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ALCS Notebook Mariners visit WTC site, plan to meet with rescue workers
NEW YORK (AP) -- As soon as the Seattle Mariners arrived in New York, some of them went to lower Manhattan to visit the site of World Trade Center. "Some of the guys went down earlier and they started telling me about it," Mike Cameron said Friday during a midafternoon news conference at Yankee Stadium. "When we were coming over this morning, the sun was coming up. I just got a little burning sensation in my stomach or my heart, so to speak. I don't know how I'll feel if I went down there. I'm going to try to go down there, but I just heard some stories and already they got me a little revved up." Mariners manager Lou Piniella said Thursday his team planned to meet some of the rescue and relief workers. "I plan to go down," Mark McLemore said. "My wife is coming into town tomorrow, so I want her to be with me. We will do down together and visit. I think we have a visit planned to one of the fire stations for Sunday morning. I think it's something we all need to do and I'm sure everybody will at some point."
Might not be left outPaul O'Neill and David Justice were benched by the Yankees in Games 3 and 5 of the first-round series because Oakland started hard-throwing left-handers Barry Zito and Mark Mulder. But Yankees manager Joe Torre sounded as if he would keep them in the lineup Saturday against Jamie Moyer, another left-hander. "I don't think it's a strict platoon like we had against the Oakland staff because I think Moyer is a little different pitcher than a Zito and a Mulder," Torre said. "Moyer is a finesse guy."
Yankee mystiqueMariners manager Lou Piniella doesn't dismiss the theory that the Yankees have a certain mystique. He just wants his team to overcome it. That's not always easy to do against a team that has won 26 World Series titles and plays in a stadium that Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio once called home. "They have got this mystique about them," said Piniella, who spent 16 years with the Yankees as a player, coach, manager and in the front office. "You've got to overlook that and you've got to go out and play." The best way to overcome the mystique is simple. "You go out and beat them," Piniella said. "There's no other way. You can talk about it, but you've really got to go out and do it. It can be done. It really can."
Road sweet roadHome-field advantage hasn't meant much when Seattle and New York have played this year. The Mariners have won five of six at Yankee Stadium, but lost four of five at Safeco Field. They look forward to playing in New York this weekend. "I really enjoy coming to Yankee Stadium," Moyer said. "I try to look at the history that's taken place here. All of the great players that have played here, all of the great games that have been played here, and I look at it as a privilege and an honor to be able to take the mound and pitch in Yankee Stadium."
Fly, fly awayAfter four cross-country flights in eight days, the Yankees are feeling a bit disoriented. They flew from New York to California last Friday, back on Monday, to Seattle on Tuesday and home again Friday morning. "You just assume that everyone is tired," Torre said. "The only reason we know that we're going west to east is because we don't get meal money. When we see our traveling secretary come around, we know it's meal money and we know we're going west." The Yankees can avoid flying for another week by winning two of three games at home against Seattle. "I hate to fly. If I can, I would love to do it," closer Mariano Rivera said of ending the series in New York.
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