“If I would have paid a ticket to watch me pitch, I probably would have booed me, too,” said Johnson, who made the shortest postseason start of his career. “They’ve come to expect a little more out of me. I’ve come to expect more out of myself.”

…”That guy, did you see the movie ‘Multiplicity,’ with Michael Keaton?” Jeter said. “I think they keep making a bunch of Chone Figginses. He keeps making big plays no matter where they put him.”
(N.Y.Times)

The best news for Yankee fans came before the game yesterday when the White Sox completed a three-game sweep of the defending champion Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Former Yankee El Duque Hernandez was the hero, working out of a nail-biting bases-loaded, one-out jam in the seventh inning and pitching three innings of relief in all. So Boston is done. Right now the Yankees are one game better than their arch rivals and are alive to play one more day, and that’s about it. With a loss today they will join the Sox as a first round loser.

Cruising around the papers here are a few links of note: Lupica and Verducci on the Big Unit, John Harper on El Duque, and Chris Snow on the Red Sox.

I’m in Vermont with Emily for the weekend. It hasn’t stopped raining since we arrived late yesterday afternoon. I can only imgaine it is still coming down in New York. Though I am not overly confident in the Yankees chances today, my mood is certainly colored by the weather. And hey, they pull one out today and anything can happen tomorrow. So, nertz to the pessimissm and Go Yanks!