As mentioned before, 20 years after living and dying by the Yankees, for years now we barely care.
We caught a couple of innings of last night's ALCS game 6, just in time to see the Yankees tie the game in the top of the 9th, and then lose the game on Jose Altuve's two run homer in the bottom of the 9th.
Congratulations to the Houston Astros.
It was about this time 20 years ago that the Yankees put away the Atlanta Braves in game three of the 1999 World Series. Bottom of the 10th, no one out, and Chad Curtis comes to the plate:
Europeans and the like don't really get baseball. Which is fine, it's a game that one usually has to be born to. If you want to appreciate a facet of the game watch the clip below:
That's New York Yankees slugger (as in slugging something) Aaron Judge, a towering 6-7 hulk of a young man. That homerun took about 3 seconds to travel 430 feet. That's the kind of homer where you know it's going out and soon as the he hits it. Judge swung the bat and we said, 'He got that one.'
There's a lot more to baseball, guys. But man, that's a hell of a shot.
By the way, Limey reader(s) people show up to Yankee Stadium wearing long white wigs for Aaron Judge. Not bad for a bunch of Americans; am I right!?
