THE YANKEES WILL CRANE KICK THEIR WAY TO VICTORY

Hey Yankees... the time is now!  Our backs are against the wall.  We've been pushed around, humiliated, hassled and fought through plenty.  Now... we are exactly 3 1/2 out of the Wild Card.  The Oakland Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays are ahead of us.  The Baltimore Orioles, led by the tough Buck Showalter... never goes down without a fight.  So, in the design of the Karate Kid... with nothing left in the tank but a few wins before today... it's time for the Yankees to make sure the Orioles stay down!


I've always been a fan of the movie with the guy who no one believes in.  But, in the spirit of confidence and determination, they believe in themselves.  That's why Jorge Posada has always been so appealing to me.  He was told he couldn't, yet, he did... a 5 time World Champion and one of the most loved Yankees of our time.

You know who was in the same boat at one point in his life? Yogi Berra.  I short Italian catcher with a lot of heart and a lot of talent and no one thought he'd ever make it.  But he did... and so did Casey Stengel and together, they made things happen.

Champions are made.  Not because someone says they're champions, but because of what they offer to a team.  Big moments...  big commitments... big confidence and in the end, they, or you, are standing on the top of the mountain.  There are people in your life, or players on the field that you see and say, "He's gonna make it."  I look at someone like Ty Hensley as a symbol of greatness.  I don't say that loosely.  I say it because if you look at what he's told us here at Bleeding Yankee Blue, read NEW TY HENSLEY INTERVIEW: CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN, if you see the way this guy is fighting his way back from injury... you know he's going to one day be a champion.

The goal in life is to succeed... The goal in life is to never, EVER give up.  It doesn't matter if Bobby up the road told you yesterday on the Little League field that "You suck."  What matters is that you believe that you don't.  It doesn't matter if an injury throws a monkey wrench in your progress. What matters is that you can rehab and rise above it.  And it doesn't matter that the Yankees are 3 1/2 games out of the Wild Card.  What matters is that now... we rally!  We rally like the Yankees have rallied before.  We rally like Rocky Balboa when he beat Apollo Creed.  We rally like Dan Jansen in the 1994 Olympics...

(In Photo: Dan Jansen)
There are people that will tell you "You Can't". But need to to brush your shoulders off and say, "I can!"

The Yankees are at their "I Can" moment.  While this isn't Game 7 of the World Series... it's just as important, because right now... they need to win, sweep, fight and claw their way.  The Yankees haven't always played well this season and we were dealt a lot of bad cards this year.  But right now, they march with the soldiers they have.  They may not be the best, but they need to believe they are.

Today, and beyond, it's about confidence... and we will stand with them as Yankee fans, who love this club so much, that we can't bare to believe in anything less.

Today, we Crane kick the Orioles... we put them down and move forward.  There will more games and more Crane kicks... and we need to keep fighting... and we will... because we're the Yankees and we are making a run that we MUST have... not because someone's gonna hand it to us...... no. We're gonna make this run, because we want it and we will be champions again!

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