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Some time in November, you can add Derek Jeter to the list of Forever Yankees. And make room for Mariano Rivera.

What, you don’t think the 27-time world champions and the captain will agree on a multi-year extension that will keep Jeter in pinstripes until the day he retires?

If you want to bet the other way, send your wager to the e-mail address at the end of this story.

“I’ve said from Day One, this is the only organization I’ve ever wanted to play for, and that’s still true today,” Jeter said yesterday before the team’s first full-squad workout at George M. Steinbrenner Field. “I was a Yankees fan growing up. This is where I want to be. I’ve never envisioned myself playing anywhere else, and hopefully I don’t have to.”

‘I’ve said from Day One, this is the only organization I’ve ever wanted to play for, and that’s still true today. I was a Yankees fan growing up. This is where I want to be. I’ve never envisioned myself playing anywhere else, and hopefully I don’t have to.’

-Derek Jeter

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Nothing less was expected. Nothing less was delivered. These are the Yankees. This is New York. They are the best, and that’s what this town mints: winners. If you don’t get it, enjoy your visit anyway.

Meanwhile, we’ll be out by the tens of thousands for a wild romp of a parade, an exuberant beat of the city’s great big heart.

Plenty spectacular it is that The Bombers inaugurated their handsome new Stadium by winning the 2009 World Series, the team’s 27th, before a home-field crowd.

And history doth repeat. The team won the first of its championships in the opening season of the old Stadium, way back in 1923. Ever since, the Yanks have topped baseball at an average of once every three years.

No one else comes close. Hell, add up the Series wins of the teams in each Major League division, and the only division with more than the Yanks is the one they are in, the AL East. The team has won more than a quarter of the World Series ever played. And it’s a thrill every time. Read more..

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Pedro Martinez faces the New York Yankees on the biggest stage of them all tonight, as he tries to give the Philadelphia Phillies a commanding two games to none lead in the World Series at Yankee Stadium.
Hated by Yankee fans during his time with the Boston Red Sox, then later with the Mets, Martinez, is no stranger to the Bronx. In 32 regular-season starts against the Yankees, he has a record of 11-11 with a 3.20 earned run average.

“I think in every aspect, the way you guys have used me and abused me since I’ve been coming to [Yankee] Stadium,” said Martinez on being cast as the villain to Yankee fans. “I remember quotes in the paper, ‘Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.’ The man? None of you have ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what I’m all about as a man. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things and have written so many things [about me].”

The veteran right-hander had been 8-4 in the old stadium and pitched perhaps his best game there back in 1999 when he allowed one hit and struck out 17 in a complete game win.

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For the Yankees to win the World Series, they need A.J. Burnett to perform nearly as well as ace CC Sabathia.

The weather cooperated to allow a baseball game on Saturday night in the Bronx. But son of a gun if it didn’t feel like a football game, with temperatures in the 40s, winds making it feel worse and two hardened teams going into overtime as the clock turned to Sunday.

Weather watch: It was 47 degrees at gametime on Saturday night, 2 degrees warmer than on Friday, but it was again blustery, with a 15 mph wind from the north-northeast and gusts up to 23 mph that made the ceremonial red-white-and-blue bunting flap.

Pretty, pretty, pretty amazing.

And then it was over, 5 hours, 10 minutes after it began, with Jerry Hairston Jr. racing home at 1:07 in the morning, Game 2 of the ALCS to the Yanks, 4-3 in 13 innings.

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Given the tong wars between the Yankees and the Red Sox over the years, it was a bit of an eye-opener for the New Yorkers that the Los Angeles Angels dismissed Boston with such ease.

It should also be a tap on the shoulder for the Bronx Bombers. If they didn’t feel at all uneasy before, they should now.

The Angels have been one of the best teams in baseball the past eight years. Five times in that span, they have won the AL West. In one of the years they didn’t — 2002 — they won the World Series. In those eight years, they have averaged 93 wins a year and only twice in that time period have they won fewer than 90 games.

In recent years, though, they have underachieved quite dramatically in October. After they won the World Series as a wild-card team in 2002, they won just one playoff series in the next five. That one win was over the Yankees in the 2005 League Division Series. In the other four series until this year, the Angels had won two games and lost 13. Read more..

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