YANK ROUT GIVES EAST TO TAMPA

Surviving Grady found this 9/27/2008 on www.nypost.com [flag]

BOSTON - Having been eliminated from the AL wild-card race earlier in the week, the Yankees killed the Red Sox' hopes of repeating as AL East champs last night at a rainy Fenway Park. Led by Cody Ransom and Brett Gardner, the Yanks dropped a 19-8... [link]

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History Shows a 19-8 Loss to the Yankees Only Makes Us Stronger!
Published 9/27/2008 by Red (noreply@blogger.com) at Surviving Grady
... game three of the 2004 ALCS. The only difference last night was that after the game, I wasn't shitfaced on Coors, blackeyed and bloody-knuckled and threatening to drown myself in a pool of turkey gravy. And why should I? We're going to the playoffs! Starting next week! In Anaheim! So let the Yankees have their fun in the daily papers, shouting it from the rooftops that they might have shit the bed this season, but at least they kept us from repreating as AL East champs, as they did in today's Post: ...

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