Is this the real NY Yankees, and if not where have they gone?

Not since the wild boys of the 50's has there been a Yankee team like this, and all Mantle, Martin and Co did was drink themselves to death.

Antics like post game on field shaving cream pies to the face are not in the DNA of the corporate look NY Yanks that I know.

So who are these guys who went all nut-so behind the mound yesterday after coming back from a 4-0 deficit with the Phillies, did we win the division, pennant or the World Series yet?

Like the song says where have you gone Joe DiMaggio and Ill add Derek Jeter, the 2009 version of the NY Yankees are like nothing I have seen in nearly 40 as a Yankee fan, where is captain courageous these days?

Some would say they that playing loose is a good thing and I agree, but between all the young players from the farm system and other new arrivals from trades and free agents there is a drop in average age and that could be a good thing, but only time will tell.

I can only hope they save one more bit of craziness in the middle of the diamond for late October, to quote another song "it don't mean a thing if you don't get that ring" and we ain't talking about AL championship rings here.