The Twins beat the Yankees today, winning their first series in the Bronx since they won this May 10, 2001 game. How long ago was that?

• It was 4448 days, or 12 years, 2 months and 4 days, ago.
• Tom Kelly was still the manager of the Twins, who were under threat of contraction at the time.
• The Twin Towers were still standing, Ted Williams and George Harrison were still alive, Barack Obama was a Illinois State Senator, and the first Apple Stores had not yet opened (they opened later that month).
• The curses of the Bambino, the Black Sox, Billy Penn and Coogan’s Bluff all were still active.
• Joe Mauer had not yet been drafted and some thought he’d instead pursue a college football career.
• Cal Ripken, Mark McGwire and Tony Gwynn were still active MLB players.
• Heck, Deion Sanders was an active MLB player at the time.
• The top movie that week was The Mummy Returns.
• “All For You” by Janet Jackson and “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child were the hit songs at the time.
• Bryce Harper was eight-and-a-half years old.
• Star Trek: Voyager was still on the air, 24 had not yet begun to air.
• There had not yet been a Spider-Man movie released. Nor had there been any Harry Potter movies released.
• Gas was under $2 a gallon.
• Of the players in that game, only Mariano Rivera, Torii Hunter, AJ Pierzynski, LaTroy Hawkins, Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte are still active. That is actually a higher number than I expected.
• All-Star Games did not give home-field advantage in the World Series.
• The best-selling nonfiction book in America was Seabiscuit. The book, that is, not the movie. The movie wouldn’t be made for another two years.
• The Nintendo 64 and the first Playstation were the most up-to-date video game systems.
• Michael Jordan had not yet had his comeback with the Washington Wizards.
• However, some thing have not changed: Vin Scully is still in the booth for the Dodgers, The Simpsons is still on the air, Bud Selig is still commissioner, nobody has approached Cy Young‘s win record, and, of course, the Cubs still haven’t won a World Series since 1908.