Champions AGAIN!

in the midst of royal blue and cardinal red somehow i grew up a yankees fan...the world championships of 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and now of 2009 are sweet...however i wish that these championships would have taken place from age 7 to 20 instead of 18-31...many years went by with no pennant, no championship and baseball season after season ended with great disappointment...year after year my broken heart would heal by spring training to the hope that the upcoming year would result in a yankee championship...

in '96 i can remember as clear as day charlie hayes catching the fowl ball in foul territory for the last out...i was the only yankees fan in a bar in downtown estes park, co...my celebration springing forth from years of disappoinment was too much for a bar full of people rooting for the braves...so i busted out the door and took to a full sprint down the street in the cold mountain air screaming "THE YANKEES WIN, THE YANKEES WIN"...

my memories of 98, 99, & 2000 all kind of mesh together...3 years of great memories...3 consecutive world championships...perhaps 2009 is the beginning to another one of these runs...tonight seemed to be a culmination of those 3 championships...pettite pitching...posada catching...jeter at shortstop...and rivera running in from the bullpen with enter sandman blasting from the stadium sound system...the all familiar sound of a safe ending to a yankee lead...so from metallica's stranglehold on the opponent to sinatra's victory cheer of new york, new york all was familiar and great...

i end typing, tired and scatter-brained to begin sweet pinstripe dreams...