YANKEES WIN THE 2009 WORLD SERIES!!!

Once Alex Rodriguez returned from his hip surgery, the Yankees were the best team in baseball.  The best team doesn’t always make it to the promised land, but they did this year. Apparently having swagger and not being intimidated was less important than being the better team. Andy Pettitte pitched ok, not great, but better than the ‘start Chad Gaudin because Pettitte is too old to throw on three days rest’ crowd probably thought he would.  Pettitte ended up pitching the clinching game in all three postseason series, even though that’s more of a timing thing than a skill. If this was Hideki Matsui’s last game in pinstripes, he picked a hell of a way to go out.  Godzilla plated the first two runs of the game in the bottom of the second with a two-run HR off Pedro Martinez, and the Yankees led the rest of the way.  Matsui then singled in the third and fourth runs in the third, and the Yankees had more runs than the Phillies would get for the rest of the night. It’s amazing how D...