Yankees showing stripes in playoffs

For a franchise with the pedigree and payroll of the New York Yankees, rebuilding is supposed to be a foreign concept. Panic is purported to happen to other teams, and failure - well, that revolting possibility is supposed to be eliminated with a roster that doubles as an insurance policy against such things. Yet in the past five years, the Yankees experienced those things more than any other time since they recaptured their perch as baseball's dominant franchise in the mid-1990s. It started with that epic four-game collapse against the Boston Red Sox in the 2004 American League Championship Series, ... Email </a