The memories are so vivid, the feelings still so close to the surface, that two different men can speak of it and sound remarkably similar.
“I’m not going to lie,” Tom Glavine said last week in a phone interview. “There was a little bit of eeriness about it. Some anxiety. Conspiracy theories abounded at that time that more stuff was going to happen. You put yourself right in the epicenter, so to speak. There was a little anxiety, but at the same time, some excitement about being the first team back in New York.”
“For us, to have the opportunity to open the national pastime in New York, it was scary and exciting,” Brian Jordan said in a separate phone interview.