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Yankee fans are ready to welcome Youks to the Bronx

Posted by on 16 February 2013, 1:30 am

New York Yankee fans need to relax, big time!

Kevin Youkilis

Kevin Youkilis (Photo credit: Keith Allison)

Kevin Youkilis might play for the Yankees, but he will forever be a Boston Red Sox in my mind.

So earlier this week when Youkilis told ESPN New York, “I’ll always be a Red Sox,” personally, I found it refreshingly honest.

The problem is the majority of Yankees Universe did not.

Shocker.

Youkilis later retracted his sentiments by pledging his loyalty and heart to the pinstripes.

He might have been too late, as Youkilis seems to have opened Pandora’s box.

Sans Alex Rodriguez around who are Yankees fan going to heckle at?

AJ Burnett used to be the go-to guy when A-Rod was playing well, or was hurt.

Reality is the Yankees do still pay a lot Burnett’s salary, so technically fans could make the trek to Pittsburgh to find their old friend. But the hitch with this is that Burnett has pitched like an ace for the Pirates, so the booing does not apply.

And Youkilis already has the résumé. He played eight and a half seasons in Boston, check. The Yankees are overpaying Youkilis to a tune of $12 million plus incentives for just one season in New York. Pay to play or booooo, check two.

So it was no surprise that the New York media went nuts when Youkilis spoke kindly about his new team’s biggest rivals. As sadly that is how many New York fans interpret it without acknowledging that this guy came up with the Red Sox too.

Many Yankee fans I know were waiting for Youkilis to slip up but he served it up on a silver platter. A very A-Rod like slip, I may add.

Well as they say the proof is in the tweets. So here are a few from Yankee fans that prove Youkilis will be filling in for A-Rod, literally and figuratively.

https://twitter.com/jaimemartell1?protected_redirect=true

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Yankees: Sorry I don’t believe you Joe Girardi

Posted by on 14 February 2013, 4:51 am

One of the finest football coaches of all time, Vince Lombardi once said, “Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.”

English: Joe Girardi, manager of the New York ...

English: Joe Girardi, manager of the New York Yankees. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Just think about how many times the heavily favored team gets defeated by the less talented underdogs.

-        Super Bowl XLII – recently ranked as the best Super Bowl of all time on NFL Network.

-        2011 MLB World Series

-        1980 USA Men’s Ice Hockey Team

-        2004 ALCS (sorry but had to mention it.)

The reason I am sharing the above is because for a moment it shed a new light on the recent statement made by New York Yankees skipper Joe Girardi.

During the skipper’s kickoff to Spring Training press conference, when pressed about the many concerns surrounding his 2013 club, the Girardi professed, “This team could win 95 games and get to the World Series.”

Since Girardi’s sweet declaration, the sports media has had a field day about how preposterous a statement this was.

Craig, a co-host on my personal favorite radio show Boomer and Carton in the Morning, eluded that “someone in Yankee-ville is smoking the gange.”

And it is hard to disagree with that remark, as the Yankees are certainly not the favorites heading into the 2013 season. Continue reading ‘Yankees: Sorry I don’t believe you Joe Girardi’ »

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2013 New York Yankees: 4 things you need to watch for

Posted by on 12 February 2013, 1:44 am
Derek Jeter at the New York Yankees vs. Colora...

Derek Jeter at the New York Yankees vs. Colorado Rockies game on June 19, 2007. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Baseball is back, as pitchers and catchers are officially reporting to their team’s respective Spring Training facility in either Arizona or Florida.

The New York Yankees spring home is in Tampa, Florida and the normally anticipated media circus that comes with life in the pinstripes should be at an all time high.

Why?

There are too many unanswered questions about this team, not to mention the four other AL East teams surrounding them, as they head into the 2013 MLB season.

Fans will be looking to get a lot answers this spring, but here are the four questions that caused the most commotions during the off-season.

You shouldn’t expect to find any new revelations here, as the anomalies are vast and many cannot be solved until the regular season gets going.

1)       Is Derek Jeter’s surgically repaired ankle completely fixed?

When Jeter fell in the 12th inning of Game One in the 2012 ALCS, the team went down with him. After barely beating the Orioles to advance onward, the depleted Yankees didn’t have a shot without their steadfast Captain on the field. And the Tigers took advantage, sweeping the Yankees right out of the playoffs.

Jeter’s left ankle was shattered, which him to have required surgery. Post-Op left the Captain in a walking boot, and it reportedly only came off on June 12, 2013.

That was just four short weeks ago, but doctors finally gave Jeter the nod to start running again.

That happened only yesterday, as it was the Big Story feature on the Associated Press website. Jeter cannot take off his sock without it hitting the newswires. So no hiding this time for the Captain as the World is watching.

