Matthew Grieco wrote:
Maybe that's because the team that will win is the team that is better at scoring runs and denying the other team runs, and not the one with the better "chemistry."
On the other side of the coin, you weren't in the bar I was in during games 6 and 7 of the NLCS; it was rowdier than Busch Stadium. You could tell after Pujols got on base and Rolen smacked that dinger that put the Cardinals up in Game 6 that the fans, and the electricity of the place, had something to do with it. In fact, most leagues rely on this concept when they award home-field advantage during the playoffs -- there's a reason it's a reward for a job well done in the regular season.
Sometimes, the team that wins overcomes impossible odds to do so -- yet I was on the court celebrating with the rest of the fans at Mizzou Arena this afternoon after my 14-15 Missouri Tigers took down the No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks (oh, how sweet it is!). It's almost impossible to explain why the Tigers had as much as a 15-point lead during that game; our stats coming in to the contest were terrible, and we'd just come off a 19-point loss to Iowa State where we turned the ball over 22 times. And yet, every player was focused on one thing that game -- beating Kansas. One of our sports reporters interviewed the entire starting lineup about today's game individually and they all had the same response: Screw the rest of the season, screw the .500 record, screw the we-might-not-make-the-postseason-for-the-first-time-in-forever outlook; we want to beat Kansas. They didn't care about anything else. I think it's that drive that helped two players put up career-high efforts in scoring and another pull down 14 boards on his way to a double-double.
But I digress, since I was getting to basketball. I think what the writer is alluding to here is that the Yankees are, in all respects, as close to an all-star team as can be hoped for in the bigs, but that's probably going to be the team's downfall, because too many egos will clash.
Just my two cents.