After an six year absence, the New York Yankees are back in the World Series. Say what you want about them, but this team did exactly what a team of this caliber is supposed to do - excel. Now they are right where they want to be, four games away from their 27th World Championship; the most by far of any professional sports team.
Like most people, my knock on this team has been the fact that its not a "team", instead, its a collection of individuals. To me, that explains why they haven't seen the World Series in six years. They had the best players most of the time, but that didn't make them the best "team". This years team is different. With the addition of high priced free agents, who also have a personality (especially Nick Swisher), the 2009 "collection of individuals" merged into the best "team" in the American league and maybe in baseball (only the Phillies stand in the way for that honor).
With the core group from their last dynasty run (Jeter, Posada and Rivera) and the addition of the fab four (Sabathia, Burnett, Texiera, and Swisher), the Yankees are primed to return to the top of the baseball mountain and stay there for a few years. I'm sure the rest of baseball is not happy about that.
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