According to Bryan Hoch, Jonathan Albaladejo impressed so much the yAnkees decided not to carry a dedicated long reliever and gave him the last bullpen spot. This is excellent news as it means we probably won’t ever see him like this: Next up: Not having to see Angel Berroa in a Yankees uniform during the [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2009
A Happy Ending For My Mid-Week Plan
After a long period of irritation, worry and freaking out over small things, I am 100% set for the 2009 baseball season at Yankee Stadium. Strangely, all it took was a simple e-mail to my ticket rep. After some communication back and forth with him about a week and a half ago, I got hooked [...]
12 Game Plan 1 – Not the Best Value
Here’s a comparison between the games in the Yankees 12 Game Plan #1 and the $5 tickets they’ve made available in the bleachers, grandstand and terrace for the 2009 season: Date Opponent $5 Game? April 20th Oakland Yes May 4th Boston No May 7th Tampa Bay Yes May 20th Baltimore Yes June 3rd Texas Yes [...]
YES Says No To Jim Kaat
Catching up with my RSS feeds today, I found this from Bob Raismann of the Daily News: Although he is back in the mix, Kaat won’t be returning to YES’ Yankees booth. MLB sources said Kaat reached out to YES suits, offering his services on a limited basis at a reasonable price. Sources said Kaat, [...]
An Easy Way To Give Your Ticket Licensees A Heart Attack
This afternoon I logged onto my Yankees account as I do often, just to dick around and I clicked on the View/Pay Invoices link just to go through and make sure my ticket hadn’t mysteriously disappeared. I seriously doubted anything had changed, but lo and behold I saw this when the screen loaded: So, I [...]
New York Sports Media Quote of the Day – March 9th, 2009
This is a couple of days old, but I’ve been busy watching the World Baseball Classic. Ian O’Connor, the honor today is yours. The Yankees have no interest in devaluing an asset like Rodriguez, not when they have nine years to go on a contract worth more than $300 million. So they’re not about to [...]
Yankees vs Braves (Spring Training Game – March 7th)
For various reasons (WBC, faulty hips) a lot of the starting lineup is missing, but there’s still pitchers to watch. Hideki Matsui is starting to get his time in, and will probably play again tomorrow for his first back-to-back games this year. Chien-Ming Wang – 3IP, 3H, 1R, 1HR, 0BB, 2K, 5GO, 2AO Today marked [...]
THE SKY IS FALLING (Maybe)
The big news today is that Alex Rodriguez has a (partially) torn labrum in his hip, which caused the cyst that was found. If you don’t know this, you’ve been hanging out in a nuclear fallout shelter all day. The Yankees have announced that he is not—as of now—undergoing surgery to fix it and that [...]
New York Sports Media Quote of the Day – March 4th, 2009
Today we feature Mike Vacarro of the New York Post, from his article “Alex Not in Same Class As Captain America”. This bit caused my eyes to start bleeding: The trendy thing to do among skeptics, cynics and statistical analysts is to diminish who Derek Jeter is, what Jeter is, what he brings to the [...]
