After Roger Clemens beaned Mike Piazza during interleague play in 2000, Joe Torre loyally stood by him. And when Clemens stoked the feud’s flames in Game 2 of the World Series that year by flinging part of a broken bat in Piazza’s direction, Torre refused to chastise him publicly. But with Torre’s new book raising [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2009
Brian Bruney – Losing Weight and Walks
Remember last year when Brian Bruney showed up at Spring Training and everyone was amazed because he looked like a completely different person? Well, according to the Daily News he’s lost even more weight. Bruney, who figures to be an important part of the Yankee bullpen this season, lost about 16 pounds over the winter, [...]
Braves Want Swisher, Don’t Want To Pay Him
From ESPN’s Jayson Stark: In the meantime, the Braves seem to have emerged as the club most interested in Yankees outfielder Nick Swisher. But there are indications the teams got hung up when the Braves asked the Yankees to eat some of the $22.05 million Swisher has coming over the next three years — and [...]
What’s Overreaction Precious?
When the Yankees re-signed Alex Rodriguez in the fall of 2007, they envisioned the “clean” alternative to Barry Bonds – the knight in shining armor who would erase the stain of steroids from the all-time home run record, and they would bask in the glory of it with their brand. Now that A-Rod’s pursuit looks [...]
The New York Post Is Stalking A-Rod Again
Not that they ever really stopped, but they’ve picked it up because well, it’s not like there’s anything else going on to report about right? Looking relaxed, smiling and carrying a plastic bag full of fruit, Rodriguez strolled into the Hecht Athletic Center gym at the University of Miami for a workout that lasted about [...]
Spring Training Is Finally Here!
Pitchers and catchers (and whoever else felt like showing up) reported for the Yankees officially today and that means pictures where we get to boggle at how different people look from last season. Here’s the first of the year.
Andy on Alex — Unconditional Support
We’ll be here. The team’s going to be here. We’re going to support him. We’re like family in here. You guys know, I’m big on relationships. I feel like I’ve built up a good relationship with Alex. I care about him. I’ll try to help him get through it as much as I can. No [...]
Back in the Friday Night Saddle
The Yankees have finally started getting around to partial plan holders. It looks like my mid-season plan (2 seats) is gone but I did get my single seat Friday plan. This is great for me, as a lot of people who have much better seniority than me got downgraded from weekend plans to midweek ones [...]
New York Sports Media Quote of the Day – February 18th, 2009
The first entry in this exciting feature comes from George King III, writer for the esteemed NY Post. It wasn’t as bad as R. Budd Dwyer’s last press conference 22 years ago, when the Pennsylvania treasurer shot himself to death on national television. But yesterday’s performance by Alex Rodriguez was full of holes. Hmm yes, [...]
Windy with a chance of dingers.