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Papelbon's Control Goes On The Lam


Mike Lamb, he of the .213 average and no homers in 94 at-bats, was the latest to victimize the Red Sox closer, who has blown back-to-back saves. That leaves him one short of his mark through all of last season. Papelbon opened the 9th by allowing a single to Delmon Young, who advanced to third on a sacrifice and an uncontested steal. Paps then issued just his fourth walk of the season to Carlos Gomez before surrendering the game-winning hit to Lamb.

Suddenly Ian Kennedy don't look so bad: Kei Igawa made his much ballyhooed return to the Yankees rotation and ugly as it was, perhaps it came against the wrong team, as New York seems to be the only team the Tigers can beat with regularity this season. But, hey, he didn't walk anybody! Detroit improved to 4-0 against the Yanks this season despite Todd Jones doing what Todd Jones does and making things more interesting than they need to be in the 9th.

Lance Berkman is on a bit of a tear: That is, if you consider batting .750 over the last six games to qualify you for such a thing. Lance went 3-for-4 with a homer in the Astros 7-1 win over the Dodgers to bump up his NL-leading RBI total to 35. More »

11:55 AM on Sat May 10 2008
By Christmas Ape
1,573 views, 14 comments

Latest by SpandexEnthusiast: Good to see Sexon make contact with something- even if it was the pitcher- perhaps it will give him some momentum into the next game. shit. more »

professional swordsman duan

All Hail Derek Jeter's Golden Baby Arm

It is times like these where Yankee-haters even must bow down to the catnip that is Derek Jeter's machismo. Maxim's Hot 100 list contains six women who've been romantically linked to the Yankee shortstop. More »

6:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By DAULERIO
39,412 views, 961 comments

alex rodriguez would not like to cut the cord

Even A-Rod's Wife Questions Her Husband's Masculinity


It's tough for most of us to watch those "Miracle of Life" shows where they give you the full access to what it's really like to watch someone have a baby. After viewing it, you soon realize that even the most gruesome horror movies showing a screeching alien ejecting itself out of a person's stomach are, in fact, less gory than an actual child birth. Alex Rodriguez knows this. And according to Yankees blogger and beat writer Peter Abraham, Alex Rodriguez fears this. And thanks to this transcript from tomorrow night's "YESterdays" show on the YES network featuring A-Rod, we find out that, according to Cynthia Rodriguez, the Yankees third baseman acts just like many people would probably suspect. Let the emasculation party begin: More »

1:36 PM on Tue May 6 2008
By DAULERIO
40,639 views, 71 comments

Latest by tamoko: @Admore: LOL! more »

it all ends

Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry Jumps Shark, Lands In Madness

Sometime in the not-so-distant future, when all the oil and electricity is gone, global warming takes a firm hold and mankind is left to fend for itself in a feral state, I would expect scenes such as the following to occur with frequency. But not yet. For the love of God, not yet. As you might have read, on Saturday a woman plowed into a group of Red Sox fans with her car, killing one, reportedly because she was being taunted for being a Yankees' fan. More »

10:00 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By rickchand
9,118 views, 112 comments

Latest by RachelRayIsTheDevil: @StartingAces: +2 more »

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Teddy Wins His First Presidents Race!


Only to get disqualified by Screech, the world's most useless mascot, for cutting a corner of the warning track. He was just following Cartman's advice! That's okay, because I found Frank Robinson sitting with me in the bleeds down the right field line. As for the game, the Nats jumped to a lead with a two-run homer by Nick "Yes, SexyBack is still my batting music" Johnson. The Nats' bullpen does what it do: issuing a bases loaded walk to tie the game at 3 in the 8th. Wil Nieves, using that extra energy he has from not having to carry around that second "L" in his name, ended it in the bottom of the 9th with a two-run walkoff. More »

10:20 AM on Sat Apr 26 2008
By Christmas Ape
1,942 views, 17 comments

Latest by DGonSouthCap: @Chief Wahoo: My sister has the same reaction when I refer to my 2nd grade trip to West Germany. more »

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Joba Chamberlain Makes Clumsy Pass At Erin Andrews, Becomes Mortal (WITH UPDATE)

Actually I have no idea what the Yankees' Joba Chamberlain said to Erin Andrews at the conclusion of their interview on Wednesday, but whatever it was, Andrews was obviously repulsed. You can check out the video here and judge for yourself. Man, it looks like she just ate a bug. So then can it just be coincidence that Chamberlain suffered his first career loss the next day, giving up the winning run in the ninth in the White Sox's 7-6 victory? Joe Crede's run-scoring single won it. More »

10:40 AM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By rickchand
26,323 views, 91 comments

Latest by Joetimek: @Civil Negligence: Great Michael Scott reference. He said "I Love You" in the sort of douche-baggity way you'd expect from a New York Yankee. And she clearly thought the camera was off. more »

Yankees fans might be in for a rude awakening this year. [Walk Off Walk]

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no candy for yankees

Four Out Of Five Dentists Think Joe Girardi Is Nuts

Further proof that Joe Girardi is the Frank Burns of AL managers; he has forbidden the Yankees to eat candy or gum. Yes, that should turn the tide. New York would have four or five more World Series trophies if not for the evil of Skittles. Girardi is being really strict about this. More »

