Reason I Love NYC #65,978,669: I’m a Yankee to the Core

I was born in the Bronx. My parents were born in the Bronx. I am a New York Yankee by birth and blood. I was the 10-year-old with the pink-and-white paneling populated by newspaper pages of the 1977 and 1978 Yankees World Series teams (knowledge of whom has served me surprisingly well in recent years).

Being a Yankee has taught me many lessons. The most important one is that no matter what or where or when, winning is always possible. For sure, it helps to have Mariano Rivera nearby. Even when he’s not, and even when it doesn’t happen, the POSSIBILITY is always, always, always there. It may take a pitch, it may take a ghost, it may take me biting my pretzel in just the right way. But it’s always possible.

That belief is a gift.

“I want to thank the good lord [and my parents] for making me a Yankee.”