Archive for October 11th, 2007

Hey, Yankee fans, smarten up!

The Yankee fans that call sports talk radio who want Torre out - don’t call with things like:
“We need a change.”
“We need a new voice.” 
“First round exits.” 
“Didn’t pitch so and so in this game.”
“Didn’t play so and so in that game.”
They are all secondary.  Mike and the Dog can easily fight those off with his regular [...]

Good blog on Yankees Problems from Gammons

Good aricle from Gammons on ESPN.com.

The Anti-Boras Book.

When Scott Boras puts together his 30+ page presentation of how A-Rod is statistically going to be the best baseball player ever, attendance is up, and that A-Rod is worth $500M, The Yankees should be prepared to show Boras a power point presentation that has clips of every one of A-Rod’s post season at bats after [...]

Out of the kitchen…

See?  That’s the type of thing I’m just going to have to get used to if Mattingly is made the manager.  Although it was pretty funny. 

Out of the Kitchen, Into Media Hell

After retiring from pinstripes, Mattingly’s only non-baseball managing experience was managing the restaurant he owned bearing his name in Indiana, I think it was in his home town of Evansville. He actively ran it for a number of years but it failed. If he gets the job and his managing baseball starts out poorly, perhaps he [...]

Torre Watch: Day 2

Thinking about this night as I’m sure the “Brain Trust” was going over everything and making decisions.  The Rivera statement from yesterday could be viewed from this perspective: What else is Mo going to say?  Of course he supports Torre, but in the end, I’m a believer that Posada and Mo will make business decisions. 
But, [...]