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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:...

Gallery: All The Tacky Crap MLB Teams Gave Mariano Rivera This Season

It's looking pretty likely that Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer and one-pitch pitcher in MLB history, will play his last game this Sunday. He holds the saves record at 652, but this only scratches the surface of his statistical dominance. His 2.21 ERA translates to a park- and era-adjusted ERA+ ...

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....

Exit Light

Today gives Mariano Rivera Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium. Andy Pettitte makes his final regular season start in the Bronx so it's a sentimental afternoon for an organization that's known to lay it on thick. Still, Rivera is one of my favorite players so I can put up with the schmaltz. I've gone...

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...

The Great Chase

Wladimir Balentien is the new single-season home run king in Japan. Fifty-two years ago, Roger Maris chased Babe Ruth’s home run record here in the States. Of course, he eventually broke it. When he did, this is what the great Leonard Shecter wrote in the New York Post:...

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....

Bobby Valentine Says The Yankees Didn't Help Out After 9/11. Really?

Here's Bobby V. doing what Bobby V. does when you put him near a microphone: Making bizarre, unnecessary, and not particularly accurate comments about the 2001 Yankees' response to the September 11th attacks....

The Yankees Will Pay $29 Million In Luxury Tax This Year

The most interesting aspect of the luxury tax penalties isn't what the Yankees are paying for the right to spend money—more than Alex Rodriguez's salary, more than the Astros' entire payroll. It's that the Dodgers, with a nearly identical payroll, owe just a third of the Yankees' tax bill....

Benches Clear; Buck Showalter And Joe Girardi Need To Be Restrained

Baseball, it's still here! Between innings in Baltimore, a red-faced Buck Showalter came out of the dugout yelling at Joe Girardi and had to be restrained by the home plate umpire....

Don't Give The Kid That Baseball, Exhibit No. 3,328

Children are grabby, grubby little monsters who take and take and take and how do they thank you? By flinging your good will out of the upper deck....

MLS Team Considers New Stadium Next To The Yankees

NYCFC, owned by Manchester City and the Yankees, will join MLS in 2015. But they don't have a stadium just yet. Until one is built, they're expected to play in Yankee Stadium. But it seems like there's a good chance that when NYCFC gets a home of its own, they won't have far to travel....

Cal Ripken's Final Game At Yankee Stadium

The fifth home game at Yankee Stadium after 9.11 was Cal Ripken Day. Here's my scorecard. The game ended in a 1-1 tie, called due to rain. It was a cold, miserable day. I remember seeing cops on the roof of the Stadium behind the lights. They looked like prison guards....

Here's Alfonso Soriano Celebrating A Home Run He Didn't Hit

This looks like a home run celebration—you always save the bat-toss-transitional-slow-trot-skip for home runs—but it is not a home run celebration....