Today was pretty awesome, and what I mean by awesome is terrible. Nothing like sitting standing around Yankee Stadium for two and a half hours hiding from the rain and waiting to hear if the game is called or not. The only thing good about the whole thing is that the rescheduled game is at [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2008
Are You Ready For The Regular Season?
My season ticket plans arrived yesterday, so for better or worse I am now ready for baseball season. I’m not sure what I expect out of this year, other than not much and maybe some glimmers of a nice future for the team and some fun games. I can’t help being excited though, the pit [...]
Rob Neyer, You Are Usually Pretty Sane
Rob Neyer is usually a very good writer for ESPN, and puts together more often than not very interesting things to read. Today he covers the best 50 players in the next 5 years. Interesting topic, right? Well, there are some decisions in it that don’t make much sense. Here are some of the more [...]
Joey Gathright is Quite an Athlete
Last night, Joey Gathright jumped over Hiroki Kuroda to get a base hit. Did you know he also jumps over cars?
Shocking News: Yankee Fans Love Andy Pettitte
As reported by The Daily News, someone gave Siena College money to do a study about sports fans in New York, who found out some very unsurprising things. People in New York State like baseball more than other sports, the Yankees are the most popular team, and Yankees fans love Andy Pettitte. Pettitte is viewed [...]
Measuring Spring Training Success
Spring Training is a time for experimentation, most notably for pitchers. Mike Mussina is pitching inside, Chien-Ming Wang is dusting off his secondary pitches, etc. They’re also shaking the dust off their arms. What this means is that you can’t expect them to look super amazing. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t worry if someone [...]
Endless Drama
I don’t do the fantasy baseball thing, but ESPN’s Endless Drama commercials are pretty funny. I always knew baseball and soap operas were a match made in heaven. In other funny, here is a fluff piece the Daily News did on Kyle Farnsworth out of nowhere for last Sunday’s paper. Farnsworth laughs upon hearing this, [...]
Roster Projection Revised
1B Jason Giambi – If he is healthy, there is no reason (or justification) to keep him out of the starting lineup. Not the hitter he used to be, but still useful. 2B Robinson Cano 3B Alex Rodriguez SS Derek Jeter RF Bobby Abreu CF Melky Cabrera – I love Melky a lot, but don’t [...]
Yankees/Indians – Pitching Notes
I missed yesterday’s game, but I watched a little bit on mlb.tv and Ian Kennedy’s command looked a little weird. I’m not overly concerned, since it’s Spring Training and he’s probably testing things out. Today’s game had weirder Spring Training quirks anyway. Wang 4.1 6 4 4 2 7 1 Wang had 7 strikeouts, which [...]
Yankees/Pirates – Pitching Notes
(Was busy yesterday and didn’t get a chance to finish this–better late than never, I say.) The game against the Pirates was Mike Mussina’s third start in Spring Training, where he has looked anywhere from awful to okay. Today, he looked great. Mussina 5.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 His breaking balls were really [...]
