Archive for November, 2009
NY Yankees Regain Their Championship Mojo »
So many times this decade, the Yankees seemed to have a championship screenplay written only to go off-script at the exact wrong time. There was Rivera's stunning failure in 2001, Josh Beckett's coming out party in 2003, the Series That Shall Not Be Named in 2004, the fishy resurgence of Kenny Rogers in 2006, and Joba & The Midges in 2007. In [...]
Yankees’ Joe Girardi Helps at Scene of Accident »
At 2:25 a.m., Joe Girardi was just hours removed from winning his first World Series Championship as manager of the New York Yankees. Girardi was driving home on the Cross County Parkway in Westchester early this morning when he came across a woman who had crashed her car into a wall. When Girardi came upon the accident, he exited his car to see [...]
New York Yankees 2009: A Championship Class »
So the Yankees are again World Series Champions. After finishing off the previously defending World Series Champions in six games, the Bombers brought back a title that was beginning to seem elusive. We know what the critics are saying: "It's been nine whole years since the poor Yankees last tasted victory." And in some respect, it's true. [...]
The Drought Is Over: Hideki Matsui Fuels »
With the Philadelphia Phillies batting in the bottom of the fourth inning of Game Six of the World Series against the New York Yankees, Pedro Martinez sat alone in the Phillies dugout. Then manager Charlie Manuel came over. The 65-year-old manager with a Southern drawl talked to the 38-year-old Dominican and future Hall of Famer. He said something [...]
The Best Money Can Buy: New York Yankees’ 27th »
As the New York Yankees rushed the field after the final out in the top of the ninth inning of Game Six of the World Series, cementing their victory and crowning them champions of the world again for the 27th time, I felt a little sick to my stomach. I’d hoped like hell throughout the playoffs that someone would be able to knock off the [...]
For Yankees, 27th Title Is Something Entirely »
You could see it in their faces, you could read it on their lips, you could hear it in their roars. This may have been a nostalgic taste of history for many donning Yankees caps and jackets across New York, a remembrance of what was thought to be routine only a decade ago, but for the men donning the pinstripes, this was fresh. This was [...]
2009 New York Yankees – A True Cinderella Story »
Who would have thought that THIS team could win the World Series. A Cinderella story about a rag-tag bunch of players who scrapped their way to their first World Series title in nine years. Nine years is a long time. A child could have been born in November of 2000 and that child would now be nine years old. This child has gone an entire [...]
Yanks on Top in 2009…What about 2010? »
So they made it. The Yankees, World Series Champs. The crazy part of this is that they made it with half of their cylinders firing, sputtering across the line. They barely made it, with Melky Cabrera and Damon coming up lame and two parts of a five man rotation missing. Chien Ming Wang...long gone. Joba Chamberlain...ineffective as a [...]
Hate All You Want, but Yankees Are America’s »
After a gratifying night at the new and colossal Yankee Stadium, long-suffering derailment finally has dissolved putting behind disastrous misfortunes that ultimately stained prodigy and eminence, which classified a franchise and state. Instead, traditional pinstripes symbolized dysfunction and the laughingstock in baseball, failing to reach [...]
Yankees-Phillies Series: Top Five Most Interesting »
Some have been talked about, some haven't, and maybe some shouldn't. Whatever the case, these are my top moments in the 105th World Series played in the great game of baseball. 5. No Habla Ingles Hideki Matsui using an interpreter to accept his World Series MVP award didn’t sit right with me and will leave a lasting image. We criticize [...]