It was a whacky 9th inning to be sure.  The Yankees were holding on to a precarious one run lead going into the top half of the inning and the cat and mouse game between Yankees manager Joe Girardi and Mets manager Jerry Manuel began.
To set this up you have to go back to the [...]

It’s no secret that Alex Rodriguez, like Barry Bonds, like Roger Clemens and like Manny Ramirez was a great and gifted player long before his name became associated with performance enhancing drugs.  Out of those names mentioned only Rodriguez has avoided any penalties or courtroom entanglements so far.  As we all know, the reasons for [...]

First of all, I want to wish all of you baseball loving moms out there a Happy Mother’s Day.
UGLY!  There is no other way to describe the New York Yankees. This team is ugly.  It wins ugly and it loses ugly.  Today’s finale in Baltimore was no different.  It was ugly.  Yeah, they won 5-3 [...]

It seems like only yesterday that Phil Hughes, along with fellow right-hander Ian Kennedy were projected as can’t miss prospects by both baseball experts and those within the Yankees organization.  They were so revered that Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman refused to put them into any deal, including a swap that would have brought two-time [...]

Once again, the greatest rivalry since the Union vs. the Confederacy gets showcased this weekend at Fenway Park in Boston as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox face off in a 3-game series between the longtime AL East rivals.
You can just hear it now.  The peacefulness of spring will be broken by the [...]

Today the New York Yankees officially usher in a new era of baseball in the Bronx.  Today, the $1.5 billion palace known as Yankee Stadium formally opens its doors to the throngs of Yankee fans who will descend upon the new edifice located at E 161st St. and River Avenue.  Officially, today is known as [...]

He had just pitched the game of his life, and what Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart did afterward was do what any 22-year old kid would do.  He wanted to celebrate his good fortune with friends.
Unfortunately, Adenhart died only hours after shutting down the Oakland Athletics; pitching six scoreless innings in the process. It [...]

As I turned on my computer to write this article I glanced down at the taskbar at the bottom of my monitor and noted the time here on the west coast was 7:14 PDT.  The 714 immediately drew me to the number of home runs Babe Ruth hit in his historic career.  It also reminded [...]

It’s no secret that from the time catcher Jorge Posada headed to the disabled list last July the New York Yankees have missed him.  Posada, a home grown Bomber favorite, ended his 2008 season with shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum and a damaged rotator cuff that refused to improve with rest and rehabilitation.  [...]

Major League Baseball investigators finally got around to their highly anticipated meeting with Yankees’ third baseman Alex Rodriguez regarding his recent admission that he was had used illegal performance-enhancing drugs from 2001-03 while playing for the Texas Rangers.
Rodriguez, playing in his final spring training game before leaving the Yankees to play for Team Dominican Republic [...]