Long Day’s Journey Into Night: The Giants Finally Win It All

And so it begins for you back in 1962, when you’re ten and a half years old and you have no idea what love is, but you’re starting to get old enough where you want to find out.  There’s a new team in town, the Mets, and you watch them the first few weeks because there’s no way you can root for the Yankees.  The Yankees win all the time, and that’s not the way it is on the south shore of Long Island, where the people you came from don’t win, they just survive, and your old man smokes three packs of Viceroys every day and pounds it into you just how hard life really is, and people who root for the Yankees don’t understand that, can’t possibly grasp the ...

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