I am not the only one out there.
Yankees still without a title in the 21st century
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Hallelujah!
Mission accomplished. Like most baseball fans who don't worship the dark side, as soon as my team — the Red Sox — is knocked off, I focus all my energy on Plan B: rooting like hell for someone to beat the Yankees.
And for the fifth straight year, the Yankees have lost their last game of the season. After ending four of the five previous seasons with a World Series victory, the Evil Empire has yet to win a championship in the 21st century. (Before you fire off an email, the 20th century officially ended on Dec. 31, 2000.)
This glorious someone-other-than-the-Yankees stretch began in 2001 when Mariano Rivera took the mound with a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 against the Arizona Diamondbacks and couldn't get the job done. It continued last night in Anaheim when New York couldn't beat the Angels' rookie No. 5 starter after he was pressed into emergency duty.
The vanquishing of the Yankees and their $203M payroll makes me want to take a walk down memory lane and relive my 10 favorite moments — with an understandable emphasis on last year's ALCS Game 7 — from the five losses that have eliminated New York these last five years.
10. Game 6, 2003 World Series, sixth inning: Jeff Conine hits a routine grounder to short that Derek Jeter butchers brutally — and repeatedly — leading to an unearned insurance run for the Marlins on their way to the 2-0 title-clinching victory over a Yankees team that finished with 10 more regular season wins than Florida. One interesting note: Had Jeter not made the error that put his team down two runs, he almost certainly would have bunted after Alfonso Soriano led off the bottom of the eighth with a single. Instead, Jeter flew out to center and Nick Johnson bounced into an inning-ending double play.
9. Game 7, 2004 ALCS, first inning: Thanks to the sometimes-aggressive, sometimes-hesitant, uniformly incompetent third base coaching of Boston's Dale Sveum, the Yankees' Game 7 starter Kevin Brown looked like he might escape trouble in the first after Johnny Damon was thrown out at home with one out. But David Ortiz crushed a two-run home run to launch the Sox on their way to a 10-3 victory.
When neither Gary Sheffield nor Bubba Crosby came up with this ball, the Angels were on their way to a Game 5 win. (Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press)
8. Game 5, 2005 ALDS, second inning: Just when Bartolo Colon's sudden departure from Game 5 seemed to be ushering in a return to the Yankee Era of Good Fortune that included Mark Wohlers' hanging slider, Jeffrey Maier and Timo Perez's premature celebration, a calamitous collision befell the Evil Empire. With two outs and two on, Adam Kennedy lifted a fly ball to right center that either Bubba Crosby or Gary Sheffield could have caught but for the ill-timed arrival of the other. The resulting two-run triple would provide the margin of victory in the Angels' 5-3 win.
7. Game 7, 2001 World Series, ninth inning: After Mark Grace led off the bottom of the ninth with a single, catcher Damian Miller bunted the ball back to Rivera. What happened next made as much sense as a light rain falling in the desert, which is precisely what Rivera's wild throw to second has often been attributed to. The moist ball sailed, leaving pinch-runner David Dellucci safe at second and Miller on at first with nobody out. Rivera's error was New York's third of the night and set the stage for future Yankee flop Tony Womack's game-tying double. I know what you're thinking: Tony (freakin') Womack ripped a double off of Mariano Rivera in a World Series game? Maybe even more improbable than a light desert rain and a wild throw from the greatest closer of all time. This all led to moment No. 3.
6. Game 4, 2002 ALDS, fifth inning: There have been some rough half-innings for the Yankees these last five Octobers, but none worse than this bottom of the fifth in Anaheim, the frame that signaled the end of their 2002 season. The inning began inauspiciously for Yankee starter David Wells when Shawn Wooten took him deep to tie the score at 2-2. Benji Gil followed with a base hit. By the time the immortals Wooten and Gil had each collected their second hit of the inning, Wells was gone and New York was trailing, 9-2.
5. Game 6, 2003 World Series, ninth inning: Josh Beckett scoops up Jorge Posada's pathetic dribbler down the first base line and tags out the lumbering catcher for the final out of Beckett's epic complete-game shutout victory. Posada learned a lesson from that weak effort. On Sunday, in Game 4 against the Angels, after dribbling a ball back to the pitcher, he successfully fooled the umpiring crew into believing the ball had struck his foot in the batter's box with some mediocre acting. The karma wasn't instant, but it got him nonetheless in Game 5.
4. Game 5, 2005 ALDS, ninth inning: Alex Rodriguez grounds into a double play, killing a potential rally and capping his .133, zero-RBI series with an 0-for-4, sandwiched between three-hit games by Jeter and Jason Giambi. Rodriguez, whose stellar defense was often cited by experts as the reason he was the '05 AL MVP, also made a critical error in Game 2 that got the Angels off the mat.
3. Game 7, 2001 World Series, ninth inning: After a Rivera cutter clipped Craig Counsell to load the bases with one out, Yankee manager Joe Torre brought the infield in despite the fact that nobody in the league consistently saws off as many hitters as Rivera. Sure enough, Luis Gonzalez blooped a jam job over the drawn-in Jeter and the Diamondbacks were world champs, ending the Yankees' three-year reign.
2. Game 7, 2004 ALCS, second inning: The Sox led 2-0 and had the bases loaded with one out in the second inning when Torre summoned Javier Vazquez to replace the wretched Kevin Brown. Eighty-six years of futility can create a lot of paranoia and there was this fear as Brown departed that the Sox hadn't done enough damage with him on the mound and that Vazquez might perform a redux of Mike Mussina's heroic holding of the line in Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. The fear lasted one pitch, a cookie that Johnny Damon crushed for a grand slam and a 6-0 lead.
1. Game 7, 2004 ALCS, ninth inning With the Sox leading 10-3 and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Alan Embree was summoned to face Ruben Sierra. Sierra grounded softly to Pokey Reese at second who flipped to Doug Mientkiewicz at first to complete the Greatest Comeback in Sports History. In what will become a trend, Alex Rodriguez goes 0-for-4 in his first elimination game as a member of the Yankees. (After a win in Game 4 and a loss in Game 5 to the Angels this year, A-Rod is now 0-for-10 with the Yankees facing elimination.)
!! but hey it pretty cool watching the yankees on everyday. if dish gets a deal with YES could it or would it it be A La Carte? it will be pretty awesome!!!!
and as for barry man i admit dat man was on substances BUT and there is a BIG BUT werent those substances LEGAL AT THE TIME HE TOOK THEM? common man why hasnt MLB caught barry on a controlled substance? HE IS LIKE THE BIGGEST TARGET IN MLB? 
and i hate MLB for there crooked rule of the winner of the all star game (an exhibition game dat doesnt count for nothin) home field advantage in the world series where it really counts!! common 
it might seem like crying so what i like my SF GIANTS thats my team i been a SF GIANT fan Ever since i knew baseball existed. and as for me hatin Spanish Speakers common y would i hate? im mexican by the way 
