Wait Till Next Year
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Yankees fans this morning feel, if only a little, what it is to be a Red Sox fan. The flashes of brilliance, the wins, the postseason potential, enough to get your hopes up – all leading up to a spectacular, heart-breaking collapse. If there is any reassurance, it is that no matter which team you were rooting for, this American League Championship Series will go down as one of the most exciting duels in all of sports. Any fan who got to watch was a winner, because of the fabulous entertainment value of one of the great rivalries of all time. Neither team gave up. It took the New York Times-owned Red Sox seven games to defeat our hometown heroes.
In two of the series games the Yanks battled deep into the extra innings. Tired workers in Manhattan offices on the mornings after these late games are part of autumn in New York, every bit as much as the falling leaves in Central Park. For Yankees fans, there is always next year. Yankee management will probably use the winter to add better pitching. And for Yankees fans, there is the further reassurance that while the Red Sox may have won the pennant, they haven’t won the World Series yet. They haven’t since 1918. To do so this year, it’s possible that they will have to face the pitching of one Roger Clemens, formerly of the Yankees and the Red Sox, now of the Astros. And the final reassurance of all is that before you know it, it will be time for spring training.