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Yankees find comfort in clichés

By Eric Neel
ESPN.com

Monday, October 19, 2009

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Nothing inspires clichés like failure. Nothing makes a man philosophical like mounting frustration. Old saws, like well-worn pillows, provide a cushion, a dusty bit of comfort to soften the blow. So it was that the New York Yankees, fresh off an 11-inning, 5-4 loss to the Angels on Monday evening in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, quoted chapter and verse from the Crash Davis guide to postgame interviews. "Tomorrow's a new day," manager Joe Girard ...

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