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The Bronx ready to roar as the World Series finally returns to Yankee Stadium
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The Bronx ready to roar as the World Series finally returns to Yankee Stadium

It won’t be long before everyone reacclimates. Fifteen years may seem like an eternity when talking about the Yankees’ World Series appearances, but when you have muscle memory that strong, it all comes back pretty quickly. The views. Sounds, especially sounds. The energy.

And yes, the magic.

The Mets may have taken advantage of the October magic this time, but they never put a down payment on him. Yankee Stadium has been the home of October magic, of World Series magic, since a time when silent movies were still the most popular form of entertainment.

The World Series returns to Yankee Stadium for the first time since 2009. fake images

We can list all those memories, but it would be redundant, because if you’re a Yankees fan, then you know them all by heart. If you’ve been lucky enough, you may have witnessed one or two of them over the years, either at the current address or the previous one across the street.

As for the others, you’ve seen and read enough about them, and it doesn’t take much to believe that you were in the stands those days and nights. Yankee Stadium in the World Series is a civic treasure passed down from generation to generation. Now it’s your turn.

New York Yankees fans during the first game of the American League Championship Series. fake images

“We have the best fans in the world,” Aaron Judge said Saturday night, after the Yankees tried to create another October forever moment. but it fell shortlosing a 4-2 decision to the Dodgers, falling into an 0-2 hole in this, the 120th edition of the World Series. “They will support us. “They always do.”

The vast majority of Yankees fans understand what a joy it is to have followed such a franchise, and while brimming with confidence is generally their default position, they can also recognize a momentous moment when it comes, as it has in so many World Series. over so many Octobers over so many decades. That’s Game 3. That’s Monday night.

The mouth-breathers who gave the rest of Yankee Fandom a bad name on Saturday, caught on film applauding Shohei Ohtani’s injury at Billy’s and offering some vulgar one-finger salutes, do not represent the bulk of the fans of the Yankees. And those fans (the good ones, the loyal ones) were surely happy to hear Dave Roberts’ words on Sunday afternoon: saying Ohtani will likely be ready to go Monday night.

“Shohei was feeling good this morning, range of motion, strength,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “If he feels well enough to go, I don’t know why he wouldn’t be there. Guys have had this before and played. “I don’t see him committed.”

Aaron Judge has fallen throughout the playoffs. Robert Sabo for the New York Post

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True Yankees fans, those who have been with them in parades and tough situations, never shy away from facing teams in their prime. In fact, they welcome it. And so while Ohtani can expect a loud wave of boos when he is introduced before the game and if, as expected, they double that on top of the first when the game begins, he will get a fair reception from the lucky one. those in the stands.

It is not the Dodgers who will worry the inhabitants of the stands the most. Forget the Los Angeles superstar’s health; The Yankees need their offense, which scored 815 runs this year (the third best in all of baseball), to show signs of life, to show how robust it can be.

Yes, this will help if Aaron Judge (and again, maybe turn the amp to 11 when he’s introduced Monday night) can shake off his October funk. But it also means that the end of the lineup has to appear as well.

The Yankees lost Game 1 ahead and Game 2 behind, but what they could really use is a crooked number, as early as possible, especially on Monday. Give yourself some room to breathe. Give the masses some material to work with. The Dodgers are relentless, frustratingly so, but they’re also human.

An early hole and a sustained, deafening roar would pave the clearest path to cutting the Dodgers’ lead to 2-1 in this series. Let the Dodgers listen to the grudge for a few hours and then let them cook it overnight. That is the immediate mission here.

And you have come to the right place. It’s no surprise that the Yankees are responsible for 40 percent of World Series comebacks when a team started 0-2 (four of 10) since they’ve been to more World Series than anyone else. And there is no player on the roster who was there in 1996, or even alive in 1978, 1958 or 1956.

It won’t matter on Monday. It won’t matter in the Bronx, where an old friend returns, the World Series, where the faithful have been waiting and where they are ready. The countdown has begun for Roll Call, Fall Classic Edition. Clear your throat. We’re almost there.