From the NY Post:

...Three days and three steamroll victories later, the Twins were just another grease stain on the Yankees' crowded playoff highway.

Which is precisely where the Twins will find themselves again, soon enough. The afterglow is gone. The reality is here, again. The Twins saw what a fully engaged Yankees team is capable of doing in Games 2 through 4 last year; they are about to see that again.

The Yankees would never, ever, ever say this, of course, but they had to be more than ecstatic to watch the Angels take care of business this weekend, sweeping the A's and earning the No. 2 seed in the AL playoffs. The Twins have a fine team. They have a terrific pitcher in likely Cy Young winner Johan Santana.

But the Yankees have a better team, in every way. They just swept the Twins, when the games were of critical importance to both teams' playoff futures — the Yanks hoping to hold off the Sox, the Twins wanting to secure the No. 2 seed, thereby bypassing the Yanks.

And, by the way, the Yankees made Santana look more human in the process than any team has since the middle of July.

The Angels? They represent everything the Twins wanted to be last October, because two short years ago they did what everyone believed was impossible: They won three straight postseason games from the Yankees, on the way to their first-ever World Series victory.

(Thanks to Nice Marmot)

EDIT:More class is shown by Mr. Joe Torre, as quoted by YankeeFan:

"I don't think they will be the same team," Joe Torre said of the AL Central-winning Twins, whom the Yankees swept three games from in The Bronx last week on their way to clinching their seventh straight AL East title. "It will be a whole different atmosphere and a different situation from last week. We needed to win and they didn't."