Babe Ruth built it, but Yankees are bringing it down

Babe Ruth built it, but Yankees are bringing it down

This is the beginning of the long goodbye now for the Yankees, the last home games for them at this version of Yankee Stadium, a September that is about the place now more than the baseball team.
This is what it comes down to for Joe Girardi’s Yankees, a series against the first-place Rays and then the White Sox, also in first place today, and then finally the Orioles next Sunday night. The most famous and expensive baseball team in this world, one that made the postseason 13 straight times, is reduced to this:
Hoping against hope that calamities happen to three teams in front of them in the wild-card race so they aren’t officially eliminated from the playoffs by the last Yankee game on this side of 161st. I’m not one who blames the manager for this season, but I know this: Hank Steinbrenner would have fired Joe Torre for a season like this. And maybe wanted to fire him twice.

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You keep thinking Girardi’s Yankees will play this next week, play with great pride, play that way to the end. But then I thought they would play a lot harder and a lot better long before this, not come into this last week or so at the Stadium hoping that the goodbye to the ballpark isn’t drowned out by a loud, good riddance to them.

nydailynews.com
9/12/08