The Big Apple Baseballist outing to Yankee Stadium was a success, both for the eleven of us who attended the game and for the home team, who beat the A’s 5-1 behind Jose Contreras’ surprisingly decent performance. Representing were bloggers Alex Belth, Alex Ciepley, Cliff Corcoran, Avkash Patel, and Jason Wojciechowski, as well as Justin …
The Yankees shook themselves out of their four-game funk with a six-run rally in the eighth inning on Tuesday night against the Oakland A’S, coming from behind to win 10-8. Ruben Sierra delivered a pinch-hit two-run double that hit the chalk of the leftfield foul line, exactly the kind of break the Yanks have been …
If you’re a Yankee fan, the funk is everywhere today, and I don’t mean in the good, George Clintonian sense. It’s on every back page tabloid, every local newscast, and the look of every interlocking NY-wearing fan. Gray skies and rain in the city, combined with an off day, leave little to think about but …
I spent four and a half hours at Yankee Stadium on Saturday, four and a half tense, exciting, but ultimately depressing hours watching the Yanks fall to the Red Sox yet again in a 12-inning, 3-2 affair. The Yankees have now lost five out of six to the Sox and stand at 8-10 today, when …
A funny thing happened on the way to my blog. What had started out on Sunday morning as an email to Dayn Perry in appreciation for last week’s Baseball Prospectus article on Hank Aaron turned into a quick and dirty research project. That in turn grew to a multi-spreadsheet undertaking and then into an overlong, …
Very little of the baseball I saw this weekend — watching the Yanks’ lackluster showing in Boston or attending Sunday’s latest Met debacle as they were swept by the Pirates — was any good for the home team. But none of that meant anything to me compared to my own good news. To accompany a …
Reader Chris G. passed along a funny article about itinerant reliever Todd Jones, now with the Cincinnati Reds. Recall that Jones’ most notable accomplishment last season — besides drawing a $3 million paycheck for 68.2 innings of 7.08 ERA ball — was (to paraphrase Jim Bouton) revealing himself to be as smart as his ERA. …
Though the “official” date passed last Friday and I’ve mentioned it just about everywhere else on this site, I haven’t posted the news to this blog yet: the Futility Infielder is now three years old. It’s hard to believe time has passed so quickly. Though it doesn’t feel quite like yesterday when I registered this …
Recently a friend and I were wondering aloud as to the whereabouts of Adrian “El Duquecito” Hernandez, a Cuban defector who spent the last four seasons collecting a cool million per year while pitching his way to a thorough tour of the Yankees’ minor-league outposts. Despite his major-league contract, Hernandez had bungled what slim chances …
If you came to this blog via my home page, you might have noticed a change: thanks to the wonders of Really Simple Syndication (RSS), I’m now able to bring in headlines and intros from my recent blog entries, which is what I was asking about a couple weeks ago. What I needed was to …