Here is a video of the Yankees meeting President Barack Obama at the White House in front of an absolutely packed house yesterday. The video starts with a speech from Obama, in which he said nothing but great things about the team.
The Yankees manager Joe Girardi then presented Obama with a signed no. 27 jersey.
They didn’t give him no. 44 because it is retired in honor of Reggie Jackson. Obama shook hands with everyone, and they posed for a group photo.
A photo of the event is also posted ...
Like Carlos Zambrano, big-time pitchers Justin Verlander, Jake Peavy, and Josh Beckett are off to awful starts. They are not alone. Names like Jon Lester, Aaron Harang, Javier Vazquez, Chad Billingsley, and Jeremy Bonderman join them on this list of the top ten worst pitchers in 2010.
Virtually all of these pitchers have two things in common. They were expected to be aces, stoppers, shutdown grinders, strike-one dealers. They are all disappointing.
Let’s take a look at how bad they all really are, see if they’re improving, and ask ourselves:
Is this just ...
The New York Yankees will wrap up their nine-game road trip with a three-game series against the Baltimore Orioles.
It’s been a start to forget for Baltimore so far this season, as they sport a 3-16 record after their first 19 games.
Baltimore’s offense is mostly to blame, as they’ve averaged only a measly 3.26 runs per game, which is good for the worst mark in the majors.
There have been some bright spots for the O’s, though, as veteran infielder Ty Wigginton has gotten off to a hot start (.327/.410/.712) and young ...
President Barack Obama honored the Yankees this afternoon for their achievement last year. The Yankees won the World Series by making the Twins, Angels, and the Phillies look out of their league.
In other words, it was a mismatch. These three teams were powerless to stop the Yankees. It's hard to believe this year will be any different.
Obama spewed cliches about heroics and character when talking about the year the Yankees had. Is he kidding?
For one thing, heroics should not be associated when it comes to baseball players. It's not a ...
The media has found another reason to rip Alex Rodriguez.
Out of all New York Yankees, A-Rod is the slowest to round the bases after a homerun. The Wall Street Journal recently published its findings after examining the homerun trots from 2009 and through the start of this year. What did they find? The following is their graph of the average trot times:
A-Rod requires 24.9 seconds to round the bases, while Derek Jeter needs 20.2 seconds. Take a Number determined the statistics by averaging the home-run trots for each ...
The New York Yankees were greeted with open arms by President Barack Obama at the White House. The last time the Yankees visited the president at the White House, Bill Clinton was in office and Barack Obama was a nobody on his way to stardom.
Now the two are at the top of their leagues.
The Yankees have won all but one of their series so far since winning the big one in October. Barack Obama is doing well in office, and his hard work with health care looks to be paying ...
Yankee Stadium will always be the baseball capital of the world.
It separates itself from the pack in so many ways: roll call, history, noise, and most of all, Monument Park.
Being carved in Yankee stone is an honor that rivals the Hall of Fame.
Only 25 Yankees (26, including Jackie Robinson) have found their faces on Baseball's Mount Rushmore, but that number is sure to grow.
Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Lou Gehrig, and Joe DiMaggio are just a few of the legends carved into Yankee history.
So now lets take a look at the ...
The Yankees are off to a great start at 12-6, but that record is primarily in spite of their offseason moves, not because of them.
New York made two big trades this past winter, while swapping out two free agents for two new ones.
Let's see how those moves are working out three weeks into the season.
Curtis Granderson for Austin Jackson, Ian Kennedy, and Phil Coke
The Yankees acquired Granderson in a three-team deal that sent top outfield prospect Jackson to Detroit along with lefty reliever Coke, as well as starter Kennedy to ...
Yesterday I wrote that New York Yankees hurler Javier Vazquez could turn around the fans that weren’t on his side with a pair of strong performances this week.
He needed a win Sunday to soften the home fans leading up to his next home start this Saturday, but instead he’s only given the boo-birds more ammunition and probably even recruited more fans to their side.
So get ready, because his next start in Yankee Stadium is going to be ugly.
Vazquez will probably turn his season around eventually, but so far we’ve seen ...
It’s April 26, and the Yankees have dropped their first series of the season—not bad.
The problem is that for the second time in a week the team’s manager, Joe Girardi, has made a couple of questionable moves that may have cost the Yankees the game.
First Questionable Move
The first one may be his insistence on using Marcus Thames as the starting left fielder when the Yankees face lefties. Thames has actually done a great job mashing lefties so far with a .500 average and a 1.523 OPS, but the problem is ...