Posada and Matsui

Yeah. In my first game post of the season I wrote that the guys on this team who I still admire as true Yankee champions were Posada, Jeter, and Matsui. Here's what I said after the first loss in the first game of the season.

In a high-profile game like this, one can expect the experienced, championship caliber Yankee players to perform at their best, and they didn't disappoint. Jeter was 3-5 and Matsui and Posada homered. Though the Yankees lost in dispiriting fashion, the guys we can rely on, Jeter, Matsui, and Posada, will always play inspirational baseball when they're needed most. And that's the primary reason I still think the Yankees are worth watching.

Here's the link to that first post.

Of course, I wrote that at the beginning of the season. Since then, a lot of guys have emerged as ballplayers worthy of the pinstripes. More on that later.

On to Philly. The Yankees have a job to do, and that job is to take 2 of 3 from the Phillies in Philadelphia. Just two out of three. Win the miniseries, and they'll have two shots in the Bronx to close out their 27th World Series Championship.