Opportunity ahead for the Yankees

I’ll turn 36 years old in June. My earliest memories of Yankees’ baseball consist of Don Mattingly being surrounded by players like Alvaro Espinoza, Ken Phelps, Andy Hawkins, Steve Sax, Jesse Barfield and the list goes on of obscure baseball names that make you chuckle when said aloud. The late 80’s and early 90’s Yankees were bad baseball teams that threw up win totals of 74, 67, 71 and 76 from 1989 to 1992, but at that point in my life, I didn’t know anything different. I would hear and read stories about the glory-day eras and all-time great players like Ruth, Mantle, DiMaggio, Berra, Munson, etc., but these weren’t Yankees that I knew. I didn’t have playoff expectations year in and year out, I just enjoyed watching my guys compete while listening to Scooter, Seaver, and Murcer call the games on WPIX.

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