Lou's Voodoo
Yeah, the Yankees got the skills...what the hell was Tampa Bay doing to beat them all season is beyond me. I'm just going to make up a reason. Lou Pinnella is a voodoo master and each game he plays against the Yankees he sticks pins in all their heads. At the end of every game, he removes the pins and decapitates the dolls so that the players never remember why they got beat so bad. Then he re-stuffs the heads with new stuffing and reattaches them to the bodies. When the Yankees play the Devil Rays again, they have no idea that they lost the last game so they figure that this will be an easy victory. This motivates them only enough so that they make Manny Ramierez look like a 'gamer'. This is why they lose to Tampa Bay.