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 if the driver needed any help.
Keep in mind that traffic is moving around 80-MPH at this point of the highway.
Yet he still got out, just like any regular ...
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.
Fans of the New York Yankees are spoiled to be given a competitive team year in and year out. But so what? Fans of other organizations are simply jealous that it isn't their team attempting ...
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 amusing, and Martinez cracked a smile.
He tapped him on the chest, and another amusing remark made him laugh. He took a step away, motioned back, tapped him on the chest again, and kept ...
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 “Best Team Money Can Buy.”
I watched as the Minnesota Twins failed to do it, thanks in large part to the atrocious umpiring in the series. I ...
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 extraordinary.
This was the first mark of the new generation.
Robinson Cano scooped up Shane Victorino’s soft dribbler late Wednesday night, turned and fired it to Mark Teixeira ...
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 lifetime without seeing a World Series victory for the Yankees.
Yankees fans have lived a life of misery only winning twenty seven titles. A fan who ...
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 starter.
Nick Swisher and Cano and Posada were non factors in the last game...and for most of the playoffs for the first two of that bunch. We all knew who hit and didn't. It was a ...
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 expectations of financial blunders which severely hurt a franchise known for foolish spending collapses and compiling titles.
But now, an incredible joyride in a town where a massive crowd is faithfully committed to pinstripes and humongous ribs at the newly venue, winning a world title is normally a priority on ...
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 immigrants from Mexico all the time, at least I do, for coming to our country and not knowing our language, let alone changing our public school teachers' curriculum to accommodate those that ...
The energy was in the Bronx on Wednesday night. There was a special feeling in the new Yankee Stadium that could be felt by the thousands who were there.
Game Six of the 2009 World Series between the Yankees and Phillies took place in the big ballpark in the Bronx, and there was no shortage of excitement for the fans.
The Yankees were sending up their most reliable pitcher in the postseason in Andy Pettitte, while the Phillies were countering with Pedro Martinez, a former nemesis of the Yankees.
While Martinez was on ...