It had been more than 700 days since the Yankees last tasted the sweet fruit of the postseason. With a ninth inning sacrifice fly by Alex Rodriguez and yet another save by the ageless Mariano Rivera, the Bronx Bombers beat the Angels 6-5 and find themselves, finally, back in the playoffs. ↵↵When any news happens in New York, there’s really only one place to look to get the true pulse of the city -- the tabloids. What Ashton Kutcher has inexplicably become to the Twitterverse, the headline writers for the New York Daily News and New York Post are to the city that never sleeps. The only difference: the headline guys don’t need no stinkin’ 140 characters. ↵
Tabloids Agree: Yankees Are ‘In’ the Playoffs
↵↵So, as the Yankees won last night, clinching at least the wild card in the American League, readers undoubtedly went to bed wondering what the tabloids would have for us in the morning. Maybe a simplistic “Playoff Bound.” Perhaps a more rah-rah “Bombers are Back.” Possibly “Yanks Are Kings of NY, Mets Are Queens,” if the papers wanted a well-timed dig at the other team in town.↵
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↵So what did they both come up with? 
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↵↵Oh, the exact same thing…and so clever at that. The In Crowd. Well, in defense of the Daily News, they made sure to put ‘In’ so you really understood the pun. If that’s even a pun. ↵
↵↵I understand this game ended at nearly 2 a.m. ET on the East Coast, but the headline guys had to know that the Yankees were making the playoffs at some point this week. Frankly, it’s been two seasons since they got to write a playoff baseball headline for either of the local nine and ‘The In Crowd’ is the best they got? This is like waiting two years to get invited to the prom, deciding to go with a simple, understated, off-the-rack dress and still showing up in the same thing as that girl from algebra that you, like, totally hate. How embarrassing. ↵
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