From Mike Lupica:The Yankees have slayed every single dragon they were needed to slay, and maybe were supposed to slay, during the regular season, one that really ended with them getting those last two games off the Angels.They have made it back to the playoffs, back to the top of the AL East. They can clinch the division this weekend if they can sweep the Red Sox at the Stadium. They just settle no scores this weekend, not any that matter, at least not around here. All we get this weekend is a dress rehearsal for the only games that matter, the ones that begin the second week of October.But we won't find out this weekend if this Yankee team is as good as the Yankee team Girardi played for, no matter how much it slaps the Red Sox around. We don't find that out until the week after next, Game 1 against the Tigers or the Twins, as Girardi's Yankees try to do something no Yankee team has done since a division series against the Twins in '04.But what we know from the rec...
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