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Here come the Yankees!

2008-07-27 09:52:02 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years

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Ah, its almost August. Football training camps are open and the Yankees and Red Sox are battling. Does it get any better? For most of this year I thought the Yankees were going to be out of it this year and content to have a rebuilding year. We have several veteran players who past their prime and whose contracts are up after this year. We have a some great young talent that need to grow into their potential. It looked like the Bosox and Tampa Rays were going to run away with the division and wild card this year.

But like inevitable turning of the seasons, sometime after July 4th and then the All Star break, the Yankees beginninng their drive. Those old bones warm up in the heat of the summer and the bats come alive. This year the pitching is carrying them too. Old pros Andy Pettite and Mike Mussina are joined by Jobba Chamberlin. Mariano Rivera is still the best closer in baseball. Just like old times the Yanks went out and fleeced some 2nd division team for a bunch of minor leaguers and added a quality hitter and pitcher right before the trade deadline. Look around and we are one game behind the Red Sox for the wild card slot and only three games behind the Rays for first place!

I still think Tampa is going to stumble and it will come down to the Sox and the Yanks. Just the way it is supposed to be. I am heading up to NY next Friday, taking my sons to the shrine that is Yankee Stadium to see it in person in its last year. The rest of the baseball season is going to be very exciting. Again, just the way it is supposed to be!