The New York Yankees are the AL EAST Champs

Good for them.

Seriously.  I’m happy for them and their fans.

They fought to get back up to the top and with the exception of any win they got with help from Giambi (sorry, there is nothing short of a blood test that will ever convince me he isn’t using steroids or HGH or something…)…they earned it.

Besides, since 2001, winning the East did nothing for the Yankees.  So let them have at it.

I still maintain the Sox will be in the playoffs…and if the WC was good enough for them last year, it’s good enough for them this year.

And here come the Yankees fans saying "oh you’re happy settling for second".  Well, since 2001, "second place" has won the WS…I’m proud of my team and what they’ve done this season. 

I will totally admit that I’m disappointed. I think these guys played hard enough this year to get the title and then they just didn’t get it done this last week…but what’s done is done and the team has to focus on tomorrow and not what happened today…or yesterday.

And the question came up during the interview yesterday and I’m sure it’ll come up here, so I’ll save folks the trouble…if the Sox don’t end up in the playoffs – which I don’t expect to happen – I’ll still be blogging.  I love the Red Sox and I love baseball (in that order) so I’ll still be following what is going on.

So some folks will have plenty more chances to get their digs in.  🙂