Another familiar match-up to end the second Subway Series, as Game three features New York’s ace lefties CC Sabathia (NYY) and Johan Santana (NYM) will face off on the mound on Sunday afternoon. Coincidentally, both pitchers have pitched 92 innings and walked 30 batters this season. The rest of their season numbers are not much [...]
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Relive 2009 World Series
On September 21, 2008, in his farewell to the old Yankee Stadium, Yankees Captain Derek Jeter told Yankees fans this: “We’re relying on you to take the memories from this stadium, take them to the new stadium, and pass them on from generation to generation.” The Yankees first year in the new Yankee Stadium, winning [...]
Yankees Win But Today All Of Baseball Lost
Baseball lost a hero today with the passing of Ernie Harwell who was 92 years old. For 55 years, Mr. Ernie Harwell was the quintessential icon of baseball broadcasters. Over 42 of those seasons, Mr. Harwell was the radio voice for the Detroit Tigers earning a niche in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981. [...]
Part Two: American League Team Rankings
AMERICAN LEAGUE: New York Yankees – fact is media loves to hate the Bombers, but they seem to forget the fact that they beat the Rays two weeks ago. Sabathia almost had a no hitter at the Trop. Fact is Yankees are the reigning champs for a reason, and let me tell you this team [...]
National League: Team Rankings Everybody Ought To Know
With baseball season in full swing, teams are starting to define their reputations. As the season progresses, teams will start to trip themselves up or find their footing again. Some teams will get that hail mary to get back up, and some might collapse like the Mets in 2007. Speaking of the Mets, lets rank* [...]
Yankees Make History Right And Left
As Spring Training is wrapping-up, Joe Girardi still had yet to see one special youngster for himself. This phenomenon Yankees pitching prospect, Pat Venditte who is ambidextrous, successfully as able from with either arm. Venditte also has two entirely different deliveries, overhand from his right and 10 o’clock sidearm as a lefty. As a child [...]
2010 MLB Preview: The Two Beasts In The AL East
Since I reaffirmed, for the second season, just how scared I am of the Tampa Bay Rays in the prior post; it seems fitting to preview the two shoguns of the AL East. My New York Yankees, and our biggest rivals the Boston Red Sox. Yes, still have some smoke left for these two teams, [...]
