The Yankees have faced two not very good Rangers pitchers in a row and have scraped out a total of 2 runs in infuriating fashion. It’s not often that you get to face a pitcher who is worse when he’s not pitching at Arlington but the Yankees apparently got confused and thought they were in [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2008
Mike Mussina Always Gives The Best Quotes
From The Daily News: Mussina was selected five times as an Oriole between 1992 and 1999, appearing in three of those games. He hasn’t made the All-Star team since joining the Yankees in 2001. He declined a last-minute invitation as an injury fill-in in 2006, saying, “I was at the supermarket.” “If (Francona) calls me [...]
Vote Mustache In ’08
Fans can cast their votes for Giambi at www.yankees.com, or by texting ‘A2’ to 36197 (or 88555 for those Yankees fans in Canada). Voting ends at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 10. Yankees fans are urged to vote early and often. By voting online, fans will be entered to win one of five authentic Jason [...]
Mariano Rivera All Star Game Ads
These are not the best quality because I was taking them quickly on the train, but Nike is running All Star Game ads in the subway and two of them feature Mariano Rivera. I liked them enough to take some pictures, so here you go:
There’s Still Time To Vote For The Stache
Voting closes at 5PM, Eastern Time. Vote Stache and vote often!
All Star Week At Yankee Stadium
I had the opportunity to attend both the Futures Game on All Star Sunday, and the Home Run Derby on Workout day. I took a lot of pictures, here are a few with links to more. Futures Game The US Squad was a bit nerfed because it was being used as a tryout for the [...]
Eric Milton Returns (Oh God)
From Chad Jennings’ SWB Yankees Blog: Eric Milton was added to the Triple-A roster late Monday night and immediately placed on the disabled list. All of it was retroactive to Saturday. There are now like a billion starting pitchers on the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre roster, including Russ Ohlendorf who they have got doing starting work until he [...]
Murray Chass Has Started A (Not) Blog
Murray Chass, recently fired from the New York Times for being Murray Chass, has started a not blog. Now, when you go there, you may notice it looks like a blog (it even uses WordPress–I looked at the page source because I am nosy like that) but it is most certainly not one. I know [...]
Why Sign A Good Hitter When You Can Sign A Terrible One?
Via ESPN: The New York Yankees have reached a tentative agreement with Richie Sexson, who was released by the Seattle Mariners a week ago. Sexson fits in New York because the Yankees needed a right-handed slugger to match up against left-handed pitching — and Sexson had a .344 average against lefties this year. Assuming the [...]
Windy with a chance of dingers.