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Since Destiny and Mystique retired from stripping, the Yankees no longer seem to have a psychological advantage over their opponents.

Even worse, I think the other teams come in more focused and, sadly, we're the ones with some kind of brain lock.

There's hardly any logic to this franchise going 4-13 in a 17-game postseason stretch.

In Joe Torre's first five years as manager, we were 46-14 in the postseason. Last five: 19-22.

There's hardly any logic to this franchise going 4-13 in a 17-game postseason stretch.

In Joe Torre's first five years as manager, we were 46-14 in the postseason. Last five: 19-22.
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The last two lines aren't mutually exclusive.

Having said that, you may want to look at the starting pitching. This year alone, Wang spit the bit twice, and Pettitte gave a quality start.

Last year, it was Wright and Johnson that were shelled. Moose & Wang gave quality starts, which the Yanks split.

The Yanks have been losing the close ones, they have been getting blown out too.

You're right about that, Steve. Seeing the Red Sox knock around those pitchers the last few nights really irritated me. Home-road splits don't explain it. Both of those starters had essentially no home-road splits. Also, both of those pitchers pitched very well against the Red Sox this year.

Maybe, it has something to do with the Yankees' major league scouting?

I think it is particularly frustrating because C.C. Sabathia DID pitch like that when he faced us.

The Yankees just couldn't capitalize on it.

Not to mention Wang sucked.

Unfortunately, Wang was the goat of the 2007 post season.

It pains me to say it, because I love Wang, but I agree with Jeteupthemiddle about him. If Wang had pitched well in just one of his two starts, that series would have looked a lot different, and we might now be talking about how he and Pettitte were doing against the Red Sox instead of CC and Carmona.

As for how the Sox are doing against Cleveland: It pains me to say this, too - but the Red Sox are a better team than the Yankees.

Oh Carla: You just opened up a can of worms. I feel the same way sometimes, but I can't agree with you. The Sox are **hotter** than the Yankees right now, **not** better. The Sox do seem to have star players that rise to the occasion (Manny+Ortiz). On the other hand, the Yanks get zilch from theirs (esp. A-Rod, yes it's always about him).

Sox won more games this year, they're the better team.

>> Sox won more games this year, they're the better team. >>

Still, we played them tough all year long and I bet we would have done the same against them in the ALCS

I'd type something really long about four games and one start each from Carmona and Sabathia not being a representative sample size. And then I would say that these two starts in Boston also aren't representative sample sizes. But really, I'd be wasting my energy because that point is continually ignored around here.

Chris - maybe it's just that I live here in Boston and I hear it all day long, but I just feel like the Yanks are snakebit in ways that the Sox are blessed - as it used to be the other way round.

The Sox hitters always seem to come through in the clutch - the Yanks hitters sometimes (and especially in recent playoff series) fade at key moments.

The Sox big free agent acquisitions have, of late, been huge for the team; the Yankees' have more than not been albatrosses.

The Sox have rookies that play like top quality major leaguers, while the Yankees' rookies play like rookies - inconsistently.

I'm sure it's just the depression of the Yankees' quick playoff exit after that incredible turnaround during the regular season, and in the cold light of objectivity I'll see that I'm wrong about most of the above. But I can't shake this feeling that the Sox are going to win the World Series - they'll beat Cleveland in 5 or 6 and then sweep whoever wins the NL - and I'm bracing myself for it.