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Even Derek Jeter has moved on, but Yankees’ mission stays same

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MIAMI — There are times, still, when it is impossible to believe so much of this happened 20 years ago. So many of the Yankees who returned to The Bronx this weekend said that, amazed at how two decades can vanish in an eyeblink, how 1998 can become 2018 so fast, so effortlessly.

“Where does it go, Coney?” one of the ’98 Yankees, Paul O’Neill, cracked to another of them, David Cone, during the Saturday telecast on YES, as one after another of the people responsible for that team that won 125 of the 175 games it played that year paraded through the booth.