This is what you call luck, Sidney must have some kind of deal with the devil: Inning Number of Baserunners Runs Scored 1st 2 (Casilla, Mauer) 0 2nd 4 (Young, Buscher, Harris, Casilla) 2 3rd 0 0 4th 1 (Span) 0 5th 3 (Casilla, Mauer, Kubel) 1 6th 4 (Harris, Span) 0 Total 14 3 [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2008
Pitching Matchups – Twins vs Yankees
Probable pitchers are now set for the Yankees/Twins series that starts tonight and boy are they exciting! Monday, July 21st Nick Blackburn (7-5, 3.65ERA, 1.28WHIP) vs Sidney Ponson (1-0, 4.24ERA, 1.65WHIP with the Yankees). Sidney Ponson has a walk problem, and a hit problem and is basically a problem. Nick Blackburn is pretty good. The [...]
The NY Daily News Has The Best Copy Editors
The Daily News and the NY Post have recently decided to get in on the PROSPECT HYPE TRAIN and both have articles a few times a week about Yankees and Mets hype train. Too bad they don’t have copy editors for their headlines: “Jesus Matero impressing Yankee officials” They spell his name correctly (if you’re [...]
Jose Molina: Yankee Hero
Sometimes you have to take one for the team, thank you Jose. I salute you for turning this: Into this:
How's This For A Lineup
Derek Jeter SS Bobby Abreu RF Alex Rodriguez 3B Jorge Posada DH Richie Sexson 1B Robinson Cano 2B Melky Cabrera CF Jose Molina C Brett Gardner LF Tonight’s outlook: Lots of beer.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
