Yankees! Dodgers! Game 1 Tonight

When I started this blog it was 2009, and the last time my Yankees made the World Series. So that's eh, 15 fifteen seasons. That's as long a drought as for the Yankees as the 1981 to 1996 drought, or the years when I was a kid and my dad was a young father.

It's like, you have a two year old and a new born, and the next time your team makes the world series is when your oldest kid is a senior in high school. For me, I went from living in Brooklyn and shilling dairy and writing to living on an opposite coast, being a veteran in my gig, and with two kids of my own, both at the same elementary school.

But Cass gets to see his team (yay Yankee fandom!) in the World Series at an impressionable age. Cool.

Also, I like the Dodgers. I grew up rooting for them in the National League (thanks mom!) and I'd claim them as my favorite NL team. 

So this year, either Ohtani wins the chip is his first year as a Dodger (hell yes to that narrative) or MY team wins the chip! Hell yes to that narrative, too! I'm comfortable with whatever outcome because I've seen so much success in the recent past with my sports teams: from 1996 until 2022 with the Yankees, the NY Giants, and the Golden State Warriors (representing Nor Cal, but I like the Kings, too), it's been a wild time.

Superstar time, though, for sure: Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, Giancarlo Stanton for the pinstriped goons from the Bronx; Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman for the boys in blue form Chavez Ravine. Gerrit Cole, Clayton Kershaw...There haven't been this many future Hall of Famers and MVPs in the same World Series since probably 1996 (Jeter, Rivera, Time Raines, Wade Boggs for the Yanks and Maddux, Smoltz, Glavine, and Chipper Jones for the Braves).

Way to go baseball, for grabbing the collective consciousness. As much as D-Backs/Rangers was a good matchup of sound teams, c'mon! Dodgers/Yankees! Pennant number 41 for the Yanks! 15th meeting between these times, most ever! The narratives write themselves.

Go Yanks!