[Mr_Moonlight]

Mike Vaccaro isn't just a sports writer, he's a sports *writer.*
Goes for Joel Sherman, as well.

Ya ... he *gets* the sentimentality of the topic he's writing about, and relates it to the reader. Many of us real 'Yankee Stadium' fans have been put off with all the hyperbole and superlatives over the *new* Stadium, not wanting to accept it whatsoever. Vaccaro gives a nice eulogy here for the *old* Stadium, the one we remember .... and a eulogy which us 'sentimentalists' can accept

I've been waiting for a piece like this for two years, and Vaccaro finally delivers one

[the invisib1e hand]

the day before John Smoltz was designated (the day after game 2 of the series), Sherman wrote something like this:

...an arm that is no longer nearly the equal of his heart...

Incredible line.