This was in Tier 3. I was in row M.

We created an online auction to sell the tickets for a scholarship fund for Dan and you were kind enough to give it a plug here on the Banter. We raised a ton of money that will help students for years to come

I am sure that every team that wins has stories like this but when it happens to you and your friends it really hits home. Sports have that rare ability to make the actions of strangers feel like they are being played out for you and only you. Maybe its just a natural selfishness that makes us feel that way but right about now it feels pretty damn good.

Congrats to the Yankees, the Banter family and for those no longer here for a great season…

Todd’s Uncle Scott

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[11] i’m glad marcia was there!!! : )

[9] thanks man! the other day, i posted you’re the best non-yankees fan to post here!!!

[4] thelarmis drinks the truth from a thermos, on themis!

[3] i’ve met a few of the folks here at the banter and every single time, it’s been a wonderful occurrence and the friendships have been forged even deeper. i hope to meet more of you, in the coming years!

[8] Todd checked in with me EVERY DAY, to see how my grandpa was doing. even moreso, when i was up in NY to visit him. i had NO idea Todd was sick. it completely blindsided – and crushed – me.

i still have plans to compose a piece of music in honor of him and will entitle it “Shadow Games”. in fact, i already have a very little bit of it started and ideas to finish it up. who knows if i’ll ever do it, but all this stuff starts with an idea and those embers have been stoked.

Cheers Todd, I’ll raise a pint to you tonight.

Ah, the warm afterglow of a World Series Championship!

If anyone hasn’t heard it, LoHud has some great audio from Jeter, A-Rod, and Cashman – sometimes hard to hear but very nice stuff. Especially from our friend the Centaur – he sounded excited, honest, at peace, and relieved. I can only imagine.

Any picture gallery recommendations?

I don’t often comment on these pages partly because I never seem to be able to write as pithily (?) as so many other banterers. But for this fan stuck in RSN, I turn to the Banter everyday to “lurk” and to suck up the fandom from all of you. Thank you Alex, Cliff and the rest.

And thank you Todd.

Go Yanks!!!!

Touching story above, too; how bittersweet that win must be for his family but hope he got to feel it wherever he may be.

Congrats again. And thanks for putting the smack down on the Phillies.

Now can you let my team win one, one of these decades, before your next?

cheers.

One of my closest friends lost his grandfather this year, a hardcore Yankee fan who stayed devoted till the end (despite said friend being a rabid Met fan and Yankee-hater). The same is true for thelarmis, Bobtaco, and myself–all grandpas, all Yankee fans. In my PopPop’s case, he wasn’t lucid these past few years, so he wasn’t raving about the big signings, et al. But I know he still cared.

Yet through all that; wih utmost consideration toward all those notable and deserving remembered fans; this one seems more for Todd Drew than above all else.

His last post on the Banter, Baseball and Me, is so poignant and vivid. Even on his blog, as he linked to this post, he chose the clever title “Off-Season Surgery”.

All the best to his family–And that’s us, too, I suppose–let’s smile a little bigger today for Todd.

People we never meet, sometimes people we only know online behind a handle become personalities, become important, can be lost and missed. A ‘place’ like the Banter becomes a corner bar, and often better for talk and laughter than any real bar on the corner.

I’ve often felt that we most miss the people we’ve lost at times of great happiness – because we want to share it with them. I feel that way now with my own father, the man who made me a Yankee fan, and I feel it here at the Banter about the losses to this community. There are some people not with us who would have been very happy this morning.

e-high five!

Does it drink from a thermos?

That was tender and moving, Alex. I think we can all feel Todd.

Emmis!