New York Yankees’ Hall of Fame catcher and my fellow Montclair, New Jerseyan Yogi Berra lied to me. He famously said, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” Well, Yogi. Yes, actually, it is over....

I’m writing this column with the most heinously chipped, overgrown nail polish I’ve ever had. I got a lovely pinstriped manicure 18 days ago, and since then I’ve lugged around huge boxes, taken five...

“On October 3rd, he asked me what day it was. ‘It’s October 3rd,’” said Lindsay Lohan in the (fantastic) movie “Mean Girls.” Close enough; it’s “October 4th.” That means the first...

It is about time I write about the Yankees’ prodigal right fielder who gets me into arguments with my professor. Juan Soto is a touchy subject in Washington, D.C. After he became a key player during...

Growing up, my bedtime was 7 p.m. In theory, this would have been acceptable to me, except for the fact that the New York Yankees’ games often started at 7:05. As a result, there were multiple nights...

One of the colleges I applied to required me to list a fun fact with my application. I wrote that fewer people have scored an earned run in the playoffs against former New York Yankees closing pitcher...

The second the New York Yankees — embarrassingly — were mathematically eliminated from the 2023 playoffs, I circled March 28 on my calendar. That would be the next time I could forget about my to-do...

There is a certain magic that envelops the game of baseball.  My dad will read this — hi! — and tell me I’m too young to know that. He will claim that baseball has not been truly magical since...

My brain is wired for watching baseball. I can sit still for three hours, watch nine innings of play and not descend into boredom.  And I do mean “sit still.” If I freeze in a certain way, and...

I was born in 2004, eight months before the Boston Red Sox did the unthinkable. After falling behind 3-0 in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series (ALCS) against my beloved New York Yankees,...