Archive for November, 2009
Mariano Rivera: The 2009 Postseason MVP Of The 9th »
I've heard and seen many theories this week as to why the Yankees won the 2009 World Series and their 27th overall championship this past Wednesday. Some thought it was the offense, which was lead by Alex Rodriguez hitting .365 and blasting six home runs and 18 RBI, World Series MVP Hideki Matsui batting .615 and Derek Jeter, who batted over .400 [...]
The New York Yankees Top Minor League Baseball »
Shelley Duncan has seen brief success when he has played for The New York Yankees from 2007 to 2009. It is a completely different story when he gets full time play with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the Triple-A affiliate of the 27 time World Champs. Duncan lead the International League in home runs (30) RBI (99), runs and extra base hits, thus [...]
Ranking the 2009 Yankees »
The New York Yankees are the best team in baseball—for the 2009 season (as we predicted in our World Series Preview ). But is this one of the best teams in baseball history? Is it even one of the best teams in Yankees history? What about this decade? This is where WhatIfSports steps in with the answers. As the 2009 MLB season comes to its end, [...]
Money Doesn’t Buy Rings: The Yanks Are Just »
As a Yankee fan, I'm used to people hating on the Yankees. I get it. People hate winners and want to blame winners for their own team's misery. I know a guy on Facebook that I have thought about deleting because every time I bring up the Yanks, he gripes about how MLB is broken. Whining is whining. It's annoying when a three-year-old does it [...]
Money Doesn’t Buy Championships: Dispelling The »
"Money can't by me love" sang The Beatles in the '60s. Nor can it buy an MLB team a World Series championship. The dusty vestige of an argument locked in the attic for the past nine years was dragged out of the darkness yesterday morning, hours after Mariano Rivera closed out the 2009 Fall Classic. The argument actually comes in a few [...]
The New York Week that Was (World Series Edition) »
Finally! The waiting is over! After nine long years without a title, the Yankees are champs once again. Nobody suffers like the Yankee faithful. Think of the toll all those championship-less years have taken on an eight-year-old Yankee fan who’s never seen his favorite team win. After overcoming the curse of Danny Cater by winning it all in [...]
New York Yankee Memories: 27 Things I’ll »
As everyone knows, the 2009 New York Yankees have won the World Series. Now that they finally have 27 World Titles, here are 27 things I have learned and will remember and take with me from this past season. 27— It was cool to call Nick Swisher “Nick at Nite” when he hit a home run during a night game. Just one of the many nicknames I [...]
New York Yankees: Why It’s OK For Them To »
The New York Yankees have been called many things. Although most of these nick-names are caused by jealousy or envy, (of their record amount of Championships, or perhaps of them playing in the greatest city in the world), there is one fact that all these Yankee-haters always seem to state to justify their opinion: they have the most money to [...]
27 Ways To Piss Off Yankee Haters »
As you can already guess from the title of this article, I am a fan of the New York Yankees. And because I am a fan of the Bronx Bombers, I am inclined to ask any non-Yankee fans this question: "And how was YOUR Wednesday night?" Mine was AWESOME and thank you for asking! So many Yankee fans are writing about how elated they are that their team [...]
Matsui’s World Series MVP Award Important for »
We’ve seen what they have done in the Little League World Series. We’ve seen what they’ve done in the Olympics and World Baseball Classic. Relatively recently, we’ve been able to see what they can do in a full 162-game season, traveling day after day across a country substantially bigger than their own. Finally, we’ve seen what one of [...]