WI: Yankees win 1997, 2002 and 2003 World Series. What would the Yankee dynasty legacy be today?

The 1990s and 2000s Yankees dynasty that rebuild the Yankee farm system that produced Bernie Williams, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter and others was not created by legendary Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner, the no-nonsense "The Boss", it was created by executive and scout Gene "Stick" Michael.

The Yankees won the 1996 World Series, but won three straight titles in 1998, 1999, 2000 before losing their fourth straight title to the lucky 2001 Diamondbacks. 1997 and 2002 was the only time in that period they did not advance to the WS; before losing the WS in 2003. The dynasty came back in 2009 before a mid-2010s rebuild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Michael
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steinbrenner

Had they added more titles in 1997, 2002, and 2003 would the Yankee dynasty be greater discussed as it is today?

UPDATE: Some say that the 2001 World Series was probably the most important to win, especially after the 9/11/2001 attacks.
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Personally, I think the 2001 World Series would be the most important to win - the New York winning the World Series just a month after 9/11? It might be the only time baseball as a whole was rooting for the damn Yankees.
 
The 1990s and 2000s Yankees dynasty that rebuild the Yankee farm system that produced Bernie Williams, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter and others was not created by legendary Yankees principal owner George Steinbrenner, the no-nonsense "The Boss", it was created by executive and scout Gene "Stick" Michael.

The Yankees won the 1996 World Series, but won three straight titles in 1998, 1999, 2000 before losing their fourth straight title to the lucky 2001 Diamondbacks. 1997 and 2002 was the only time in that period they did not advance to the WS; before losing the WS in 2003. The dynasty came back in 2009 before a mid-2010s rebuild.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Michael
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steinbrenner

Had they added more titles in 1997, 2002, and 2003 would the Yankee dynasty be greater discussed as it is today?

UPDATE: Some say that the 2001 World Series was probably the most important to win, especially after the 9/11/2001 attacks.
2001_ALCS.jpg

thekingsguardFounder of Korsgaardianism
Joined:
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Location:
Virginia - near the USA-CSSA Border
Personally, I think the 2001 World Series would be the most important to win - the New York winning the World Series just a month after 9/11? It might be the only time baseball as a whole was rooting for the damn Yankees.
Speak for yourself!
 
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The Yankees winning in 2001 would have been storybook - a city, one that had been scarred by an enemy attack less than a month prior, rallies behind one of their most iconic sports teams, when they need a champion the most.

Hell, I come from a family of Cubs and Red Sox fans (Some of us became Nationals fans after DC got a team) and we were all rooting for the Yankees in 2001. The Yankees were something they hadn't been in decades in 2001: underdogs. That series against the Mariners, the best team in baseball? Electrifying.

That Game Seven loss against Arizona? It's called the last night of the Yankees dynasty for a reason.
 
Happy to have inspired something!

The Yankees winning in 2001 would have been storybook - a city, one that had been scarred by an enemy attack less than a month prior, rallies behind one of their most iconic sports teams, when they need a champion the most.

Hell, I come from a family of Cubs and Red Sox fans (Some of us became Nationals fans after DC got a team) and we were all rooting for the Yankees in 2001. The Yankees were something they hadn't been in decades in 2001: underdogs. That series against the Mariners, the best team in baseball? Electrifying.

That Game Seven loss against Arizona? It's called the last night of the Yankees dynasty for a reason.

True.

The 2001 Mariners choked.

Frankly, a lot of people thought that the 2001 Yankees were not gonna make it, even before 9/11.

Remember that the 2001 Yankees were down 0-2 in the 2001 ALDS against the Oakland A's.

The 2001 Yankees is one of the luckiest teams because if the Yankees had won their fourth straight title and their 27th at the time, their fourth title in six years, tragedy would occur because most of the Dominican players on the Yankees would have perished in the post-9/11 AA Flight 587 crash in blue-collar Belle Harbor, Queens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_World_Series#Game_7
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_Wilson

"The victory parade that would have taken the Yankees up New York City's Canyon of Heroes for the fifth time in six years was canceled, so Enrique Wilson, the team's utility infielder, decided to change his flight home. He was supposed to return to the Dominican Republic on Nov. 12, eight days after the end of the World Series, but moved up his departure a few days. He was at home when he heard that American Airlines Flight 587 – the plane he was supposed to be on – had crashed in Belle Harbor, a neighborhood in Queens. Two hundred and sixty-five people were killed in an accident that shook a city still reeling from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."

"When Wilson saw Mariano Rivera in spring training the next year, the reliever expressed great relief that Wilson was still alive. If Rivera had held the lead against Arizona, Wilson would likely have been on Flight 587. "I am glad we lost the World Series," Rivera told Wilson, "because it means that I still have a friend." For Rivera, this was further confirmation that they were all subject to God's will."
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http://www.espn.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=olney_buster&id=2051491

The 2002 Yankees, 103-58 record, should have probably won that one.

The 2004 Yankees were a shocking failure.
 
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