10-22-2004, 07:13 PM
Quote:Edwards: Yank season looks good to me
Friday, October 22, 2004
By DAVE HUTCHINSON
ADVANCE STAFF WRITER
HEMPSTEAD, L.I. -- Jet coach Herman Edwards said yesterday that in the grand scheme of things, the Yankees' loss to the Boston Red Sox isn't that big a deal and that fans need to "get over it." He added that the team's 26 World Series titles should be enough to ease the pain.
"They're generally in the championship game every year," Edwards said. "They have good players and they try to win every year. And when they don't, it's a bad year? I hope, as a coach, I have some of those bad years they've had. I'll take them. They ain't bad to me. ... "
"Now we want to say they choked. How did they choke? They won (101 games during the regular season). As far as I'm concerned, they had a great year."
Edwards was then told that fans didn't feel that way on Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium after watching a 10-3 loss end their season after blowing a 3-0 lead in the series.
"You know what? Get over it," he said. "Everyone came to work today, unless you didn't want to, and you blamed it on the Yankees not winning. That's an excuse.
"No one really cares. Everyone's got their own problems. I've got my own problems. I've got to go play New England. Hey, I'm going to sit here and go, 'The poor Yankees?' You've got to get over it."
Edwards said offensive coordinator Paul Hackett, a Red Sox fan, was probably "in one of those bars last night in Boston. He looked a little tired this morning."