It’s that time of year, when the Yankees are finishing up their season ticket upgrades and additions a mere two months or so after just about every other MLB team. So with my tickets finalized a few days ago I sat down to figure out what days I needed to take off work.
Looking at the [...]
Archive of posts filed under the off the field category.
This Year’s Ticket Whines
But What About My Attendance?
I am currently reading a Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball. The title pretty clearly explains what it’s about. In one of the early chapters I came across a little tidbit of information that I found to be rather amusing:
When a Western Union operator tried to enter the grounds, [Charles] Comiskey refused to [...]
Maybe Curtis Granderson Traded For Actual Curtis Granderson
I had a dream where the Yankees traded their potential sort-of Curtis Granderson for the real thing, except that it really happened.
There’s a whole lot of analysis better than anything I could provide you with about this trade (click on those Yankees links on the side for some of them), but I like talking so [...]
In Rememberance of Tommy Henrich
Tommy Henrich played on four Yankees Championship teams and was known for being a clutch hitter. Whether that’s true or not (it’s probably not, that title is just the kind of thing that winds up sticking around forever once you do it a few times) there are other, more important and frankly more interesting things [...]
Hot Stove Authority Abuse
This article has no by-line but according to the Daily News, here are “Five Free Agents the Yankees are Eyeing”:
1. RHP John Lackey (11-8, 3.83 ERA): The Yankees will be hesitant to pay him what he wants, but if Andy Pettitte retires, they may have to.
2. INF/OF Mark DeRosa (.250, 23 HR, 78 RBI): Jersey [...]
