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Every Yankee Flaw Being Exposed
The Yankees have a powerful roster.
The Yankees can score a ton of runs.
They have multiple H.O.F. future inductees on their roster. Beyond that, they have a lot of players that will go down in history as really good players if not Hall members. They are close to the best record in baseball and have held that position at various points throughout the year. The worst thing that can happen to them is that they will have to play a play-off game to get into the playoffs–if they lose every game for the rest of the season. How likely is that to happen? It would seem nigh onto impossible.
Posted in Opinion, Phillies, Pitchers, Players
Tagged AJ Burnett, Joe Girardi, Losing Streak, Phillies, Postseason Baseball, Yankees, Yankeesblog
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The Yanks lose 2 of 3 and I blame Cashman
I know I’ve been hammering Cashman all year and tonight’s not going to be any different. We lost this series and I know that there are injuries, but I blame Cashman. You know who made the last out of the game?
Curtis Granderson, he of the .250 batting average.
Guess who moved to the pen this week?
Javier Vazquez.
You remember him. I was killing the trade to get him two months ago and what was I told? I was told that it was way too early to judge that trade. What did we get out of that trade? Nothing.
I’m not too proud to say, “Well, I was right” or “I told you so.”
Posted in Javier Vazquez, Opinion, Yankees
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Dear Bud Selig, An Open Letter #3 on how to fix the MLB: Recruit Men Like Mark Cuban
Dear Bud,
This letter continues my thoughts for you on how we can save the MLB. I realized how timely these letters are this weekend. Think about how good things are going right now for baseball.
With the exception of the AL West all of the races are tight. The AL east is an absolute heavy weight fight. The Central is interesting and the whole NL has compelling story lines
and
yet
people aren’t watching. That’s annoying. It made me think that maybe we don’t need to fix baseball but we might need to tweak the MLb a little bit more, which of course, is what these letters are about. To this point we’ve covered two fairly simple possibilities:
Posted in Media, Open Letters To Bud Selig, Opinion, mlb
Tagged Baseball, Bud Selig, Mark Cuban, Ownership
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The Royals cost the Yankees big
The Yankees lose two out of three to the Royals. Let me repeat that, the Yankees lost two out of three to the ROYALS!!!
This one should be filed under the, “this should never happen category.” Sure, they still own first place but coming off the debacle that was the trip in Texas, the Yanks need to put away teams like the Royals.
When you get down to the end of the season, you don’t want the difference between you and the other team coming down to the fact that they beat the bad teams and you didn’t. There are AAA teams that could be the Royals.
Posted in Opinion, Yankees
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1 More Reason I’m Going to Boycott the NFL
I’m boycotting the NFL this year. No fantasy football. No pick ‘em. No purchases of clothing or hats. I refuse to give the NFL one red cent of my money. I’ve got a long list of reasons why. The important thing to understand here is that I’m not calling for you to boycott them; it’s just a personal thing for me.
You’re probably wondering what this had to do with baseball or the Yankees. Well, I have it on good authority that one of the vendors for the Jets is a big Yankee fan and a reader of this blog so there’s the connection. Besides the tag line says, blogging all things Yankees, baseball and life. 
Dear Bud Selig, Letter #2
This is a series of posts written as open letters to Bud Selig. The point is to throw out some proactive ideas on how to “fix” major league baseball.
Dear Bud,
Thanks for continuing to read my letters. It’s been quite a few weeks. I mean, Jeter passes the Babe, A-Rod hits 600, poor Tony LaRussa gets picked on for playing baseball the right way all these years (it’s not really his fault that Mac was putting stuff in his pooper to get stronger). I’m not a big LaRussa fan. Talk about a guy that has his priorities screwed up!
Berkman, A-Rod and Burnett
So I’m starting to like Lance Berkman less and less. The Yankees won a good one today. they dealt with the Red Sux as you would think they should.
But A-Rod didn’t play. Why, you ask? Because Berkman hit him during batting practice. Now, we could blame Joe Buck. The story goes as I understand it that A0Rod was sauying hi to Buck when Berkman hit the ball. Then he rolled around clutching his calf.
Could you imagine if this happened before #600?
Girardi Makes His Case for Boneheaded Move of the Year Award
Sometimes, you can just be too daggone smart for your own good. The Yankees proved that tonight, losing to the Red Sox 6-3.
Now there was nothing in the game per se that supports my argument. Well, besides the fact that Javier Vazquez was pitching in a big game and I’ve been killing his inability to pitch in big games so there’s no need to stop now. I know, I know he hasn’t been that bad most of the season.
Posted in Javier Vazquez, Opinion, Red Sox, Trades, Yankees
Tagged Joe Girardi, Jorge Posada, Red Sox, Rivalry, Yankees
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Trade Deadline Thoughts. It’s about potential
So the trade deadline has come and gone. The Yankees were extremely active. But are they better than they were two weeks ago?
The simple answer is yes. We’re certainly not worse. Every player we got, we got for a song and a dance. I actually heard a guy on the radio today moaning and complaining about the unfairness of the Yankees situation.
Here’s the thing, Berkman, Kearns, and Wood are not the players most people probably think of when they first hear the names. They are serviceable. They will do steady work. They may even get really hot at some point in the next three months. But they don’t make the Yankees significantly better. What these acquisitions do more than anything else is keep these players off of the Rays and Red Sox.
Posted in Opinion, Yankees
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Dear Bud. An open letter to address the issues of change for MLB. Alternately titled: If I were commissioner
This is a series of posts written as open letters to Bud Selig. The point is to throw out some proactive ideas on how to “fix” major league baseball.
Dear Mr. Selig,
I don’t really feel comfortable calling you Bud yet, but that might change. This letter is the first in a series of letters in an attempt to open a dialogue about how we can fix MLB. Let me be honest, I make a huge distinction between baseball and MLB.
Baseball as a game is just fine. It’s a beautiful game that moves like a wonderful sensual dance.
Posted in Media, Opinion, mlb
Tagged Baseball, Bud Selig, CBS sports, ESPN, FoxSports, Jason Stark, Ken Rosenthall, mlb, Sports Media
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