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That’s Better
If last night the Yankees appeared sluggish, tonight they played like one would expect the defending World Series champions to play against a team more than ten games under .500 in the first month of the baseball season.
The Yankees scored early, often, and even though CC Sabathia did not pitch as sharply as one may have wished, the Orioles never seemed to be in this game.
A couple...
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April 28, 2010
Discuss
Losing to the Orioles begs for Optimism
Last night’s game might have been one of the most sloppy Yankee games I’ve seen in recent memory. Thus, for my sanity, as much as anything else, here are some reasons to back away from the GWB:
CC starts today.
Teixeira had a hit last night!
A-Rod would have tied the game if Julio Lugo wasn’t so out of position! (yes, I know I’m stretching)
Hughes had nothing...
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April 28, 2010
About Twitter and MLB
[Caveat: This story is still developing. Recommend reading this post from Fang's Bites for background info, and updates.]
This evening, news broke that MLB.com is now preventing their writers from tweeting anything non-baseball related.
I wish I could adequately put into words how much that this policy, if true, is quite simply the wrong way to go.
I’ll try to put this...
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April 27, 2010
In Which I compare A-Rod to the Lord of the Rings. Sort of.
Today, the Yankees did as is long standing tradition for the winners of any major American sports championship, and visited the White House.
It was all very much golly-gee amusement for the fans (the heartwarming part happened earlier, when the players went to visit the vets at Walter Reed), the type of feel-good, we-rule-the-world thing that has us living vicariously through multi...
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April 26, 2010
PBP Live Chat: April Showers (Bring Yankee Flowers)
April Showers
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April 26, 2010
Javy, We Have a Problem
Hypothesis: The early season struggles of Javier Vazquez are magnified because of his second half of 2004 and those frustrations, and because the rest of the Yankee starting pitching staff has been performing so well in early 2010.
Through four starts, Vazquez’s numbers are not pretty.
He does not have a single quality start, and hasn’t completed six innings pitched...
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April 25, 2010
In Which I get My Stats Geek On About Andy
Early season statistics can be funky.
For example, right now, the league leader in ERA is…Livan Hernandez? Huh? (Mike Pelfrey and Carlos Silva also make the top ten, along with the names you’d be more expectant to find there, such as Halladay, Lincecum, and Wainwright).
So, as I’m sure you, the astute fan you are, know that it’s not really a great idea to put too much into...
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April 24, 2010
Roger Maris and the Perfect Media Storm
A lot today is made of new media, of bloggers and social networks, and the death of traditional journalism.
After reading Roger Maris: Baseball’s Reluctant Hero by Tom Clavin and Danny Peary, I am left wondering if, perhaps, that notion isn’t perhaps a little misguided.
Perhaps what has changed in recent years has more to do with platform and access–more writers...
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April 23, 2010
Bad First hurts Yankees
It’s not often that CC Sabathia pitches a complete game, the Yankees turn a triple play, get two home runs…and then lose the game, but that is what happened this afternoon.
Sabathia struggled in the first, walking two before giving up a bomb to Kurt Suzuki, and though the score remained close, the Yankees were never able to muster anything off of A’s starter Dallas...
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April 22, 2010
Philling Hella Good
7.1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 10 K (101-70)
I don’t know about you, but if I see that line from any of my team’s starters, I’ll be happy. From the fifth starter? You’d better believed I’d be stoked.
Tonight’s game story is simple: Phil Hughes dominated.
After walking Daric Barton in the first, Hughes did not let another Oakland batter reach base...
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April 22, 2010
Yankees Score Seven Runs on Five Hits….and 10 Walks
(Brief recap because it’s 2 AM and I want to sleep)
Just call them the Gods of OBP.
In Oakland tonight (err, this morning?), the Yankees managed a 7-3 win over the Athletics with only five hits–but they were helped by their ten walks.
Yankees’ starter Javier Vazquez was spotted a three run lead before he even threw a pitch; although Vazquez was not particularly...
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April 21, 2010
90% of this book is Half Mental
It’s not often that a bookaholic like myself can take a 166 page book, read it in two hours, and then decide it’s the best read I’ve had in months, if not more.
Emma Span’s 90% of the Game is Half Mental, is such that book.