5:45 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By rickchand
9,645 views, 44 comments

scary yanks sox fans

You Know It's Baseball Season When Fat Yanks-Red Sox Fans Are Killing Each Other


Last week, the Red Sox and Yankees battled it out at Yankee Stadium. You might have heard about it. But we just today saw this shot above and, more to the point, the rather amazing video after the jump of a real, live Yankees-Red Sox fan fight. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Leitch
24,113 views, 98 comments

Latest by JimRome: What's the big deal here? Not one person was beaten with his own shoes! I'm not impressed. We have worse fights most weekends at youth hockey games between the mothers. more »

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The Pope Should Wipe His Feet Before Entering Yankee Stadium

The Pope turns 81 years old today — 10 years older than John McCain, and just three years older than Julio Franco — and he's celebrating it in Washington, D.C. with President Bush. (What better way?) He will be celebrating mass at the new Nationals Stadium, which means we're going to assume Elijah Dukes won't have access to the clubhouse that day. But the real fun is when The Pope visits Yankee Stadium later this week. More »

11:10 AM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Leitch
5,213 views, 90 comments

terror at three-and-a-half feet

New York Now Free From The Menace Of Buried Cloth

There have been a little more than 9,000 unsolved murders in New York City since 1985; many of the victims buried in cement, do doubt. But thank God we've solved this case: The Yankees have dug up a Red Sox jersey on Sunday that had been planted beneath their new stadium by a construction worker. And it only took a work crew five hours with a jackhammer to locate it. Also found by the Yankees beneath the cement were: More »

10:00 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By rickchand
7,618 views, 55 comments

Latest by FiddlingWhileJimRomeBurns brought to you by Diebold: Hank currently has the jackhammer crew on their way over to Gate to Heaven to dig up the Babe. He's going to take this to another level. more »

new yankee stadium

Drink In The New Yankee Stadium


If you haven't seen pictures of the new Yankee Stadium yet, the one that's coming next year, you really need to check out Curbed's photo gallery. It actually looks like a place one might actually want to watch a ballgame. More »

3:30 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Leitch
8,618 views, 75 comments

vindicated excerpts

The Excerpts From "Vindicated" About Alex Rodriguez (UPDATE: Now Redacted!)


Ever since Joe Lavin announced he'd bought a copy of Jose Canseco's Vindicated earlier today, people — OK, some people — have been curious what EXACTLY Canseco said. After the jump, the selections from Vindicated concerning Alex Rodriguez. More »

6:29 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Leitch
24,587 views, 367 comments

coffee talk with alex rodriguez

A-Rod Talks Wistfully Of The Mets (Really)

The timing could have been better for Alex Rodriguez, who sat down for a soul-searching interview with the New York Daily News on the same day that Jose Canseco was touting a new book, claiming that A-Rod took steroids. That publicity could have been used for damage control! At any rate, A-Rod tells columnist John Harper that he wishes he would have signed with the Mets instead of the Rangers, and that his opt out/opt-back-in drama with the Yankees was due in part to his daughter's fondness for her toys. More »

4:10 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By rickchand
5,461 views, 48 comments

Latest by IchiroSuzukiSamurai: To paraphrase an old Tank McNamara, Scott Boras to A-Rod: are you aware what 5% of your daughter's toys is? more »

a-rod and jose

A-Rod Comments On Canseco's Book "Revelation"

Well, that didn't take long: Just five hours after our post on writer Joe Lavin's early purchase of Jose Canseco's new book, which, according to Lavin, claims that Canseco introduced A-Rod to a steroid supplier, A-Rod has responded with characteristic stoicism. More »

2:19 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Leitch
17,604 views, 43 comments

2008 division previews

Your AL East "Preview"


The baseball season officially kicks off tomorrow, though no one will really think of baseball as happening until next Monday. (Or maybe that Braves-Nationals game on Sunday night.) So we figured this would be the last week to actually start previewing each division. So we're gonna hit one a day, starting today, with the AL East. We'll give our predictions, then you give yours. Deal? More »

5:01 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Leitch
5,316 views, 37 comments

hey, what are the cubs doing in there?

ESPN Has An Northeast Coast Bias? What?

OK, I suppose one could say that we've been guilty of trotting out more than a fair share of Yankees, Mets and Red Sox posts over any given season (although we also have some Rick Ankiel and Barry Bonds posts we'd like you to meet). But ESPN takes its Northeast favoritism to an entire new level (like we had to tell you). Here's a telling screen grab for your files, as presented by The Big Lead. More »

3:10 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By rickchand
7,759 views, 50 comments

Latest by gjdodger: "Cubs make offer for Roberts; Buster discusses impact on Mets." more »

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Baseball Season Preview: New York Yankees

For the third consecutive season, we are proud to introduce the Deadspin Baseball Season Previews. Yes, baseball is awfully close now; it's spring training, after all.

Every weekday until the start of the season, a different writer will preview his/her team. We asked a gaggle of writers, from the Web, from print, from books, to tell us, in as many or as little words as they need, Where Their Team Stands. This is not meant to be factual, or dispassionate, or even logical: We just asked them to riff on why they love their team so much, or what their team means to them, or whatever.

Today: The New York Yankees. Your author is Amy Blair.

Amy Blair is a former columnist for The Black Table and now writes a weekly column for Eater. Her words are after the jump.

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1:35 PM on Wed Mar 19 2008
By Leitch
4,309 views, 54 comments