Omar Minaya had a list and may have checked it twice, but most of the stores he shopped in didn’t carry what he was looking for. Regardless, he couldn’t let the kids – or in this case, the season ticket holders sitting on renewals and potential new orders – be disappointed during the holiday season. [...]

When righthander Javier Vazquez was acquired from the Montreal Expos back in December of 2003, the deal was viewed as one that would put the Yankees over the top and back to their World Series winning ways.
At the time, they were coming off a disappointing loss to the Florida Marlins in the Fall Classic and [...]

For New York Yankee fans, nothing will ever ease the permanent sting of the Yankees’ colossal collapse of historic proportions when the Boston Red Sox became the only team in major league baseball history to incredibly rally from a three games to none deficit to win the 2004 American League Championship Series in seven games [...]

It has been a long road to this point.  The New York Yankees have had to overcome predictions, doubters and, yes, even themselves sometimes to put this team on the brink of bringing a 27th World Series trophy back to the Big Apple.
It hasn’t been an easy road.  Going into Spring Training many so-called experts [...]

There he was, Pedro Martinez the future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher on the mound in the Bronx Thursday evening trying to give the Philadelphia Phillies a 2-0 lead in the World Series against the New York Yankees. And all he heard from the 50,181 fans at Yankee Stadium was “Who’s Your Daddy.” As he [...]

Bronx, NY – When the New York Yankees blew a 3-0 lead to the hated Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series in 2004, Andy Pettitte wasn’t there to make sure that the unthinkable didn’t happen.
On Sunday night, the left-hander from Baton Rouge did the next best thing, and did his part to [...]

This is the closest the New York Yankees have been to the World Series since they blew a 3-0 2004 ALCS lead to the Boston Red Sox  to become the first team in any major U.S. sport to lose a 7-game series in that fashion .  It was the most humiliating loss in franchise history.  [...]

Both teams are coming off three-game sweeps in the Division Series. For the New York Yankees, they put a stop to the miracle that was the Minnesota Twins. After coming all the way back to tie the Tigers for the Central Division, they came back one more time in a one-game play-in at home to [...]

The American League Championship Series has finally been determined, and it should prove to be a doozy.  It’s the kind of matchup that great sports movies are made from.  It’s David versus Goliath or the bad guys versus the good guys.  Black hats against white hats, and you don’t have to stretch your imagination very [...]

Everybody is asking who is that masked man wearing No. 13 in New York Yankee pinstripes?  That can’t be Alex Rodriguez can it?  Isn’t he the guy who has proverbially choked in the playoffs since coming to the Bronx?
Well look again.  It is a new A-Rod.  One who is delivering timely hits in run scoring [...]