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Knicks Hope a Little of Joe Girardi's Success Rubs Off on Them

Posted: Nov 20th 2009 6:00PM by Josh Alper (author feed)
Filed under: Yankees, AL East

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Joe GirardiFun fact: Yankees manager Joe Girardi has as many wins in November as Giants coach Tom Coughlin, Jets coach Rex Ryan, Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni and Nets coach Lawrence Frank combined. His loss total pales in comparison, however, which is probably why the Knicks invited him to Madison Square Garden to be honored during Sunday's loss game against the Celtics.

They're giving him the (quite possibly made up) Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton "City Spirit" Award, ostensibly because he stopped on his way home from winning the World Series to help the victim of a car accident flag down help from the police. It was a kind act, but it's not hard to imagine Knicks brass is desperate to liven up the grim Garden scene these days.
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Joe Girardi: World Series Champion Manager and Good Samaritan

Posted: Nov 5th 2009 12:30PM by Matt Snyder (author feed)
Filed under: Yankees, AL East, World Series

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Joe GirardiAs if managing the New York Yankees to their historic 27th World Series championship wasn't enough work for one night, Joe Girardi decided to do some more good on his way home from the new-and-improved Yankee Stadium. This time his work came in the form of humanitarian, not just filling out a lineup card full of baseball players for the entertainment of millions.

At about 2:25 AM Thursday morning, a woman named Marie Henry lost control of her vehicle on the Cross County Parkway in Eastchester, New York and crashed into a wall. Not only did Girardi stop to check on her well-being, but he also flagged down the police.
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Yankees Quit Playing Games, Start Playing Championship Baseball

Posted: Nov 5th 2009 2:45AM by Terence Moore (author feed)
Filed under: Phillies, Yankees, World Series

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Yankees celebrateNEW YORK -- The biggest World Series choke involved the New York Yankees, but they won back then in 1996 over the gasping Atlanta Braves.

The Yankees won this time, too. It's just that they did so to avoid sliding toward the brutal end of the second-worst choke in World Series history.

On a clear Wednesday night in the Bronx, with Hideki Matsui's sizzling Mizuno bat and various pinstriped chants warming the November chill inside the newest version of Yankee Stadium, the home team got a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. It also got a 27th world championship for the franchise.

Plus, it got these current Yankees off the hook.
FanHouse World Series Coverage: Fletcher | Price | Mariotti | Olson
Game 6: Yankees 7, Phillies 3 | Box Score | Matsui MVP
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Not the American Dream, but Give Yankees Props

Posted: Nov 5th 2009 2:05AM by Jay Mariotti (author feed)
Filed under: Yankees, World Series

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NEW YORK -- There is something arrogantly American about it, I know. The $210-million Yankees have won a World Series amid a destructive recession, doing it for Boss George Steinbrenner in the first season of their $1.5-billion edifice of excess, where a $275-million lightning rod just happened to overcome a steroids crisis and finally deliver the postseason we've long demanded. None of those elements are universally endearing to the masses, yet all converged on a festive, rocking November night when Championship No. 27 wasn't welcomed by the pinstripe haters as much as force-fed into them like skunk oil.


Look, President Obama might say, "This is corporate America at its bloated, ignorant worst. The White Sox have a better business plan."

"We're supposed to win," said Yankees manager, Joe Girardi. "We know that every day we come to work."
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Not the American Dream, but Give Yankees Props

Posted: Nov 5th 2009 1:05AM by Jay Mariotti (author feed)
Filed under: MLB

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NEW YORK -- There is something arrogantly American about it, I know. The $210-million Yankees have won a World Series amid a destructive recession, doing it for Boss George Steinbrenner in the first season of their $1.5-billion edifice of excess, where a $275-million lightning rod just happened to overcome a steroids crisis and finally deliver the postseason we've long demanded. None of those elements are universally endearing to the masses, yet all converged on a festive, rocking November night when Championship No. 27 wasn't welcomed by the pinstripe haters as much as force-fed into them like skunk oil.

Look, President Obama might say, "This is corporate America at its bloated, ignorant worst. The White Sox have a better business plan."

