The last time we had an entry on this blog, the World Series was down to the last couple of games. By now you certainly know that the Yankees won the series in 6 games, with Mariano Rivera shutting down the Phillies at the end. It will be interesting to see whether either of these teams will have a drop off of any significance at the start of next season. Both teams have declared that they will return next season, but that’s fairly unusual. Just look at the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays. The Phillies put up a difficult fight against the Yankees, making the Yankees work harder for it than they might have expected, but they weren’t able to produce the runs that they needed against a hard-fighting Yankees team. The Yankees now have 27 World Series titles since the title was started over 100 years ago.