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New York Yankees: Genius Joe Girardi At It Again »
Back in the day, there was a pro wrestler who went by the moniker of The Genius. You may remember him.As you could guess, The Genius' entire shtick was centered around his (supposed) immense level of intelligence. He wore a academic cap and graduation gown to the ring and mocked the audience with derogatory poems about the area in which their [...]
New York Yankees: Lance Berkman Gets Noticed For Wrong »
Had old George still been around, the incident clearly would have led to a public flogging, and maybe, even an old-fashioned water boarding, military aficionado that "The Boss" was.Instead, the batting-practice liner Lance Berkman sent off Alex Rodriguez's shin was nothing more than a cringe-worthy incident and a succinct summary of Berkman's [...]
Making Sense of Alex Rodriguez and No. 600 »
Alex Rodriguez hit a home run yesterday. You may have heard about it. He's now done this 600 times since entering the Major Leagues. Only six other players have hit that many home runs, which makes it a nearly unparalleled individual achievement in a 141-year-old game defined by individual achievement. This should be a really big deal, but it's [...]
New York Yankees: Buckled Up for Turbulence in the »
If you want a tidy little starting point for this current Yankee slide, let us travel back to the salad days of pre-trade deadline baseball. Crude oil was shooting uncontrollably into a major body of water, Lindsay Lohan was incarcerated by the state of California, and everyone thought that Bill Cosby was a corpse. It was a more innocent time. [...]
Tracking the Cash: Brian Cashman’s Yankees Moves »
Brian Cashman was a lowly intern when he joined the Yankees organization in 1986, but he proved skillful at climbing the most slippery corporate ladder in professional sports. Cashman was named general manager of the club in 1998, and under his watch the Yankees have captured six American League pennants and four World Series titles. The [...]
New York Yankees: Joba Chamberlain Reaching Point of »
Last July, I wrote a story titled "Joba Chamberlain for Roy Halladay: Would You Pull the Trigger? " I did this with a straight face. There were no drugs in my system at the time. It seems laughable now, but there was logic to it in the salad days of 2009. Chamberlain's breakout 2007 season was still somewhat fresh, and he had shown enough [...]
New York Yankees: Bench Still Needs Reinforcements »
Before Rick Pitino was best known for doing dirty, awful things to mid-western restaurant patrons, he was a well-respected college basketball coach. And before that, he was the coach of the Boston Celtics. Pitino's stay was brief (three-and-a-half seasons) and wholly ineffective (102-146 record, zero postseason berths), but he did leave behind [...]
With George Steinbrenner Gone, Uncertainty Creeps Into »
We begin the season's second half tonight living in a post-Boss world, and I for one am a little uneasy about it. We heard from Hal Steinbrenner's people on Thursday that the family doesn't plan on selling the Yankees. But since Hal kind of looks like a bad guy from an Eighties ski movie, I'm not quite buying it just yet. A sample [...]
George Steinbrenner: The 10 Greatest Feuds »
George Steinbrenner owns the back pages of New York's tabloids one last time today, the day after his passing at the age of 80. Steinbrenner helped restore the Yankees to status as baseball's marquee team in his 37-year run as owner. His mercurial nature made him both a feared and respected presence and an easy target for lampooning. Above all, [...]
New York Yankees: Patience Wearing Thin Over Offense »
Let's get this out of the way up top: There's no shame in being shut down by Cliff Lee and Felix Hernandez in back-to-back nights. They are, arguably, two of the top five pitchers in the American League right now. If anyone should be ashamed, it's the Mariners, who are buried in last place despite having the best 1-2 starting rotation punch in [...]