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The New York Yankees go into the 2008 MLB season without Manager Joe Torre for the initial time since 1995. Joe Girardi, new Yankees Manager, has a good deal of huge cleats to fill.
Word comes from Yankees camp that things slid a great deal of under Joe Torre’s end game. Practice not as crisp, details not as clear, results surely not as before. Joe Torre was given a decent but hardly overly-gracious from the New York Yankees for the duration of the MLB off-season.
Torre, given a take it or leave it from the Yankees, left it, resolving rather to find greener pastures and warmer weather in Los Angeles, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Door open, in walks Joe Girardi. Girardi, former Yankees Catcher, was a teammate of a great deal of of the current Yankees players, including Derek Jeter and Jorge Posada. Girardi, now the Yankees Manager, will have to lead after Torre’s legendary run.
However, no World Series wins for Torre since 2000, leaves Girardi room to establish his own legacy. The budget to succeed is always present with the New York Yankees. It is not always up to the Manager, though, how successful the Yankees are. The configuration of the 2008 New York Yankees is long on offense, with a great deal of pitching questions.
Joe Girardi has no luxuriousness when it comes to Yankee Ownership and it is patience. First-year Yankees skipper-so what? Terry Francona won a World Series in his basi year with the Boston Red Sox. Girardi knows he needs to invent immediately, and not one thing less will satisfy Yankees brass and fans, long accustomed to visits to the World Series.
York Yankees 1977 World Collectors
These seven DVDs of the actual LCS and World Series Game broadcasts Includes Game 6 in which Reggie Jackson hit three successive home runs Includes the rough and tumble pennant clincher versus Kansas City Approximate running time: 15 hours
It was one of the original signs of the innovative era of baseball when New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner took vantage of new free-agency rules to restock his team. One of his acquisitions, outfielder Reggie Jackson, proved himself worthy of his self-label as “the straw that stirs the drink” by powering a record five home runs in the 1977 World Series, breaking a 15-year Yankee championship drought and branding him “Mr. October.” The 1977 New York Yankees Collector’s Edition set has all six games versus the Los Angeles Dodgers, plus the clinching fifth game of the ALCS versus the Kansas City Royals (featuring a late Yankee comeback and a brawl amidst third basemen Graig Nettles and George Brett). Also included are new consultations with a number of the players, including Reggie Jackson, Willie Randolph, Ron Guidry, Lou Piniella, Chris Chambliss, Mickey Rivers, Roy White, Dusty Baker, and Burt Hooton, and some footage of the unforgettable mid-season squabble among Jackson and manager Billy Martin, plus SleeveStats that print the box score, inning-by-inning summaries, and trivia on each DVD Thinpak case. As a time capsule, it’s interesting to watch the players in action–not only future Hall of Famer Jackson (remember how in his three-homer venture in the clinching game, he in truth started the Yankees comeback with a base on balls?), pre-Cy Young winner Guidry, and future managing directors Randolph, Piniella, and Baker. It’s also instructive to watch a dissimilar era of the game, one that saw Yankees closer Sparky Lyle pitch 3-2/3 innnings for the game 1 win, and umpires who would watch pitches bounce in the dirt without batting an eye, rather than obsessively replacing anything with a hint of a scuff. And even though their team lost, longtime Dodger fans will receive pleasure from observing the squad that boasted four 30-homer hitters, future Hall of Famer Don Sutton, and the record-setting infield of Garvey, Lopes, Russell, and Cey. –David Horiuchi
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
 Worth it for Yankees fans, but picture really annoying
By M. Johnson
As mentioned, the picture in almost every game chops out the bottom part of the on-screen graphics. It is rather frustrating. Game Six of the World Series and Game Five of the ALCS are the best as far as seeing the graphics. Unfortunately, the video quality isn’t very good for Game Six and the ALCS game is missing parts of the game. It isn’t missing much, but enough so you’ll notice. Also, the audio fluctuates during games. Keith Jackson, Tom Seaver, and Howard Cosell handle announcing duties during ABC’s broadcast of the World Series. As a nice touch, A&E and MLB Productions placed the local Yankees telecast of the ALCS game on this set. The announcing for that game is handled by Bill White, Frank Messer, and the one and only Phil Rizzuto. Bottom line, this DVD set is a worthy purchase, but you might not want to pay full price.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
 Great History, Rotten Video
By The Weary Professor
This review is based on having viewed Disk One of the set. The DVD starts with a disclaimer saying the quality will not be good but the best available masters have been used. What that means is the bottom of the image is cut off (often making the last line of the player’s stats unreadable) and the image is shifted down slightly, leaving a slight black bar at the top of the screen. Yes, my TV is adjusted properly. The MLB logo has also been watermarked into the top right of the image, but that was to be expected after viewing previous MLB releases. The video is fairly grainy, but even more troubling is the complete loss of sound for nearly a minute during the middle of the game. Other notes: This is the ABC broadcast with Howard Cosell and Tom Seaver doing the play-by-play, but without the bumpers, pre-game etc. Bottom line: Definitely worth watching for historical reasons, but you may want to rent before buying.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Much better than expected
By robi1138
After reading some of the reviews here I was worried about the quality of the video on these DVDs. After seeing some in-game footage of the ’77 Series on The Bronx Is Burning series on ESPN I was even more concerned. However, with the exception of some picture cropping (it’s not quite fullscreen, not quite widescreen) the image is actually pretty good for a 30 year old taping. Worth the money if you’re a Yankee fan.
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