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The Next Commissioner of Baseball
Bud Selig, a most mediocre commissioner—doubling for a spell as an owner—of Major League Baseball (MLB), will step down in early 2015. By meting out a devastating if circumscribed series of suspensions for PED use, especially to Alex Rodriguez (August … Continue reading
Tyger! Tyger!
I (Evander) continue this amorphous series of postseason blogs where I left off the other day: Expect the unexpected. As James Joyce might have said, yes, rain is general all over the Midwest. The Detroit Tigers, who lead the New … Continue reading
Unusual Opening Day for Yankees and Movie with the Literal Hollywood Ending
Yesterday, also Good Friday for the Western Church and the start of Passover at sundown for all Jews, happened to be Opening Day for the New York Yankees—first pitch after 3 p.m. It wound up the first Opening Day meltdown … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Cricket, Right Off the Bat Book, Right Off the Bat Podcasts, Yankees
Tagged Al Campanis, Brooklyn Dodgers, Carl Hubbell, Joe Girardi, Major League Baseball, Mariano Rivera, Mark McGwire, New York Giants, Nick Swisher, San Francisco Giants, Wild Card, Yankee Stadium
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Good-bye Jorge Posada
Yankees catcher of seventeen seasons, Jorge Posada, hung up his professional-baseball shoes yesterday, a month after Christmas Eve. I (Evander) had mixed feelings about him. I admired his strength in dealing with his son’s cranial development and the boy’s many … Continue reading
Any Second Thoughts on Dealing Jesus Montero?
Perhaps the trade of budding-superstar catcher Jesus Montero leaves lingering doubts in Yankeeland during the height of the Hotstove League Season. Once upon a time, the idea of such a trade, dealing an everyday prospect for a pitcher that starts … Continue reading
My Funny Valentine
Bobby Valentine (courtesy of Yahoo sports) can’t wait for the 2012 season. Check out these pearls before reporters from the Winter Meetings: “The new Red Sox manager loves nothing more than folks hanging on his every word, and he basked … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Baseball, Cricket, England, Right Off the Bat Website, Yankees
Tagged Bobby Valentine, Boston Red Sox, Joe Girardi, Literature, New York Yankees
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The Jorge Posada Non-Incident
“The person said the Yankees had been in contact with the commissioner’s office about a possible penalty. The Yankees could have fined Posada one day’s pay—that would be $71,978 on his $13.1 million salary.” Say, that’s a nice piece of … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged David Ortiz, Don Baylor, Hank Steinbrenner, Joe Girardi, Jorge Posada, New York Yankees, Randy Levine
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The Jorge Posada Incident
There is a picaresque aspect to baseball. It is played every day and the drama and plot lines of a season build from the long schedule. Tonight the Yankees, a team mired in a slump, were to play an unusually … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Yankees
Tagged Joe Girardi, Jorge Posada, Luis Tiant, Mickey Mantle, New York Yankees, Ron Blomberg
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Joe Girardi’s Knucklehead Move
The season’s underway and I already get to vent because the Yankees lost their first game that they should have won, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as it were. Sure, we’re only five games into the campaign. If … Continue reading
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