Yankees defeated! May it always be so.

Writes Tyler Cruise from Canada:
“Your Red Sox have beaten the Yankees to make their fifth attempt at a sixth World Series. The Red Sox have managed an unprecedented comeback from a three-zero game deficit. This has never happened in Major League Baseball, but it has happened twice in the NHL. In 1975, during a playoff round, the New York Islanders acheived this against the Pittsburgh Penguins and during the 1942 Stanley Cup finals the Toronto Maple Leafs made a four game comeback over the Detroit Red Wings. Well the Yankees have been defeated in an unprecedented meltdown in Yankee Stadium to boot! Now your Sox just have to Win the World Series and end the curse!”

Curse? What curse?

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

How awful to watch the Cubs go down and have the Marlins going to the World Series. I was hoping for a Cubs-Red Sox October. The Sox-Yankees are a great rivalry, and this will be one helluva Game 7 tonight. This rivalry goes back a long way, but the fight that may have started it all was in 1973, when the late, great Yankee catcher Thurman Munson barreled into Sox catcher Carlton Fisk at home plate, and a punchfest ensued. On May 20, 1976, the Yankee’s Lou Pinella bowled Fisk over – poor Fisk again! – and a bench-clearing brawl was the result. Sox pitcher Bill Lee had his shoulder separated during the fighting. A couple of years after that, Bill Lee wrote a newspaper column that linked Yankee owner George Steinbrenner to Hitler, and coach Billy Martin to Hermann Goering. The story goes that Billy Martin, the game’s most volatile coach, had a dead mackerel hung in Lee’s locker with a note that read: “Stick this in your purse, you California faggot.”

Martin once said, “”I’ve always said I could manage Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hirohito. That doesn’t mean I’d like them, but I’d manage them.” I loved Billy Martin as a kid, and his days coaching in Detroit were the good old days. He was hired and fired 5 times by the Yankees.

The Best of Karen De Coster