The Dream Stays Alive
Well, the Moose won his 19th game of the night going five innings, allowing 4 hits and striking out 6 (including one swinging, wowie!). He got hit in the arm with a linedrive in the third inning but managed to go two more before they took him out of the game. There was some bullpen [...]
Celebrating The World's Best Cranky Old Man
Win number 17 for Mike Mussina is in the books, the dream of 20 is all but dead but might as well pile on as many as you can! A good outing, second run came off two consecutive doubles when Joe Girardi decided to try and Andy Pettitte him to death and brought him back [...]
Second Andy Day of 2008 Celebration
The second Andy day of 2008 went pretty well, he threw 2 2/3 innings, gave up 3 hits (1 homerun), 2ER and had 2Ks. He hit some guy, but I bet the batter had it coming. Per Pete Abe, here’s what he had to say about today: Andy Pettitte was thrilled with his performance. “From [...]
2K Sports Prefers Kenny Rogers to Mike Mussina
2k Sports (via IGN) has reported what their unlockable teams for Major League Baseball 2k8 are. Most of them are rookie teams, and some have a few strange things (like Derek Jeter, 1996 AL Rookie of the Year being on the 1997 rookie team) but the most bizarre by far is the “Living Legends” team. [...]
The Johan Santana Trade
This trade is possibly the only thing to ever happen in MLB history that makes Red Sox, Yankees and Mets fans all happy at the same time.
More HOF Voting Babble
Vegas Watch has a really good post up outlining the worst HOF arguments of 2008. It should be of no surprise that this includes a lot of laughing at anti-Blyleven/pro-Morris arguments from sportswriters. And here’s Joe Posanski’s take as well.
2008 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot
Here’s the ballot for this year. Names in bold are who my votes would go to. New on 2008 Ballot Brady Anderson Rod Beck Shawon Dunston Chuck Finley Travis Fryman David Justice Chuck Knoblauch Robb Nen Tim Raines Jose Rijo Todd Stottlemyre Holdovers from Previous Ballot Harold Baines Bert Blyleven Dave Concepcion Andre Dawson Goose [...]
