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 ...