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There are Yankees fans, and then there are Yankees fans — the ones who still get emotional just talking about 2009. When he sat down with Matt Barnes on the latest episode of “All the Smoke Baseball,” Swisher pulled back the curtain on one of baseball’s most fascinating championship runs, painting a picture of a clubhouse built on two very different forces: Derek Jeter ’s quiet, ironclad authority and Alex Rodriguez ’s fire-fueled chaos. By Swisher’s own admission, 2008 was a disaster — personally and professionally. He’d been traded away from a team he thought he’d play for forever, his numbe