Archive for July 5th, 2007

Matusi just homered (it’s about time) in the 8th to make it 7-5, Yanks

0 comments July 05 2007 | Russ | Discussion

The Bronx is Burning

Joe, brings up a good point about the Yankees’ succession plan.  I read a recent article on Hal and Hank Steinbrenner, sons of the Boss.  Apparently since Swindal has been ex-communicated from the “Family Business,” Hal and Hank are taking more active roles.  Hank on the baseball side of things, Hal on the business end.  [...]

0 comments July 05 2007 | Russ | Discussion

Officially Dead

Len, they are dead.  As a fan, I will still root for them to win, but as I said last week – there are too many players who are issues for this team to overcome.  When you add in the manager, it becomes impossible.  Certainly what you say is correct and I don’t think Torre [...]

0 comments July 05 2007 | Russ | Discussion

Commenting blind

Only saw a few partial innings yesterday, but from the year’s experience you know that when Mussina has had it (sometimes as early as the third inning!) he does not find a way to rejuvenate himself- you have to pull him, he just implodes when he hits his personal wall. I have also noted that [...]

0 comments July 05 2007 | John S | Discussion

Officially Dead

I agree with Yogi, “It’s not over until it’s over.”  However, I will make an exception for the current Yankees team.  It’s over for 2007.
 
Why?
 
There are many reasons as noted in our Roundtable over the past several weeks.  I will only focus on one critical issue.  The manager.
 
Because Joe is still the manager and because [...]

0 comments July 05 2007 | Len | Discussion

In Honor of the Week of the 4th of July

Hang in there on this one. I offer a patriotic poem by Phil Rizzuto from a book published in 1993, ” O Holy Cow: The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto” which put some of his Yankee baseball broadcasts for WPIX into poetry form. So instead of “Cup O’Joe” here is “Cup O’Phil”:
“Paul Revere”
I never knew [...]

0 comments July 05 2007 | John S | Discussion