What was Mike Ferraro thinking? How could he send Randolph home?

Billy Martin was right, sometimes Fred Stanley should bat ahead of Reggie.

Omar Moreno?

Ugh, this team just kills me with the poor decision making

lets get it

Yankees are rolling thru this series and we should be all ready to celebrate number 27! Ed Valentine you are right! AROD has lifted all doubts from all haters! Damon with the best base stealing play i have seen in a long time! CC pitching his heart out on 3 days rest………TWICE! Jeter still doing what he has always done in the world series! Swisher getting out of his horrid slump! This team has come together and has showed the world that they are legit! Thank God for finally having 3 solid starting pitchers in our rotation! I love this team with the fire they have and consistent fight to win each game and the respect and class that this game deserves. Go YANKEES and great point Ed, I for one am loving this year and we are one win away. LETS GO YANKEES!

My answer to your question, Ed, would be “in the post-game wrapup”. In the comments there, and the end of the game overflow thread(s), is a lot of happiness.

But, to recap: I am on Cloud 9 today! It’s been 9 years since the Yankees’ last WS title, and while I know that is not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, it has felt like forever. I can’t wait to stop hearing “How many titles has your team won this century?” from Masshole fans. I can’t wait to shove all the payroll bashing right down people’s throats. If that sounds mean, it’s due to all the crap I’ve taken as a lone Yankees fan in anti-Yankee territory this past ten years.

As far as the game goes, where does one start?
- CC was pitching on short rest, against a team with a strong history against him, on the road. What did he do? Only churn out the latest in his string of quality starts, 6.2 IP, 3 ER, major league gutty performance.
- When CC is struggling, as we was early last night, does anyone call for the hook? No. Not like they do with AJ, Andy, and everyone else. And why? Because we all know CC will get it together eventually, put this team on his back, and carry them to the late innings, no matter what.
- Johnny Damon, looking at the end of his contract, and perhaps the end of his Yankee career, down 1-2 to Lidge. He barely nicks a slider, and I swear to God I thought he’d struck out right there to end the inning. But he had not, he had survived, and he continued to battle. Until he finally got to Lidge, not just hitting a single but cracking Lidge’s fragile confidence.
- Johnny D again, with one of the most heads up and gutsy WS moves I’ve ever seen – a double steal that completely turned Brad Lidge upside down.
- And then Alex, plunked for the third time earlier in the game, seeming like he was struggling to find his swing. All he does is get the biggest hit of his entire, HoF-worthy career. And he does it with class, giving all the credit afterward to Johnny.
- And then the stadium starts to empty, because everyone knows who’s coming into the game. The GOAT – Mariano Rivera – and that’s all she wrote.

Who can be anything other than happy today?? I have a huge grin on my face as I type this, because I love this team. It’s been special all season, and all they have to do now is be special for one more game.

I LOVE THIS TEAM!!!

we are one win away from 27! i mean 27! whenever i keep thinking about that number i get all happy. Magic number is one. GO YANKEES! one win away from officaily telling my red sox fan nehbior to suck it!

Both can exist. This is why I love you guys. We thoroughly examine the ballgame. I’m not saying I agree with it all. But it’s all out hear.

in the refrigerator of my one-bedroom apartment.

what can i say? i live large.

This is freakin’ great! Thus far

My only issue is with how bad FOX Sports’ coverage sucks, but hey, I guess it will be all the more satisfying when those d-nags have to sit and watch the Yanks celebrate.

Although the classic yankee fan wants to find the bad we must rejoice in the good. Its what makes us as fans different from the rest of the league. We want perfection and we demand it. Yes i agree with this post about praise for the yankees and we should be ready to recieve our 27TH CHAMPIONSHIP. On the other hand lets never forget we go to every game sit there the whole time and chew out our own players, and it makes the atmosphere great and makes our guys play all the harder. I say lets just pound this retards for a win and then we can praise till the cows come home. LET GO YANKEES!!!!! LETS GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!! LETS GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!

that’s all I can say.

That was about as good a win as an away game can get (2 outs in teh bottome of the 9th? Damon? A-Rod?).

That said Ed…we’re all probably giddy with anticipation…but it aint over yet. While I expect them to win today….I also know Cliff Lee is a hell of a pitcher and that’s the sort of guy you want on the hill if you want to extend a 3-1 series (as AJ Burnett is every bit the pitcher I want on teh hill to clinch a WS….)

We just kinda don’t wanna jinx anythig…

plus…I’m still cursing out the damn Giants.

Yanks win two in Philly to go up 3-1 and the Vols beat “the old ball Coach” 31-13. Now for the icing on the cake, win tonight and celebrate on the Phillies turf!

I’m happy that the Yankees are one game away from winning their 27th ring. If not for them winning that game last night, I would have been in a very bad depression today. the Giants losing their third straight game in dramatic fashion has got me in the dumps. Hopefully, the Yanks will get the win and give me a boost. After that, we will still have to tend to the issues Big Blue are having. There are multiple areas of concern with them which I will not go into here on the Yanks page.

GO YANKEES!!!

MAYBE THEY ARE THINKING ABPOUT 2004?GET WITH IT YANKS FANS THIS PITCHING ROTATION IS 10 TIMES BETTER

I don’t think a smile has left my face since about 11:15 last night. WOW, what an ending.

Happy enough?