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'George, this one is for you' Steinbrenner not on hand, but Yanks pay homage to Boss |
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NEW YORK -- As the Yankees celebrated the 27th World Series title in franchise history and the seventh since George Steinbrenner purchased the team in 1973, the organization's driving force was missing.
"The Boss" was home in Tampa, Fla., apparently watching the festivities on TV.
"I wish he was here," said Mariano Rivera, who closed the game, 7-3, against the Phillies that set a wild celebration in motion. Rivera added that he asked son Hank Steinbrenner "if he was here and Hank said, 'No.' I wish he was here so I could give him a big hug. He's the driving force behind putting this all together. He's definitely a part of me."
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Losing Hideki Matsui after MVP World Series performance may be wrong move for New York Yankees |
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 If this turns out to be goodbye for Hideki Matsui, it goes down as the greatest exit since John Elway won a second straight Super Bowl and rode off into the sunset.
It's not exactly the same, of course. Matsui would love to keep his pinstripes and return to defend the championship that he, more than anyone else, delivered for the Yankees Wednesday night with a game that lived up to his nickname of Godzilla.
He just may not have a say in the matter.
Only how do you cut ties with the MVP of the World Series?
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Sachin Tendulkar hits imperious ton but Aussies hold on in thrilling finish |
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Under-strength Australia ran headlong into Sachin Tendulkar in full flight and lived to tell the tale, claiming a three-run victory in an extraordinary fifth limited-overs match at Hyderabad.
Lacking four members of their first-choice bowling attack, the Australians were powerless to prevent Tendulkar from soaring to 175 (141 balls, 19 fours, four sixes), an epic innings that took India so close to reeling in their biggest target.
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Yankees revel in victory, tough decisions ahead |
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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Yankees christened the new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium the same way they opened "The House That Ruth Built" 86 years ago -- with a World Series title, the 27th for Major League Baseball's storied franchise.
The Bronx Bombers battered the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 Wednesday to clinch the Fall Classic in six games and return the pinstripers to the pinnacle after a nine-year absence that seemed like an eternity to Yankee fans spoiled by success.
The master plan drawn up by the Steinbrenner family owners and executed by general manager Brian Cashman to mark the new team home with a championship paid off after an off-season investment of $423.5 million to three free agents.
"You can call us anything you want, but you also have to call us world champions," Cashman told reporters.
Times have not changed that much, since the Yankees won the first of their World Series championships after paying the Red Sox the considerable sum of $100,000 and sending several players to Boston for the services of Babe Ruth.
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Five Cuts: Girardi's overmanaging cost the Yankees in Game 3 |
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 The Yankees are still in command of the ALCS. They give the ball on Tuesday night to a red-hot CC Sabathia, and, given that the Angels have no one like Sabathia, Mariano Rivera or Alex Rodriguez, New York is still likely to win the series. Joe Girardi hopes so, anyway. The Yankees manager needs to make ALCS Game 3 moot, because that game has his fingerprints, many as they are, all over it.
Girardi seemed manic in the way he ran that game, not just in his quizzical pitching changes, but in his many sprints to the mound to confer with his pitchers. Girardi spent more time on the mound in ALCS Game 3 than Dodgers starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda did in NLCS Game 3.
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