Yesterday’s Gone I’ve spent most of the past twenty-two years of my sports fandom with one team nearest and dearest to my heart. I’m not talking about the Yankees; by the standards of most fans I’m a front-running bandwagoneer. I’m talking about my original hometown NBA team, the Utah Jazz. The Jazz have made the …
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Two Games, Two Stories Given that it’s drunk and I’m late (tee hee), I’ll dispense with a full analysis of the Yanks-M’s series to date. Up 2-0 coming home from Seattle is a nice position to be in–certainly not enough to get giddy about (this ain’t Oakland, for those of you just tuning in), but …
Score one for the Old Guard The New York Yankees completed their comeback against the Oakland A’s in the AL Division Series Monday night, taking their third straight game from the A’s and coming from two runs down against the man who baffled them in the Series’ opening game. By now you know all this, …
Notes on a Playoff Weekend Between watching the games, reading about them, and writing about them, I’ve been so absorbed with the Yankees-A’s series (which I’ll get to in my next post) that I haven’t had a chance to say much here about the other three postseason series. Not that I saw all that many …
Still Open for Business The team they still call World Champions is in the house, y’all! The New York Yankees, whose dynasty was on the brink of crumbling a mere 72 hours ago, have evened their Division Series with the Oakland A’s in emphatic fashion. With literally no margin for error, they won a 1-0 …
(Sigh) Young A’s Rotation Pushing Old Yanks Around It didn’t take long for the Oakland A’s to push this year’s model of the New York Yankees to the brink of elimination. Quite simply, the A’s are beating the Yanks at their own game. Their hitters are using their discipline at the plate to work deep …
Yankees-A’s: Measuring the Rotations I don’t have enough time to do all of the in-depth analysis I’d like to regarding the playoff matchup between the Yankees and the A’s. But I did want to take a look at what is probably the series’ most important aspect, starting pitching. There’s a lot of talk about how …
Bye Bye Bauman With his 73rd dinger yesterday, Barry Bonds capped one of the most remarkable performances in baseball history. He set single-season records for Home Runs, Slugging Percentage (.863), Bases on Balls (177), and Home Run Percentage (15.34 per 100 At Bats). And don’t forget the share of the National League record for Extra …
A Good Day for Great Leftfielders It was a pretty eventful day yesterday for three of the best leftfielders ever to play the game: • Barry Bonds set a record, but it wasn’t the record he’s been gunning for, the single-season Home Run record. Bonds broke the major-league record for Bases on Balls in a season, …
Oh Rickey, What A Pity They Don’t Understand Against the backdrop of Barry Bonds’ quest to break Mark McGwire’s single-season Home Run record, Rickey Henderson’s own pursuit of a record hasn’t received much attention. But it should. Henderson, already the all-time leader in Stolen Bases (a mark he’s held for a decade) and Bases on …