Give The D-Backs Their Due

“We're obviously disappointed in the result, but not the effort," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. “We've done this to people so many times that you sort of think it's going to happen all the time for you. I'm disappointed and all of our players are disappointed in the result, but not in everything leading up to it because we played our hearts out.”

"That was the greatest Game 7 ever," added New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

History tends to erase second place from our collective memories. But something tells me we will remember the way these Yankees made lightning and bottled it… the way they came up with big hits when they absolutely had to, the way they made the remarkable plays seem commonplace under the most trying circumstances. So while the Diamondbacks' reveled in their most remarkable of comebacks, the Yankees answered the onslaught of 'What Ifs' from the media, showered, dressed and headed toward 2002.

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