Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Queens), who released a report a day after the Daily News’ broke the story, blasted Major League Baseball for its exorbitant tack-on fees at a news conference Saturday. “There’s not a lot of rationality with these fees,” Weiner said. “Major League Baseball is nickel-and-diming the public, and it adds up to big [...]
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Hot Stove Authority Abuse
This article has no by-line but according to the Daily News, here are “Five Free Agents the Yankees are Eyeing”: 1. RHP John Lackey (11-8, 3.83 ERA): The Yankees will be hesitant to pay him what he wants, but if Andy Pettitte retires, they may have to. 2. INF/OF Mark DeRosa (.250, 23 HR, 78 [...]
Up Is Down, Day Is Night
Mike Lupica says something nice about Alex Rodriguez. The world has gone mad on us all.
Bill Madden: 2009 Spink Award Finalist
Bill Madden, terrible sports writer for the NY Daily News is a 2009 Spink Award finalist.Winners of the Spink award get mention in a permanent exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame, though they are not actually considered Hall of Famers. When you see ESPN call Peter Gammons a “Hall of Fame” writer, they’re referring [...]
Panic!! Panic!! Alert!!
I really can’t get enough of the front and back covers of the Daily News and Post during the season (and also not during the season when running baseball related stories). They are really hilarious in their attempts to sell papers by stirring up controversy and getting silly people to panic and I am easily [...]
Oh No The Yankees Lost Their First Game!!!
PANIC!!! DECLARING FREE AGENTS BUSTS AFTER ONE GAME!!! NEW YORK SPORTS MEDIA!!!
New York Sports Media Quote of the Day – February 22nd, 2009
This quote from Mike Lupica is everything wrong with how people view sports: A-Rod hasn’t left his career in bars or strip clubs. He hasn’t thrown his career away over a drug like cocaine the way Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry did, helping ruin any chance the Mets of the 1980s had to be some [...]
What's Overreaction Precious?
When the Yankees re-signed Alex Rodriguez in the fall of 2007, they envisioned the “clean” alternative to Barry Bonds – the knight in shining armor who would erase the stain of steroids from the all-time home run record, and they would bask in the glory of it with their brand. Now that A-Rod’s pursuit looks [...]
John Harper Is An Idiot (Wherein I Rant About Wins)
I don’t really like calling attention to dumb things that are written by sports writers because there are just so many of them and usually it’s just a mild annoyance. But every once in a while something so stupid is published that my mind is really blown and I can’t let it pass by. I [...]
The NY Daily News Has The Best Copy Editors
The Daily News and the NY Post have recently decided to get in on the PROSPECT HYPE TRAIN and both have articles a few times a week about Yankees and Mets hype train. Too bad they don’t have copy editors for their headlines: “Jesus Matero impressing Yankee officials” They spell his name correctly (if you’re [...]
