One of the most amazing things about baseball is the sheer number of games that are played. 162.
125 wins. The most in Major League history. That's a really big number.
And there's something even more amazing about it. Take, say, football.
A wonderful football season wins you twenty-some games(?), losing none. Undefeated.
The next year, you think, "Maybe we could be undefeated again. But if we lose one game, that's it. This one day has brought down that dream."
The Yankees lost 50 games this year. They won 125. The ultimate possibility in baseball is winning 173 games.
Even if they lost all their games in a row, it would still take two months to eliminate the chance of a record-breaking season. And that idea is more preposterous, with this team, than the idea of 162-0.
Look how much higher they can go. Of course, no one's talking about them reaching, let alone topping, their phenomenal number of wins this year.
But you know what? They can.
I'm flabbergasted. I don't know if my readers understand what this means.
This means that the World Champion Yankee team, the 1998 Yankee team, the Yankees who have been touted as the best team in Major League History...
Are also going to be the 1999 Yankees.
It's almost unheard of. Teams in modern baseball just don't stay intact. You have to harden yourself to that, as a baseball fan.
'Cause your beloved team of one year will be scrambled up the next. It's life.
But this is nothing short of a miracle, for any team. And for it to be the amazing 1998 Yankees, returning unaltered, untouched, beautiful and constant and amazing, is some sort of fate.
As if we didn't experience enough magic this year, we have been bestowed with more.
It's an awesome prospect.
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