RIP Scooter. Phil Rizzuto passed away today at the age of 89. I hate the Yankees, but this guy was all class, and a hell of a ballplayer. He won the 1950 MVP by scoring 125 runs and banging out 200 hits, good for a .324 average. There are only like 8 people alive who actually saw Scooter play, however, but there are millions who know him as a broadcaster. His "Holy Cow" call made him famous enough to get a sub-story on a Seinfeld episode.
Sadly, Rizzuto's passing means that even if the Red Sox hold on to the AL East, the Yanks will win the Wild Card and then go on to win the World Series. When a Yankee dego gets sick or dies the pinstripers win. In '96 Joe Torre's brother, Frank, had a heart transplant and boom! The Yanks win for the first time since '78. And then there was '99 when Joe D died and they won the second of their three-peat. Damn!
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