Orange County Register

• In the old and tired debate about whether the Yankees can simply buy their success, Joe Posnanski manages to add something new to it: “Baseball happens to be a sport where dominance can be obscured. It doesn’t look like dominance.” But, he writes, it’s dominance all the same, and the implications of that might reframe the discussion.

• Wezen-Ball looks at how the NY Times’ cover has reflected Yankee championships throughout the decades.

• Fans have until Monday to contribute to the Fan Scouting Report, a very cool way of using crowd-wisdom to rate defenders. The Fan Scouting Report is also one of the “judges” in the Fielding Bible Awards, which were announced last week.

• It always surprises me to see that, in addition to representing many of the costliest free agents,  Scott Boras represents some truly mediocre ones. Alex Cora? Rodrigo Lopez? Hank Blalock? Ron Villone? How’d these guys  convince Boras to take them on?

• Congratulations to Monkey With a Halo, who won a much-deserved award for his blogging.

• NY Times says Yankees’ win this year was just like in 1923. One difference, though: Can you find even one woman in the crowd?

• Bobby Abreu, all class:

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