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End Of Days In The Bronx

Yankee Stadium Looks To Be Going Down Without A Fight


Just to follow up on what Rick was saying earlier ... we don't think we're gonna have much reason to write about the Yankees too much longer. Once that All-Star Game is over, and we'll just have the Yankee Stadium elegies ... and then we can all go back to our lives. The Yankees looked deader than Dillinger. More »

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Please Do Not Get Smudges On The Yankees' Uniforms; They Have To Last All Season


I'll admit to not being 100 percent up to date on the unwritten rules of baseball; I'm still working on that whole wearing-a-shirt-at-the-dinner-table thing. But it seems to me that if you're a runner heading home, and the catcher is blocking the plate, you do what God intended. You run over the sucker like Mr. Plow. More »

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Joe Girardi, Apparently This Is Your Dream Job

The night of Joe Torre's final game as Yankees manager, we ran into one of those aggressively hardcore Yankees fans who are perfectly friendly until they've had a bit to drink. We asked him what he thought about the job vacancy; he said, "I hope it's not Mattingly. I can't boo Donny Baseball." It was charming; he understood that part of the job description was being booed. And now he doesn't have to worry: It's gonna be Joe Girardi. More »

would you really rather live in baltimore than chicago?

Why Would The Orioles Ever Need To Make A Change?

We don't mean to imply that it might be a tough time for Cubs fans, but now their executives are jumping ship to the Orioles. More »