Huge win for the Yankees last night as they beat the Angels 4-2 out in Anaheim to take a 1-0 lead in the Division Series. Mike Mussina–the good, if diminished version–gave the Yanks 5.2 scoreless innings, more than they had any right to expect, the team put together two two-out rallies, and suddenly the Yanks …
In the words of my man Jim Anchower, “Hola amigos, it’s been awhile since I rapped at ya.” When I last checked in, Saturday’s Yankee-Red Sox game was just moments away. Today the first round of the playoffs is underway. In between we’ve heroes and heartbreak on the way to a climactic end of a …
Not much time to grumble about last night’s Yankee loss to the Red Sox except to say that David Wells pitched like the big game hunter that he was advertised as, that Jason Giambi throws like a little girl, and that Jorge Posada’s unclutch performance continues. When the game was over I tried to flip …
You’re reading the words of a happy man, and not just because the Yanks find themselves one game up in the AL East going into the weekend’s showdown in Fenway. No, I’m a happy man because my copy of Mind Game: How the Boston Red Sox Got Smart, Won a World Series, and Created a …
Keeping up with the audio theme, I’m pleased to announce that I will be one of the guests on Radio Open Source, which runs from 7 PM to 8 PM EST Thursday evening on WGBH in Boston (89.7 FM) and from 4 PM to 5 PM via KUOW in Puget Sound (94.9 FM). The topic, …
Renowned for his “Pinstriped Bible” column at the YES Network website and for his “You Could Look It Up” column at Baseball Prospectus, Steven Goldman had his first book, Forging Genius: the Making of Casey Stengel, published earlier this year by Potomac Books. While Stengel’s years with the Yankees — during which he won 10 …
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It’s that time of year again, where I’m obsessively keeping track of four different games, and not even travel can tear me away from the action. I spent the past weekend in Washington, DC, but baseball was never far from my field of vision or my consciousness. On Friday night, Andra and I paid a …
In the eight years I’ve been a Yankees partial season ticket holder, going to roughly 10-15 games a year, I can count the number of meaningful (as in pennant-race meaningful) September games I’ve been to on one hand. I generally front-load my ticket requests to go during the warmer weather. By this time on the …
As noted last week, I recently had the great honor of running in the Sausage Race at the Brewers’ Miller Park. My lengthy account of that adventure is running as a guest piece (or “Designated Hitter,’ in the site’s parlance) at the Baseball Analysts website, complete with photos. Thanks to Rich Lederer and Bryan Smith …
Warning: language alert. Feel free to leave if four- and 12-letter curse words frighten you. What can I say? I picked the wrong game. Back in January when my partial season ticket group sat down to pick our games for the year, it figured that I’d choose a game from the September weekend series between …