“Baseball is a fun game.  It beats working for a living” ~ Phil Linz It was the best of times.  It was the worst of times.  Someone once said that.  I think it was a blogger.  Anyway Saturday afternoon I found myself at Yankee Stadium on a cold, raw, windy, rainy Spring day as the […]

“Baseball?  It’s just a game – as simple as a ball and a bat.  Yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes.  It’s a sport, business and sometimes even religion.” ~ Ernie Harwell, “The Game for All America” 1955 Well tonight the Yankees were supposed to play my pick to win the AL East […]

“What are we at the park for 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 The above photo is of Mariano Rivera warming up in the Yankee bullpen.  Trust me.  I know you can’t see […]

Yankee General Manager Brian Cashman waited by the phone, 100 million dollars burning a hole in his pocket.  But when the call did come it was not the news he wanted to hear.  Cliff Lee, top prize of the off season free agent sweepstakes had decided to sign with the Philadelphia Phillies. “Naturally I was […]

Long thought to be spontaneous, recent evidence that has come to light has shown that New York Yankee great Lou Gehrig’s famous farewell speech was in fact carefully written out beforehand and reworked many times. On July 4th, 1939 the Yankees held Lou Gehrig day and between games of a double header the dying Yankee […]

“Hath not a dude eyes?  If you prick us do we not grow bummed?  If we eat bad guacamole do we not blow chunks?” ~ William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. So tonight your humble correspondent went to Yankee Stadium to see game four of the American League Championship Series between the Yankees (truth, justice, the […]

“I’ve come to the conclusion that the two most important things in life are good friends and a good bullpen” ~ Bob Lemon The Yankees played game two of their four game series against the Tampa Rays tonight at the Stadium.  The Yankees started Phil “I hope the Joba Rules don’t destroy me like they […]

“Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated” ~ author unknown. Tonight the Yankees faced arch rival the Tampa Bay -(Devil) Rays in a American League East matchup.  Before the game the Yankees held a slim 1/2 game lead over Tampa.  Now, normally with two weeks to go in the […]

“90 percent of this game is half mental” ~ Yogi Berra It was a bad weekend of  baseball.  Sunday I went to see minor league baseball.  The Staten Island Yankees lost to the Vermont Lake Monsters 7-4.  And today, on a clear, beautiful late summer afternoon, a holiday no less, the Yankees lost to the […]

“Sometimes you win.  Sometimes you lose.  Sometimes it rains.” ~ Bull Durham I woke up today to overcast skies.  No problem I says.  It’s not like I live in Oregon.  So I took the  no. 6 train up to the  Bronx.  The Yankees were playing the Seattle Mariners. The Yankees started Carlston Charles Sabathia (17-5 […]