The New York Yankees rallied from down 5-2 against Pedro Martinez to tie the game in the 8th inning with the Boston Red Sox five outs away from an American League pennant, and then Mariano Rivera held the Sox at bay for three scoreless innings before Aaron Boone cranked Tim Wakefield’s first knuckleball in the bottom of the 11th inning over the leftfield wall for a Get Off My Property and Away From My Pennant home run.

It’s all one long sentence and I’m less than rational right now, but WAHOO!! The New York Yankees are the American League Champions!!!

These two teams played 26 times this season, and in the end were separated by one run in the bottom of the 11th inning of the 26th game. That’s about as square a matchup as you’re going to see on the diamond, especially between two blood rivals, and the ballgame tonight will go down in as one of the classic games in baseball history.

I’ll have plenty to say tomorrow about it when I’m sick, sober, and (not so) sorry.