According to Mike Puma, writing in the New York Post, Bernie Williams will return to Yankee Stadium for the closing ceremonies on September 21st:

“It will bring me back to my first time in 1991, when I played my first game,” Williams said. “It will be amazing. The fans are going to be great. I’m obviously very sad to the Stadium go – you have a lot of great memories – but you move on.”

…”[October] will be kind of strange,” Williams said. “But that goes to show how hard it is to make it. It’s never a given, and this year it didn’t happen for them.”

It’s never a given. How true. The weather has turned in New York over the past few days, the fall chill is in the air. For a long time now, I’ve come to associate the change in the weather with playoff baseball in the Bronx. Now that the Yankees won’t be playing in October, I’m not upset, but grateful that the Yanks had such a great run of consecutive playoff appearences. Hopefully, they’ll make it back next season. Or the year after that. The comforting part of being a Yankee fan is the belief that they will win again, and sometime soon. Who knows, it could be fifteen years or even forty years before they win another championship. But it could also be three years or next season.

Anyhow, it’ll be nice to see Bernie again. Along with Mariano Rivera, he’s one of my very favorite Yankees of them all.