You can mock the Yankees all you want for retiring pretty much every number besides 00 and 13, but nostalgia sure sells in The Bronx. You think 45,681 filled Yankee Stadium on the Sunday night of a holiday weekend to cheer on Chris Capuano?
And since the Yankees proceeded to follow Bernie Williams’ stellar opening act with yet another stinker, a 5-2 loss to the Rangers for a Texas three-game sweep, their status updated rather clearly:
Very bright recent past. Rather dim short-term future.
“There’s frustration in the room, but there’d better be frustration,” said manager Joe Girardi, the most prominent link between that past and that future.