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Phil Rizzuto: Why the New York Yankees Are the Greatest, Part Ten
The Scooter, Phil Rizzuto, was a New Yorker all his life. Born in Brooklyn, Phil first tried out for the home-team Brooklyn Dodgers in 1935. At that time Casey Stengel was the manager of the Dodgers...
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Mark Teixeira: Cursing Boston As The Empire Strikes Back?
Since Dec. 23, the fortunes for some Boston teams have taken a turn for the worst. It all started with a rumored $12 million difference over eight seasons ($168M vs. $180M) to free agent first baseman Mark Teixeira...
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Why the New York Yankees Are the Greatest: Part Nine
Every baseball team needs players who are not Hall of Famers. This can be the guy who isn’t a power hitter, and who doesn’t have a great on base percentage, but plays a great defensive right field...
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After Seven-Year Mission To Destroy Yankees, Giambi Returns Home To Oakland
Today, the Oakland Athletics announced that they have agreed to a one-year contract worth 5.25 million dollars with former AL MVP award winner Jason Giambi, seven years after he began a dangerous ...
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Andy Pettitte Considering the Astros?
(Zell's Pinstripe Blog) Now that Andy has rejected the Yankees $10M offer, he is thinking about whether or not he has other options. The Astros can certainly be one of them because his family is in Texas...
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Yankees Big Deals Vs Boston Silent Booms
Here we go again! The Yankees made their big deals, but Boston sneaks in quietly the last few days with a BOOM of their own! No matter how many teams there are in the off season, it always seems ...
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Giambi Returns to Oakland. Red Sox Closing in on Smoltz and Baldelli
(Zell's Pinstripe Blog) Jason Giambi is no longer a Bronx Bomber. He rejoined the Athletics yesterday after passing a physical. Giambi received a one-year contract worth $5.25M. I remember back in 2001 everyone was excited when he first joined the team
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Yankee Stadium Construction Photo Update
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Yankees Would Prefer To Deal Nady
Early in this off-season the Yankees thought they had found their new first baseman in Nick Swisher until they found a better one in Mark Teixeira...
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All I Know About Baseball: A Formula One Fan Muses
I am a girl at the races or so I'd like to believe. But then, I'd also been quite a fan of the field hockey stick (of course, not to hit those eve-teasing guys at school), the cricket willow, ...
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REPORT: Andy Not Happy With Yanks!
Courtesy Yankees 'N More and Field of Dreams Ken Davidoff has a new story up regarding the situation between Andy Pettitte and the New York Yankees, which remains in complete gridlock...
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The Red Sox In 2009: A Catcher's Drama In Three Acts
Heading into the 2009 season, the Red Sox will be knocking on the door of an identity crisis, if they haven't already smashed said door to bits and crossed the threshold...
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Pete Abraham: Writers Were Chumps
It’s not uncommon for the Yankees' beat writers to receive criticism for how they do their jobs, after all we all know better than them don’t we? But this time it is one of their ...
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Former Yankees Find New Homes
A pair of former Yankees, Jason Giambi and Carl Pavano, tricked Oakland and Cleveland respectively into signing them to contracts. Each team was smart enough to only give each player a one-year deal...
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In Other News...Ichiro To The Yankees? Hey, I Like That!
No, Ichiro was not traded to the Yankees, but that would be a good move, for both the Yankees and Mariners. Being a Mariners fan, I know that Seattleites would miss the only player in the All-Star game, but we can do without him...
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Yankees Add Angel Berroa, John Rodriguez
The Yankees finally made the grand announcement that Mark Teixeira is a Bomber yesterday and they also added a few players to fill smaller roles in 2009. Angel Berroa signed a minor league contract...
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New York: A Disgrace To Baseball?
Both the New York Yankees and Mets have been big spenders this off-season. The Yankees signed CC Sabathia to a seven-year deal worth $161 million. They signed Mark Teixeira to an eight-year deal worth $180 million...
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Mark Teixeira's Signing a Fitting Finale for Yankee Stadium
The New York Yankees won yet another biding war against the Boston Red Sox when first baseman Mark Teixeira agreed to an eight-year, $180 million contract in December...
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Who Has a Better Team: Israel Defense Forces or the New York Yankees ?
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) have come in to Gaza and taken control of the place. They have killed over 700 hundred Palestinians (may they rest in peace) between them and over 500 Hamas terrorists (may they rot in hell)...
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Yankees Are Done Spending!
Courtesy YNM's Field of Dreams and Yankees 'N More For those of us who are spoiled by the aggressiveness with which the New York Yankees attacked this free-agent market, do not expect any more big spending...
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Mark Teixeira Impressive in His Yankee Debut
The most successful team in sports history introduced a new star yesterday. Mark Teixeira was brought before the press in old Yankee Stadium and was certainly impressive...
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Yankee Fans Must Thank Steinbrenner Family
After watching the press conference yesterday in which the New York Yankees introduced their newest star, Mark Teixeira, this fan was overcome with one thought: Thank you, George, Hank, and Hal Steinbrenner...
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Pinch hitter
No blog story today I was going to write an entry about who will be the Yankees’ leader in 09 but it’s obvious it has to be Derek Jeter because he is the captain. I wrote half the story then stopped...
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Offseason Movement So Far
Fighting Chance Fantasy Sports is back!!!! We took a little break to celebrate the holidays, but it is time to start focusing on baseball...
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New York City Drops the Arrogance, Doesn't Need Skyboxes
Yay, sometimes the good guys win. From the Boston Herald: State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, who accuses the city of conducting the stadium negotiations behind closed doors, said the Bloomberg ...













