Yankees Factoid: 50 Minutes of My Life I Will Never Get Back

For starters, let me apologize for the time it is going to take you to read this. I say this because it took me about 20 minutes to compile research and then another 30 minutes to type up something that would look presentable while not making me look like the fool that I am. All told, I have now lost 50 minutes of my life that I will never get back, and I am a little ticked off at what started this whole diatribe. Bear with me, please. I have to decide on how I will approach this and establish the process of what eventually gets to be my point… Here is the windup: Have you ever heard someone state something as fact that you would normally just disregard as total stupidity, but then you dwell on it because, quite frankly, it’s so compelling in and of itself that you start to think that it has to be true? Usually this is a comment that comes out of nowhere: a statement that just takes you by surprise. Typically, this stated fact will have an element of history to it, and it ... (link)