‘NY Yankees’ Archives
New York Yankees: Now Go Get Your Money’s Werth »
Free agency. It is what consumes GMs, owners, players and fans during baseball’s offseason. This free agent market looks to rival that of 2008-09, when the New York Yankees went on a shopping spree scooping up CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira, AJ Burnett and Nick Swisher. Names like Cliff Lee, Carl Crawford, Carlos Pena, Jim Thorne, Derek Jeter, [...]
Top 5 Reasons New York Yankees Lost ALCS »
For all the discussion about how Cliff Lee could decide the American League Championship Series in a potential Game 7, it turned out the Texas Rangers needed only one start from their starting ace to dethrone the New York Yankees and clinch the AL pennant for the first time in franchise history. And as the Yankees [...]
New York Yankees Embarrassed in ALCS »
The New York Post said it nicely in today's paper. In the front page of the newspaper, the headline was "$210 Million Bust." The paper referred $210 million as the payroll of this Yankee team, but in reality, their payroll is $236 million. For the money the Steinbrenner family doled out this year, they deserved better than a feeble [...]
MLB Report: Is This the End of the Yankees Dynasty? »
Last night, the New York Yankees were blown out for one final time in 2010, watching as the Texas Rangers celebrate with ginger ale on the pitcher's mound after closer Neftali Feliz struck out Alex Rodriguez for the last out. Good to see A-Rod finally help Texas to the World Series! More seriously though, the Yankees' window is quickly [...]
New York Yankees 2010 Season Officially Over, What »
The Yankees 2010 season is now officially over.There will be no ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes in November. There will be no celebrating the 28th World Series Championship at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx.After the Rangers defeated the Yankees 6-1 in Game Six of the ALCS, all the Yankees have in the winter is a bitter defeat by a team [...]
The New York Yankees Lost to the Better Team in the »
There will much discussion in the coming days concerning the New York Yankees' failing to reach their mission statement of defending their World Series title. Their mission was no secret; it was even on their manager's back. Title No. 28. If the Yankees had obtained the World Series victory, then and only then would their season have been [...]
How the New York Yankees Blew Up a Dynasty »
It's been three years since the Joe Girardi era began in New York. Three seasons and one World Series ring later, I still hate the guy. The New York Yankees faced elimination last night in Texas as "Mr. MVP" Josh Hamilton and the Texas Rangers were staring their first World Series appearance in the face. The Rangers finished the job, they beat not [...]
New York Yankee Fans: Be Proud, Be Grateful »
Just a day removed from the Yankees elimination, it isn’t hard to find a disappointed New Yorker. The beloved Yankees are done for the year, and their dreams of a second consecutive world championship are diminished. As many love to do, we can sit here and talk about what could have happened and what should have happened. We can talk about [...]
New York Yankees: Why the ALCS Series Loss Is the End »
The Rangers beat the Yankees four games to two in the 2010 ALCS, and with the loss, the great New York Yankees season is over. Many players are gong to free agency, and the managerial spot for the Yankees is very much so up in the air. Let's start with Derek Jeter. The Yankee captain is one of the most likely to sign back with [...]
ALCS Game 6: Friday Night Lights-Out On New York »
I think it finally sunk in for me right around the time Josh Hamilton was explaining to a live television audience how God allows him to hit baseballs far.The Yankees were done. Dead. Finito. Their quest to repeat as world champions had come to an abrupt end in, of all places, the land of Friday Night Lights.How did we get here?No sport approaches [...]