Writing the Pine

Section 203: Opportunity Squandered

The Yankees had a chance to jump to a 3-0 lead in the ALCS but just failed to execute.  Dear Joe Girardi, Yes, you can overmanage a game.  Mike Scoscia had an opportunity to pinch run for Jeff Mathis but decided not to because that would remove his bat.  It paid off when Mathis delivered the game-winning [...]

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Section 203: Yankees/Angels Preview and Predictions

I hope we don’t see this again.  It happened in ‘02.  It happened again in ‘05.  They’ve always played us tough, rallied behind their monkey to pummel our bullpen (Mo included), and protected their homefield.  (Which isn’t in Los Angeles.  It’s in Anaheim.  That’s like if the NY Giants called themselves the New York Giants [...]

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