Daily Archives: September 8, 2005

Wang is back tonight for the Bombers. Don’t know how he’ll do, but yo, the boys are going to slap Hendrickson about the neck and face. I wanna see a blowout, dog.

As I was buying the papers this morning I saw a middle school kid waiting for the bus. He was wearing a Jason Giambi shirt and I instantly remembered being his age and how proud I’d be to wear my gear after a big win like last night’s 5-4 Yankee victory over the Devil Rays. (It was only the fifth time in fifteen games that New York has toppled Tampa Bay this year.) He was a small dude, and his napsack looked half as big as he did. Looking at the back cover of The Daily News I said to him, “You must be a happy man this morning.” He assured me that he was. I asked him if he thought the Yanks would make the playoffs and he said with the utmost confidence that he believes they will beat the Sox to win the AL East. Whatever scars he has from last year’s October meltdown were not discernable. “Damn, you are too young to remember the Yankees not being good aren’t you?” He smiled in the self-satisfied fashion that Yankee fans have for generations. Dag.

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