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Watching Game 3 of the ALCS I found myself transported back ten years to 1999 when the Yankees won eleven of twelve postseason games on their way to their third World Series title in four years. And for good reason. First of all, the Bombers swept through the Minnesota Twins with little difficulty. And consider the on-field happenings Monday night as the Yankees sought to take an insurmountable (well don't say that to the Red Sox) three games to none lead: Andy Pettitte was doing his usual playoff act of giving up a hit per inning but cruising along all the same; Derek Jeter led off the game with a homer in addition to performing his singular kind of defensive wizardry and just being his sublime October self; Jorge Posada hit a game-tying home run late in the game; and Mariano Rivera...
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