A Shuffle to the Mound
It was a little hard to get all baseball excited on Monday. The skies over Buffalo were grey and the temperature was in the 30’s all day. Meanwhile opening day is 10 days away, and like every other spring day I check in on the Yankees to make sure no one is being carted off. And there was Joe Torre… …the Yankees manager from back in the mid-90’s thru 2005. Joe is now 83 years old. Still, his shuffle to the mound is still intact, and it made me smile. ‘Mr. T’ as Jeter called him was the perfect manager for that group of talented players, and my Dad absolutely loved him because he is an Italian man. And man, those were the days… …the Yankees appeared in 6 World Series, winning 4 of them in 7 years. I remember going into a convenient store in 2000 and the clerk asked me why I was smiling. “The Yankees won the World Series last night,” I said. “Doesn’t that happen every year?” She asked. No, sadly, it doesn’t. There’s been a long wait for twenty-eight, but I’m not here to complain… …they’