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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2620303" data-attributes="member: 4779">I've been a Yanks fan since the early 80's (when they stunk) and the great teams of the late 90's were fun to watch because of the team play and the guts.  This team is just different.  I had similar feelings at the start of the year, especially with all the new starting pitchers but the new faces that have risen from the ashes make the Yanks much easier to route for.Chacon, Cano, Wang and Small are great stories.  If Giambi makes the out at home last night the talk of today may have been about the Yankee rookie pitching through nerves to put in 7 solid innings rather than the game basically ending right there.Honestly, the feel-good team of this year are the Indians.  I will be cheering for them to lose this weekend, especially if the Yanks tank but if they aren't playing the Yanks I'll be watching to see if they can continue to pump out wins.  They do look really tired, tho.  As for the NL, I'm on the Houston train as I was last year.  Hard not to route for 2 ex-Yanks in Pettite and Rocket.</blockquote>