Tonight’s performance by AJ Burnett is exemplary of why have the good AJ/bad AJ dichotomy. It was also only the third time all season an opposing starter had completed seven innings (J Pineiro and D Price being the others)

So I’ll leave you with this, instead, because it’s a happier thing.

(You can also check the “For Your Viewing Pleasure” link, which has a link to the actual video on the MLB archive)

Also, Alex Rodriguez had a home run, no Yankee got hurt, the Yankees did take two out of three at Boston, and Romulo Sanchez saved a bullpen that’s likely to get killed between tomorrow and Tuesday.

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Over at River Ave Blues, user bexarama posted this comment:

“So my mom’s boss was apparently going on about how the years from 2002-2008 were “a waste” for the Yankees and my mom was actually logical and pointed out that you can’t really say that. So, what were your favorite memories from those years?

Me:
- Aaron bleepin’ Boone
- Boston Massacre, 2006
- A-Rod trade
- the game where Derek dove into the stands
- I hated the way the season ended, but the comeback in 2007 to make the playoffs was just awesome. Plus, the way A-Rod DESTROYED the AL. There were some really amazing games from 2007, as well.
- the 2005 division comeback
- this game
- this game
- A-Rod’s 10 RBI game against the Angels
- Andy coming back before 2007
- the home run my name links to”

Reading over that list, one thought occurs to me: even though the Yankees did not win the World Series in any of those years, we can’t really consider them a ‘waste’.

Of course, it’s easy to put Aaron Boone head and shoulders above any other moment from that time span, but the reality is that there were a lot of straight out awesome moments to be a Yankee fan.

We’re often very spoiled, as we think that any year without a World Series ring is a failure, but sometimes it might just very well behoove us to remember that there’s a difference between, say, being a Yankee fan in October 2003 and being a Nationals fan, or, maybe more apropos, an Indians fan.

The Yankees can’t win the World Series every single year, no matter how much we want them to, but more often then not, they’ll give us a reason to watch, anyway.

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