Yes, Yankee fans are spoiled

Yankee fans are spoiled and we own that. It’s been 10 years since our last World Series title and we’re itching for another. I get it - if you’re a Mets fan, you’re rolling your eyes and you have every right to. But, it doesn’t change how impatient Yankee fans are getting, this season more than ever.

The 2009 Yankees team looked much different than this 2019 team. The 2009 team was loaded with veterans, most notably the “Core Four”, now all retired. Our current team is a much younger team who want to experience that feeling of being World Champions . They hear the stories, see the pictures, watch the vidoes of the celebrations, the deafening cheers from Yankee fans, the parade down the Cannon Of Heroes. They know this season they have the chance to experience that. 

In some ways it feels like yesterday when the Yankees won that last championship. It did make me think of all the changes we’ve seen over these last 10 years. The guys we’ve lost - Yogi, Don Zimmer and Mel Stottlemyre. Jeter is now a married father of two, Mariano is in the HOF and the aforementioned “Core Four” are now Old Timers. Time has a way of zipping past faster than a Chapman fastball. 

I think for me, the only thing that will feel weird is seeing someone other than Mariano Rivera, on the mound, calmly and precisiously getting those last three outs at home, followed by the Yankees celebrating their Fall Classic win. But - I’m a tree, I can bend. 

All that said, I’m looking forward to the regular season wrapping up and the start of the playoffs, ending in the Yankees grabbing Number 28 (pause for a Mets fans 🙄)

As always (and forever) Go Yankees!