I was born in Port Jefferson, NY, two days after Jackie Robinson died. For those of you that believe in reincarnation . . . well, we’ll never know for sure, but I did play 2B in Little League. George Steinbrenner purchased the Yankees about two months later, and I’ve been a Yankee fan ever since.

At the time I predicted he would win a title before my 5th birthday. Reggie hit 3 HR against LA and I cleared it with 8 days to spare. It was my first five-year plan, and the first of many correct predictions. We don’t discuss the incorrect one. I’m a firm believer that if you throw enough sh!t at the wall, some will stick.

I went to Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, PA, graduating in 1994. I now live in Champaign, IL; about 2 1/2 hours from Chicago and St. Louis, 2 hours from Indianapolis. Just 852.57 miles from The House that George Renovated.

I love baseball more than anything in world, except my family and friends (yes Crissy, you are somewhere in there). That’s all there really is to know about me. That and I like the band Rush a lot.

The greatest moment of my life was when the Yankees won the 1996 World Series. It was my 24th birthday and we had a big party, like 30 of my friends and family were there. It was an incredible night. Everyone deserves that feeling once in their lives - even Red Sox fans, as long as it’s in a year where the Yankees stink. There’s nothing like the first time your team wins a championship and you are old enough to remember it.

That moment was set up 4 years earlier, during the winter of 1992-93. Greg Maddux was a free agent and decided to sign with Atlanta over the Yankees (76-86) because he wanted, “to play for a winner”. I destroyed a piece of lounge furniture in my college dorm the night it was announced (beer and testosterone can be a powerful combination). I was devestated. So who do we sign instead? Jimmy Key. Who won Game 6 in 1996? Jimmy Key. Who’d he beat? Greg Maddux. Amazing that no genius sportswriter/anchor ever picked up on that bit of irony.