My boyfriend is an artist with pesky deadlines which sadly has ruled out another trip like our Cincinnati/Pittsburgh excursion a few years ago. However, we still want to check out some new (to us) parks so we’ve decided to hit up anything accessible by public transit because I am one of those crazy New Yorker [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2010
Sometimes You Just Have To Look And Stare
The New York Yankees are hitting .275/.384/.469 as a team through Tuesday’s games, leading the American League in on-base percentage, slugging and runs scored. But Nick Johnson hasn’t been a huge asset thus far, despite his .407 on-base percentage. The veteran is hitting .146 and has just three extra-base hits all season. He’s hitless in [...]
The Spreadsheets Are Back
Last year, I kept up (or did my best to keep up) two spreadsheets on Yankees pitching. Gamelogs that kept track of the usual stats (H, K, BB) plus groundballs, fly balls and line drives given up and then tallied the monthly totals. There were two spreadsheets because I kept one for the rotation and [...]
Players (For the Yankees) I Have Booed At A Game, Not From My Living Room
Since booing is the new cool thing to do, here’s everyone who has played for the Yankees that I can vaguely remember booing rational or not: Danny Tartabull – For some reason when I was 12 or so I thought Danny Tartabull was the worst player on the face of the earth. I attribute this [...]
