History Postponed
Ten more and an era ends.
Tonight was supposed to be the beginning of the end. The final ten games in at Yankee Stadium had been scheduled to begin at 7:05. But rain pushed back the start of the very last home stand. The Yankee’s season is done. According to everyone and everything except the math. All that’s left is to finish out the season and reserve tee times for October.
The close of the season ends the legacy of the greatest sports cathedral ever built by man (and that’s not an opinion). The building that would have you believe was put together solely by the hands of a man named Babe and held together for 85 years by those followed – Gehrig and DiMaggio, Mantle and Maris, Munson and Mattingly, Jeter, Rodriguez and Rivera – will be gone next spring.
If there are any ghosts left, who have not yet cleaned out their lockers and moved in across the street, they will all have to put in extra BP over the next 10 days. Not because the Yanks are fighting for a division crown or even the wildcard. After all, they’re not. But because the nine men who will dress in pinstripes and stand on the the greenest diamond in the Bronx over the next week-plus owe their very best to the hundreds to those who stood on that field before them and to the millions who have sat in the bleachers and nose-bleeds and cheered their hardest for them.
Rain has delayed the end. Hopefully the extra night will give those about to play the chance to think about it. Over 6600 games have been played at Yankee Stadium. There are only ten more chances for anyone to ever play a baseball game there. Ten more chances to make a memory. Ten more chances to become a legend.
Ten more.