Craig Carton

I think this is awesome.

And for me personally, Tiki –

Growing up here, being a Yankee fan and being young in the 90s run that just made me fall in love with Yankee baseball as it did for a lot of arrogant people that are in their late 30s and early 40s.

The Yankees went through, and Met fans will basically throw up in their mouths, a long nine-year stretch between 2000 and 2009.

Where there were several failures and you had the 2001 World Series loss, the 2003, then the infamous Red Sox collapse in 2004.

And then going into that 2009 season or in that offseason, the Yankees, as we oftentimes reference when you want them to act like the Yankees, they signed CeCe Sabathia along with Mark Teixeira and along with A.J.

Burnett.

And Sabathia for a long time was rumored he was going to go out to the West Coast, the Dodgers.

Which is so funny.

In another universe this year, he probably would have been a Dodger.

But he comes to the Yankees, and that was like a big deal.

We watched him will the Milwaukee Brewers to the playoffs.

We watched him kill the Yankees when he was a great Cleveland Indian before then.

And CeCe Sabathia...

was the epitome of everything you wanted the Yankees to be.

Yeah, so I woke up to some of this, and I guess I shouldn't be surprised because any time the Yankees retire a number, right?

Everybody goes to the easy, cheap, how many numbers?

There's going to be none left?

You're going to go triple digits?

And here's the truth about CeCe Sabathia.