The Yankees – like Brett’s Royals – keep losing to one team specifically in the playoffs.
HOUSTON – It is amazing how quickly, even more than four decades later, that George Brett is back there. As if Hal McRae is wiping out Willie Randolph with a slide at second right in front of him now or he is squaring off against Graig Nettles or he cannot believe the damn Yankees are building another roadblock to his dream.
He does not use the verb lightly. Brett sticks with “hate.” It is in his voice as he remembers 1976 and 1977 and 1978 and losing to the Yankees each time in the AL Championship Series, one step before the World Series. And it is there with how much more euphoric it all felt when they finally beat the Yankees in 1980 to reach their first-ever World Series.
And here are the Yankees back again for try No. 4 against the Astros in the playoffs, another ALCS, another climb up the mountain with the summit in sight, the same boulder pushed, the same obstruction. Of course that loathing is about losing to Houston at the biggest moment. But it is this venomous because of the sign-stealing scandal of 2017. There are members of the Yankee organization who are just never going to stop believing that Houston cheated in that series and that it was the difference in winning all four home games to advance to win their still only World Series title.
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