One Day of Peace in the Bronx--George Vecsey, NY Times
"With all this going on, the Yankees showed up at the Stadium. “Just like old times,” said the prodigal son Andy Pettitte, the humble left-hander who took his three-year sabbatical with his home-team Astros, and then returned to Torre and the Bronx. Pettitte, who will pitch the second game in Cleveland, stepped into the familiar crush of news media types and clubhouse attendants and players yesterday as if he had never been away, which, in a sense, he hadn’t.
- Pettitte remembered being young in 1996 and watching Torre develop a relief tandem of Mariano Rivera often for two innings (or 3--sm) and then John Wetteland to close it down. Pettitte admitted he used to feel aggravated when Torre took him out, but Torre remembers it differently. The manager never becomes more sentimental than when he discusses the shy kid from Houston winning big games. Eleven years later, the Yankees have reloaded with Joba Chamberlain and his soon-to-be-expanded protective rules,
- followed by the master, Rivera." (George Vecsey said it. sm)
"The Yankees are going over the familiar ritual since Torre arrived in 1996. While I generally do not like to lump postseason statistics with World Series statistics, it is worth noting that the Yankees have won 75 postseason games and lost 44 under Torre. They are 37-22 at home and 38-22 on the road, a sign they have this drill down pat.
- Torre shudders when he talks about how quickly a team can vanish in the best-of-five first round. It has happened to him four times, including the past two Octobers, when the postseason never even got to the cold weather and the bunting.
Yankee fans may soon be yowling for scalps, like the mob in Flushing was Sunday, and still is. But yesterday was merely WORKOUT DAY for the methodical, tranquil and perpetual Yanks."
- (For one day, I'll be happy and tranquil, as Mr. George Vecsey suggests.--sm)
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