Who are the 2013 New York Yankees? That is the general question I try to answer anytime I write a team’s preview. The preview itself is my attempt to forecast the outcome of the upcoming 162-game season. Regardless of whom I am previewing there will always be questions that only time can answer. No team [...]
Archive of posts tagged Yankee Stadium
Yankees: Don’t buy tickets to Opening Day before you read this
I know this is old news but wait till you experience this yourself. Surely you heard how the New York Yankees pulled out of MLB’s re-partnering deal with StubHub. Instead, the Yankees joined with Ticketmaster to form their own ticket resale site called Yankees Ticket Exchange. Back on February 11th, inherited owner Hal Steinbrenner explained [...]
Yankees: 4 top prospects to keep your eyes on
The future of the New York Yankees is up in the air. Unlike the past decade, or since the infamous Core Four, the Yankee brass wants to depend on the farm system to produce the team’s future stars. The last homegrown star to come up was Brett Gardner back in 2008. Here are four of [...]
Yankees: I actually liked Alex Rodriguez
Since he became a New York Yankee, I have been a fan Alex Rodriguez. Even back in 2009, I was part of a minority of New York Yankees fans who believed A-rod when he admitted to have used PEDs (performance enhancing drugs) between 2001-2003. A-rod declared his cheating as a “stupid mistake”, but he owned [...]
Yankees Universe: Are you on Team Hal or Team George
Over the last two months New York Yankees fans have been at each other throats. Between tweeting, Facebook and blog commenting this divide has gotten down right nasty more times than not, myself included. The argument is over the new parsimony approach that inherited owner Hal Steinbrenner has implemented in this current off-season. As fans [...]
Yankees Hot Stove: Are you ok with Josh Hamilton needing a SWAT team
The latest hot stove rumor circulating is that the New York Yankees have inquired about slugging outfielder Josh Hamilton. USA Today Bob Nightengale reported the news via twitter but who knows if this was purely to generate attention as the source, an American League general manager, of course was anonymous. Nightengale clearly states that the [...]
Yankees Hot Stove: Championships are not cheap
The New York Yankees enter this off-season with so many questions that when I started mulling over the issues as a whole it actually is pretty discouraging. So to say that GM Brian Cashman has his work cut out for him might be the understatement of the century. Cashman has been the Yankees GM for 15-seasons, [...]
