After these last two games I’m not sure I could handle a hypothetical Yankees-Rays American League Championship Series. The Yankees beat the Rays 8-7 in 10 innings in a game that felt like one of those classic Emotionally Decimating Mid-Aughts Yankees vs. Red Sox seesaw contests at Fenway Park.
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Sometime between 11:30 and midnight last night, long after we waited to get past the metal detectors and the cops with big guns, long after an aroma of inhaleable substances (legal and otherwise) began to permeate a crowd which encompassed fans from all fifty states and countries besides, Jay-Z encouraged his home town crowd to [...]
In the past few seasons, position players, and outfielders in particular, who are good, but not elite, have declined in value in baseball. Yankee castoffs and are examples. During the go-go years when very good players were getting $100 million contracts and good players were getting $60 million [...]
One of the common complaints that I hear about Joe Girardi is that he bunts too often with a lineup that is extremely powerful, often playing for one run rather than allowing his offense freedom to hang a crooked number on the board. While the Yankees are near the bottom in the AL in sacrifice [...]
In last night’s 1-0 loss to the Rays, Girardi handed the game to Kerry Wood and Boone Logan after Sabathia’s masterful 8 inning performance. After the Yankees failed to put runs on the board, Girardi’s bullpen grew thin and he turned to Chad Gaudin, who managed to escape unharmed but could not have been any [...]
Um, yeah. About that game last night…
First, I feel bad for CC Sabathia. He pitched incredibly. I didn’t see most of the game because I was at class but what I did see from him was great. He pitched the way he always does and deserved better than a no decision. To be [...]
Mike recently wrote a persuasive article explaining why Derek Jeter shouldn’t serve as the Yankees’ leadoff hitter anymore. As to be expected, not everyone shared Yankeeist’s sentiments about Jeter’s ideal spot in the lineup. Some of the more amusing rebuttals included:
“Who can do that better than Jeter? With Gardner on first, Jeter [...]
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