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NEW YORK – Everyone here wanted to talk about six years ago. Champagne corks whizzed like stray bullets, and beer flowed at Oktoberfest, Yankees-style, and New York was abuzz because its team was back in the World Series for the first time since 2003. Which was all well and good, certainly, if not off by a digit.
The right number is five, actually. Don’t ever think otherwise. The Yankees may not have been to a World Series since 2003, but they haven’t been the Yankees in the truest sense – fearsome and gruesome and awesome – since 2004. The franchise-changing loss to the Boston Red Sox wrought the...
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