What a weekend! This is it, folks. This is the biggest rivalry in sports, played right here on the most sacred soil in all of baseball. The Yankees and Red Sox. Baseball fans don’t need to hear the story. They booked their tickets for this one a long time ago, and out there in the […]
Continue reading →Baseball’s natural order has been restored in the Bronx. As the 26-time-World-Champion New York Yankees await their bitter rivals from Boston, they ride the crest of a magical 15-wins-out-of-17-games stretch that has propelled them into second place in the AL East, a half-game ahead of the 25-21 Red Sox. Three weeks ago, the gap between […]
Continue reading →“If they were cars, John Smoltz would have been the gas-guzzling SUV while Matt Clement would have been the economical, efficient, precision driving machine.” – Nick Cafardo, Boston Globe, May 23, 2005. If they were roaming about the Great Plains in pioneer times, Matt Clement would have been the noble Lakota, boiling even the smallest […]
Continue reading →When it came time to negotiate a new contract this off-season, Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek told his agent Scott Boras to play hardball, but in his heart Varitek knew that there was only one place for him – manning the plate in Fenway Park as he’s done for the past seven years. And if […]
Continue reading →ESPN got it right. In referring to Eric Anduri, the goon who hurled a beer at Yankee hero Jason Giambi, as an “attacker,” the cable network did their part in refusing to downplay the horrific significance of the vile assault upon Giambi on Saturday night. Anduri, you might have heard, is the son of the […]
Continue reading →In his two most recent starts, Colorado Rockies pitcher Shawn Chacon has walked sixteen guys in ten innings, but he’s given up only four runs. That’s two runs each game! But the fact is, Shawn Chacon hasn’t been struggling with his control lately, regardless of what it may look like when you read the box […]
Continue reading →Rickey got paid! Rickey was chilling on Saturday night when the phone rang. It was some dude from San Diego. “Yo Rickey! We want the greatest leadoff hitter in baseball history to come get that paper and show all the suckers in San Diego how to play baseball like a man!” he said, or something […]
Continue reading →Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo attracted a small measure of controversy last week when pictures of him cavorting with nubile young lasses at a Boston-area college surfaced on the Internet. The very married Arroyo, plastic cup of keg beer in bejeweled hand, was seen smiling pleasantly with a young babe perched eagerly on his lap; […]
Continue reading →Who would you rather have in left field – some chump with furry eyebrows like Tony Womack, or the greatest left fielder of all time? Rickey Henderson is asking that question rhetorically, because you know the answer. Tony Womack is a punk. Tony Womack can’t even play second base! Mel Hall is a better left […]
Continue reading →Hey, I’m Mike Piazza, All-Star catcher for the New York Mets. And I’d like to talk to you about the filibuster. Before I met my old lady, I was out hunting for poontang with Ted Nugent, and the Nuge turned around and asked me, “P, why do gun-grabbing nutjob liberals find it necessary to prevent […]
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