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Joe Girardi is now a World Series Champion manager.

Joe Girardi, goat, bad managing skills, poor substitutions, over managing. That’s what some people have said about him a lot this past year.

Now what do you have to say about him?

He had the guts to use and trust Damaso Marte who’s been terrible when he pitched during the regular season and was injured this year. He used only three starting pitchers in the World Series. He dared to start Jose Molina over Jorge Posada. He benched Nick Swisher after playing poorly and then started him again. He trusted Joba Chamberlain to pitch the eighth inning last night even if it was a blown save.

The outcome? A 27th world championship for the New York Yankees.

Yankees win world series 2009

Now matter what Alex Rodriguez does for the New York Yankees from here on out, he is now a World Champion and he helped the Yankees win the World Championship in a big way. I, or anyone else, has no right to criticize him anymore. He can go 0-for-35 in the 2010 World Series and by the laws of the Yankee Universe, we can’t get on his case anymore. That’s the rule.

I’ve always had a hard time rooting for A-Rod especially since he tried to slap the ball out of first basemen Bronson Arroyo’s glove in game six of the ALCS in 2004.

Not anymore.

A-Rod could hit .200 in 2010 with no home runs, make an error a game in 2010, strike out every time up against the Red Sox, join a boy band, tell every one he’d rather watch soap operas than football, marry Lindsay Lohan and I’ll still root for him.

How can I not? Because of him, the Yankees are 2009 World Champions. Who can forget the double he hit in the top of the ninth inning against Phillies’ closer Brad Lidge to allow the Yankees to go ahead and win game four? How about all the clutch hits against the Angels?

I, or anyone else is not allowed to criticize Alex Rodriguez for the rest of his life. He is now a champion.

Joe Girardi is now a world champion!

Derek Jeter is now a five time world champion!

This is now a world champion baseball blog………..

Alex Rodriguez is now a world champion!

Player of the Game…. Godzilla – Hideki Matsui.