The-uh-uh-uh Yankees Win!

"The Yankees cannot lose." "But I fear the Indians of Cleveland." --Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

No, of course I wasn't worried. Just because the Indians of Cleveland had the Yanks down 2 games to 1 in the American League Championship Series and stuck at unfriendly Jacobs Field for the next two games? Because the Yankee second baseman, Chuck Knoblauch, had decided to recall his Little League days in Game 2 by arguing with an ump while the ball lay on the field for 7 sec., allowing the lead run to score? Because even after the Yanks won...

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