I'm not sure how I feel about the Yankees acquiring Nick Swisher from a baseball perspective, but I certainly laughed at this video. Not so much the concept, which is fine, but some of the deliveries toward the end. He's no Eli Manning, but he'll do just fine.
God bless Yankee Stadium. Wrote this one!
Yankees Building New Vacation Stadium In The Hamptons
Tonight will be the last time I ever go to a Yankee game at Yankee Stadium.
Cry.
Personal Top 9ine Moments at the Stadium:
9) Watching the Red Sox play the Orioles on the big screen during a 1996 rain delay and, get this, ROOTING for the Red Sox. And the Red Sox won! Yay Red Sox!
8) That game where it was really hot and Irabu pitched ok against the Indians. I didn't say they would all be good Moments.
7) Five walk-off homers that weren't #1 or #3: Darryl, Tino, Bernie, Big G and Melky.
6) Sitting through 17 innings of misery as the Yankees COULDN'T SCORE AGAINST THE TIGERS... and then staying for the second half of the doubleheader. That started at 10:40pm.
5) Milestones: Derek Jeter's first game at the Stadium, Don Mattingly's last game at the Stadium, Roger Clemens' 300th W and 4000th K (yuck in retrospect), Bernie Williams 2000th hit, Derek Jeter's Stadium record hit this past Tuesday.
4) Getting so excited over the Yankees beating the Mariners in an April 1997 ballgame that I passed out in the bleachers... well not quite out. I just got a tremendous pain in my noggin and was lying down on the blue metal seats for about give minutes before we finally left. Teenaged Geoff liked the Yankees.
3) The game where the Yankees were losing 8-0 and won. Jorge Posada blocked the plate and hit a homer to do it.
2) The game where the Yankees were losing 8-0 and ALMOST won. Set a personal record for heckling in one game, mainly targeted at the White Sox bullpen, even during a one hour rain delay. Then ragging on White Sox reliever Kelly Wunsch (It's Wunsch-time! Pretty mean, huh?) as he was warming up so hard that he gave up a bases loaded double to Bernie Williams and a single to Tino Martinez. We still lost 10-9 though. Chris was there.
1) Jim Leyritz 1995 - Holy guacamole.*
*Yeesh.
But if you could find it in your heart to vote for Jason Giambi to make the All-Star team, that would be great.
Reasons to vote for him:
1) He is deserving
2) He would participate in the Home Run Derby if elected to the All-Star game
3) His mustache is definitely awesome. Evidence: he was endorsed by the American Mustache Institute
4) He admitted to wearing a golden thong when in a slump
5) He took steroids
Oh wait. Ignore that last one. Thanks!
Listen.
Ever since Joe Torre essentially got fired yesterday, there's been a lot of speculation.
The Yankees will want someone steadfast, a good leader. Someone with an intimate knowledge of the team and an extensive background in sketch comedy. Someone who loves the Yankees, and managing more than anything else in the world.
But as much as it pains me to say, I am using this blog to formally announce that I am taking myself out of the running for manager of the New York Yankees.
No one could ever hope to succeed a man of the grace, class and strength of will of Joe Torre, and I for one refuse to be the man stuck in his long, historic shadow. I wish him well in all his future endeavors and wish his family luck and health.
Another reason I will refuse to be considered for the job is that I am really pissed off at the Yankees.
Alex Rodriguez might leave the Yankees. If he does, I will be upset.
Joe Torre might leave the Yankees. If he does, I will be upset.
This is a really fascinating article on the Colorado Rockies, who have had some of the strangest problems to overcome in all of baseball. And now they're in the World Series.
This makes me waaaaaaaaaaay happier than it should. I mean the Indians beat the Yankees. But I don't care. That's how much I hate the Red Sox. But it ain't over yet, that's for sure.
And here's a story about the Devil Rays for no reason.
Another season, another first round exit for the Yanks. But for the first time ever, I had a real creative outlet to sublimate my extreme depression:
On The Strange Insect Infestation In Last Week's Yankees-Indians Game
Thanks to John Krewson and the rest of the OS guys for letting me exercise the demon-bugs that have been on my brain since last Friday.
