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The Derek Jeter-Lou Gehrig Comparison »
Since the Jeet man is chasing Gehrig's sacred numbers I thought I would compare the two...something Jeter himself would never admit doing. They both had the basic same legnth careers, G-man 16 years and Jeet-man 15. Gehrig had three seasons of 15 or fewer games, two in the beginning and one at the end. Jeter had one season where he played 15 [...]
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 [...]
YANKS MOVE FORWARD! Are The Halos Ready for the Bronx? »
So, at the beginning of this season I wrote that the Yanks had a shot. All the Bawston guys were yelling through their keyboards at me. Hmmm. Turns out I was right. Turns out that having Texieria, Posada, Swisher, and Cabrera—all switch hitters—in one lineup is pretty annoying for opposing teams. The main hitters in this fall roundup [...]