The media storyline about the New York Yankees every October of late is a variation on whether they can make good on their enormous payroll and win a World Series. This inevitably devolves into the "Is A-Rod clutch?" discussion and other inanities that question the team's True Yankee Quotient. And, should anything go wrong, the misfortunes of a team playing a sport dominated by luck and small sample sizes gives the piranhas in New York's media fishbowl reason to chow down. ...