Sept. 27th: The New York Yankees have clinched the American League East. A long journey—absolutely. However, to say it was a long time comin', would be an understatement. You see, this team is special.
Throughout the course of the year, the Yankees have done everything right. From spending money, to hearing criticism of the new stadium, and their decisions overall, the Yankees have defied many odds, and have once again, reigned supreme.Just one year removed from closing out the old stadium with a win, yet no postseason berth, the Yankees began ...
WRITTEN: Sunday, August 2, 2009
Today marks the 30th Anniversary of the dreadful day in which the New York Yankees lost their captain - the last true Yankee captain until Derek Jeter was given the astute title in June of 2003.
Sorry, Mattingly fans - Thurman was truly a tough act to follow. Thurman Munson was the exact type of player I love to root for. A true family man, and, as Ron Blomberg told me, "not a great player, but a good player with a great heart."Thurman truly cared about the ...
The Boston Red Sox just got swept by the New York Yankees and has lost 9 out of the last 10 against its most hated rivals. The Red Soxs started the season by dominating the Yankees 8 wins to 0 and had a comfortable division lead heading into the end of June.
Then the Yankees got hot and by the end of July they wrestled the division away from the Red Soxs.
Then Theo Epstein who is Sporting News Executive of the year made an awesome trading deadline move by getting Victor Martinez away from the ...
The magic number was down to one.
One game for the Yankees to clinch the American League East division against the Red Sox.
The game was moved up to originally start at 1 p.m. because of Yom Kippur, but with a rain delay, the game started a little after 2 p.m., so the football fans watching the Giants, Jets, and Patriots at 1 p.m. had an extra hour before doing major channel surfing.
The game started out rocky for Andy Pettitte.
In the top of the first, he got the first two outs, but ...
It was a slap in the face to the Boston Red Sox today at Yankees Stadium, but it's not over.
After missing out on the playoffs a year ago, the New York Yankees clinched the American League East in a 4-2 win over the Red Sox.
Boston is stuck on three games to clinch the AL Wild Card.
This is the first time the Yankees have won 100 games since 2004, when they finished at 101-61.
In 2003, they had the same record and 2002 New York was 103-58.
Let's recap what happened to the ...
Baseball has been America's national sport and pastime for a very long time. In recent years, Japan has come along and adopted the American sport like its own national sport and pastime.
Except for the fact that in Japan, baseball players are glorified like celebrities. That could explain why Japanese sensation Yu Darvish is treated like a god in Japan.
Could the Japanese sensation be the next big star in the Major Leagues? Better question—could Darvish be the next big thing in New York?
In the past, Japanese stars like Hideo ...
I know Paul O’Neill (pictured) doesn’t play for the Yankees any more. I just dislike the guy and he reminds me of everything I hate about that team.
The Tigers' comeback win tonight was pretty sweet. The club has a had a few high-scoring games the past week or so and tonight’s rally was quite inspiring.
So many times this season, we’ve seen the Tigers fall behind early and then have their offense fail to get them back into the swing of things.
Not tonight.
Nate Robertson pitched like the “real” Nate Robertson tonight ...
Derek Jeter has had an amazing career for the New York Yankees. With that being said there's one award that has eluded him in his career and that is an MVP award, which is funny because he's never really been a MVP type player.
The definition of MVP has gotten lost in today's sports world. Now, it seems like no matter what sport the MVP goes to the most popular player rather than the player that actually deserves the award.
My definition of an MVP for baseball not only puts up big ...
The Yankees gave CC Sabathia seven years and $161 million in the winter because they wanted his big-game ability in order to beat the Red Sox in games that counted.
On Saturday, they got exactly what they paid for with another dominating performance from their ace.
Sabathia allowed one hit over seven innings. The one lone hit was by Mike Lowell. CC gave up no runs, walked two and struck out eight batters.
The Red Sox seemed at times over-matched by Sabathia, who seems to be getting stronger down the stretch of ...
This is the first installment of a two-part series.
With only little more than a week left in the regular season, the question has jumped into mind about whom in the American League and National League will win the awards for Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, Cy Young, and Most Valuable Player.
There are a few things still left to play out, but I feel confidently in starting this debate with the facts at hand.
So here we go.
American League
Rookie of the Year
Brett Anderson, SP, Oakland Athletics
In a weak year ...