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LARRY BROOKS WRITES THE BEST ARTICLE OF THE YEAR; IT'S BEEN DOWNHILL SINCE MO BLEW AZ
Topic Started: Oct 8 2005, 01:55 PM (68 Views)
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Right now, the Yankees have home-field advantage like the one the Confederates had during Sherman's march through Georgia

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AURA? MYSTIQUE? NOT HERE

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October 8, 2005 -- IN the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind that Yankees fans and sycophants seem to share, last year's ALCS never happened. Neither did the 2003 World Series or the 2002 first round.
And now, neither did last night.

The Yankees, as the truest believers and only the truest believers see, are invincible in the Bronx.

Sure they are.

There is no memory of the Yankees losing Games 6 and 7 of the ALCS to the Red Sox last year at the Stadium. There is no memory of the Yankees losing the decisive Game 6 of the World Series to the Marlins at the Stadium the year before that, or of losing the second game of the ALDS to the Angels at the Stadium the year before that.

And as of this morning, there is already no memory of last night's first round, Game 3, 11-7 loss to the Angels which has left the Yankees facing 2005 elimination as soon as this evening.

Who needs memories of negative events when the idea is to feel comfortable with, and confident in, the mystique and aura the monumental ballpark in the Bronx allegedly connotes?



Why let the facts contradict reality?

The reality is far, far more depressing. For after blowing the 6-5 lead they held after five innings last night, the Yankees have gone an embarrassing 8-10 at the Stadium in the playoffs since being dethroned by Arizona in the 2001 World Series. They have gone 8-10 at the Stadium these last four postseasons, even while going 9-8 on the road.

They have watched the Marlins and Red Sox celebrate stomach-turning series victories on their very own turf.

Home-field advantage in the Bronx is nothing more than an urban legend.

Anyone should be able to see that now, especially with the way the Angels rallied to take last night's game. Because last night's was a game the Yankees would not have lost during the good old days of the Joe Torre Dynasty.

Down 5-0 in the third, the damp fans were hurling invectives at Randy Johnson the way they once routinely threw flying objects at opponents.

"If I had bought a ticket to watch me, I would have booed me, too," Johnson said.

Saved by Aaron Small, who worked out of the first-and-third, nobody-out jam he inherited from Johnson in the fourth, the Yankees stormed back by getting four in the fourth and two more in the fifth to take a 6-5 lead the way they always used to storm back when necessary. At that point, it was surely time to get Small's shoe size to fit him for his glass slippers because the Angels clearly weren't coming back against him — not on the hallowed field that will be moving across the street in four years.

In the good old days, an opponent would have curled up and died in the Bronx jungle after that type of onslaught. The Yankees would have kept pouring it on.

These aren't the good old days.

Because the Angels not only didn't curl up in the fetal position, but also they never even flinched.

Instead, the Angels came right back themselves, taking the lead with two in the sixth against Small and then extending it with two more in the seventh and a couple of more in the eighth to turn Game 3 into a silent night.

Home-field advantage? The home-field advantage for which Torre should have pitched Mike Mussina in Boston in last Sunday's season finale rather than having him primed for the opener of this series?

Right now, the Yankees have home-field advantage like the one the Confederates had during Sherman's march through Georgia.

Home-field advantage in the Bronx in October? Other than in the eternal sunshine of the spotless minds of the Yankee fans and sycophants, there is no greater urban legend.

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October 8, 2005 -- IN the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind that Yankees fans and sycophants seem to share, last year's ALCS never happened. Neither did the 2003 World Series or the 2002 first round.
And now, neither did last night.

The Yankees, as the truest believers and only the truest believers see, are invincible in the Bronx.


He's so wrong.

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The reality is far, far more depressing. For after blowing the 6-5 lead they held after five innings last night, the Yankees have gone an embarrassing 8-10 at the Stadium in the playoffs since being dethroned by Arizona in the 2001 World Series.


That's not true.
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Oct 8 2005, 01:55 PM
Nail - Hammered - WE SUCK AT HOME IN A BIG SPOT!!
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Right now, the Yankees have home-field advantage like the one the Confederates had during Sherman's march through Georgia

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AURA? MYSTIQUE? NOT HERE

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October 8, 2005 -- IN the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind that Yankees fans and sycophants seem to share, last year's ALCS never happened. Neither did the 2003 World Series or the 2002 first round.
And now, neither did last night.

The Yankees, as the truest believers and only the truest believers see, are invincible in the Bronx.

Sure they are.

There is no memory of the Yankees losing Games 6 and 7 of the ALCS to the Red Sox last year at the Stadium. There is no memory of the Yankees losing the decisive Game 6 of the World Series to the Marlins at the Stadium the year before that, or of losing the second game of the ALDS to the Angels at the Stadium the year before that.

And as of this morning, there is already no memory of last night's first round, Game 3, 11-7 loss to the Angels which has left the Yankees facing 2005 elimination as soon as this evening.

Who needs memories of negative events when the idea is to feel comfortable with, and confident in, the mystique and aura the monumental ballpark in the Bronx allegedly connotes?



Why let the facts contradict reality?

The reality is far, far more depressing. For after blowing the 6-5 lead they held after five innings last night, the Yankees have gone an embarrassing 8-10 at the Stadium in the playoffs since being dethroned by Arizona in the 2001 World Series. They have gone 8-10 at the Stadium these last four postseasons, even while going 9-8 on the road.

They have watched the Marlins and Red Sox celebrate stomach-turning series victories on their very own turf.

Home-field advantage in the Bronx is nothing more than an urban legend.

Anyone should be able to see that now, especially with the way the Angels rallied to take last night's game. Because last night's was a game the Yankees would not have lost during the good old days of the Joe Torre Dynasty.

Down 5-0 in the third, the damp fans were hurling invectives at Randy Johnson the way they once routinely threw flying objects at opponents.

"If I had bought a ticket to watch me, I would have booed me, too," Johnson said.

Saved by Aaron Small, who worked out of the first-and-third, nobody-out jam he inherited from Johnson in the fourth, the Yankees stormed back by getting four in the fourth and two more in the fifth to take a 6-5 lead the way they always used to storm back when necessary. At that point, it was surely time to get Small's shoe size to fit him for his glass slippers because the Angels clearly weren't coming back against him — not on the hallowed field that will be moving across the street in four years.

In the good old days, an opponent would have curled up and died in the Bronx jungle after that type of onslaught. The Yankees would have kept pouring it on.

These aren't the good old days.

Because the Angels not only didn't curl up in the fetal position, but also they never even flinched.

Instead, the Angels came right back themselves, taking the lead with two in the sixth against Small and then extending it with two more in the seventh and a couple of more in the eighth to turn Game 3 into a silent night.

Home-field advantage? The home-field advantage for which Torre should have pitched Mike Mussina in Boston in last Sunday's season finale rather than having him primed for the opener of this series?

Right now, the Yankees have home-field advantage like the one the Confederates had during Sherman's march through Georgia.

Home-field advantage in the Bronx in October? Other than in the eternal sunshine of the spotless minds of the Yankee fans and sycophants, there is no greater urban legend.


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Article just reads like a rip-off of Olney's book.
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It's not that great of an article...Buster Olney wrote all the same stuff in "The Last Night of the Yankees Dynasty"
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ItalianStallion19
Oct 8 2005, 02:48 PM
It's not that great of an article...Buster Olney wrote all the same stuff in "The Last Night of the Yankees Dynasty"

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I knew it read it somewhere else before.
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