You’re likely not in the mood for a history lesson at this moment. Not after we’ve just bid farewell to baseball. Not with the sting of the Yankees’ 5-2 defeat by the Blue Jays on Wednesday night still fresh on your mind. Not with the sound of this 3-1 ALDS loss echoing in your ears. That’s understandable.

So, I’ll briefly mention a man named Ren Mulford Jr., one of the pioneering baseball writers, who mainly worked for “The Sporting Life.” In 1913, Mulford penned the following as a send-off to that season’s New York baseball Giants:

“Here’s where the ‘Wait Till Next Year!’ chorus has a chance.”

This is pertinent right now, as the Yankees have taken on the legacy of that vintage Brooklyn war cry, which first flowed from Mulford’s typewriter 110 years ago, later embraced for four decades by the Dodgers before they left the Borough of Churches.