Yankee haters, I can understand how you might be getting tired of stories like this. Four hours into a thrilling rollercoaster of a ballgame, the Minnesota Twins had the New York Yankees two outs away from heading to the heartland down 2-0. They had touched Mariano Rivera for a blown save, that rarest of postseason …
As if I hadn’t written enough in the last 24 hours, this afternoon’s drubbing of the Dodgers (down 7-1 in the sixth as I write this… no, 7-2… now 8-2) has sent me back to the keyboard to tie up a few loose ends. First up are my postseason predictions, which I’ll offer without comment …
When the Dodgers and the Yankees were last in the playoffs simultaneously, my view of baseball was much different than it is today. The year was 1996. I was 26, had hair down to my collar, and worked as the Associate Art Director at Wolff New Media, where we published topical guides to the Internet …
After a fun and eventful weekend, we have much to discuss… • It didn’t get posted over the weekend, but my Baseball Prospectus piece on Barry Bonds, “One Man is an Island,” is up today. It’s my sixth BP piece of the year, and though it was written in a bit of a crunch, when …
I’ve got nothing to complain about here on the baseball front. Forgive me, but for the moment I feel as though I’m leading a charmed life. On Wednesday I left work just a little bit early and got up to Yankee Stadium in time to catch the tail end of the first game of a …
I’m still suffering the aftereffects of a weekend surrendered to what I’m now calling Bicoastal Disorder — an attempt to root two teams on opposite coasts through their blood rivalries in series with postseason implications. I watched all three Yankees-Red Sox games on TV and either watched or listened to parts of all three Dodgers-Giants …
My cup runneth over. Even as the Yankees’ magic number to clinch the AL East has dwindled to six and the Bombers prepare for their series in Fenway, my baseball attention has turned to a race on the other coast. The Los Angeles Dodgers, who have been in first place for months and who held …
I had a fun night at the ballpark on Tuesday, even if the Yankees’ series with the Toronto Blue Jays has felt like pure anticlimax after the weekend’s bouts with the Red Sox. Gorgeous, warm weather, especially for mid-September, made for a real treat, especially when considering the source of my tickets — trade-ins from …
What a difference a weekend makes. On Friday night, the Red Sox shocked the Yankees by scoring two runs in the ninth inning off of Mariano Rivera, closing to within 2.5 games of the AL East lead. With the hard-charging Sox, who’d come into the Bronx all cowboy’d up, beating on Rivera for the second …
(Continued from Part I and Part II)… Like the silencing of a car alarm, the Dodgers’ trade of Gary Sheffield to the Atlanta Braves on January 15, 2002 came as a relief to all parties involved. Sheffield’s final year in LA had been a noisy and turbulent one, his outstanding numbers (.311/.417/.583 with 36 homers …
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