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« Previous EntriesAnother Reason to Love NY
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008Even when the Yankees miss October baseball, we claim credit for the success of others. Exhibit 5,732, the headline on the back cover of today’s NY Daily News: “How spring fight with the Yanks helped spur Rays to Series.”
Who knew back in spring training that when a Rays fringe player named Eliot Johnson crashed [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, July 4th, 2008Happy Holiday Weekend
A two-fer-one special today, honoring both our Native American Major League Baseball players — including two of the game’s rising young stars in Joba Chamberlain and Jacoby Elsbury — and this weekend’s Yankee/Red Sox slug fest (which admittedly has lost some national luster with the upstart Rays this season). The Iroquois [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, May 16th, 2008Judah, with the Youngest Ever UYWI Workshop Co-Presenter Samuel Liotti
At the Yankees-Mariners game, May 4, 2008. Photo Set here.
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, May 9th, 2008I can’t post just one Foto today. Instead, a sampler from a new Flickr set (81 pics total) featuring John Liotti and his son Sam (who’s about to set a record as the youngest workshop co-presenter at UYWI this year).
Yankees - Mariners 05/04/08
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Rites of Passage
+ Nephew Seth’s first Yankee game (Yankees - Tigers, 04/30/08)
+ Seth’s first visit to the nose bleed section at Yankee Stadium. (Thankfully, I haven’t sat this high since Judah’s first Yankee game, eight games and three seasons ago.)
More pics from this game here. More Yankee pics here.
Now on Flickr
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Yankees - Blue Jays 04/02/08
+ Complete set here
Cousin Seth’s 4th Birthday
+ Complete set here
The Mark of the (Defeated) Beast
Friday, March 14th, 2008Diana’s Uncle Rich sent this email. Helped make sense of a lot of things for baseball fans everywhere.
Subject: What 666 REALLY stands for!!!!!!
I can’t believe I never saw this before. Note the number of letters in each term:
Boston (6), Red Sox (6), Fenway (6);
while God’s Team is obviously……..
New York (7), Yankees (7)
Yankees Opening Day [...]
They fought the good fight
Saturday, December 29th, 2007But the Giants were outclassed by arguably the greatest team in NFL history. Still, for one night at least, Eli Manning played up to the hype of the #1 draft pick, and the team played with heart. Props to Tom Brady (50 TD passes), Randy Moss (23 TD receptions), and, yes, even Spy [...]
No Longer Dandy?
Thursday, December 13th, 2007The biggest disappointment in today’s Mitchell Report: Andy Pettitte.
That notorious creeps Barroid Bonds, Kevin Brown, Gary Sheffield and even Rocket Roger Clemens were fingered is far less surprising (although having the greatest hitter (Bonds) and pitcher (Clemens) of the Steroid Era exposed in the same report is poetic justice). But Pettitte was [...]
Hip Hip Jorge
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007+ Yankees resign Jorge Posada and other Yankee free agent news.
Wednesday’s Sporting Stew
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007+ Congrats to new Yankee manager Joe Girardi. Though not a Yankee lifer, his role in the most recent run of 1990s-era Bronx dominance etched his pinstripes permanently.
+ But for (grown) kids (like me) whose sports affair with Donnie Baseball began in 1982, Girardi’s hiring at Don Mattingly’s (and Joe Torre’s) expense [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, October 19th, 2007Torre’s appropriate response to the Yankees’ offer
Tragic End to Torre Era
Friday, October 19th, 2007Treachery. Travesty. Tragedy.
On Thursday, the New York Yankees, with Steinbrenner’s health rendering him little more than a figurehead, descended into a far darker and disrespectful place. Under the leadership of president Randy Levine, who commandered the news conference yesterday as if general manager Brian Cashman and Steinbrenner’s two sons, Hank and Hal, didn’t exist, [...]
Say it ain’t Joe
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Notwithstanding the Boss’s bluster on Sunday, here’s to hoping (against hope) the Yankees don’t scapegoat Torre. He doesn’t hit or pitch or play defense. More appropriate blame rests with:
+ Captain Jeter’s failed clutch.
+ An ace who failed to play his cards right.
+ Beelzebub (the “Lord of the Flies”), who sicked his flies on [...]
From Goat to Gloat
Monday, October 1st, 2007Sports Round-Up
+ Who’s laughing now? HR: 54; RBI: 156; R: 143; BA: .314; SB: 24; BB: 95; TB: 376; OBP: .422; SLG: .645. HAHA-rod Haters.
+ JOBA Rules. Enough said.
+ 94-68. Not bad after 21-29.
+ Sabathia & Carmona: Beware the Bombers.
+ A-M-A-Z-I-N Melt-Down. Blame Rickey Henderson’s hotdogging, not Cool [...]