Our epic’s origin story takes place in a stadium that no longer exists, with the protagonist operating under a corporate structure that no longer exists and waiting to hear from a man no longer with us.
Yes, call it an epic.
For if it is remarkable when any general manager of a sports team lasts 20 years at one job, how else would you describe it when someone can clock two decades as GM of the New York Yankees with no end in sight?
On Saturday, that milestone will become official for Brian Cashman.
“To work 20 years in that city, in that organization, under that type of demanding ownership, I don’t know how many could do it in baseball,” Brian Sabean, the Giants’ executive vice president of baseball operations, said in a telephone interview.