Archive for the ‘Yankees’ Category
Friday, November 28th, 2008
Ever since Mike Mussina announced his retirement last week bloggers, talking heads and real journalists alike have all been asking the same question. Is Mike Mussina a Hall of Famer?
This is a tough one for me considering that I am somewhat biased as a Yankee fan... albiet a Yankee fan who was ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
OK... I'm a little late with this... but then again, I'm not really known to break news so who cares. As many of you probably already know, the Yankees acquired Nick Swisher from the Chicago White Sox along with minor league reliever Kanekoa Texiera for Wilson Betemit, Jeff Marquez and ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
New commercial for Guitar Hero featuring A-Rod, Kobe, Michael Phelps and Tony Hawk getting their inner rock on. Kobe steals the show in this one... no word on whether Madonna had anything to do with A-Rod's performance.
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Congratulations to Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter who passed sports icon Babe Ruth for second place on the Yankees all time hit list last night. Jeter's single in the first inning of Los Angeles Angels starter Ervin Santana was the 2,519th hit of his Hall of Fame career putting him one ...
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
This comes as no surprise...world renowned windbag Curt Schilling is up to his old lip flapping tricks again. This time he takes a shot at fans of New York area sports teams as well as the Yankees.
The main topic of discussion was Tom Brady's knee injury, which prompted Schilling to ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
As the Yankees play out the string for the first time since 1993, the New York media and the team's die hard fans have been starting to speculate as to what the team will do in the off-season in order to ensure a return to the playoffs in 2009. One of ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Despite the fact that the Yankees pulled one out against the Red Sox this afternoon, 3-2, the likelihood of the team making the playoffs for the 14th straight season is slim to none after losing two out of three to Boston in a series that many felt the Yanks had to ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Yankees week continued on Tuesday as my father, brother, sister and I ventured down to the Bronx to catch the opening game of the final Yankees-Red Sox series at Yankee Stadium. Despite my love for Chicago and high praise for Baltimore, nothing compares to the energy of New York City...especially the energy ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Hit up B-More this weekend to catch the last game of the Yanks, O's series. This was my first time travelling to Baltimore and also my first trip to Camden Yards. I have to say that both were equally impressive.
My father, his girlfriend, my brother, sister and I flew down to Baltimore from ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Image via the NY Daily News.
Frustrated with their slide in the standings over the last few weeks, the Yankees shook things up this week by sending their starting center fielder, Melky Cabrera, to the minors and releasing mid-season pick up Richie Sexon. The Yanks recalled speedster Brett Gardner to replace Melky and ...
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