YANKS WIN WORLD SERIES; ORDER RESTORED IN THE UNIVERSE

Tonite the Yankees won their 27^th World Championship, besting a very good Phillies team 7-3 to win the Series in six games. 

There are many reasons to have what one of my old teachers referred to as a Moment of Gloat.  (And we will.)  But for now, the feeling is one of tremendous gratitude.  To the baseball gods, and to the Game in general.  This was one of the best World Series matchups in a long time; not so much for the moment-to-moment excitement perhaps, but because you had two excellent teams that both looked and played like champions, never saying die, and pulling off amazing comebacks en route to the Big Dance.  (Kind of like that year where the San Francisco 49ers and the Miami Dolphins both went 14-2 and met in the Super Bowl for a showdown.  One team was better.)  This year the Yankees happened to be the better team.  And, as it happens, they were the best team. 

As a Yankees fan who has watched this Class of 1995 play since they came up, the way the Yankees won tonite’s game was particularly special – with Andy Pettitte pitching strong; and Mariano coming on for the final 5 outs, with Posada and Jeter coming in to meet them when the final out was made.  While Hideki Matsui’s epic performance tonite was incredible, my favorite moment of this game – and of this Series – will be that moment in the 6^th inning when the fans chanted Andy Pettitte’s name, to let him know how much he has meant to us Yankees fans, and how great it is to watch the Yankees win with him on the mound.  This makes the Yankees’ 27^th championship as a franchise, and the Class of 1995’s 5^th world championship ring as the nucleus of the franchise.  After 9 years of disasters and disappointments, and when it looked like this group might never hold the trophy high again, the words of Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, ring proudly in my mind: “Thank God I have lived to see this day.”

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