With the best record in baseball through the 1st half of the season, the defending champion New York Yankees look to be in prime position to make a run at their 2nd World Series Championship in as many years.
On the streets there are rumblings of the return of the, "Dynasty."
Years 1996 - 2000 hold a special place for every Yankee fan. To this day, I can remember the entire starting line up of the '96 Yankees, but I can't do multiplication to save my life.
I am sure many Yankee ...
Currently, Alex Rodriguez has 597 home runs, and he is only three away from his milestone 600th. Upon hitting number 600, A-Rod will join the exclusive club which contains only six members: Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Willy Mays, Ken Griffey Jr., and Sammy Sosa.
600 home runs is a lot of home runs, and for a player to reach that career total clearly is a big deal. Yet, I feel like not very many people at all are mentioning the fact that A-Rod is only three home runs away ...
I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. —George Steinbrenner
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner passed away at the age of 80 this week. When one thinks of "The Boss," numerous associations come to mind. Managerial firings, suspensions from baseball, illegal campaign contributions and his Seinfeld caricature.
Yet his lasting legacy will undoubtedly be related to free-agent spending.
In his tenure looking after the Bronx Bombers, Steinbrenner disbursed over $1.8 billion on baseball's best, committed to fielding the best roster only money could buy.
To put that figure in perspective, the nearest ...
The second half of the Yankees 2010 season begins tonight.
The run towards another playoff appearance for the defending World Series Champions also begins tonight too.
While the offense and the starting pitching have been outstanding, the bullpen of the Yankees hasn't been very good (outside of Mariano Rivera, of course).
I made a suggestion for the Yankees to trade for Octavio Dotel. A lot of you didn't really agree or want to go for it. I have seen other teams interested in Dotel, but not the Yankees.
George King of the New York ...
The Bronx Bombers are in first place in the AL East with the best record in baseball heading into the second half of the season, which starts tonight versus the second place Tampa Bay Rays.
But there are several Yankees who aren't in the New York Groove quite yet and need to pick up the slack as the season moves into the second half.
By no means do the Yankees absolutely "need" these players to improve in order to win the division, obviously they are already in first place, but if the ...
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 conversation:
Accountant: "Here are your options, Hal. You can keep the team, deal with the day-to-day headaches of running a major sports enterprise, inhale your ...
Alex Rodriguez is currently three home runs from becoming the seventh member of the elite 600 Home Run Club.
Given the magnitude of the home run and the value of the ball, we at SeatGeek (http://SeatGeek.com) became particularly interested in where A-Rod's 600th ball will land.
We teamed up with Hit Tracker (http://HitTrackerOnline.com), a company that tracks the trajectory of every home run hit in the MLB, to determine not only which sections at Yankee Stadium have the highest probability of the ball landing there, but also the actual seat in ...
The All-Star Game is still being played like it doesn’t count, which makes it extra boring.
So these past couple of days seem, to me at least, like the slowest days of the summer.
The Yankees are back tonight though as they start the second half off in a big way against the Tampa Rays.
Here are some notes.
Tune in at 6:45pm today so you don’t miss the pre-game ceremonies for both George Steinbrenner and Bob Sheppard.
Sheppard’s funeral was yesterday and none of the Yankees bothered to show up for it.
Here ...
Allow me to introduce you to two mystery pitchers, Player A and Player B.
In their last eight starts, dating back to the beginning of June, both pitchers have been very good. Player A has been all but impossible to beat, having completed almost every game he's started, and going fewer than eight innings only once, when he went seven. He almost never walks anyone, generally keeps the ball in the yard, strikes batters out...everything you could want in a pitcher.
Player B, while ...
The New York Yankees enter the second half of the 2010 MLB season with the best record in the league and to much to complain about other than the inconsistent bullpen.
Throughout the first half the Yankees received the usual production from players like CC Sabathia, Andy Pettitte , Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and Jorge Posada. They also got some surprise performances from guys like Nick Swisher and Brett Gardner.
Robinson Cano is having an MVP-type season so far, and the Yankees will surely hope he can continue ...