Daniel Boone the Peace Tree, Thanksgiving Story, and the Aaron Burr Story
crashburnalley.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Per MLB Trade Rumors, here is the list of free agent third basemen: Rich Aurilia (38) Brian Barden (29) Adrian Beltre (31) - Type B Wilson Betemit (28) Aaron Boone (37) Craig Counsell (39) Joe Crede (32) Bobby Crosby (30) Mark DeRosa (35) - Type B Pedro Feliz (35) - $5MM club option with a $500K buyout Chone Figgins (32) - Type B Nomar Garciaparra (36) Troy Glaus [...]
Another Cubs Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This is an old-school matchup: Pedro v Pettite. These two have never faced each other in the postseason, though their respective teams at the times (Yankees, Red Sox) faced each other in the ALCS in 99 and 2003 in some of the most dramatic postseason series in history. Let’s take a look at their numbers from those years 1999 : 1999 was Pedro’s best season, and (probably, since I’m...
Red Reporter (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
90. Greasy Neale Played as Red Primary Position Career Rank Peak Rank Prime Rank 1916-22, 1924 RF, LF 94 95 73 Percent Breakdown of Value Best Season Best player on Reds Hit Field Pitch 1919 Never 80% 20% 0% Awards/Honors as a Red Leading the League On the Reds Leaderboard N/A N/A -15th in career sacrifice hits -20th in career hit by pitch -28th in career triples -32nd in career stolen bases -50th...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Ah, Bill Simmons aka ESPN's The Sports Guy . To know him is to either love him or hate him. To those that love him, his constant pop-culture riffs and irreverent takes on today's athletes make him seem like one of us: a fan. To those that would rather see him deleted from ESPN's archives, he's a Boston sports homer whose schtick has long since worn thin. Us? We love the guy. While his writing occasionally...
The Dreamcast Junkyard (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Happy Halloween from the Dreamcast Junkyard! Thought we forgot? Of course we did....n't. Reader Aaron Boone reminded us in the comments section of the last post that there wasn't a Halloween post, so now I've made one. Aaron also pointed to last year's Halloween post: Dreamcast Games to Play on Halloween . To continue that tradition, here are a few more Dreamcast games to play on Halloween (I've got...
Purple Row (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
More photos » by Wilfredo Lee - AP This guy had a more impressive comeback than the ToddFather? Browse more photos » If I were Troy Tulowitzki , I would listen a great deal more when Derek Jeter talks about me than, say, when Jay Mariotti spouts off on Around the Horn. Peers> MSM. Hence the honor of the Players' Choice Awards, voted on by fellow players. Tulo was indeed on the ballot...
FishStripes (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
The players get together and vote on the MLBPA Player Choice Awards and some of the Marlins are up for the various awards . National League: Outstanding Player: Prince Fielder (Milwaukee), Albert Pujols (St. Louis), Hanley Ramirez (Florida) Outstanding Pitcher: Chris Carpenter (St. Louis), Tim Lincecum (San Francisco), Adam Wainwright (St. Louis) Outstanding Rookie: Chris Coghlan (Florida), Tommy Hanson...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
PHILADELPHIA -- Wherever Joe Torre went when his team arrived at Citizen's Bank Park on Saturday, he saw it. When he went to the weight room, it was on the treadmill. When he went to his office, it was cued up on the television on his desk. If Torre had successfully blocked out his Yankees' 2004 American League Championship Series collapse to the Red Sox, Dodgers first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, a...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
PHILADELPHIA -- Wherever Joe Torre went when his team arrived at Citizen's Bank Park on Saturday, he saw it. When he went to the weight room, it was on the treadmill. When he went to his office, it was cued up on the television on his desk. If Torre had successfully blocked out his Yankees' 2004 American League Championship Series collapse to the Red Sox, Dodgers first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, a...
SI.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
PHILADELPHIA -- Wherever Joe Torre went when his team arrived at Citizen's Bank Park on Saturday, he saw it. When he went to the weight room, it was on the treadmill. When he went to his office, it was cued up on the television on his desk. If Torre had successfully blocked out his Yankees' 2004 American League Championship Series collapse to the Red Sox, Dodgers first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz, a...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Yesterday in the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse, Joe Torre was managing the Yankees. The images flickering across a smattering of suspended TVs showed the 2003 playoffs: Torre's New Yorkers were playing Boston in the American League Championship Series, and the Yankees' Aaron Boone was about to hit an 11th-inning home run in Game 7, sending Torre's old club to the World Series.
Pinstripe Alley (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
by Peter Morgan - AP It's go time. (Maybe.) View full size photo uploaded October 16, 2009 I guess this is what it's like in the 36th week of pregnancy. Irritable, irrational, and impatient. You're constantly governed by an "any minute now" state of mind. And when that moment finally does arrive, it just gets more chaotic...more emotionally and physically intense. Newborn. Rain. Same difference....
River Ave. Blues (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
As we await Game 1 of the 2009 ALCS, tonight marks the anniversary of the Yanks’ last American League title. Six years ago, Aaron Boone, an unlikely hero, launched a Tim Wakefield offering into the left field stands to to win one of the best Game 7’s of all time. While I enjoyed the game [...] Post from: River Ave. Blues A New York Yankees blog Six years later, Boone’s shot still...
MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
On this date six years ago, Aaron Boone ended the ALCS with an 11th inning home run off of Tim Wakefield. Yesterday we learned that Boone is likely to retire, ending his 12-year career. With this season's LCS underway, 26 teams are already in the Hot Stove season. Let's take a look at what is being written in the Blogosphere... Twins Geek examines the Twinkies '10 payroll. Jorge Says No! wonders if...
this blog is full of crap (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
I was not one of the bloggers cheering and rah-rahing over the Astros getting Aaron Boone. Just like Preston Wilson and Woody Williams, he was a man with a few good years, and then down down down down down down in a way that nobody could ignore. No wonder why the Astros picked him up off the discard pile. Congratulations to him on his recovery from heart surgery and making it back for a few games,...
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