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Alex Rodriguez Flips The Bat After He "Crushed" His Appeal Hearing

Alex Rodriguez is a free man. No, not baseball-wise—he still faces the prospect of a 211-game suspension. But after angrily storming out of his hearing on Wednesday then opening up to Mike Francesa, it's as if some huge weight has been lifted from his shoulders. Now's he sounds almost like a real hu...

Rickey, Mattingly, And Racism In The Eighties

Have You Seen Your Brother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows?...

Why The Yankees Gave Derek Jeter A Raise

Today the Yankees announced that they have re-signed Derek Jeter for one year at $12 million. This, despite Jeter holding a $9.5 million player option, and unlikely to fetch more than that in free agency coming off a year in which injuries limited him to 73 plate appearances. ...

Book We Want To Believe: A-Rod Got His Hookers "Two At A Time"

Do you like pure, shameless, unverifiable A-Rod gossip? Good, so do we. An upcoming book, about his luxury condo tower of all things, reports that Rodriguez had a thing for hiring prostitutes in pairs....

Mariano Rivera's Goodbye Turns Us All Into Blubbering Children

It was perfect. I mean, it was all wrong: the Yankees were losing, and the Yankees weren't playing for anything, and he came on in the middle of an inning, and left before the job was done, but maybe all of it is what made everything right. Maybe the complete unreality of the night made the whole th...

Watch Mariano Rivera Leave The Field At Yankee Stadium, Forever

Tonight marked the last time Mariano Rivera would throw a pitch at Yankee Stadium. With the Yankees trailing 4-0 against the Rays, Rivera retired four batters over the eighth and ninth innings. When Derek Jeter and Andy Pettitte came to the mound to take Rivera out, it turned into one of those time...

Alex Rodriguez Will Skip The Yankees' Last Series, So Say Goodbye Now

Alex Rodriguez's arbitration hearing begins Monday. He'll be fighting to overturn MLB's 211-game ban, which would cover all of the 2014 season and run into late May of 2015. The Yankees, eliminated from the playoffs yesterday, still have a season-ending series in Houston. A-Rod won't join them....

MLB Takes Out Full-Page Newspaper Ads To Honor Mariano Rivera

Tonight will be Mariano Rivera's final home game, a meaningless one since the Yankees were officially eliminated from postseason play last night. It'll be just the second time in his 19-year career that Rivera won't pitch into October. So today's the day for tributes....

Report: Bobby Valentine Loses TBS Gig Over Dumb 9/11 Comments

Last month, Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine said a bunch of dumb things about how his New York Mets did so much to support New York City in the aftermath of 9/11 while the Yankees sat back and did nothing. We've already demonstrated how flat-out wrong those comments were, and now it appears that...

Mariano Rivera Bobblehead Night Is A Fiasco [Updates]

It is Mariano Rivera bobblehead giveaway night, and the Yankees do not have any Mariano Rivera bobbleheads to give away....

Roger Angell On Mariano Rivera

Angell's take on Mariano Rivera Appreciation Day:...

Metallica Performs "Enter Sandman" At Yankee Stadium For Mo Rivera

In a pregame ceremony, Metallica performed "Enter Sandman" to honor Mariano Rivera as he walked onto the field from the bullpen. Rivera's final regular-season game at Yankee Stadium will be Thursday, but the Yankees retired his number today....

Rays Win In 18, Set Stage For Wide-Open Wild Card Finish

I gave up on this game in the 16th. If only the Orioles were so sleepy, they could have been spared two further innings and grief. And, who knows, maybe if it ends in 16, Kelly Johnson here doesn't get drilled with DeJesus's helmet after a celebratory heave. But that's baseball: unpredictable. Somet...

The Called Shot Heard Round The World

Excerpted from From Black Sox to Three-Peats: A Century of Chicago's Best Sports Writing (University of Chicago Press), edited by Ron Rapoport and featuring stories from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Daily News, and the Chicago Defender, among other papers. It's an excellen...

The Red Sox Made Mariano Rivera's Ceremony All About The Red Sox

Throughout his farewell season, Mariano Rivera has been honored by visiting teams with gifts and small ceremonies celebrating his storied career. The Twins gave him a chair made of broken bats. The White Sox gave him framed scorecards from notable appearances. The Red Sox? They made sure to celebrat...

Oh No.

How To Pitch A Perfect Ninth In A One-Run Game And Not Get A Save

In the same game that brought you this bibelot, Mariano Rivera entered the ninth inning with the Yankees up one run. He retired the Orioles 1-2-3. He did not get the save—but he did get a win. Huh?...

Alex Rodriguez Is The Hero The Yankees Need But Don't Deserve

Hey, remember Alex Rodriguez? The most evilest, steroid-guzzling clown fraud who just a month ago was at the center of the biggest shit storm of the MLB season? The aged, disgraced slugger that everyone wished would just disappear? Well, his old, flawed team is thisclose to making the playoffs, and ...

Chris Stewart Struck Out On A 1-1 Pitch

Yankees catcher Chris Stewart is...not a good hitter. He might be better if he didn't give up after two strikes....