Look, it is no big secret that the Captain has to be healthy for this team to be any good in 2013. But Jeter will turn 39 this summer and inevitably Father Time will be coming soon. The question is how close is he? Continue reading ‘2013 New York Yankees: 4 things you need to watch for’ »

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2013 New York Yankees: 27 tweets you want to read

Posted by on 11 February 2013, 6:45 am

Pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training tomorrow is the equivalent to Christmas Eve for MLB fans.

twitter - #yankees

twitter – #yankees

As that can only mean one thing, baseball is back.

It comes as no surprise that Yankee Universe has bombarded twitter in anticipation of the upcoming 2013 MLB season.

New York fans, bloggers, players and media are predicating everything from the Yankees winning #28 to Father Time

So I ransacked twitter during the Grammy Awards, which seemed longer then a typical Red Sox vs. Yankees game, and came up with an array of Bronx Bombers tweets to share.

MEDIA & BLOGGERS:

https://twitter.com/msimonespn/status/300353488959967232 Continue reading ‘2013 New York Yankees: 27 tweets you want to read’ »

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Yankees: Miami New Times had reasons to oust Alex Rodriguez

Posted by on 9 February 2013, 2:57 pm

The PEDs (performance-enhancing drugs) scandal conveyed in the Miami New Times on January 29th is losing its creditability by the day.

Miami New Times

More specifically the accusations alluding to the use of multiple banned substances by New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez that he obtained though Anthony Bosch. Bosch ran a clinic that was a supposed source for professional athletes to get PEDs in Miami.

The Miami New Times has articles linking Bosch and MLB players with PEDs dating back to June 2009 called, Meet the Miami Doctor Accused of Juicing Manny Ramirez.

Figuring out exactly what is going on with this mess is next to impossible.

New revelations keep surfacing, but still no one neutral or in charge has actually seen “Bosch’s notes” that MNT has based these allegations on.

The reason I am questioning A-rod’s involvement is because the more I learned about MNT, the more suspicious things became.

A few notes on MNT :

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Yankees: Updates on the Alex Rodriguez PED scandal

Posted by on 7 February 2013, 2:51 pm

What happened yesterday? 

Ryan Braun

Ryan Braun (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

First it was Yahoo Sports who reported the names of Milwaukee Brewers Ryan Braun and New York Yankees Francisco Cervelli.

The New York Daily News in a few hours later, identifying Jesus Montero of the Seattle Mariners.

Followed by SI’s Tom Verducci ousting the name of Detroit Tigers Jhonny Peralta.

Those are the latest names added to this ever-growing list of players found on the Miami-area clinic’s records of Anthony Bosch. Bosch is amidst of being accused of supplying performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) to a slew of MLB players.

Braun, who failed a PED test a year ago but got it dismissed on a technicality and Cervelli both confirmed their association with Bosch’s clinic and immediately issued statements.

Immediately after the news, both Braun and Cervelli admitted to have had an association with Bosch, but not for PEDs or anything illegal.

Braun’s statement:

“During the course of preparing for my successful appeal last year, my attorneys, who were previously familiar with Tony Bosch, used him as a consultant. More specifically, he answered questions about [testosterone-to-epitestosterone] ratio and possibilities of tampering with samples. “I have nothing to hide and have never had any other relationship with Bosch.”

Cervelli’s tweets:

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New York Yankees: The Alex Rodriguez conspiracy theory

Posted by on 6 February 2013, 5:52 am

So the Alex Rodriguez saga continues, but no one can seem to find him? 

Alex Rodriguez - Yankee Stadium.

Alex Rodriguez – Yankee Stadium.

Well according Bill Maddon of the New York Daily News :

“The latest word on Alex Rodriguez, wherever he is, is that he’s scared. Not scared because of all these revelations about his involvement with an associate named Tony Bosch, an alleged dispenser of HGH and testosterone creams in South Florida, who has also gone underground. But afraid that all these damaging stories might be part of some sort of conspiracy by greater powers (MLB? The Yankees?) to torpedo his career once and for all.”

This theory comes as no shocker, as I alluded to this idea a week ago in Are the New York Yankees justifying their own agenda regarding Alex Rodriguez 

It is no big secret that the Yankees owe A-rod $114 million over the next five seasons, and you can be sure that penny-pinching Hal Steinbrenner is sweating at night because of it.

The Yankee brass would love to weasel their way out of A-rod’s contract without having to pay the money.

The probability of this happening is zero because fact is the Yankees would have already been rid of A-rod if it were.

So what is the next best thing?

The only logical, last-ditch effort would be to get A-rod to leave New York on his own accord. The Yankees could make him feel so unwanted with the hopes of driving him out-of-town. Continue reading ‘New York Yankees: The Alex Rodriguez conspiracy theory’ »

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