Partway into the 2000 season, I became a weekly columnist for the newly launched official web site for the New York Yankees, Yankees Xtreme. Unfortunately, Xtreme shut down after the 2000 season ended, but I have archived my columns here. I try to make at least one new entry a week, but my output depends upon many factors, including baseball itself. Sometimes there will be daily updates, other times there may be a dry spell for two weeks or more. In fact it has numerous connections, and more and more are popping up all the time.
Luck is somewhere between the numerical realm of the odds and the near-mystical realm of fate.
Even the team with the best stats in the world still needs a dollop of luck to grease its wheels, to boost morale, and build the kind of confidence that comes with a sense of entitlement. I went to a game at Comiskey which, sadly, was rained out. I had a terrific time at Edison Field in Anaheim. I have tickets to see the Seattle Mariners and the San Francisco Giants later this year. But over the July Fourth holiday I decided to make a trip that thousands of Yankees fans make several times a year, to see the Yankees play one of our traditional rivals, the Baltimore Orioles, in their much-touted gem of a home, Oriole Park at Camden Yards. . .