What Has Changed Since The Last Yankees Title?
by Bryan
This could be the last post you read on this site before the Yankees are once again World Series champions. It’s time to take stock of what’s happened since the last time they won it all.
• George W. Bush became President after Election Night (see what I did there?) and served two terms, the second of which was almost singlehandedly caused by Curt Schilling.
• Some things happened that you know about, like that bad day and that really good one. To give you a hint about that really good one, it also involved Curt Schilling.
• The Diamondbacks, Angels, Marlins, Red Sox, White Sox, Cardinals and Phillies won the World Series of baseball. Carlos Mortensen, Robert Varkonyi, Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joseph Hachem, Jamie Gold, Jerry Yang and Peter Eastgate won the World Series of Poker. But they didn’t have to beat the Yankees, so it doesn’t really count.
• I moved from Chicago to Forest Hills, Queens to Martha’s Vineyard to New Haven to Forest Hills to Flushing to Morningside Heights to Sunset Park, Brooklyn to Astoria to Astoria to Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. During one of these moves I had the single greatest cup of coffee I’ve ever had at Kane’s Diner in College Point, Queens. Coachie be knowing.
• The Patriots, a team that was the laughingstock of the NFL 10 years prior, turned the 199th pick in the NFL draft into arguably the league’s best player and won three Super Bowls, narrowly missing a fourth when a dude caught a ball with his f*cking head.
• The Celtics won a title one year after being the laughingstock of the league.
• Barack Obama went from a guy teaching law school in the building next to my freshman dorm to being the President of all the United States, except for the ones that don’t like him, except he really is their President. Don’t tell them.
• Michael Bloomberg snuck into office because of 9/11 (the race was a dead heat before then, and he was the Giuliani-backed candidate) and thus far has stayed for the maximum two terms allowed by 200o law. If the Yankees don’t win tonight, we’ll have to edit that sentence.
• Pedro Cerrano became the nation’s first black President and, after being assassinated by a shot through the neck, now does Allstate commercials.
• Newspapers basically cease to exist. By the time of the Yankees next title, they may literally cease to exist. Maybe not in the case of a repeat. Maybe.
• Brett Favre started every football game of every year for eight years in either direction, but there’s no fine wine corrolary.
• I can now distinguish between an actual fine wine and a cheap one. I think.
Tonight, the slate may be wiped clean. We’ll go from 3295 days since the last Yankees title down to zero. That’ll be sad, but it was a good run—better than we ever could have hoped—and we’ll get to put up a 1 on Wednesday.
Bryan Joiner 
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Excellent post.
Excellent coffee.
It’s amazing that despite how long it’s been since the Yankees won the WS, I still expect them to win every game.
It was definitely Sunday. I know this because a) the only reason we were at the Flushing U-Haul is that it was the only one open on Sunday, and b) because I saw the Face of God in that coffee (figuratively speaking). You may think I am kidding, but I am not.
oh my GAWWWWWD, what a cup of coffee. i think it’s why I never became a coffee drinker, i’ve been chasing that high ever since. i believe it was a sunday, cuz i think i came home to the c.o.d. midway into sunday night football to find gabbulous and coachette watching the game, because gabbulous found the texans qb at the time attractive. i cannot remember the qb, but i recall plopping down on the coach still in that coffee bliss.