The Girl Who Loved Andy Pettitte

According to Yahoo! Sports, the Angels have withdrawn their offer to Mark Teixeira. I take a few things from this:

It’s pretty dumb of the Angels, if it’s true. They are pretty much the only team that “needs” him. Maybe they’ll take a look at Manny and save Yankees fans from Randy Levine stepping in and [...]

An offseason blast from the past. Tom Gordon is probably going to retire:
Righthander Tom Gordon, who has not pitched since July because of an elbow injury, is expected to have surgery. The Phillies have a $4.5 million club option, with a $1 million buyout, on Gordon in 2009.
You may remember him as inspiring a [...]

Second leg of my summer vacation: PNC Park in Pittsburgh. What a great park, it’s really amazing that the Pirates have what is seriously the nicest ballpark around. I guess it’s an attempt to pull in fans even though the team isn’t any good (yet), but the prices aren’t cheap enough to make it really [...]

Finally got around to uploading pictures from my trip this summer. Here are shots from the first leg, Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
More pictures from both days can be found here

Shawn Chacon attempts to kill Ed Wade, which as far as most people (including me) are concerned makes him a True American Hero and is immediately cut. Manny Ramirez shoves the Boston travel secretary to the ground because he tells him he might not be able to get him 16 tickets for a game and [...]

I really, really really hate the Angels. They play the Yankees every years on Old Timer’s Day, which is my favorite event at Yankee Stadium, and every year the Yankees lose. In 1998, the Yankees had a losing record to only one team, the Angels.
So, don’t get down on me because I am excited that [...]

I went to the first game of my Staten Island Yankees ticket plan today, and was very excited to see Pat Venditte pitching. I even used my camera to grab some videos:
End of his warmups, you can see him switch arms here:

First batter, throwing lefty:

Second batter, throwing righty:

Third batter: throwing lefty again:

I know Damon Oppenheimer [...]

We took a trip this weekend to go check out Minute Maid Park (and see the Yankees play). Wang got hurt at the game we were at unfortunately but at least the park is nice. Here are some pictures:
The view from our seats:

The scoreboard at MMP, which I thought was awesome:

The Astros lineup was gimped [...]