from the national and American leagues. The Yankees are in line to play the Phillies in the World Series as both of them are up 3-1 on the opposing teams and it is very unlikely that either team will end up losing the series after such a big lead over their opponents.

This post season has brought the resurgence of Alex Rodriguez who admitted to doing steroids when he was with the Texas Rangers at the beginning of his career. Usually A-rod is a spectator in the playoffs, barely getting any hits and never getting on base. This all has changes with the Yankees bringing in new players and helping out A-rod. He is in line to break many of the post season and all time records and is probably the best player in the league right now. He should be named the World Series MVP if the Yankees end up winning the whole thing.

On the other side if the spectrum is Derek Jeter, who has been doing his part in helping the Yankees by doing the little things like playing defense and getting on base any way he can. He has also blasted some homeruns along the way which is very unusual for Jeter as he is mostly a singles and doubles hitter, mainly trying to get on base and create havoc, but who is complaining.

The Yankees are playing the Angels who have eliminated them from the playoffs the last two times the Yankees have made the playoffs, so this series is in some ways retaliation to the last two post seasons when the Yankees were totally overmatched by the Angels. This postseason is a different story with the Yankees getting on top early and often and not letting the Angels ever feel like they are in the game to win it. This makes it very difficult for a team as good as the Angels to believe that they can actually beat the Yankees.

Most people would say that this Yankees team is unlike any of the past Yankees teams, which I would agree with since they are now in a new generation of Yankees since the last time they won the World Series, but they are also in some way the same as those legendary teams from the previous championship seasons. This Yankees team has the same swagger that the old Yankees teams used to have which went away for a while and therefore resulting in them not winning any championships for so many years. This year the Yankees take the field with the belief that they can win every game and there is no team that can beat them on any given day which is exactly like the Yankees from the old days. This new found swagger had helped them reach this far into the playoffs and will hopefully help them win the World Series, which Yankee fans have waited a long time for.