“You can’t sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock.  You’ve got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance.  That’s why baseball is the greatest game of them all.” ~ Earl Weaver Tonight the Yankees played game two […]

“It ain’t like football.  You can’t make up no trick plays” ~ Yogi Berra Is there anything more beautiful than attending a weekday matinee baseball game?  It’s like a victory over life.  Instead of being at work and taking grief from interns probably 20 years younger than you are, you go to a game.  Now […]

“Baseball players are smarter than football players.  How often do you see a baseball team penalized for having too many men on the field?” ~ Jim Bouton, 1988 Tonight I went to Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees play the Devil’s pawn, the fast fading Boston Red Sawks.  As CC Sabathia pitched yesterday, today would […]

“Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average” ~ Mark Kramer Tonight I went to the second game of the Yankees series against the Toronto “Canada loves baseball, eh” Blue Jays.  As everyone knows, […]

“Love is the most important thing in the world.  But baseball is pretty good too” ~ Greg, age 8 So tonight your humble correspondent went to Yankee Stadium to see the Yankees play the Toronto “Eh?” Blue Jays. For those of you who have been under a rock or, God forbid, do not care about […]

“What are we at the park except to win?  I’d trip my  mother.  I’d help her up, brush her off, tell her I’m sorry.  But Mother, don’t make it to third” ~ Leo Durocher Tonight I went to see the Yankee play the Los Angeles (but we play in Anaheim 30 miles away) Angels. It […]

“The other sports are just sports.  Baseball is love” ~ Bryant Gumbel, 1981 Sunday found your humble blogger at Yankee Stadium as the Yankees took on the Tampa (Devil) Rays in the rubber game of a three game series.  The Yankees started Andy Pettitte  (11-2 2.70 ERA) and the (Devil) Rays started David Price (12-5 […]

Dateline Heaven: George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees died at 6:30 EST.  Arriving in Heaven, Steinbrenner immediately fired God. “Yankee fans deserve a winner. They demand a winner.  And Heaven isn’t winning” said Steinbrenner. God was informed of his firing when he showed up for work this morning. “He could have told me […]

“I see great things in baseball.  It’s our game – the American game.  It will take our people out of doors, fill  them with oxygen,  give them a larger physical stoicism.  Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.” ~ Walt Whitman The first […]

“Poets are like baseball pitchers.  Both have their moments  The intervals are the tough things.” ~ Robert Frost Today your correspondent found himself ensconced in the 4th to the last row of the upper deck at Yankee Stadium to see a rematch of last year’s World Series – Yankees and Phillies.  I don’t want to […]