Be afraid of the Angels.

Last week, it was the Tigers.

This week, it's the Angels.

Next week, it will be the Red Sox or the Rangers:

"The way A.J. Burnett is pitching, Mike Mussina may have to start Game 2 of the playoffs.

Seriously?

How can a team be on the kind of rip the have been for months, and have this many questions with its pitching staff?"

To answer your question, the offense is how a team can be on this kind of rip for months and have this many questions with its pitching staff.

Starting staff, to be precise. The bullpen has been quite good.


"Angels fans must look at Kendry Morales' stats and wonder why anybody from the Yankees is more of an MVP candidate than Morales is."

The Yankee players are not "more of" candidates.

Just because Mike Lupica didn't notice Kendry Morales until this morning, when Lupica decided to hype up the Angels, doesn't mean the rest of the baseball-viewing public is unaware of Morales's season.


"For everything the Yankees have done this season, they came out of yesterday a total of four games better than the Angels in the loss column."

Only four games? Is Lupica being serious? The best record in baseball, but it's only four games?


Flashback to April. Most people predicted a third-place AL East finish for the Yankees.

The Yankees finished in third place in the AL East the year before and, this year, they were going to be hampered by ARod's steroid confessions.

Right?


So now that the season has worked out so well, we're supposed to forget about it and worry about Justin Verlander, Kendry Morales, Josh Beckett, and Ian Kinsler.

It has been a very enjoyable and successful Yankee season.

You can ask anybody except for Mike Lupica.