Bronx ready to roar as World Series finally returns to Yankee Stadium

It won’t take long for everyone to reacclimate. Fifteen years may seem like an eternity when discussing Yankees appearances in the World Series, but when you have muscle memory this strong, it all comes back pretty quickly. The sights. The sounds — especially the sounds. The energy. 

And, yes, the magic. 

The Mets may have co-opted October’s magic this time around, but they never put a down payment on it. Yankee Stadium has been the home office for October magic — for World Series magic — since a time when silent movies were still the most popular form of entertainment. 

We can list all of those memories but it would be redundant, because if you are a Yankees fan, then you know them all by heart. If you’ve been lucky enough, maybe you’ve witnessed one or two of them through the years, either at the current address or at the old one across the street. 

The others, you’ve seen enough, read enough about them, that it doesn’t take much to believe you were in the bleachers on those days and nights. Yankee Stadium in the World Series is a civic treasure passed along generation to generation. It’s your turn now. 

“We have the greatest fans in the world,” Aaron Judge said Saturday night, after the Yankees tried to create another forever October moment but fell one swing short, dropping a 4-2 decision to the Dodgers, falling into an 0-2 hole in this, the 120th edition of the World Series. “They’ll have our backs. They always do.”