"We're supposed to win," said Yankees manager, Joe Girardi. "We know that every day we come to work."
FanHouse World Series Coverage: Fletcher | Price | Moore | Olson
Game 6: Yankees 7, Phillies 3 | Box Score | Matsui MVP
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Yankees Capture 27th World Series Title

Posted: Nov 4th 2009 11:50PM by FanHouse Newswire (author feed)
Filed under: Phillies, Yankees, MLB Playoffs, World Series

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Yankees Capture 27th World Series Title
NEW YORK (AP) -- Paint the town in pinstripes! Nearly a decade after their dynasty ended on a blooper in the desert, the New York Yankees are baseball's best again.

Hideki Matsui tied a World Series record with six RBIs, Andy Pettitte won on short rest and New York beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game 6 on Wednesday night, finally seizing that elusive 27th title - the most in all of sports.

It was the team's first since winning three straight from 1998-2000.
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Selling Short: Will Pettitte Be Better Than Burnett on Three Days' Rest?

Posted: Nov 3rd 2009 1:57AM by Ed Price (author feed)
Filed under: Yankees, MLB Playoffs, World Series

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Andy Pettitte / A.J. BurnettPHILADELPHIA -- Ready and willing is one thing.

Able is another.

"Oh yeah," Andy Pettitte said with a definitive nod when FanHouse asked if he'd be able to pitch Game 6 of the World Series on short rest. "Whenever they tell me to pitch."

But how will it go?

CC Sabathia was fine on three days' rest in Game 4. A.J. Burnett -- less durable than Sabathia but younger than Pettitte -- was awful in Game 5.
FanHouse World Series Coverage: Mariotti | Fletcher
Game 5: Phillies 8, Yankees 6 | Box Score | Series Home
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Rivera for Final Two Outs Was Right Call

Posted: Nov 1st 2009 1:09AM by Ed Price (author feed)
Filed under: Yankees, MLB Playoffs, World Series

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Mariano Rivera and Jorge PosadaPHILADELPHIA -- Joe Girardi might not know the intricacies of the save rule, but he knew what he had to do.

Girardi's decision to use closer Mariano Rivera for the final two outs of the Yankees' defeat of the Phillies in Game 3 of the World Series created some debate.

Statistically-oriented obervers would cite "win expectancy" -- saying that it was a waste to use Rivera because the chance of winning was so great with one out, an 8-5 lead and no one on in the ninth.

But that ignores the magnitude of the situation.
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Yankees Bullpen Suddenly a Concern

Posted: Oct 29th 2009 2:14AM by Ed Price (author feed)

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Joe Girardi and Phil HughesNEW YORK -- Once upon a time -- say, two weeks ago -- the Yankees bullpen was so deep and effective that manager Joe Girardi couldn't resist going to reliever after reliever.

He did it again Wednesday in Game 1 of the World Series, but because he was looking for someone effective.

The five Yankees relievers who followed CC Sabathia combined to allow four runs in five hits and three walks in just two innings, putting a two-run game out of reach.

Pitching coach Dave Eiliand said he saw "a little timidness" from the group.
FanHouse World Series Coverage: Mariotti | Moore | Fletcher | Price
Game 1: Phillies 6, Yankees 1 | Box Score | Series Home
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Finally, Yankees Earn Their Pinstripes

Posted: Oct 26th 2009 2:15AM by Jay Mariotti (author feed)
Filed under: MLB

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YankeesNEW YORK -- On a pleasant, Doppler-free evening made for bare, brawny forearms, Alex Rodriguez continued his postseason awakening without even swinging a bat. This was in the fourth inning, when the Angels were unable to employ their desired intentional walk because the bases were loaded. So as 50,000 fans stood and shrieked and awaited magic in the new Stadium -- all except Kate Hudson, who sat like she was waiting for Matt Dillon in You, Me and Dupree -- A-Rod stepped in and sought a pitch to rip into the galaxy.

The fat one never came. Joe Saunders walked him, forcing in the Yankees' third run when it was apparent that the Angels wouldn't score more than that off two Doctor Octobers, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera. All that awaited were the police to ring their field, and when they arrived nearly at the stroke of midnight, the Yankees were celebrating their 40th American League pennant and first World Series trip in six years, which in these parts is an eternity.
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