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Posted by: Jerome Preisler on Sep 11, 2011 at 10:38:08 AM

"Before setting out on their current road trip, the Yankees honored the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks with a special pregame ceremony in the Bronx. In remembrance today, I thought I’d run a piece to commemorate the attacks that I’d written a couple of years ago in my earlier column for YESNetwork.com, DEEP IN THE RED. It’s been revised and expanded from the original.

 -- JP

On September 10, 2001 my wife Suzanne and I were at Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees play the Red Sox and, we hoped, see a 39-year-old Roger Clemens attain the 20th win of his career against his former team. But it was a gray, wet day and the rain kept pouring down and down through a lengthy game delay.

We had very good seats behind the Yankees dugout. I remember,

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Posted by: Jerome Preisler on Apr 29, 2011 at 12:14:48 PM

There’s something somebody told me at Yankee Stadium Thursday night that’s worth repeating, not that it’s totally original or unheard of. But before we get to it, I guess it makes sense to give you a quick recap of the game.

Bear with me, it’ll only take a second. This was just an early season, weeknight game against the Chicago White Sox, not one of those rivalry matchups with the Red Sox or a playoff game or anything. Well, CC “Must See” Sabathia, the big man, Yankees ace, was the starting pitcher, so that’s always kind of a hot ticket, or ought to be anyway. Other than that, though, again, we’re talking an ordinary, non-sexy date on the schedule.

You should know that manager Joe Girardi had worked out a funky sort of lineup. Derek Jeter,

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