{"id":1902,"date":"2008-02-15T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T12:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/numbers-game\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T07:09:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T12:09:18","slug":"numbers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/numbers-game","title":{"rendered":"Numbers Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

News out of the Yankees’ camp is that they’ve issued Morgan Ensberg a jersey with #21<\/a>. This makes me a little sad because, Paul O’Neill<\/a> was one of my favorite Yankees during the 1996-2000 run. My two O’Neill images from the World Series are of him falling off the pile during the 1996 (?) celebration, and of him walking around right field in a daze after the 1999 sweep over the Braves, two days after his father’s death.<\/p>\n

I know O’Neill wasn’t a home-grown Yankee, but I’d have given #51<\/a> out way<\/em> before Paulie’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News out of the Yankees’ camp is that they’ve issued Morgan Ensberg a jersey with #21. This makes me a little sad because, Paul O’Neill was one of my favorite Yankees during the 1996-2000 run. My two O’Neill images from the World Series are of him falling off the pile during the 1996 (?) celebration, … <\/p>\n

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