Anything you can do I can do the next inning, I can do anything better than you.  It was that theme that signified the Yankees three game ALDS sweep of the Twins.  Just when it seemed Minnesota had a firm grasp on the action, the Yankees proved in a New York minute everything can change.  One can't blame the Twins if they didn't want to score until the bottom of the ninth just so the Yankees would have no chance of coming back to score the next inning.

Such was the case Sunday evening as Andy Pettitte and Carl Pavano were rolling along in the final game baseball game ever to be played at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.  Both starters matched goose eggs through five until Pettitte blinked in the sixth.

With two gone Pettitte allowed a single and a stolen base to Denard

In recent Yankee playoff past they've started out with pitchers who either had the numbers of an ace but weren't (Chein-Ming Wang) or the stuff of an ace but didn't want to be (Mike Mussina). And while they've tried to groom youngsters (Phil Hughes, Joba Chamberlain) bring back old friends (Andy Pettitte) and guys who suddenly became really old once October rolled around (Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson) it seems as though they have truly found that ace in one CC Sabathia.

The "CC" of course could've meant Championship Caliber as far as the Bronx faithful were concerned Wednesday night.  Sabathia hasn't looked this good in a playoff start since he was younger than those aforementioned studs in the bullpen as a 20 year old rookie for the Cleveland Indians in 2001 against the 116 win Seattle

Starting in 1995 the New York Yankees have made the playoffs 14 out of 15 times.  With Yankee Stadium II having ended operations after 2008, I felt it fitting to reflect and list my top 12 playoff moments at The House George Renovated before they christen the new yard with post season baseball for the first time.  With apologies to Reggie Jackson and Chris Chambliss, I'm naming the moments I've seen in my lifetime.

# 12.) 2001 ALCS Game 4, Seattle Mariners @ New York Yankees: After getting blown out in game 3 of the series at home 14-3, the Yankees led the best of seven 2-1.  In game 4 the Yankees had been held scoreless for seven innings, while the Mariners got on the board with a run in the top half of the 8th on a Brett Boone solo HR making it 1-0

The Yankees win 2-1.  The Yankees win 2-1.  The Yankees win 2-1.  Yogi Berra would call it de ja vu all over again.  One might call it "trey ja vu," as for the third day in a row the New York Yankees defeat a team wearing gray, black and orange by a count of 2-1.  And by virtue of the BoSox tumbling Toronto/Texas two-step, there are now two teams atop the American League East with the league's best record to boot at 55-37.

Getting as far away from Anaheim as possible, the Yankees have stormed out of the gate and are now 4-0 in the second stanza of the season.  On Saturday the Yanks won 2-1 and Sunday and Monday's games were not only of that same margin but were mirror images of each other.  Granted Monday went off with a little more style.

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