Thursday, May 06, 2010
The core 8 of today's Yankees-Lupica
- "This was in the middle of the week when it became breaking news that the Yankees are old.
This was before Andy Pettitte, old, with a history of elbow problems, would leave a winning game against the Orioles because of, well, an elbow problem. This was at
- the capital of the Yankees clubhouse, Mo Rivera's locker.
He is the best of them all and the greatest of them all
- and still the most indispensable,
in the year when he wants to win his sixth World Series a few weeks before he turns 41. And he had been set down for a couple of days this week with a sore hip.
- "I am here if they need me today," he said.
And then they nearly did as the Orioles scored two in the 8th and two in the 9th and turned a blow-out snoozer of an afternoon game into 7-5.
So they didn't need the great Rivera on Wednesday afternoon the way they will most likely need him at Fenway this weekend, and across the summer and into the fall.
- So he was in front of his locker, sounding like the chief elder of all the Yankee elders as always, making sense about all baseball matters...
- "Nobody gets to stay young forever," he said....
We hear more than ever about the Core Four - Mo, Pettitte, Posada, Jeter - those guys celebrated in story and probably song eventually. But the core of this Yankee team is these eight guys, no particular order:
- Rivera, Sabathia, Rodriguez, Teixeira, Jeter
- Cano, Posada, Burnett."...
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