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Sunday, November 4, 2001
The series ends 
| | Watched the Diamondbacks win tonight in storybook fashion: coming from behind in the bottom of the ninth inning. Amazing pitching. Schilling has an spectacular breaking ball. Johnson has a bionic arm. And The Rocket... hated to see him lose the game. |
| | Hated to see anybody lose. I'm usually not a Yankee fan. Grew up hating them. As kid in the 50s I was, like my father (team loyalties are family matters) a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. When they left, I went with the Giants. When they left, I went with the Mets. When I moved to San Franciso, I was back with the Giants again. I'm still a fan of them all, except for the Dodgers. Even though I live in Southern California now, I can't forgive them for going Hollywood. I've tried, but it's not there. |
| | Still, through all of it, I've never liked the Yankees. They're like, well, the Microsoft of Baseball. Just too damn successful. |
| | But since September 11, I've been a New Yawk fan — the City, not the club. I grew up in Jersey, only eight miles from Central Park. My father grew up in Fort Lee and helped build the George Washington Bridge. I still go to New York every chance I get, and it feels more like home, somehow, each time I go. |
| | I would have been nice if the Yankees won for the City. Also for my friends Dean and Dave (with the unlikely nickname "Save") who worked on the 84th floor of the WTC South Tower and was in the stairwell of the building when the plane hit his office. He was two blocks away when the building fell. His company lost something like 60 people. Dean and Dave are both absolute Yankees fans. |
| | Still, the Yanks won the pennant. They gave us a great series. This was one of those somebody's-gotta-win kind of games. And the Snakes look like a fun team. What the hell. |
| | Now, more importantly, the NBA season is rolling. MJ is still The Man (also The Corporation, but we're all entitled to religious freedoms). As long as he's playing, something is right in the world. |
Life in the country lane
| | Hiking, reading the paper, playing, hanging out. Maybe watching Game 7. We'll see. |
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