Theeeeeeeee Yankees Win!

Perhaps now, the process of healing our downtrodden nation can begin.

Last night, the New York Yankees won their 27th baseball World Championship, beating the Philadelphia Phillies by a 7-3 score in Game 6.

The Yankees are World Champions. In other words, all is right and normal with the world.

It had been nine years since the Yankees last won the World Series. For most teams, that's not a big deal. For the franchise with more championships than any other across all of the major sports in North America, a nine-year drought is cause for concern.

Consider what has happened since the Yankees prior World Series victory:

* 9/11
* The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
* Gasoline prices have more than doubled
* We entered the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression
* Barack Obama was elected president

On October 26, 2000, when the Yankees won the World Series, the S&P 500 closed at 1364.44. Yesterday, it closed at 1046.50. That's a 23% decline, over nine years. Interestingly, the S&P was up almost 2% today. Of course, all of the market "experts" will attribute the rise to lower first-time unemployment claims, decent retail sales figures, and so on.

We know the real reason.

The stock market was simply reacting to the Yankees' victory.Investors were reassured by the sight of the Yankees taking their rightful place at baseball's pinnacle, for the first time since before any of us had even heard of a "hanging Chad."

For the first time in a long time, the world makes sense, and America, like the Yankees, is poised to once again rise to the top.

Where we belong.