This is glitter time for the Yankees. They have the Mariners on the run and are home, ready to finish off Seattle over the next three days and move on to their 27th World Series title.

It’s all about the ring, now.

Orlando Hernandez was wearing last year’s championship ring yesterday, and with good reason. “The champions never want to lose their title, and this way we remind ourselves that we are the champions and that we have to win,” said today’s Game 3 starter, who will face Mariner ace Jamie Moyer at the sold-out Stadium with the Yanks leading the ALCS 2-0.

So while Mariner manager Lou Piniella ranted a guarantee after Thursday night’s 3-2 loss in Seattle – promising the series would get back to the Land of Latte – the Yankees go about their championship business.

They laughed off Piniella’s guarantee yesterday.

“To be quite honest,” Scott Brosius said, “it didn’t really have an effect. The strength of our team is that we have always focused on what we need to do. There’s never really been a focus on what other people are saying and what other people are doing. We know it’s up to us.”

That’s why the Yankees have mastered their fate.

So while Piniella proclaimed, “We’re going to be back here [to Seattle] for Game 6. Print it. … We’ve got to go there and kick their [butts],that’s all there is to it,” the Yankees shrug, and move on to the next game.

That’s how they’ve won five playoff games in a row after facing an 0-2 deficit to the A’s. That’s how they’ve won three straight World Series.

This is a team of history. They make it.

History is always on the Yankees’ side. Since 1969, the first year of the league championship series, every team that’s has won the first two games of the LCS on the road, has gone on to win the LCS. Every one.

It’s not like the Yankees are going to suddenly turn into the frat-house A’s and take victory for granted. They know they haven’t won anything yet. They are confident, not cocky.

“I think you acquire that confidence,” said manager Joe Torre, who was not wearing his “It’s not over till it’s over,” hat. No need to be sending that message to the reeling Mariners. Torre was wearing his championship ring.

“It was a week ago today, we were down 0-2 and walking through the streets of San Francisco,” Torre recalled. “We had had a meeting the day before, and really, talked in terms of winning one game. Just to sort of get the good feeling back.”

They’ve been winning just one game ever since.

The Yankees have great incentive for this series not to go back to Seattle – avoiding jet lag. They’ve been back and forth to the coast twice already in these playoffs and they would love to dodge a third trip.

“I hate to fly,” super closer Mariano Rivera said with a laugh after giving the Yankees two monster saves in the first two games. “I hate to fly, but we don’t think like that. Just go for one game at a time. Obviously, we want to just do it here.”

This series has reached the no-fly zone for the Yankees.

Piniella yesterday talked about his guarantee without quite the zeal of the night before.

“Last night [Thursday night], when I talked, I talked out of my heart, I talked out of pride and passion, but at the same time, out of a little frustration,” Piniella said.

“For us to be down 2-0, it’s amazing, we are 1-4 against New York at home [including the playoffs] and we are 5-1 against them here [at Yankee Stadium]. No, I’m not surprised. “