I don’t really get worked up about Yankees-Red Sox series, I think I’ve been dulled to them due to overexposure, but holding a one run lead for three innings against the best offensive team in baseball is super stressful. I have supreme faith in the Yankees bullpen as it is very good, but I still [...]
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Off Season Time Wasters Part 2: Cats In Hats
Everybody with cats has an urge to try and make their animals wear the ice cream helmets you get at games as hats. If a cat owner tells you they don’t, it’s because of worry for their personal safety not because they don’t actually want to try it out. For the sake of science I [...]
Off Season Time Wasters Part 1: Goofy Polls
It’s the offseason, I miss baseball and someone sent me this goofy SportsNation poll so I did it: I would have liked this better if I could fill in the names myself instead of picking from a list. I stopped at 8 because there are people not available from the list to pick that I [...]
Staten Island Boat Watch 2010
Richmond County Bank Ballpark is right next to the Ft. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island, which means that a lot of boats pass by. Most of them are rather normal and insignificant but sometimes more giant exciting ships are sighted. Last night was an extra good night for boat-watchers as three huge ships went [...]
Great Product or Greatest Product
This came up as a related item when I was browsing some of the A&E World Series sets on the MLB Shop: The must-have DVD revealing secrets from MLB’s top stars! Valuable tips and memorable exchanges from MLB’s biggest stars are exposed through the eyes of Jennie Finch, MLB’s This Week In Baseball correspondent and [...]
I Can Make Up Outlandish Rumors Too
Last night I was told by an MLB executive that the Yankees plan to switch Derek Jeter to Left Field this season, citing his declining range in the field. This would allow the Yankees to start Ramiro Pena–a glove they really like–at Shortstop and shore up their infield defense. One long-time scout said that he [...]
Up Is Down, Day Is Night
Mike Lupica says something nice about Alex Rodriguez. The world has gone mad on us all.
Remembering the Greatest Series of Commercials Ever
In the late 90s Addidas ran a series of Yankees themed commercials in the New York area. The greatest of these was, by far, the El Duque. The other one everyone remembers is “What the Hell is ANSKY?” My mother’s best friend still wears her ANSKY shirt every now and then. Here are a few [...]
Looking at AJ Burnett’s Season In Graphical Form
The last in my series looking at the seasons the top three pitchers for the Yankees put together. I’m not doing Joba or the miscellaneous riff-raff (plus Phil “God Please Shave That Thing Off” Hughes) because frankly it’s not worth the time. I may revisit Joba before the inning limiting kicked in, however. AJ is [...]
Looking at Andy Pettitte’s Season In Graphical Form
Consider this part 2 in a 3 part series. After AJ’s last start in September (tomorrow) I’ll be doing one of these for him as well. I’m leaving out Joba Chamberlain because of the oddities caused by his innings limits and the mish-mosh of fifth starters isn’t really worth looking at unless you are into [...]
