From RLYW:
Although the MSM is going to beat us to death about the fact that the Angels have owned the Yankees in the postseason, let’s look at some facts….
Wow. So we have one player who was on the 2002 Angels on the 2009 Angels (John Lackey). And we have four players who were on the the 2005 Angels that are on the 2009 Angels (Figgins, Lackey, Vlad Guerrero, and Juan Rivera)…….
So we have two hitters (Jeter and Posada) and two pitchers (Mo and Pettitte) who played for the Yanks against the Angels in 2002 who will be playing in this series. We have five hitters (Alex Rodriguez, Posada, Matsui, Jeter and Cano) and ONE pitcher from the 2005 Yankees (Mo) who will be playing in this series.
In what freaking way is what happened in 2002 and 2005 relevant to what will happen in 2009?
Quite frankly, it is not relevant at all. This Yankee team is incredibly different from last year’s team, let alone the 2005 and 2002 clubs. The Angels have changed a lot since these teams last met in October as well. They no longer have a lockdown bullpen, they have question marks in their rotation, and are now built around their offense. The only thing relevant to this series is the 5-5 record the two teams played to against each other this season, and even that does not contain much meaning. It is time to stop treating things that happened 4 years ago as meaningful to an evaluation of this series.
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