it is thanks to that team that I am a skeptic
i don’t belive that anything exists
we’re all just dreams/video games

why would the yankees laugh at them themselves? even if they play 50/50 ball rest of the way they still can get 100 wins. dumb novice writer trying to make famous of himself with a dumb collumn. like the nice person that i am, heres a tip…write something better that you didnt just copy from a 5 yr old…

Lead the league in ERA, WHIP, OPS, and runs scored. That’s total domination.

…that was 1998.

Just an amazing year. In the days before you had to pay for MLB gameday audio, I could listen to the games on my computer in my dorm on WABC Radio’s website, and every night it was the same story: Yanks win.

It’s pretty atypical for a team – any team – to post a .700 winning percentage over the course of a season.

1998 was the perfect storm. You had a team that was already very good, didn’t catch any bad breaks, and probably caught many, many good ones. They had a run differential of over 300 that season, which is truly incredible.

98 Yanks record after the Yankees had played game 139 this year. And the 98 Yankees were 100-39 at that point. That is amazing. Lets just hope this Years Yankees team doesnt follow suit with the ’01 Mariners. That would be a real pisser.

The ’98 Yanks had a very good lineup from top to bottom and good starting pitching and of course Rivera. Where they excelled and blew away every other team was in mddle relief. They had Stanton and Nelson who had career years and Mendoza for long relief as well. They lost something like 1 game all year when leading after 6 innings.

I have to disagree about the bullpens. I think that this year’s version is better than ’98s team. Going player by player:
The lefties: Stanton had a down year in ’98, with a 5.47 era and 13 hrs allowed.
                     Coke has been slightly better, with a 4.97 era and 10 hrs allowed.
                     Slight advantage: ’09 Yankees

                     Lloyd had a career year, with a 1.67 era and a 0.85 whip.
                     Marte was terrible in April-May, hurt May-August, fantastic September.
                     Advantage: ’98 Yankees

The long man: Mendoza went 10-2, with a 3.25 era
                           Aceves is 10-1 with a 3.72 era
                           Advantage: Even

The righty middle man: Nelson had a 3.79 era and 3 saves
                                           Robertson has a 3.29 era and 13.4 K/9
                                           Advantage: ’09 Yankees

The mop-up guy: Darren Holmes had a 3.33 era in 51.1 innings
                                Bruney has a 4.18 era in 32.1 innings
                                Advantage: ’98 Yankees

The closer: ‘98 Rivera had a 1.91 era and 36 saves
                     ’09 Rivera has a 1.72 era and 36 saves
                     Advantage: Even

The X-Factor: Phil Hughes – What can I say about him that you don’t already know?
                         Advantage: ’09 Yankees

And the final tally: ’09 Yankees win 3-2-2

…as of now, there is “only” seven, not eight, players sitting at 20 or more home runs on the ‘09 squad. In fact, as of today, there are eight players with 17 or more in 2009, just like the 1998 team had for the season, as it’s written in the article. 7 at 20 is a new team record, and is tying the MLB record. Jeter could set a new record with three more bombs.

The absolute GLEE in ’96, the disappointment in 97, and the JOY of 98 – 00. 01 sucked, then well…. Yeah… Here we are.