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1-0 series lead for the Yankees with Pettitte & Pavano going tomorrow. Hopefully Pettitte is halthy and gives them some good innings.

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I enter the post season with my finger nails intact each year & start to lose them drastically, as soon as the post season starts! :D

Good win, let's see if Andy can make it two tom. night.

Night Yankee land :tu

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Twins blew it. Neither starter had their best stuff, and they had their chances later in the game too. First time I've seen a call go against NY in the postseason in the 9th there. Sigh...god I HATE NY.

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You are GOOD!!!:tu

1-0 it is.

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:tpd:

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Gotta feel like groundhog day for the Twins with another lead going up in smoke.

Kinda feel sorry for them, and not looking much better with that bum Pavano on the mound for them today.

On a bright note, most of their post season wins against the Yankees come in NY....

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Eh, CC wasn't great the hole game but Liriano was lights out until the sixth.

I'm really hoping they clean Pavanos clock. I hate that guy, happened to be lucky enough to be at his last game in pinstripes and his first game back after they cut ties with him. He was on the receiving end of some of the best booing i've ever heard :D

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Let's go Yankees!!!

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Twins had to chances with guys on with two outs and both times were struck out to end the inning. They had their chances. I hate losing to the Yankees more than anyone.

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Carl Pavano did nothing to help the Yankees when he was on the team, so let's hope he can earn a little of that money he got from them by getting hammered tonight.

Speaking of getting hammered, Rangers are beating Rays again, and are on the verge of going up 2 games to zip. Gotta love playing the Twinkies as the wild-card. :tu

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The Rays limped into the post season just like the Yankees so I'm not totally surprised by the developments with Texas.

Personally, I don't look at avoid anyone in October as that's not the way a champion thinks.

Whole nuther season and warmups are over.

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2 down, 1 to go.

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Yep. Good game :tu

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Just sayin'....

http://www.jpetrie.net/wp-content/up...he_Yankees.png

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I have a hard time believing that chart as there are so many Northern transplants in Florida, you'd find as many Yankees fans in Tampa, as you would Rays fans. I know this from sitting in the Trop with my Yankees hat.

But it's an internet poll, so it must be accurate.

They should create one showing how many people outside the twin cities believe that crap about the Yankees NOT getting into the Twins heads this year.

In any event, I'm using it as my computer wallpaper at work.

Besides, unless you are a Yankees fan, how could you NOT hate a team that has at least 4-5 times as many World Series rings as your team if you're lucky. In most cases, the numer is 8-10 times as much.

Sure they have deep pockets, but so does Boston and they're one of those teams that the Yankees have 4 rings for every one of theirs and whine about it every October from their couches.

Haters gonna hate.

Evidently humor once again failed to transmit through the interwebs. I was making a joke FP. Sorry to get you riled up.
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Sorry Yankees fans, but I love it!:banger

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As long as the Twinkies lose:D

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How about Andy Pettitte. Looked pretty good tonight. :tu

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He looked pretty good. That or maybe the Twins just can't score runs:noon

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Yankees return home with a 2-0 series lead. Hopefully Hughes can nail the coffin shut on Saturday.

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:r

Love that chart. It clearly had to be a joke and not have any validity to it.

I have to agree with Peter that in Florida alone, most of the heavily populated cities are loaded with Yankees transplants.
Then take NJ as another example. Northern Jersey is comprised primarily of Mets and Yankees fans. Central and Southern Jersey is split with NY and PA teams.
In Florida, heck if you can easily get a ticket for a training game in Tampa.

That said, I can understand the hate.
It is sort of like the Bulls, the Patriots, the A's and so many others that are proven winners repeatedly. After a while, jealousy is masked via hatred.

In the end, I am glad I have been on the Yankees side since 1966.
I have lived the painful years and have enjoyed many great ones.

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Well, I can tell you one group of people, aside from Yankee fans, who do not hate the Yankees. That would be all the other owners of MLB teams, because they know that whenever the Yanks come to town they will likely sell 10,000-15,000 more tickets. Some of those extra fannies will be there because they hope to see the Yankees lose. Some will be there because they want to see future HoFers like Jeter, A-Rod, Mariano, etc. play ball. And many will be there because they themselves are Yankee fans. Hey, it ain't just in Tampa where you see those Tiffany "NY" caps.

