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00:00I think I might have told this story before because it's the postseason and it did put the

00:05Yankees up two games to none in the only time he ever made the playoffs as the Yankees. He was in

00:09that horrible middle period in game two of that division series against the Mariners at the old

00:16Yankee Stadium, which I loved. John Heyman, who was then working for Newsday, and I sat side by

00:21side in the press box. And in the sixth inning of that game, in a 2-2 game, after Ruben Sierra

00:26had homered to tie the game, Mattingly, who the crowd is pulling for, like he is, pick your New

00:34York, whatever you think Aaron Judge is, the crowd is so on this guy. Not Mattingly. The fans want a

00:43dinger out of him. And Mattingly goes deep. This one by Mattingly. Oh, hang on to the roof. The ball

00:52feels like a Stephen Curry three-pointer. It is up there. And in the old stadium, which was holding

01:04on by like gaffer tape and dreams, the stadium used to move. But there wasn't a lot of reason back then

01:12to know how much it could move. The Yankees weren't very good for a long time. And they had never,

01:17they hadn't had a moment like this since 1978, maybe. But now 50,000 people are, it's freaking

01:25New Year's and it's on. And Ryan, the press box starts to move. But I don't mean a little like

01:32it did where it feels people are stomping. Ha ha ha, we're moving. I mean, the press box is swaying.

01:38And it's an old stadium. And I turned to John and I said, we're going down.

01:43We're going down. I said, there's going to be a terrible way to freaking die. Like Don Mattingly,

01:49he did a homer and I'm going to f***ing die because of this, you know? And of course,

01:54eventually it all settles somehow. The memory of how appreciative and adoring the fans were that

02:02night for the guy they knew had been Odysseus, like the guy who had really journeyed without ever

02:10getting to this moment and hitting that home run kind of was like a capper on his career.