“It’s something unpredictable, but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life.”
Songwriter and frontman of Green Day — a band inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of ’15 — Billie Joe Armstrong said it best in the award-winning tune “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” The lyric originally promoted bitterness toward an unsightly end of a relationship, but reformed into nostalgia somewhere along the way.
The Yankees are going through similar break-ups with retiring veterans Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira.
2009 was Teixeira’s first impression with the Yankees.