"...hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."- Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
I'd be lying if I told you I expected this.
Throwing a lot of money at problems was nothing new for the New York Yankees of this decade and it never fixed anything before.
Granted the Yankees of 2003 made it to the Fall Classic after going overseas to sign highly acclaimed stars in Hideki Matsui and Jose Contreras. However, since then the road to the World Series seemed much tougher to ...
Fans of the West Coast Baseball Club were in tears and some despondent senior citizen diehards chose to immolate themselves after the East Coast Baseball Club won Game 11 of the Coastal World Series, 5-2, to win the Best-of-14 series eight games to three. Co-manager of the West Coast, Mike Scioscia, was defiant in defending his club's lack of performance. "That's baseball," he said. "It is what it is. Don't tell me it isn't. The East Coast deserved to win this Coastal World Series and proved that we ...
He was as animated on the mound as we've ever seen him—and exactly the way we always remember him.
For six-and-a-third innings and two-and-a-half hours Sunday night, Andy Pettitte turned back the clock yet again, as we've seen him do time and again in the most important of games, and gave the Yankees the victory they needed to advance to their fortieth World Series.
For his individual part, Pettitte won his sixteenth postseason game and his fifth playoff series-clinching game, both Major League records and two more lines on a potential Hall ...
For five games, the Yankees mostly sat back and waited for home runs.
Sometimes they came, like Alex Rodriguez's game-tying shot in the 11th inning of Game Two. And sometimes they didn't, like when the Bronx Bombers stranded 10 base runners in Game Five.
But in their 5-2 American League Championship Series-clinching win on Sunday night, New York took a page out of the Angels' book by playing small ball.
For years, Los Angeles has been the Yanks' nemesis, frustrating the Pinstripes with their aggressive base running and willingness to sacrifice at-bats for ...
A rain delay forced Game Six from Saturday to Sunday night. There was no rain in the Bronx on Sunday, only a cold chill that absolutely nobody in New York was feeling.
The Yankees and Angels came into Sunday night playing in Game Six of the ALCS, both teams with different agendas.
For the Angels, a win would guarantee a Game Seven on Monday night and a chance to pull off an upset. For the Yankees, a win would guarantee a trip to the 2009 World Series, the first trip for the ...
The Major League Baseball playoffs seem like they have lasted forever this year.
I’m sure a lot of that is a result of the Diamondbacks being out of the postseason picture since May. It also doesn’t help that the Red Sox and the Yankees were both firmly in the picture, meaning we had to listen to their self-righteous fans belittle all the other fans in baseball as backwards hicks.
Finally, the American League Championship Series ended with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim imploding, much like they did this whole series, ...
Yes, that's CC Sabathia's tummy.
If it hasn’t been a tough enough couple of years (lifetime, even?) to be a New York Mets fan, things just got a whole lot worse with both the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees advancing to the big show.
Normally when one of our fiercest rivals is in the World Series, we can easily jump on the opposing team’s bandwagon and ride it ‘til the trail ends.
Not this year. We’re guaranteed hell until next October.
Each choice for the common fan has consequences this year. Getting a ...
Well, the Yankees dropped their first series of the postseason, losing two of three from the Angels. I thought this would happen, but I also thought the Halos would take one of the first two games in Yankee Stadium; their defense and untimely hitting made that impossible.
The Angels changed their approaches while playing at home. During Games One and Two, Vladimir Guerrero was constantly being challenged inside and he never once came though with a big hit.
However, during Game Three, he tied the game at three all with a two-out, two-run ...
The phrase "age can be deceiving" now applies to the new Yankee Stadium. After several investigations by construction companies, the concrete ramps at the new Yankee Stadium have been found to have deep cracks. The new state-of-the-art home of the Yankees has only been open for about seven months. The cost of building George Stienbrenner's new palace cost the Yankees a total of $1.5 billion.
The New York Times has reported that both the Yankees are trying to see if there was anything wrong with the installation of the ramps or ...
After Game 6 of the ALCS was postponed due to rain, there was the Yankees veteran left-hander warming up in the outfield. He took sprints on the puddle-filled warning track.
It was as if Game 6 was still going to happen.
Andy Pettitte stood out there in an empty Yankee Stadium contemplating the importance of lifting his team to the World Series just one more time.
The rain-soaked Pettitte later took a seat in the empty stadium. Yankee Stadium is most definitely not going to be empty for Game 6.
The Yankees lead the ...