Their kids need to be dropped off and picked up. The soft greens at Pelican Hill added to the Southern California climate are a seductive exacta. The banged-up bodies eventually heal after a long season.
Yet, according to several men with ties to the Yankees who experienced baseball heartbreak similar to what happened Saturday night at Minute Maid Park, the memory of the Game 6 loss will be very difficult for the Yankees to move on from.
Joe Torre was in the visiting dugout at Bank One Ballpark watching the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 in the 2001 World Series when Mariano Rivera broke Luis Gonzalez’s bat with the infield in and the ball dropped in for the game-winning hit, crushing the Yankees and making the Diamondbacks world champions.