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California dreamin' and survival of the Twins

October 07, 2002 ~ 1:59 p.m.

The title of the ESPN story said, �Yankees Go Home, 9-5 Losers to the Angels.� To me, it said, �Oh yes, there is a God!�

On Saturday evening, the New York Yankees hung up their bats for the season, Anaheim having bounced them out of the American League Divisional Series (first round of the baseball playoffs). You have to go back eight long years to find the last time this happened, when the Yanks had met their match so early in the season (it was against the Seattle Mariners). After tearing up Major League baseball with four World Series titles over the course of six years � and they came damn close to making it five last year before a ninth-inning, Game 7 meltdown in Arizona � the beast has been slain. It is not dead and will likely rise again. But it has been battered and humiliated, having lost to team from southern California who had never before even won an American League Championship title � something even the hapless Red Sox have done numerous times � in their 41 years.

But this time, the Angels took no prisoners after losing a disappointing Game 1 in New York. They beat the Yanks on their own turf the next night, and then gave them a good and thorough ass-kicking the likes they haven�t seen in only God knows how long in California.

Now they are due to take on the Minnesota Twins, a team that was condemned to death by commissioner Bud Selig before this season even started. Bud wanted to dissolve the Twins and spread the players out amongst other teams. The Twins were expected to lose the division to Chicago or Cleveland, thus making Selig�s job easy.

Last night, the Twins did the almost unthinkable: They beat the steamrolling Athletics to advance. Who�d-a-thunk it? Now Selig knows the Twins are pretty much untouchable and Twins fans can not only growl �back off,� but growl it with confidence.

The New York Yankees bounced out in the first round and an Anaheim Angels vs. Minnesota Twins AL Championship series coming up?

Dare I to say it, but baseball has gotten interesting again!

� M.E.M.

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