Bud Selig has his own version of Health Care.
Realigning baseball.
It’s not a matter of if it’s coming, but when, and how different it will be from the current format. When it happens there will be praise and there will be criticism; it’s not going to be perfect, because nothing ever is.
But we as baseball fans, who knowingly philander with the game to the begrudging comments from our close relatives, must not be cynical about it.
We are in a modern world where technology and advancement are part of ...
Game six did not have the same feel early as game five, which had CC Sabathia going into the eighth inning with a no-hitter.
This time the Rays got on the board rather quickly, as they scored two runs in the first inning. The Yankees responded in the top of the second with a run of their own after a Curtis Granderson double.
After his shaky first, A.J. Burnett was nearly untouchable, but after five innings the score was still 2-1 Tampa.
Then came the top of the sixth. James Shields had ...
Remember CC Sabathia’s almost no-hitter? Just kidding—of course you do. It was one of the better pitching performances the Yankees have been on the right side of in a while.
Well, I found this article by Joe Henderson of The Tampa Tribune that says that good old Joe Girardi would have pulled the Yankees ace after Kelly Shoppach hit no matter what, no-hitter be damned.
CC’s response?
Sabathia grinned and said, “It would have been a good discussion.”
“It makes it easy now,” Sabathia said. “We would have been fighting up there ...
The Yankees have gotten off to a good start so far this season, as they opened up against two tough opponents, the Red Sox and Rays, but still managed to win two of three games from each team to open the season with a 4-2 record.
You try to win every series,” manager Joe Girardi said. “That’s our goal going in. I don’t think you can be satisfied being even. Some people might say you hung in on a tough road trip, but our goal was to win both ...
If this trend continues, maybe we should all just skip the first game of the series.
The Yankees started a three-game series with the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday night and wrapped it up on Sunday evening, with plenty of back and forth action in-between.
David Price started game one and went a career high seven and two thirds, with a whopping 111 pitches, which is considered a pretty big amount for a kid with as much upside as he does.
It was definitely the right move by Joe Maddon, as the ...
New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi has both his critics and his advocates.
If Kelly Shoppach hadn't broken up CC Sabathia's no-hitter with two outs in the eighth inning of yesterday's game between the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays, Girardi would have made a managerial move that could have converted many of his supporters.
He told ESPNNewYork's Wallace Matthews, "Shoppach was [CC's] last hitter, no matter what."
That translates to, "If CC had a no-hitter entering the ninth inning, I wouldn't have let him attempt to make history."
The reasoning? "You ...
After allowing two runs in the first inning, A.J. Burnett (1-0) rebounded to pitch six scoreless innings as New York topped Tampa Bay, 7-3, Sunday afternoon at Tropicana Field. The Yankees completed their season-opening road trip with a 4-2 record. They also improved to 11-4 in their last 15 games against Tampa Bay.After being shutout on Saturday, Tampa Bay immediately scored in the bottom of the first. Jason Bartlett led off with a single, stole second base, and scored on Carl Crawford’s RBI single to center. Crawford also stole second ...
The New York Yankees. Lord of their realm, with fans who let you know it.
Talking to a Yankee fan is generally an exercise in futility, since they are programmed to utter two basic phrases:
Phrase one: “Twenty-seven rings, baby”, or a something along that vein.
Phrase two: “(Fill in the blank) sucks”. This is where Yankee fans, demonstrating the high levels of intelligence that they garnered at PS 151 or wherever, voice the opinion that everyplace and everyone who is not from New York or a New Yorker or a Yankee fan ...
Brett Gardner had another great game in the New York Yankees' 10-0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday.
The only thing Gardner could not do was catch Kelly Shoppach's base hit to left field with two outs in the eighth inning that broke up C.C. Sabathia's bid for his first career no hitter.
It may have been academic anyway, since manager Joe Girardi has said since that Sabathia would not have gone back out for the ninth inning even with the no hitter still in place.
Girardi and pitching coach Dave Eiland ...
After scoring one game each of the first six days of the 2010 baseball season, Fantasy Baseball Insiders took on an even more impressive task on Saturday.
On a day full of exciting matchups, the Insiders scored three games from start to finish, making for the most in-depth update of the young season.
Previous Fantasy Baseball Insiders Tonight updates:
4/9: Rays’ David Price Beats Yankees In Season Debut
4/8: Blue Jays’ Vernon Wells Hits Fourth Homer In Three Games
4/7: Ray’s Evan Longoria Goes Deep Again
4/6: Orioles’ Adam Jones, ...