Perhaps it’s because I find myself identifying with Ms. Span in quite a few areas:
1) We’re both female New York baseball...
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April 20, 2010
Update on Bernie Williams Concert Ticket Giveaway
Well, as it turns out, none of our contest entrants are able to attend Thursday’s show.
If you’d still like a chance at the tickets, just leave a comment with your email address.
First commenter gets the tickets!
That’s all there is to it, I promise!
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April 19, 2010
(The best thing about the Yankees is that they’ll get better)
Of all Major League teams, thus far, the Yankees rank just twelfth (as of this writing) in hits.
That’s almost as middle-of-the-pack as you can get, given the thirty teams in the league over all. Not all that remarkable, one would think–certainly, one might expect a team which hits so, well, averagely, to be closer to the middle of the pack in the standings.
If, however...
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April 18, 2010
This is why I watch baseball
After watching the Yankees play a very nice, very solid game against the Rangers, I turn on the Mets game to do as any good Yankee fan does, and root for the opposition.
That game is still, somehow, almost incompetently, scoreless in the sixteenth inning when someone mentions that Ubaldo Jimenez is pitching a no-hitter for the Rockies.
So I hit the mlb.tv tab on my computer, put...
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April 17, 2010
Bernie Williams Concert Ticket Giveaway!
On April 22, Bernie Williams will be performing at the Bergen County Performing Arts Center–and I’ve got two tickets to give away!
I’m gonna run an itty bitty contest here, and the winner will have his/her tickets waiting at Will Call at BCPAC.
Here’s the deal:
I have, in my apartment, exactly one signed piece of baseball memorabilia. The first person to...
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April 16, 2010
Of Grandmas and Groundbreakers
A little over a month and a half ago, I sat in the dining room at a fancy Boca Raton country club, and over pizza and steamers, heard my grandmother talk about watching the Brooklyn Dodgers in their glory days. I heard about cutting class to see the team win in 1941–and seeing her teachers at the game, about watching Pee Wee Reese and Roy Campenella, and, of course, Jackie...
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April 15, 2010
No humor like baseball humor…
(via YouTube)
You’ve probably seen this video by now, but some things bear repeating…
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April 11, 2010
No-No on the No-Nos
Because I have seen so little baseball this season, I don’t realize that CC Sabathia is in the middle of attempting a no-hitter (or, as it were at the time, perfect game) until I casually check Twitter and see someone say something about the P-word.
As soon as I see it, my stomach lurches.
I’m not a baseball player, manager or broadcaster, but I believe, with all my being...
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April 10, 2010
Not the update you want
Not a postgame report, not an update in which I do much analysis or make my opinion on a matter known or even wax poetical.
Just a post to let you know that I’m attending to a family issue and will return when I can.
Hope to be back soon.
Go Yankees!
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April 07, 2010
When Opening Day is Not Opening Day
Opening Day is not Opening Day.
Opening day is when you cut class and go watch your favorite players in action, finally, once again.
Opening Day is when everything in the world is good.
Opening Day is when you feel alive again.
This year, it’s different.
This year, I spend Opening Night on my grandmother’s porch, reminiscing with my cousins about childhood memories, about...
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April 04, 2010
Yanks acquire Jason Heyward
In late-breaking news that is sure to rattle the baseball world, the Yankees have acquired Jason Heyward (OF) from the Braves for the price of one Joba Chamberlain and one…it pains me to write this…Jesus Montero.
While the Yankees have not yet DFA’d Randy Winn or Marcus Thames, they can likely be expected to do so fairly soon.
More can be found at the source, linked...
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March 31, 2010
Yanks to get their rings on 4/1413
This via TMZ (yes, that tmz):
The New York Yankees better clear out some space in their jewelry boxes — TMZ has learned the team will be getting their World Series rings on April 13th … when they play the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
We’re told the design of the ring is being kept a secret — but we can only imagine they’ll be even more ridiculous...
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March 27, 2010
Smoke and Mirrors
[This is going to be a very odd juxtaposition given my last post, and some of you may even accuse me of treason, of a sort, but the question did arise, and after giving some thought to it, it's a point that needs to be discussed]
Today’s inevitable Joba/Hughes debate, and the resulting arguments, one might come to realize, beg a question that’s much larger than who...
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March 25, 2010
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