# Major League Baseball: The 2010 Playoffs **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [October 6, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197 "2010-10-06T00:24:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 472
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197/472 "2010-10-23T19:43:48Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I think he was simply referring to the fact that, aside from the Yankees’ success since 1996, the overwhelming source of that Yankee “legendary status”, that makes even announcers for other teams talk as if their teams are entering Yankee Stadium to face near-deities, took place from the Babe Ruth era through the early 1960s. A period of time when, indeed, the Yankees won the majority (20) of their 27 World Series. Yeah, and also I’m happy about the fact that the blowhards, who mainly Yankee fans around me, were so hilariously wrong about both leagues’ heavy favorites this time around. I’m rooting like crazy for the Giants to upend the Phillies so that I can sneer at all the jerks who oh-so-confidently predicted, with maximum condescension, that we’d of course be seeing a NY-Philly Series again because these two masterful teams were obviously the class of their respective leagues. When I dared opine, “Well, they DO have some games to win before that point,” I was patted on the head and told, “A mere technicality.” I do hate the Yankees, with force and vigor and delight, but I think I hate condescending front-runner know-it-alls worse. Fortunately, this year I may get to have the last word to all of them. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-league-baseball-the-2010-playoffs/556197)._