Joe Girardi, Space Monkey

Just one World Series title in the twenty-first century? That's unfortunate because, y'know, we've got two.But I can't give credit to Girardi for the Yanks' World Series win. I mean, when you put a monkey in a li'l spacesuit and send him to the moon in a fully-automated, fully-stocked rocket, you don't give the monkey credit for the spaceflight. I can't give it to the players, either, since there really isn't a likable guy in the lot (although I still give Rivera props for his tip of the cap to the Fenway crowd during the 2005 Opening Day intros). How long, seriously, until the first off-season story in which Joba or AJ Burnett gets shivved in a barroom altercation?I guess I have to credit this to the people behind the scenes. The folks who ponied up the 200+ million dollars to assemble this Legion of Super Whores, supplied the steroids, built the obscenely short porch at The Stadium to redefine "home field advantage," paid off the umps,...