Mike Mussina News

Two rings book-ended Mike Mussina's Yankees career. This got me wondering as to how many others played for a team for 8 years or longer where the team won a World Championship the year before he joined and the year after - but not in between I figured that Lee Sinins was the best person to ask about this and here's what he was able to share: ...

AFTER missing the playoffs for the first time since 1995, the Yankees spent last offseason ensuring they wouldn't suffer the same fate in 2009.

That's the going rate for a second Yankees World Series championship in the first decade of the 21st century.

A year ago, Mike Mussina wrapped up a 20-win season and a career in which he played for the Yankees for eight years.

Think of the procession and the price. Think of all the stars brought in for nearly a decade at a staggering cost to try to recreate the dynasty years.

Would you be willing to give Mark Teixeira a mulligan? I am back. The bar is open.

A.J. Burnett was a non-contributing member of the Florida Marlins team that beat the Yankees in the 2003 World Series.

Last night the Yanks got even, beating back the pesky Phils to tie the World Series at one game apiece.

The Yankees waited six long years for this. They had not won a World Series game since that rainy night in Miami when Mike Mussina beat Florida's Josh Beckett for a 2-1 lead in 2003.

It felt like a birthright early in their careers. They were young and Yankees, and that meant a lifetime in the World Series.

Some selected moments in the decidedly short history between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies: October 1950 - The Yankees quickly dispatch the Phillies in the World Series 4-0. The Phillies had been trying for their first World Series win, the Yankees won their 13th.

Less than a month into his first season, the rookie big-league pitching coach had to call in one of his struggling starters to make it clear he'd have to change things to stay in the rotation.

He has never caved. He has never wilted. The brighter the lights, the closer he pulled that glove to his face to shield those dark, focused eyes.

On Thursday night, the Yankees were one victory away from a triumphant return to the World Series.

When a ballclub is under postseason siege, it's a good time for the manager to be gentle, at least publicly.

CC Sabathia is starting Game 4, Joe Girardi said on a conference call with reporters an hour or so ago.

Unless the Twins can reverse the American League Division Series with victories on Sunday and Monday, the Yankees' next game at Yankee Stadium will pit them against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on Friday.

Randy Johnson was chased from Game 3 of the ALDS against the Angels in the fourth inning after allowing five runs.

As we approach the end of this debauched, orgiastic decade of the aughts - the historians, we suspect, will refer to it as The Age of Unchecked Hedonism, the same way the seventies were known as The Decade of Well-Shaved Men, and the nineties were known as The Age of Wearing Form-Fitting Clothes to Rock Shows Featuring Performers Who Cared More ...

The Yankees have dominated most teams and at least held their own against the best for the past 15 years with one exception: the Angels, their opponents in the ALCS.