The Yankees have just knocked off the Angels to reach the World Series and look more than capable of knocking off the Phillies and win another World Series. With an excellent lineup, C.C. Sabathia able to start three games, talented relievers and the best closer in the history of the game, the Yankees will beat Philadelphia in five games.
But here are a few other things to get you going the start of the work week nears.
Morneau checks in
I e-mailed Justin Morneau last week after one of my spotters spotted him in the Wild clubhouse with his hand wrapped up. I wanted to know how his surgery went.
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He got back to me over the weekend and didn’t seem too worried:
“H and is feeling better,” he wrote. “Get the cast off this week and it should be good as new in about 4 weeks. They found a floating chunk of bone that kind of looked like a tooth but no tendon or ligament damage. Went as good as it could go.”
Morneau’s hand should be healed from surgery by the end of the year - as should the stress fracture in his lower back that ended his season in September.
I remember talking with Michael Cuddyer during last offseason when he was coming off a 2008 that included so many injures. “I’ve never been more motivated to have good season,” he said then. Cuddyer went on to have a nice comeback year.