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I've been enjoying the onslaught of comments made to me by Sox fans and general Yankee haters alike regarding the Yankees not making the playoffs this year. It's been a blast! It was a rough season filled with injuries and under performance, there is no other way to spin it. Unlike many Yankee fans, I am not all that upset about it to be honest. The reason being this is the first time in a long time there is substantial promise for the near future. Sure, our friendly columnists in the NY Daily News, Post, Boston Globe, and Boston Herald will point to Hughes and Kennedy's roguh first campaigns. That's fine and totally within their right, but I must point out that Hughes and Kennedy are still barely VERY young, which gives them plenty of time to continue development. But back to my point for this article, what should the Yankees do in the off season of 2008?? You may think at first some of these moves are a bit unrealistic, but I challenge you to research them a bit more before coming to a quick conclusion. Here goes nothing... |
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Here lie the Yankees: Old and beat up, to be resurrected this summer |
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Written by Larry Dobrow
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In recent years, the premature Yankee obituary has become as much a rite of mid-May as the Preakness Stakes. It works something like this: the Yankees stumble out of the gate. The lesser-informed contingent of the New York media notices and starts to qualify its every mention of the word "Yankees" with either "last-place" or "struggling." Talk radio hums with the monosyllabic lilt of incensed Staten Islanders, while the tabloids land many a bruising jab -- like the one in Monday's New York Daily News, in the form of a photo caption that reads "Ryan Church avoids tag for run that helps turn hallowed Stadium into Met turf." Zing! |
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