Man, it’s been a long time since we had a night like this one, a night when Yankee Stadium will be as big a star as the players who will play upon its turf, as essential a character in the whole drama as the teams who will square off at 7:07 Friday night, Game 1 of the American League Division Series, Yankees versus Twins.
We live in a time of so many knock-around teams, so many knock-around seasons littering our sporting calendar. We have recently lived, most egregiously, in the shadow of that little town a couple hours northeast of here.