Please don't forget that the Yankee players are old. Not old for the general population, but old for professional baseball players.

The Yankees are so old, their social security number is 1.

The Yankees are so old, when they went to school, there was no History class.

The Yankees are so old, their birth certificate is in Roman Numerals:


"There have been so many injuries this season with the Yankees — and then more injuries on top of the original injuries — that it’s easy to forget how old this team was before everybody started dropping like flies."

It's easy to forget the guy who was Bob Dole's running mate in the 1996 Presidential election. It was Jack Kemp.

It's easy to forget the first AL pitcher to win a Cy Young Award. It was Bob Turley.


I'm not entirely sure why some things are easy to forget. Part of it is undoubtedly the "first/last" bias (aka serial position effect), but mostly it's just that our memories are constructed in the present and our brain stores a little memory template. The memory needs a context and a trigger, then we can build it, regardless of its accuracy.

For some reason, Jack Kemp and Bob Turley and Canadian Prime Ministers don't trigger the template.


One thing I know for sure is that it's basically IMPOSSIBLE to forget that the Yankees are old. Some lady at work reminded me on Opening Day. I can guarantee she doesn't know how may outs are in an inning, but she knows that the Yankees are old and she doesn't like that ARod guy.


"Their top three starting pitchers are 32-year-old CC Sabathia, 41-year-old Andy Pettitte and 38-year-old Huroki Kuroda.

Mariano Rivera, of course, is 43, in his last season."

Four of the best players on the team.


"The Yankees might not have won the AL East even if they had all stayed fitter than fighter pilots, but they sure would have run away with things in the AARP East."

The Yankees are so old, they shouldn't play in the AL East, they should play in the AARP East.

Damn!

Destroyed by the Master.

I wish I had thought of that one.