Summary
NEW YORK Everything in the ballpark felt slightly wrong, as if the Yankees had woken up in an alternate universe. Here it was, first week of October and it was warm emough to moisten your collar. Inside the ballpark, a slick, unfamiliar voice oozed from the PA system, like some open-air infomercial.
Where was Bob Sheppard? Where was Chien-Ming Wang the real one? What happened to the Yankees who won 70 percent of their games in the second half? What happened to the nuclear offense that was supposed to crush Paul Byrd, the Indians' No. 4 starter who never hit 90 mph on the radar gun?See the full content of this document
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All the Signs Pointed to a Dead End
The Yankees should've seen the numerous signs sprinkled along the way of their season-ending 6-4 loss to the Indians. Sheppard couldn't recover in time from laryngitis, Wang, the sinker-ball specialist, surrendered a leadof...
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