World Series Wrap Up – A Biased Review from a Yankee Hater

First World Series victory since 2000? Don’t care. A-Rod finally overcoming his postseason demons? Don’t care. Good for baseball to have Yanks in World Series? Don’t care. Whatever positives come with the Yankees winning the World Series are moot points, to me they should never ever win anything. Here is why they shouldn’t have won this year.


Starting pitching – since when can a team with three starters win the World Series? No other team has even advanced to the World Series using three starters since the 1992 Atlanta Braves. It’s been said before and I will say it again – If you can’t buy four starters for 200 million dollars you shouldn’t win the World Series (and its not like their relief depth was the team’s saving grace either). The Yankees should be sending one of their nicest bottles of wine to whoever schedules the playoffs, because if CC Sabathia isn’t pitching every third game, I think this year’s parade might not go through Manhattan. Secondly, Yankee baseball was particularly frustrating, namely their frequent mound visits and time taken in between pitches. If you want to grind out at bats and take pitches, all the power to you, but for God’s sake stop making a game that is already as slow as erosion even slower. This year’s Yankees were especially bad at over frequently visiting the mound. During game 4 there was one middle inning where Jorge Posada wasn’t even giving out signs, just walking out after every pitch to talk over what the next pitch would be.


Lastly, what irks me the most about the Yankees winning this year was how beatable they looked at certain points. The Angels were a better overall team, but played themselves out of the playoffs with mental errors and their own nervousness. The Phillies took game 1, dominated A.J. Burnett in game 5 and if Brad Lidge doesn’t walk Johnny Damon (I haven’t seen anyone steal two bases on one pitch since I played mosquito) in the ninth inning of game 4, this could be an entirely different series. Throughout the playoffs, the Yankees didn’t hit the way they are capable of. Nick Swisher, Robinson Cano, Mark Teixeria and Melky Cabrerra all failed to contribute and the Yankees suspect bullpen (and back of the rotation) was not exploited to its full extent. So despite my hatred for the Yankees and my belief that they shouldn’t of taken it all this year, no team stepped up and beat them and that is something I can’t argue with, even if that leaves me grumbling to myself all winter.