The Yankees come to Boston for a 3 game series starting tonight. The Red Sox are tied for first with the Rays with the Yankees a few games back. Despite the hype, the series won’t make or break either club’s season, but it certainly makes for good drama.
We’re a little over half way done with [...]
I’m still reading rants calling for Mike Mussina to start for the American League in the 2008 Major League All-Star game (previously). After all, Mussina is 10-5; halfway to a twenty win season.
Tim Wakefield is only 5-5 so far in 2008. The two pitchers make an interesting comparison, however, when you move beyond the misleading [...]
Filip Bondy:
More than two months into the season, Joe Girardi looks a lot like Joe Torre. Girardi, too, will always go first and often to his old reliables, before foraging elsewhere on the bench or in the bullpen.
…Girardi arguably has overused his core players, the ones who still remember what it feels like to win [...]
Also tagged red soxIt’s been two and a half years since the Yankees signed Johnny Damon to fill their hole in center field (a signing, remember, that Damon never gave the Red Sox a chance to match). Damon became a short term solution as he was switched to left just a year and a half later.
Damon’s been [...]
After Mike Mussina allowed only one run in six innings tonight Peter Abraham asked:
So, does Moose follow Cliff Lee in the All-Star Game?
Well, considering Mussina ranks somewhere around 25th in the league in ERA, 20th in WHIP, and coming into tonights game opposing batters were hitting .286 (286!) against him, I’ll go out on a [...]
Also tagged abrahamAfter a recent loss to the Cleveland Indians Johnny Damon gave this quote:
“We’re OK. Nothing has got in our way. With the number of injuries we’ve had and the bounces not going our way, we still have our heads up. When all is said and done, we’re going to get back to normal.”
I’ll skip the [...]
Also tagged johnny damonWasWatching.com: Yanks Don’t Understand Watson’s Take On Farnsworth
Maybe they should send Bob Watson a clip from Bill Madden’s column today? This part:
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, since 2002 Yankee batters have been hit 69 times by Red Sox pitchers as opposed to 48 Red Sox hit by Yankee hurlers. But the figures are even [...]
Also tagged hbp, red soxJoba Chamberlain gets first career loss:
Joba Chamberlain’s career had been as close to perfect as possible over his first 26 games, but the hard-throwing phenom suffered his first big-league loss Thursday night, giving up the winning run in the ninth inning in the White Sox’s 7-6 victory.”
In the 8th inning Chamberlain looked unhittable. In the [...]
Way more than you wanted on retired numbers:
Whew. I’m not going to lie to you; when I mocked the notion of the Yankees retiring Paul O’Neill’s number, I was not fully aware of just what kind of jersey-retiring fetish they have going there in the Bronx. I mean, hey, I was a huge Ron Guidry [...]