Archive for October, 2009
Los Angeles Angels-New York Yankees: Yankees Steal »
If you give an average team multiple chances to beat you, they will. If you give the New York Yankees multiple chances to beat you, they definitely will. The New York Yankees took advantage of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim leaving a small village (16 to be exact) on base and some more bad defense to beat the Angels 4-3 in 13 innings to take a [...]
Classic Jeter, Atypical Rodriguez Give New York »
New York Yankees superstars have come out to play in baseball’s postseason led by predictable, indomitable shortstop Derek Jeter and redeeming performances from third baseman Alex Rodriguez. Despite cold, rainy conditions, these superstars are shining and the Yankees are up 2-0 in the American League Championship Series after New York’s [...]
Start Spreading the News: The VFA Week Seven Awards »
Right, it's been an emotionally exhausting Week Seven for the VFA. When we weren't catching breath from swearing at the refs after their performance in the Arkansas vs Florida game, we were jumping up and down, and nearly in tears after the Yankees' 13th inning ALCS win over the Angels. Come on guys? You didn't just watch college football did [...]
Yankees-Angels ALCS: Error in 13th Gives New York 4-3 »
Heavy rain was expected in the forecast for Saturday night. Most didn't even think Game Two would be played and expected it to be moved to Sunday at 4 p.m. But Joe Girardi and Mike Scioscia opted to have Game Two be played on the scheduled night and it was a good thing, because baseball all around the world got a classic of a playoff game. The [...]
MLB Is Better Off with New York Yankees in the »
It was the vaudevillian comedian Joe E. Brown who went on the record about it most famously. It was he who put it into words with so much brevity yet pith. “Rooting for the Yankees,” Brown was jotted down as having said, “is like rooting for U.S. Steel.” Those Damn Yankees—welcome back to the playoff spotlight. The Yankees are in a [...]
Angels-Yankees: CC Sabathia Dominates Angels, Yankees »
Here is what I wrote in my American League Championship Series Preview and Prediction post: “But things are starting to break for the Yankees like they did in the 90’s. You can’t beat the unexplained. There will be a Joe Mauer foul ball or Nick Punto baserunning moment for the Angels in this series.” It took all of five batters for the [...]
Yankees-Angels, ALCS: CC Sabathia Silences Angels In »
It was a cold and damp Friday night. There was rain in the forecast and it felt like a December football game in the winter rather than an October baseball game in the fall. But that wasn't going to stop the Yankees and the Angels from playing in front of almost 50,000 fans at Yankee Stadium for Game One of the American League Championship [...]
ALCS Preview…The Quickie Version »
Twenty minutes to go before Game One. I am sorry I left this so long, but I've had a lot to look at, and a long week at my real job . These two teams are absolutely the best two teams in the American League, both by record and by statistics. The winner of this series is the prohibitive favorite to win the World Series, no matter which National [...]
Aaron Boone Leaning Toward Retirement »
The off-season has already begun for 26 major league baseball teams. The off-season is filled with trades, signings, firings, hirings, and sadly retirements. The New York Yankees have not started their off-season yet, and they don't want to until they're holding up a World Series trophy at a parade in New York. But there are three other [...]
Alex Rodriguez’s Sudden Postseason Arrival Is »
NEW YORK—We’re imploring and dreaming of an epic classic, a spectacle that’s enticing enough to discard all the steroid bust that has disappointed us for much of the season. Right now, baseball happens to have a dream series in mind, as many are thinking blue and wishing for pinstripes. Yes, our eyes are set on a Dodgers-Yankees World [...]