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I love it when people complain about the Yankees spending money and buying championships. They play under the same rules as everyone else and pay the most in taxes to the other teams and they never complain once about it. How does it feel to be a Pirates fan to find out that the team has been making millions of dollars in profit al these years and they still refuse to spend the money on the team and put a winning group together. The Yankees will gladly have a losing revenue season if it means winning the World Series. Other fans can only wish they had an ownership that would do that.

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:tpd:

Well said and so true.

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Just saw this chart.
Appears a bit more realistic than the first one posted although a bit surprising to see the midwest numbers.

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...o/73b23168.jpg

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Well, at least they have the State Fair once the winter ends.:=:

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The two charts are for two completely different topics. "How do you feel about" and "Game picks". Just sayin'.

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Let's go Yankees!!!

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So true, Joel. Yet I must submit that, were I in your spikes, I'd be more concerned about your Phillies than my Yankees. Just sayin'. :D

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Hopefully the Yankees hold down the Twinkies.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_L5aU9SvCAp...ta+twinkie.png

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The Phils are the only thing I'm worried about. :) Have to play whoever is in front of you, "One game at a time". I'm still enjoying the others series though.

FWIW I picked before all of the divisional series started, Yankees, Rangers, Giants and Phils. If that turns out to be true, I think both the NLCS and ALCS would be entertaining and close series. But, I know you don't like to "pick" series, Thomas. To each, his own.

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As a Yankees fan, I am genuinely concerned.

I am concerned because last year, I bought a great Yankees hat while in NY that had all 27 championships on it.
Then, as I was leaving the hotel, I lost it.

This year, I go back to NY and I find the hat all over again and I buy it once again.

Why concerned? After seeking this hat out so much, what the hell will I do with it when the Yankees now win #28?

I guess I will have to plan another trip back for this updated version or stitch my own 2010 on it.

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You think you got problems? I own an old Yankees/Mets Subway Series hat from 2000, and I may NEVER get to wear it again! :r

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:r

You too?

I have on of those too.
Is it the one with the #4 and #7 train along with the Mets and Yankees symbols?

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Yankees bats are coming alive!

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Twins look completely overmatched tonight. DAMNIT!!! :bh

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Sweep! Yankees advance :D:banger

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:xxx

The Yankees can stop winning now.

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Nope :noon

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Jeez, that was terrible. The Twins just rolled over and died.
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Ok, the yearly warmup of beating the Twins is over, now time to carry that great hitting into the ALCS.

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Didn't even seem like the Twins showed up for this series. :td

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You're telling me!!! Sigh. When will this franchise stop pissing it down their leg in the postseason? They wouldn't know how to get a clutch hit if it bit them on the ass. Like all but one team...there's always next year. :(

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Go Yankees!!!

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I don't want to kick the Twinkies when they're down - as I've said, I like and respect the team and organization - but it seems they may have made the same error a lot of fans, and so-called experts too, did by assuming that the Yankee pitching staff was C.C. plus a couple of other guys. Turns out, C.C. pitched the worst of all, though good enough to win Game One. Andy did what he's done more often than any other hurler in the post-season, and Hughes showed you why he won 18 games this year . . . and why the Yanks have been protecting him for so long now.

Besides, it's October, and time for NY to shine. ;)

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I read some crap online saying they thought Girardi purposely had the team lose games in September so they could play the Twins in the Wild Card round.

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Total nonsense. Although it is true that Joe may have pampered the starters a bit to get them ready for October, it is important to note that, in the last 10 games, the Twins went 2-8 and the Rangers 6-4. And this is not to mention that the Rays weren't exactly burning up the joint themselves late in the season, and only finished a game in front of NY. So such a plan on Girardi's part could have blown up in his face, and Yanks could have quite easily faced Tejas instead, had things gone just slightly different.

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Go Yankees!!!

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Nope, Carlos, mine's different. There's a white circle in front with red baseball stitches, and Liberty's torch inside. On either side are the respective Met/Yankee "NY", with Subway Series in script below it.