The Yankees will bend over backward on Sunday night when they conduct what is guaranteed to be “a really big show” in honor of Derek Jerek. He’s already in town and giving interviews get us all pumped up with headlines that tantalize like “My one regret as a Yankee.”
The trouble will all of it, though, is that most Yankees fans have no need to get pumped up. The 25 guys who’ll be in the dugout watching the ceremony are already doing a pretty good of that, and unlike last season, we don’t need the Yankee’s manufacturing reasons to get us excited.