Throughout baseball history, there have been a number of memorable positional rivalries that have unfolded within broader team battles. The 1950's in New York come to mind, when Duke Snider , Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays were all playing center field for their respective clubs. The Yankees also featured Phil Rizzutto while Brooklyn had Pee Wee Reese at shortstop. Bar room arguments raged. Since the...
Jorge Posada has played for the Yankees since 1995, and started since 1998. He is a popular player, and as he approaches the end of his career, some noise is being made about electing him to the Hall of Fame. But does he deserve it? Is Jorge Posada a future Hall of Famer? Added by: PeteSchiller Viewed: 0 time(s) Tags/Keywords: baseball featured hall fame sabermetrics biz mackey jorge posada josh gibson...
FYI, The Yankees do really well with a Democratic President: Since winning the 1958 World Series when Republican Dwight Eisenhower was president, all nine of the Yankees’ titles have come under Democratic administrations — 1961, 1962, 1977, 1978, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2009. This bodes well for the Yankees for at least the next three seasons. Dave's interview with Derek Jeter, Andy...
Just a quick observation on the contrast between sporting appreciation in America and other sports around the world. This year we have seen an ecstatic Andrew Strauss lift the hallowed little urn of the Ashes, the captain of Man Utd lift whatever cups they won this year and never did we see any owners or Chairmen anywhere near the podium. Imagine the feeling of the English public if the often vilified...
I wrote a piece for The Faster Times about what I saw at the parade. Check out the article - and great photos, courtesy of William Helms, a fellow Yankee fan, here . It's strange not having Yankee games to watch! Still can't quite believe the season is over, and that it ended so successfully? After all the misery of the past few years, it's pretty joyous. Have lots of Yankee-related stuff I want as...
More photos » by Bill Kostroun - AP 3 months ago: Boston Red Sox batter Jason Varitek heads back to the dugout after striking out to end the second inning of a baseball game Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009 at Yankee Stadium in New York. Yankees catcher Jorge Posada is at left and home plate umpire Bill Miller, right, signals the strikeout. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun) Browse more photos » Per NESN : NESN...
A short note here on Buster Olney's key matchups from the World Series and how they worked out. These are the factors Olney identified as most important in the Series (and which The Monk discussed on 10-28). (1) T he Yankees' hitters against Cliff Lee's frantic pace . Lee wins. The Yanks solved this in the 7th inning of Game 5, but Lee had a 6-1 lead then. He was the only Phils pitcher the Yanks struggled...
Just in case you've forgotten by now, the Yankees won the World Series five days ago, prompting a veritable avalanche of parades, media appearances, and attendance at professional basketball games. First, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, and Andy Pettitte visited Dave...
The head of my school was kind enough to grab a blaster box of these Goodwin Champions in her recent visit to the US of A. I had asked for Goodwins or Allen+Ginter, I even wrote it on a post-it note, for fear of receiving another fat pack of Upper Deck. If you observe my recent posting here, you will notice that English people visiting the US gravitate towards Upper Deck and more specifically the 'Fat...
Dave Letterman welcomes World Series champions, Yankee’s captain Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and World Series MVP Hideki Matsui on his show for some laughs. The Yankee players sat down with Dave Thursday (Nov. 5), the night before their congratulatory ticket tape parade in NYC, after beating the Philadelphia Phillies to win their 27th World Series [...]
PHILADELPHIA – All those meetings on the mound called by catcher Jorge Posada and the New York Yankees are giving Major League Baseball pause, too. Posada and pals visited pitcher CC Sabathia eight times — in a single inning — on Sunday night, grinding Game 4 of the World Series to a standstill. Agitated Phillies fans booed each trip. MLB vice president of umpiring Mike Port said
NEW YORK – If the knock against Yankees manager Joe Girardi is that he's been overmanaging his way through his first postseason, well, let's put it this way: At least he's got plenty of help. Girardi has enough computer programs to make stat geeks envious and the best scouting department money can buy. A binder chock-full with matchups and color-coded charts is never more than an arm's reach
More photos » by Jason DeCrow - AP Baseball fans cheer and take photographs of the New York Yankees during a ticker-tape parade along Broadway celebrating their 27th World Series championship on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, in New York. Browse more photos » Putting aside his reporter hat in favor of being a dad for the day, Tyler Kepner of the New York Times took his 7-year-old son to Friday's...
Philadelphia sports fans are taught from a very early age to despise all other teams -- and their own, too. So Yankee-hating has always seemed weird to me. I can understand why Red Sox fans hate the Yanks. They are rivals for the same prize each year. I can see why Mets hate the Yanks. Being a perennial number two in the same racket in the same town can blot the sunshine out of life. Take it from a...
PHILADELPHIA – Time out! Jorge Posada pops out of his crouch, stands up in the catcher's box and raises both arms above his head. Hang on, everybody. He's going to need a minute to chat with his pitcher. And then, here it comes ... BOO!! Restless fans, jeering loud enough to hear all over Philadelphia. "I don't care," Posada said. "It's just a big situation. Every time I got out
PHILADELPHIA – All those meetings on the mound called by catcher Jorge Posada and the New York Yankees are giving Major League Baseball pause, too. Posada and pals visited pitcher CC Sabathia eight times — in a single inning — on Sunday night, grinding Game 4 of the World Series to a standstill. Agitated Phillies fans booed each trip. MLB vice president of umpiring Mike Port said frequent mound meetings...
NEW YORK – If the knock against Yankees manager Joe Girardi is that he's been overmanaging his way through his first postseason, well, let's put it this way: At least he's got plenty of help. Girardi has enough computer programs to make stat geeks envious and the best scouting department money can buy. A binder chock-full with matchups and color-coded charts is never more than an arm's reach away....
PHILADELPHIA – Time out! Jorge Posada pops out of his crouch, stands up in the catcher's box and raises both arms above his head. Hang on, everybody. He's going to need a minute to chat with his pitcher. And then, here it comes ... BOO!! Restless fans, jeering loud enough to hear all over Philadelphia. "I don't care," Posada said. "It's just a big situation. Every time I got out there, it was big."...
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