For more on this, we turn to cold-as-ice Yankee GM Brian Cashman, who puts things in perspective:

After Game 6, a reporter mentioned the team’s unabashed spending to Cashman and said, “There are fans of other teams who go, ‘Well, they’re the only team that can do that,of course they won.’ How do you respond to that?”

The question was tough but fair, and Cashman gave a perfectly pinstriped response. “You can call us anything you want,” he said. “You also have to call us world champions.”

How I wish I could have been at the parade today. Or, better yet, how I wish Tawmmy from Quinzee coulda ben theyuh. Also Judah Grunstein, who seems to be laboring under the misimpression that a team with a $122 million payroll is an insurgent while a team with a $208 million payroll is an empire.