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June 2009 Archive

Yankees Just Can’t Beat Red Sox

June 11, 2009

(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E NYY 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 10 1 BOS 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 X 4 8 0 Winning pitcher: Takashi Saito (1-0) Losing pitcher: CC Sabathia (5-4) SV: Jonathan ...

New York Yankees Defeated by Boston Red Sox, Still Searching for Answers

June 11, 2009

Oy Vey! I think it is safe to say the Boston Red Sox are the New York Yankees' kryptonite this year. The Yankees have just lost their first eight games ...

The 10 Best Dream Guest Voicemail Messages

June 11, 2009

About two months, a man going by the name Barnz from Fayettesville, Arkansas sent an email to ESPN writer Bill Simmons about an encounter with Academy Award winning Actor Morgan ...

To Chien-Ming Wang: Leave The Rotation, Leave New York

June 11, 2009

  The University of Colorado concluded that the average MLB career lasts less than six years. This is bad news for Yankee Pitcher Chein-Ming Wang. Wang is on his last legs, not ...

People Torn On What To Do with Chien-Ming Wang

June 11, 2009

First, there's Joel Sherman. He believes that the Yankees have to get Wang out of the rotation: Both Joe Girardi and pitching coach Dave Eiland said late last night that there ...

Instant Coffee Isn’t Always The Answer

June 11, 2009

This writer is an old guy who grew up before cable TV, microwave ovens, cell phones, laptops and instant news on the World Wide Web. Our world has become ...

Joe Girardi Is Playing Senseless Mind Games with His Yankee Players

June 11, 2009

New York Yankees Manager Joe Girardi is making decisions that have to affect his players’ confidence in themselves—and certainly their confidence in Girardi.   There are many examples.       The first one that comes ...

The Yankees-Red Sox Phenomenon: The Biology of a Mental Edge

June 11, 2009

Though it has been repeated again and again ad nauseam over the course of baseball history, there is no rivalry in the sport as passionate as the Yankees and Red ...

Ask Cito What Is Wrong with AJ Burnett?

June 11, 2009

Blazing Fastball: check.   Sweeping curveball: check.   Two-cent brain: check and double check.   Allan James Burnett has been the same guy since the day he entered the league, a live arm with a knee-buckling ...

Tom Greenwade Wasn’t Convinced Of Mickey Mantle’s Future Greatness

June 11, 2009

Mickey Mantle played semi pro baseball at the age of 17 for the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids. Early in 1948, the Whiz Kids' manager, Barney Barnett, who had recruited Mickey for ...

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