Well folks, we are finally here; the World Series. This has been a long season that has been filled with some pretty interesting moments. Whether it was Alex Rodriguez admitting to steroid use, Randy Johnson winning his 300th game, or Ichiro collecting his 2,000th hit in only 1,402 games, it has been a great season.
Now that all is said and done, we have our two remaining teams: The New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies. The Yankees will try and continue to re-write history as they go for their 27th ...
We are finally here! It's World Series time!While Major League Baseball and most of its fans may have been salivating over the thought of a Dodgers versus Yankees World Series, an "I-95" series, as some have dubbed it, is definitely the better series from a baseball standpoint.The Yankees and Phillies easily boast the best lineup in each of their respective leagues.Headlined by Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez, the Yankees led the American League with 244 home runs this year, while Ryan Howard and the Phillies led the National League with ...
The Yankees are leaning towards going with a three-man rotation in the World Series against the Phillies.
This will be a more difficult task than in the American League Championship Series, when there was an additional off day between Games Four and Five, because A.J. Burnett and Andy Pettitte will also have to go on three days' rest.
The other option would be to start Joba Chamberlain or Chad Gaudin in Game Four, but neither of them has started in weeks, and neither was particularly impressive during the second half.
If New York ...
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Baseball’s not a perfect sport, we all know that.
The games start too late. They run too long. Tragically, Steve Phillips is no longer around to analyze (He’s innocent I tell ya!). And because of rain, snow, sleet, meteor showers, and aurora borealis, ...
After seven months of baseball played, we are now finally down to two teams that will square off for the richest prize in the sport.
The Yankees won the American League Championship by defeating the Los Angeles Angels and have advanced to the 2009 World Series. They will now take on the Philadelphia Phillies, who are the defending World Series Champions as well as the National League Champions.
Both teams had very different roads to get to the World Series.
For the Yankees, they easily disposed of the Minnesota Twins three games to ...
In the end, it was Mariano Rivera on the mound as his teammates rushed after him to celebrate the Yankees' 2009 Pennant. Rivera pitching to Posada in the ninth inning of a series clincher. How fitting. The scene was reminiscent of the glory days. A decade ago when it seem legit that Derek Jeter may someday have 10 rings.
And there was Rivera, Posada, Jeter and Andy Pettitte, the "Core Four." Flashbacks of the late '90s, when they were all much younger. Wow! Has it been that long? Was I ...
The Fall Classic is set. The New York Yankees are heading to the World Series for the first time since 2003 to face the defending champions, the Philadelphia Phillies. The Yankees were the best team in baseball this year, and the Phillies were one of the top teams in the National League in 2009.
Both of these teams are defined by their top-end starting pitchers and slugging lineups. I'll run down how each player is projected, using the Bill James Handbook 2010 projections, position by position.Begin Slideshow
I do have a thing for red heads. And there’s something about blondes that can start wars.
But sexually, the experts say, humans are most attracted to those with similar physical features to their own, especially hair color. The theory holds true for me, I guess, as a dark brown haired individual; my eyes are definitely habitués of the brunette mold. I’ll even go as far as I proclaiming Jennifer Love Hewitt as the most beautiful woman on earth. I once turned on a large HDTV, and Ms. Hewitt’s show, ...
Wednesday night provides this viewer some options to watch. He can either watch the first game of the World Series or take in couple of pro basketball games by couple of sorry basketball teams that play in New York and New Jersey.
Watching the Knicks and the Nets is a better option that watching an American League team buying its way to the World Series.
At least, both of those teams offer comic relief when it comes to playing basketball especially in the fourth quarter when they come up with innovative ways of ...
Many baseball fans have complained that the World Series has not been entertaining or memorable during the past few seasons. Last year Philadelphia and Tampa Bay had the now-infamously suspended Game Five, which made that series memorable for all the wrong reasons. In 2004, the Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years, certainly memorable for Boston fans, but for the rest of the country the series was awful, with the Sox sweeping easily. That year's American League Championship Series was much more entertaining ...