So the New York Yankees are Champions of baseball again. While I never take any of my favorite teams winning championships for granted, it's tough to get super-excited about a team with a $200 million+ payroll dismantling the rest of baseball.
The real importance and legacy of 2009 is that it put several postseason failures (most notably this one) and many failed free-agent signees officially behind the Yankees.
Normally, a nine-year gap between titles wouldn't be considered a "drought", but so much has happened in my life since the last time the Yankees called themselves champions.
Since October of 2000, I have:
- Graduated high school.
- Watched the Knicks actually win a playoff game.
- Been on-campus for Indiana's 2002 run to the National Title game.
- Believed Tyrone Willingham was a savior.
- Graduated college.
- Screamed for Tyrone Willingham to be fired.
- Lived in six different permanent addresses.
- Held five different jobs.
- Received four speeding tickets coming from or going to South Bend, Indiana.
- Completed three different radio internships.
- Completed three different radio internships.
- Dated two chicks from the state of New Jersey.
- And hosted a radio show.
It feels like a lot longer than nine years.
Don't forget "Thought Charlie Weis was the Savior"
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