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Your "DUANnie Baseball" Yankees-Twins Open Thread
Yankees fans are an arrogant breed. Twenty-seven championships tend to do that for a franchise. This is why it's so fun to ask one simple question: How many World Series rings did Don Mattingly win?...
Let's All Admire Umpire Hunter Wendelstedt's Rather Large Human Element
What you see here, courtesy of Brooks Baseball, is a plot of Hunter Wendelstedt's whimsical strikezone from yesterday's Yankees-Twins game. The red marks were called strikes; the green ones were balls. No, that's not how a strikezone is supposed to look....
Your MUSTACHE MUSTACHE MUSTACHE Yankees-Twins Open Thread
Contrary to popular belief, Carl Pavano did not spend four years in New York sitting on his ass. He was waiting, planning, growing, grooming. Here's your space to talk about his facial hair and other things of note....
The 2010 Hater’s Guide To The MLB Playoffs
Time to ring in a new annual tradition around these parts, in which we say horrible, awful things about all the teams involved in the playoffs this year. Let’s do this....
The Yankees/Red Sox Turf War Claims Another Victim
A Yankee fan stabbed a Red Sox fan at a Connecticut restaurant Saturday, supposedly over baseball. Though the altercation happened at the Chowder Pot Inn, so maybe it was a fight about the pronunciation of a certain word. [Globe]...
That's Not The Ass Of Any Old Ballplayer; That's The Ass Of A Playoff-Spot-Clinching Ballplayer (NSFW-ish)
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Really Old Guy Doesn't Like Drama Queen Cheaters, So He Doesn't Like Derek Jeter
When Derek Jeter stole first pretending he'd been hit by a pitch, 87-year-old baseball-card-store "volunteer" Al Merrill didn't just get mad. He cost himself about a hundred bucks....
Last Night's Winner: Criminal Yankee Fans
In sports, everyone is a winner-some people just win better than others. Like New York City's criminals, who apparently wear Yankee caps in disproportionate numbers. I too own a Yankee cap (pictured), so I thought I'd take a look at this trend....
Big Yankees Fan, Manipulating His Inner Pee Wee Herman, Makes New Video
Michael LaPayower wins Chevy Fan of the Year (for August)! Michael LaPayower wins Chevy Fan of Year (for August)!...
Derek Jeter: The <em>True</em> True Yankee. Seriously.
The first time I heard of Derek Jeter, this young star emerging from the Yankees' farm system, I was an 8-year-old boy. He has never not been my favorite baseball player — even now, when he's neither young nor a star....
Lil Wayne Loves Him Some Maria Sharapova
Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day....
Yankees Toss Limbless Boy In Water, Or Something
The Yankees kicked off their annual "HOPE Week" by treating 13-year-old Jorge Grajales to a pool party. Jorge is a quadruple amputee. Whatever, he still throws better than Knoblauch. [Journal News]...
Big Yankees Fan, Evoking Lady Gaga, Says We All Missed His Video's Comedic Subtleties
I know a lot has changed in the past 24 hours, but surely you remember Michael LaPayower's homage to pride, power, pinstripes and Derek Jeter. If not, take a moment to reacquaint yourself....
Big Yankees Fan, Inspired By Katy Perry, Humiliates a Franchise
I know a place, where Michael LaPayower won't have it easy, after people see his Chevy Fan of the Year video submission....
Kerry Wood to the Yankees? Kerry Wood to the Yankees.
The Yankees will get Kerry Wood from the Indians, agreeing to pay about $1.5 million of the $3.6 million left on Wood’s contract. [SI.com] Wood was activated from the DL today. Mark Prior wasn’t. Brian Hickey cried while typing that. Joba Chamberlain cried while reading it....
Prediction for Today's Royals/Yankees Game
Twenty-seven years ago today, this happened ......
A.J. Burnett is a Liar. He'll Tear Your Heart Up. He'll Burn Your Soul.
Let me tell you a little bit about what A.J. Burnett did on the day Tim McCarver did the right thing by outting the Yankees organization as Nazi Communist airbrush artists....
Tim McCarver: Yankees Front Office Takes After Nazi, Communist Propagandists
Tim McCarver apparently thinks there's a Yankees campaign to remove Joe Torre's Bronx contributions from the annals of history. So, in the fourth inning of Saturday's game against the Rays on Fox, he went all Tim Kampf on viewers....
Sheppard, Steinbrenner, (not) Berra
Woe was the New York Yankees website associate tasked with with writing the "Berra misses Old-Timer's Day after fall" release today after a week of franchise death notices....
Read This: Don DeLillo's "At Yankee Stadium"
Granta has put up Don DeLillo's 1990 story "At Yankee Stadium," which depicts a Moonie wedding of 13,000 men and women (an actual event that remains perhaps the strangest phenomenon ever to materialize in the stadium, not counting Don Zimmer)....