Last night the New York Yankees put the final spear in the belly of the Seattle Mariners, wrapping up their 37th American League pennant, their fourth in five years. But this time the rival is new. The glory days of Yankees v. Giants or Yankees v. Dodgers are long-since gone and headed out west, where real women come equipped with scripts and fake breasts. Which is quite fitting actually, for the last time the Mets won a World Series back in 1986, the team was comprised entirely of dirty, smelly, shabbily-clothed crackheads.
Lets look at the hard statistics here.
The Yankees have won 25 World Championships, nearly 3 times more than any other team. The softball team from Big Guido's Body Shop could beat the Red Sox in the playoffs. The 2000 Yankees represent the 17th time a team has won their league's pennant for three consecutive years. In nine of those 17 occurrences, the team was the New York Yankees. The 2000 World Series is the most anticipated in recent memory.