“A lot of people asked me if we were going to celebrate today and I said, ‘You’re darn right we’re gonna celebrate.” – Alex Rodriguez 10/1/15
Not even 15 seconds after Dellin Betances struck out Josh Rutledge to end last night’s game, and to secure their 10,000th franchise win and a trip to the Wild Card game, people were poo pooing the Yankees’ celebration. Those people were acting as if the Yankee players should have just shaken each other’s hands, quietly left the field, and not cared that they had just made the postseason for the first time since 2012.