I'm The Rabbi, and I'm freakin ecstatic on the Yankees FINALLY getting title #27. I'm in a state of happiness right now like you wouldn't believe. I'll let Mr. Jay Kaplan wrap up the Yankees season on the blog later, but I wanted to add something now.

In the wake of the A-Rod, Teixiera, CC, and of course, the core four, the two biggest contributors of this World Series might not even be Yankees come April.

First was Johnny Damon. With Brad Lidge one singular out away from making the World Series a Best of 3 and probably giving a game 7 later tonight, Damon has a great 10 pitch at bat against Lidge and then STEALS TWO BASES, changing the whole game for Mr. Lidge in that 9th inning. The Yankees would score 3 in what was then a tied game and win by 3. Johnny Damon made that whole inning happen and turned the series around. Even though Damon left Game 6 with a strained hamstring, the numbers don't lie: .364 batting average, .440 On base percentage. Johnny Damon in the final year of his 4 year contract did what he came to do: be one of the leaders of a Yankee World Series ballclub. However, he's 36 (as of today), and is coming off a better than expected season. However, do the Yankees still want to invest in him for 3 more years, knowing his field skills have diminished and knowing that the DH spot will mostly be Jorge Posada's in 2010? Who knows? But the idiot of Boston, who provided two of the most devestating home runs in the old Yankee Stadium history in Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS had a series to remember.

Then there's your World Series MVP Hideki Matsui. Wow. Batted .615 in the world series, and singlehandedly clinched title #27 for the Yankees. Singlehandedly. Dominated Pedro Martinez in Games 2 and 6, got a pinch hit home run in Game 3, and was a man who made pitching to A-Rod even more of a necessity cause in this series, Matsui was more dangerous.

However, Matsui's career with the Yankees is probably at an end. Hell, even Bud Selig congratulated Matsui on a great career in the podium celebration (play it back and you'll hear it). Matsui is also 35, but his wear and tear is a lot more. He can only play DH now, and like I said, there are others who will NEED that position in 2010. Most likely, Hideki Matsui went out with a BANG, if it was his last game in pinstripes. Matsui is a guy who started his Yankee career 6 years ago in a World Series, and could end his career in a World Series. The fans in the New Yankee Stadium ROARED when Matsui was named MVP of the Series. Rightfully so too.

Like it or not, Hideki Matsui and Johnny Damon are two of the unlikelier Yankees to add themselves to the World Series legends list in the 105th World Series and the 27th victory for the current and future kings of baseball.