We have much to discuss… • In a day that centered around the discussions of substances, it was refreshing to see the triumph of substance on at least one TV show. I stayed up late to watch Will Carroll and Alan Schwarz (of ESPN, Baseball America and The New York Times) appear on CNBC’s The …
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Monday morning brought shocking news that Rafael Palmeiro, who recently celebrated his 3,000th hit, became the first high-profile player to test positive for a banned substance under Major League Baseball’s new testing policy. As such, he’s been suspended for 10 days as a first offender, just like the six relative no-name major leaguers who flunked …
On Sunday, Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, and it seems like a good time to point a few things out as I drink my morning coffee. First of all, if you don’t understand why Wade Boggs belongs in the Hall of Fame — …
It took me twice as long as usual to make it to Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night, an hour and a half as opposed to 45 minutes. The Lexington line subway was all fakakta, with a new excuse at every stop — signal malfunction, sick passenger, incident at 161st St. — but while I was …
Another week, another epic: the latest version of the Prospectus Hit List went up yesterday, chock full of trade deadline tidbits that had me updating into the wee hours. A day later I’m so busy and brain-fried that I’ve got little to add to that particular novella, except to say that once again the Yankee …
Last week, Rafael Palmeiro joined the 3,000 Hit Club, the 26th player to reach that milestone. More interestingly joined Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray as just the fourth player to reach 3,000 hits and 500 homers. Yeah, those guys could hit. Despite all of this, ESPN Page 2’s Skip Bayless published an article …
Shows you what I know. Al Leiter was not party to a double-digit shellacking at the hands of the Red Sox in his Yankee debut. Salvaged off the junk heap, the 39-year-old lefty with the 6.64 ERA reached back and found a part of himself that had gone missing — namely, the part that knew …
Friday evening found me at a wedding in New Jersey, one where I knew hardly anybody (including the bride and groom) and which featured several questionable aesthetic decisions (a 45-minute shuttle bus ride to the reception through rush hour traffic?). As I grumbled my way through a thoroughly lackluster salad, I turned to my wife …
The outcome of Thursday night’s Yankees-Red Sox game was pure Christmas in July for Yankee fans, and in Fenway Park no less. It won’t erase the sting of last October, but in the face of increasing adversity for the Yanks, it may not get any better all year. Whether or not they win the division …
On Tuesday evening, my pal Nick and I finally broke down and saw Star Wars Episode III: Just Give Us Your Money, the anticlimactic final installment of a groundbreaking, once-great series we had grown up on. Neither of us would dare subject our significant others to the movie — my wife fell asleep halfway through …