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"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,

The Boston Red Sox are heavy favorites to win the American League pennant. They are the best team in baseball based on their roster and the opinion of scouts, and the song we hear is that it’s hard to make a reasonable argument against it.

Boston has a charged offensive lineup, pitchers with solid résumés. They had a tremendously successful offseason, snatched super-slugger Adrian Gonzalez away from the Padres, signed the swift Carl Crawford to patrol their outfield and acquired reliever Bobby Jenks for the back-end of their bullpen. They went out and got all their men in the offseason, while their chief competition in the American League, the New York Yankees, didn’t get the one and only man they wanted, Cliff Lee. And lost veteran Andy