Analysis of Yankee players, past and present.
CC Sabathia is like John Wayne in True Grit. He is too old and too fat to be facing lineups anymore. Well come see a fat old man sometime. CC gets by on Grit and Guile. […]
Joaquin Andujar died on September 8, 2015 in the Dominican Republic and shortly thereafter Hurricane Joaquin started forming over the Dominican Republic. When Joaquin died, the baseball world mostly paid no attention. There were some articles out […]
Yankee radio post-game analyst Sweeny Murti asked the question last night after a Yankee 2-1 win over the White Sox: Because of his incredible speed and utility in helping to score a run for the […]
“DAMN IT” yelled Alex Rodriguez, his voice clearly audible on TV, after his mile-high fly out to end the 3rd. Very rare when you hear a player’s voice on TV but the acoustics must have […]
Ivan Nova outdueled Chris Archer yesterday. “Outdueled” may be a strong word. “Out pitched”, “Out lasted”, or simply, “Beat” may be more appropriate. Didn’t look like it would be that way at first — as […]
By now in 1978 the announcers would be figuring out a nickname for him — like they did with Ron Guidry back then — “Gator”, “Louisiana Lightning”. The Kid, Yankee fan John Snyder kept referring […]
And so the comment someone (reader Willhelm Kaiser) wrote on espn — “I wonder if they will boo Arod today”. ARod Saga Becomes Surreal The ARod saga has become surreal. We Yankee fans are used […]
I’m by no means a baseball expert. Some might say I have no knowledge of baseball at all. I live in a house with two huge Yankee fans: my husband and daughter — so my […]
Someone asked me last night “Isn’t Didi Gregorius‘s last name an actual word?” The word is gregarious. Have never spoken to Gregorius to know if he is gregarious (although he sure has a great smile […]
Willie Randolph was my favorite player growing up. I became a Yankee fan at age 11 in 1973 and by 1975 had already suffered through Horace Clarke and then Sandy Alomar — who wasn’t bad […]
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