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Yankees-Twins Wrap-up: Putting Out Old Fires to Make Room For New Ones
October 12, 2009
It goes without saying that the better team won this series. The Yankees hit better with runners in scoring position over the three-game set; their three starters combined for 19 innings, ...Wacky Schedule Means New York Yankees Can (Must?) Stick with Three-Man Rotation
October 11, 2009
Three things I just learned about the American League Championship Series have combined to give me chills in the last 45 minutes. 1. The format is 2-3-2, which means we're spending ...Yankees-Twins ALDS Game Two – The Alex Rodriguez Game
October 10, 2009
He knew it was gone the moment he hit it. It was one more in a long series of moments that have Yankee fans everywhere believing that this is one of ...Yankees-Twins ALDS Game Two – The Alex Rodriguez Game
October 10, 2009
He knew it was gone the moment he hit it. It was one more in a long series of moments that have Yankee fans everywhere believing that this is one of ...Yankees-Twins ALDS Preview: Big Mo and Big Moments
October 7, 2009
Somewhere around 10 minutes after six tomorrow afternoon, the man already anointed the American League's Most Valuable Player will step into the box against a contender for the American League ...Singing Along with the New York Yankees’ Playoff Santa
September 28, 2009
It happened on Friday night, in the middle of another in a series of epic beatdowns that seem to be taking place in the new Yankee Stadium since the second ...Growing Up in the Presence of the Last Baseball God (or, My Jeter Story)
September 9, 2009
One day, when I'm old and shot, and some little troublemaker who looks like me is in my lap after a Sunday dinner, I'm going to take the opportunity to ...The Art of the Perfect Game (Or, How to Get Really, Really Lucky)
August 31, 2009
"It was a million-to-one shot, Doc."-Frank Costanza The Yankees won an unremarkable game this evening, the opener of a relatively meaningless series in Camden Yards against an Orioles team that got ...The Beatdown in the Boogie-Down (or, The Weekend that Made Us Men)
August 10, 2009
It took four nights to answer a year's worth of questions. The stakes were unthinkably high for a series in early August. This series wasn't going to be the run-of-the-mill battle ...One Hundred (And One) Games Deep, Yankees Right Where They Belong
July 29, 2009
(The majority of this piece was written around 1 o'clock this afternoon. Wacky computer-related hijinks stopped me from posting until after today's games ended, so we know a little bit ...