Bringing Home the Championship New York So Richly Deserves

We all know this decade (the Ohs? The aughts? Just two more months of this damned uncertainty!) hasn't been kind to the New York sports fan.Sure, the Giants won a Super Bowl for the ages a couple years back, but aside from that it's been pretty slim pickins. The Mets brought home a pennant in 2000 and looked like aces in 2006, but they fell short of the ultimate prize both times.The Knicks? Please; the team hasn't been the same since they swapped Spree for Keith Van Horn. The Rangers? They seem to make the playoffs with some regularity, but from what I gather, once there, they specialize in first or second round losses.The result was nine mostly quiet years and ten mostly quiet months, an eternity by New York sports standards.Yesterday, that all changed. Yesterday, the sons and daughters of Brooklyn rose up and won one for all of New York, ending the collective thirst for another championship after all these years.Thanks in part to the intrepid first basemanship of Y2K G...