Yankees Fans - This Is Like The Fall of Rome

[Yavin4]

with the Red Sox being the Barbarians at the Gate. Hey, all great empires fall, and the Yankees are no exceptions.

I blame this collapse on Brian Cashman for being one of the most inept GMs in baseball. He didn't fight hard enough for Andy Pettite. He didn't strengthen the Yankees bullpen with a left reliever. Imagine if we had re-signed David Wells in the off-season. He got his job through cronyism. Cashman's father is in the horse business with Steinbrenner.

I am just sick about this series, but there's nothing that we can do or say from here on out. If we lose, 100 years of baseball history will be wiped clean. We will be scarred forever. As a franchise, we will have to start all over again, and I say the first step is to fire Brian Cashman.

[wysi]

1. Don't get carried away...

... game 7 hasn't been played yet. And if the yankees do lose it will certainly not tarnish their proud history (as much as this Sox fan hates to write these words).

[OneBlueSky]

2. well, that's a pretty pessimistic post . . .

do you really believe that the Yankees will lose on Mickey Mantle's birthday? . . . not a chance . . . :)

Go Bombers! . . .

[bigwillq]

3. Please have a little confidence and faith in our team

It's not over yet folks and even if the Sox happen to win, which is not going to happen, one game or one series isn't going to erase all that they've acheived in the last 100+ years.

[kcwayne]

4. Except that the fall of Rome has been remembered for over

a thousand years, and no one will remember who won the 2004 series 20 years from now.

[tridim]

5. If the Sox win, everyone will remember

If the Yanks win, who cares.

[kcwayne]

6. Yeah. And who won the 1984 series?

Obviously you can google it but how many people know off the top of their head?

On the other hand, how many people have some idea of who Ceasar was?

[JohnKleeb]

7. Detroit Tigers

done w/o googling
Tigers won in 6 games against Padres, MVP was Willie Hernadez I believe
It depends what kind of world series it is really, if it gets to 7 and has great games, people will remmeber it.

[kcwayne]

9. Okay, if you could ask one of these questions of everyone in the world

1) Who won the 1984 World Series
2) Who was Ceasar

and you got one penny for every correct answer, which question would you ask?

[tjdee]

8. I think they're spooked.

I think after Game 4 the Yanks were spooked and couldn't get it back.
Until tonight hopefully!

But if they lose I don't think it'll be that big of a deal.
They can't win every single time, it gets boring. Ask Tiger Woods.

[Yavin4]

10. Let's Get Real

Losing a series after being up 3-0 is the worse thing that can ever happen to a sports franchise. The closest collapse of this nature was the Houston Oilers losing to the Bills in a playoff game after being up 35-0 at halftime. That loss was the catalyst for the Oilers moving to Tenn. This collapse is catastrophic.