Anybody remember the homerun by Leyritz? When Wohlers hung a slider and McCarver kept saying Wohlers shouldn't have thrown a slider?

Leyritz was a catcher, by the way.

Leyritz was also awaiting the throw from left field in 1995 when Griffey slid in safely with the winning run.

Just sayin'.

Posada existed later on.


In the entire 1996 season, Jorge Posada had 14 at-bats.

In the 1996 postseason, Jorge Posada had 0 at-bats.

I'm not really sure if Posada received a Championship ring for 1996. After the series is over, the players vote on it. I know for a fact that Posada was not on the Yankees roster for the 1996 World Series:

"He gets paid now by the Yankees for all of it, what he used to be and what the Yankees used to be, for being one of the last members of the Class of '96 - class in all ways - who is still here. He gets paid for the four World Series, for the tag he put on Jeremy Giambi that night in Oakland, for the thrower and the game-caller he became. He gets paid for hitting .338 at the age of 36, which is only 51 points higher than he ever hit in his life.

If Andy Pettitte decides to retire, as hard as it is to see him retiring with $16 million on the table, then it is just Posada and Mo Rivera and Derek Jeter from the World Series team of 1996."

I don't know which is more odd: The absurd notion put forth by Lupica that Posada is being paid for the memory of a 1996 World Series in which he didn't play; or the fact that Lupica may be right.

I am not really sure anymore.

The Yankees have such a strong tendency to live in the past, and the history is revised so often, that maybe Posada is actually being paid extra money because he is associated with the 1996 World Series.

In which he didn't play.