My first game watching on an actual TV! It’s also Joba Chamberlain’s first start of the Spring. Here are my notes: Joba is only going one inning today, Spring Training is long this year because of the World Baseball Classic so the starting five are probably going to get a break for a while. Minor [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2009
Baseball is Here!
Kerry Wood has an injury of some sort. Delmon Young swung at the first pitch he saw this year. Derek Jeter grounded out to second in his first at bat. Jose Veras hit a batter and walked the bases loaded. Baseball is back!
Bernie Williams Makes The Cut
No, he’s not coming back to the Yankees. Yesterday the final World Baseball Classic rosters were announced, and while I am one of the many who doesn’t really get into the event I did smile a little when I saw that Bernie had made the Puerto Rican team. I’m not one of the people who [...]
Media Folks on the Relocation Process
The media is picking up on the partial plan relocation sloppiness, with some having their own annoying experiences. Behold: Jay Jaffee, Neil deMause, The Daily News. And Lonn Trost is a dick: Is it true there are seats in the bleachers from which you can’t see parts of the field? “Yes, but we will have [...]
More Thoughts on the Yankees Relocation Process
It’s pretty common knowledge that if you are a full season ticket holder, you’re very happy with the Yankees right now because you got good seats. This is fine, as full season holders of any seniority take priority over partial plans and as I outlined in my last relocation post this is not the problem. [...]
New York Sports Media Quote of the Day – February 22nd, 2009
This quote from Mike Lupica is everything wrong with how people view sports: A-Rod hasn’t left his career in bars or strip clubs. He hasn’t thrown his career away over a drug like cocaine the way Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry did, helping ruin any chance the Mets of the 1980s had to be some [...]
New York Sports Media Quote of the Day – February 21st, 2009
This is a little late but Wallace Matthews is kind of dumb. This all could have been avoided if the Yankees had listened to Cashman, who knew that despite Rodriguez’s 54 homers and 156 RBIs in 2007, the Yankees would be better off letting him walk. Like every other team that has employed A-Rod, the [...]
New York Sports Media Quote of the Day – February 20th, 2009
Jon Heyman is no longer an actual part of the NY Sports Media, but he may as well be since he’s absolutely as terrible as all of them. It’s lovely that many Yankees showed up at his press conference to support Rodriguez, but frankly, many of them looked bored. Either bored or exasperated. There were [...]
