Besides actually putting people into Cooperstown, the Hall of Fame ballot is a good way to reflect on very good players of times gone by. And yeah, sometimes that’s only five years ago but not everyone has a great memory. This year, for me, Kevin Appier was the guy who I found I’d mostly forgotten. [...]
Archive of entries posted on December 2009
Things That Are Bad Ideas
The Huffington Post started a sports section that I never look at, and apparently one of the things they do there is let Arn Tellem (a bigtime agent if you don’t recognize the name) have a soap box. He posted a column about Hideki Matsui’s signing with the Angels and it was mostly what you [...]
How I Learned to Love Mike Mussina
Plenty of you kids out there only have memories of Mike Mussina as a Yankee and only sort of know that he was originally with Baltimore. But he was, and he was great there and I hated him. Not quite as much as I hated Roger Clemens, of course, but players as great as the [...]
But What About My Attendance?
I am currently reading a Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. The title pretty clearly explains what it’s about. In one of the early chapters I came across a little tidbit of information that I found to be rather amusing: When a Western Union operator tried to enter the grounds, [Charles] Comiskey refused [...]
Andy Re-Ups, This Time With No Drama
From Joel Sherman The Yankees have re-signed Andy Pettitte for one-year at $11.75 million, the Post has learned. The two sides quickly hammered out an agreement once Pettitte signaled he did want to play again in 2010 — and only for the Yankees. The contract this time around is not incentives based, which makes sense. [...]
Maybe Curtis Granderson Traded For Actual Curtis Granderson
I had a dream where the Yankees traded their potential sort-of Curtis Granderson for the real thing, except that it really happened. There’s a whole lot of analysis better than anything I could provide you with about this trade (click on those Yankees links on the side for some of them), but I like talking [...]
You Can't Fool Me, I Know Your Kind
Earlier today the Yankees traded Brian Bruney for the potential of maybe having a player (the Washington Nationals first overall pick in the Rule 5 draft). It’s the end of a not-very exciting career in pinstripes, and honestly I’m glad to see him go as I was hoping he had pitched himself into non-tender territory [...]
In Rememberance of Tommy Henrich
Tommy Henrich played on four Yankees Championship teams and was known for being a clutch hitter. Whether that’s true or not (it’s probably not, that title is just the kind of thing that winds up sticking around forever once you do it a few times) there are other, more important and frankly more interesting things [...]
