I guess Alex Belth speaks for all of us in Yankeeland today.
As one wag put it on the local sports talk radio, we were waiting for Yankees of Old, but just old Yankees showed up.
Or, as Madame Cura put it this morning, "Mystique and aura turned into mistakes and errors."
"'We did something by beating them," said Beckett, who was named most valuable player of the Series. "They are who they are. They've won 27 championships. That's who we wanted to play. If you're going to beat somebody, you want to beat the best.'
"Beckett gave the Yankees too much credit. For the third season in a row, they are stuck on 26 titles. Bernie Williams, one of the few Yankees to hit well in the Series, knows what this failure means.
"'The front office and the people in charge designed this team not to play in the postseason, but to win,' said Williams, the longest-tenured member of the team. "When that didn't happen, obviously a lot of people are going to be very upset, including the players. I don't think anybody is more upset than we are.
"'But I don't think we're giving them enough credit. They played the way you're supposed to play. They played better baseball than we did. They deserved to win.' Beckett, a 23-year-old Marlins ace who was pitching on three days' rest, threw more curveballs than he did in Game 3, when he worked into the eighth inning but lost. His curveballs baffled the Yankees, and his fastballs overpowered them."
It's going to be a long winter. It started last night.
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It will be a long winter of frustration, politically as well, I feel certain.
Meanwhile, in Iraq, Paul Wolfewitz goes on a victory tour and while heralding yet another school opening (how many of them were actually closed before the war?), his hotel comes down around his head. That should be funny, but it's not, I'm afraid.
As one wag put it on the local sports talk radio, we were waiting for Yankees of Old, but just old Yankees showed up.
Or, as Madame Cura put it this morning, "Mystique and aura turned into mistakes and errors."
"'We did something by beating them," said Beckett, who was named most valuable player of the Series. "They are who they are. They've won 27 championships. That's who we wanted to play. If you're going to beat somebody, you want to beat the best.'
"Beckett gave the Yankees too much credit. For the third season in a row, they are stuck on 26 titles. Bernie Williams, one of the few Yankees to hit well in the Series, knows what this failure means.
"'The front office and the people in charge designed this team not to play in the postseason, but to win,' said Williams, the longest-tenured member of the team. "When that didn't happen, obviously a lot of people are going to be very upset, including the players. I don't think anybody is more upset than we are.
"'But I don't think we're giving them enough credit. They played the way you're supposed to play. They played better baseball than we did. They deserved to win.' Beckett, a 23-year-old Marlins ace who was pitching on three days' rest, threw more curveballs than he did in Game 3, when he worked into the eighth inning but lost. His curveballs baffled the Yankees, and his fastballs overpowered them."
It's going to be a long winter. It started last night.
*****
It will be a long winter of frustration, politically as well, I feel certain.
Meanwhile, in Iraq, Paul Wolfewitz goes on a victory tour and while heralding yet another school opening (how many of them were actually closed before the war?), his hotel comes down around his head. That should be funny, but it's not, I'm afraid.
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