It won’t take long for everyone to reacclimate.
Fifteen years may seem like an eternity when discussing Yankees appearances in the World Series , but when you have muscle memory this strong, it all comes back pretty quickly. The sights. The sounds — especially the sounds. The energy. The Mets may have co-opted October’s magic this time around, but they never put a down payment on it.
The mouth-breathers who gave the rest of Yankee Fandom a bad name Saturday, caught on film cheering Shohei Ohtani’s injury at Billy’s, and offering up a few vulgar single-finger salutes, they don’t represent the bulk of Yankees fans. And those fans — the good ones, the loyal ones — surely were happy to hear Dave Roberts’ words late Sunday afternoon,
It isn’t the Dodgers that the grandstand denizens will be most worried about. Forget the health of the LA superstar; the Yankees need for their offense, which scored 815 runs this year to show signs of life, to show how robust it can be. Yes, this will be helped along if Aaron Judge — and, again, maybe set the amplifier on 11 when he’s introduced Monday night — can shake himself free from his October funk. But it also means that the bottom of the lineup has to show up, too.
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