Welcome to Yankees 365
I could start our first conversation in a very obvious place, but considering the fact that the discussion around Roger Clemens will continue to brew for the next few weeks and even months, and with more television coverage including a congressional hearing, I thought it could wait. I will point out that it was kind of funny how the day the Mitchell Report was released we had a mega snowstorm in CT, one that forced many employers to let their employees out early and thus we were all safely home in time to see the live Mitchell coverage, but none of us seemed too surprised at the findings.
Instead I thought I'd start out by sharing a little information about myself. The third child of parents who were both born and raised right outside of Boston, I became a Yankee fan somewhere near the age of seven. Maybe if New Haven county carried Channel 38, I might have caught a few Sox games and been swayed, but I doubt it. I had the Scooter on Channel 11, and I had that Bucky Dent poster. I don't know if the poster came out before or after "the" home run, but it hung proudly on my wall. Now, I see some of you guys rolling your eyes (the same ones who had that Farrah Fawcett poster I am sure). Let me confirm, that I am not just some girl who likes the Yankees because Dent was good looking and A-Rod is hot. I know the game. I can give you stats, lineup suggestions; I know what defensive indifference is. I can tell you that Jeter hit his first grand slam on a sunny July Saturday in a Fox game of the week in 2006, and that Varitek hit his first approximately 2 weeks later. I've seen switch-hitting Posada hit a home run from both the right and left side in the same game. I know it was a Tuesday night in June 2005 when Randy Johnson got clobbered in the first few innings of the game and Yankees came back with 13 runs in the 8th. I remember when Reggie hit those three spectacular home runs in 1977, and I remember many a game when Scooter took off early to get home to his bride, Cora. Of the 162 games that are played in a season, I watch all or at least part of approximately 140. I can get in my car to go home and know by the commercials that are being played whether or not we are in the middle of a rain delay. I am a true baseball fan.
So as a fan, I want to hear from you. How did you become a Yankee fan, and what do you see for us in the upcoming season?
Comments
I gotta say its comforting to know that there are true yankee fans out there besides the bandwagons who decided to follow after the 98 season or the ones who just admire Jeter's looks. Sandy there's absolutely no question of your pinstripe pride or knowledge of the game for that matter. I myself was born into being a Yankee fan. My mother and her whole side of the family is from New York and grew up 15 miles from the house that Ruth built, so I really didn’t have a choice. My first true Yankee expirence came when I was 10, for the 1996 world series. My mother would let me stay up late to watch the games with her even though it was a school night, and I gotta tell ya there is still a good chance I have marks on me from how tight she was holding me when Jimmy Leyritz ( go figure) hit that homerun to tie it up, seeing the tears in her eyes and how crazy she was going right then and there made me realize just how passionate yankees fans are about their baseball. I was quickly able to to take that level of passion on as well, it just really stinks though because with my generation, I was introduced to baseball when the Yankees did nothing but win championships, I mean that’s all I know, so when we do make it to the playoffs and lose, it’s a hard thing for me to comprehend. When we lost game 7 to the Sox I stayed in my dorm room the next few days and skipped all my classes, I felt like someone I knew had just died. Though with the way our franchise is hopefully going ( and I will eloborate on that in other postings) I don't think I will have that feeling again anytime soon.
Posted by: Ed | January 10, 2008 08:27 PM