“Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things” ~Robert Frost On a Wednesday nightt in Da Bronx the New York Yankees and Houston (pronounced How-ston) Astros interrupted having sex with people they’ve never met before to play a baseball game. The Yankees stated Michael “Pine Tar” Pineda (2-2 2.05) and the […]

“If a horse can’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it” ~ Dick Allen on artificial turf Fresh off winning three out of four against the Detroit Tigers, the Yankees welcomed the Cleveland Native Americans to the Stadium Friday night for the beginning of a three-game set. The Yankees started recently acquired Esmil […]

“With those who don’t give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can’t think of anything to say to […]

“No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined”~Paul Gallico On Thursday night at the House that the Taxpayers of New York City Built™ the Yankees hoped to sweep the Blue Jays and continue their dominance against them […]

“What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game…. There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability.” […]

“Little league baseball is very good because it keeps the parents off the streets” ~ Yogi Berra And so on a May night in The Bronx I went to see the Yankee play that other team that resides within the confines of New York City.  I believe they are known as the Mets but this […]

“Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from Cotton Eye Joe?” ~ The Lament of Mankind. And so on a chilly Friday night in The Bronx (that’s Da Bronx to youse outsidahs) I attended my first game of the year against the Tampa Bay Rays.  The Yankees (already down two pitchers) […]

In the week since an independent arbiter handed down a historic 162-game suspension for Alex Rodriguez, attention has focused on what the New York Yankees will do next.  Will they allow AROD to come to Spring training?  Will AROD have to feed himself his own popcorn?  And most importantly, who will play third base for […]

Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Pirates who have made the playoffs for the first time since 1992. 1992 saw the Yankees, under new manager Buck Showalter finish fourth in the AL East with a 76-86 record.  They were 11th in attendance with a a measly 1, 748,737 going through the turnstiles.  A diminished Don Mattingly hit […]

“Buy me some peanuts and HGH/I don’t care if I stop producing testosterone” ~ old baseball sing-a-long. Fresh off a three-game sweep of the hapless White Sox, the Yankees started a four-game series against the American League East leading Boston Red Sox. The Yankees started the American League pitcher of the month for August, Ivan […]