I'm sorry I don't know how to add images and video clips into my blog but winning the division title for the Yankees this season has been more rewarding to me as a fan than any of the last eight. Not a lot of people remember that the Yankees in early June were trailing the Red Sox by about 5 or 6 games. We lost Sheff and Matsui in the early part of the season but they didn't do what all you other Yankee haters say they do. "Buy there team." They relied on Melky Cabrera, Andy Phillips, Scott Proctor, and Chieng Ming Wang. These guys were not marquee players that everyone was gunning for and the boss overpayed for. These were just good ball players that made it happen. Make no mistake, Jeter, Damon, Mo, and the other veterans kept the team going, but to cheat the organization out of the respect they deserve for pulling out the division title when most people wrote them off early in the season is just wrong.

This year was the first time I had ever been to New York and the first time I've ever seen the Yankees live. Sure they played the Royals when I saw them and Kelly Stinnett almost hit for the cycle but it definitly made this season for me a special one.

Last season they lost a lot of steam going into the playoffs because they had to grind so hard to get there. Their pen was used up and players were worn down. This season they have a lot of bright spots going into this years playoffs. They were able to start a rookie pitcher the last three nights to give the rotation a breather and the rookies came through defeating the Jays 2 out of 3 days. My hopes are high for this team this year. Some people create controversy with the A-Rod situation but this team is more professional than that and buisness is buisness. The Yankees will let the media make mountains out of mole hills while they are collecting 40 and 27 baby. Go Yanks!!!!

Here is an interesting question. The Braves won 14 straight division titles and are owned by a large corporation and has a lot of money in the team, yet you never hear the bad talk about them. What gives? The Yankees might have been winning a lot here recently but I remember back in the day when Donnie Baseball was covering first and the bionic man Steve Sax was at second. They weren't so hot back then. It seems to me that a lot of baseball fans have an inferiority complex instead just being a fan. When the Saints took a yearly drubbing from Joe Montana and Roger Craig, I wasn't standing on my third grade desk proclaiming Bill Walsh was Satan. I just hung my head and waited till the next season.