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Monthly Archives: October 2000

October 31 2000: Withdrawal Symptoms

It’s hard to believe, but the huge empty hole I felt when last year’s season ended doesn’t seem to be quite as huge or as empty-seeming this year. Yet. Part of this may be the fatigue I feel after following the season so intensely since March, especially given how exhausting the Yankee run became, as […]

October 27 2000: A Great Season Ends

If any of you have read my last column of the season on Yankees Xtreme, you know I was alone on the night of the Yankees World Series win in 1999. And if you’ve been following my columns or my baseball diary on my web page, you know that although I was a total Yankee […]

October 21 2000: Where Were You This Time Last Year?

(This column originally appeared at www.yankeesxtreme.com, Yankees Xtreme. Reproduced here by permission of Ultrastar.) For last year’s World Series, the Yanks had to travel to Atlanta and back. While following the games, I traveled even further. My best friend from high school planned her wedding for October 1999, and in millions of details involved in […]

October 19 2000: Fireworks and the Postseason

I watched the Yankees clinch game 6 of the 2000 ALCS from the living room of a rental house in Orlando, Florida–a mere two blocks, actually, from the house where I watched Game 4 of the 1999 World Series last year (Roger Clemens’ dominant masterpiece that presaged his amazing 15 strike out win just a […]

October 14 2000: Radio Is The Lifeline

(This column originally appeared at www.yankeesxtreme.com, Yankees Xtreme. Reproduced here by permission of Ultrastar.) I’ve always loved the radio, ever since I was a kid. My mother always kept the radio on in the car when we went places. Back then, 77 WABC was a music station, and we’d sing along to popular tunes while […]