Alphonso Strategy Continues: Don't post, don't lose.

Inspired by the Chilean miners, who huddled underground for an entire polo season, veteran blogger and truth-teller Alphonso will continue his dramatic silence throughout the second round of the playoffs -- or at least as long as the Yankees win.

Alphonso, master of the experimental science of reverse negative juju -- (Carl Paladino has said, "His prowess is legendary.") -- regularly condemns the Yankees' chances as a means of stoking clubhouse emotions and prompting action by the juju gods who control the fate of the team. Recently, in a NON-POST, he announced that he will not post any messages relating to the team, as long as the team's winning ways continue.

For now, everybody, he is our own trapped miner.

Let him be in our prayers.

NOTE: THIS IS NOT A POST BY ALPHONSO. AS YOU CAN SEE, NOTHING IS SPOKEN DIRECTLY BY HIM. THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. WE ARE MERELY REPORTING FACTS, WHICH IS OUR ROLE IN THE YANKIVERSE. WE ARE NOT FLAUNTING POWER OVER CERTAIN JUJU GODS WHO READ THIS BLOG.