Thursday, April 23, 2009

Stop. Talking. About. Nineteen. Ninety. Eight.

"Memories fade. Faces change. Old ballparks close and new ones open."

Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time.


"You look up one morning and all of a sudden Derek Jeter's a 34-year-old slap hitter who can't play shortstop anymore ..."

Yes, one morning in 2007.


"And then you go to the new Yankee Stadium on a chilly Tuesday night in April to see Andy Pettitte get the win and Mariano Rivera the save against the Oakland A's, and the memories start to color themselves back in a little bit."

I think a day has not gone by in the last eleven years when the Yankee team was not unfavorably compared to the 1998 Yankees.  

I don't think anybody remembers Robin Ventura, but they're reminded of Scott Brosius every single day.


Anyway, the rest of the article is basically a stunning realization that a baseball team will benefit from contributions from its starting catcher, starting shortstop, closer, and one of its five starting pitchers.

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