New York – Stephen Strasburg makes his major league debut tonight for the Washington Nationals. Calm down, everyone. This is a young pitcher with very little experience at the minor league level. He may have a live arm, a good sinker, and according to most scouting reports, real good presence on the mound but there [...]
Published on: 18th May, 2010
Take a listen to Yankees post-game quotes, directly from the locker room…. Posada After Yankees-Texas Game On April 18 Rich Harden of Texas after Yankees-Texas game on APRIL 18
Published on: 17th May, 2010
New York – Everyone here in the New York market is screaming for Jerry Manuel’s head, in the midst of another season of bad baseball at the helm of the New York Mets. His team is now 38 games into the 2010 season, almost 25% of the games and it’s already begun to feel like [...]
Published on: 5th May, 2010
New York — Since the Theo Epstein regime started in 2003, this is probably the first time that a homestand that opened on May 3 was considered critical. But there’s no overstating how important these games are for the Red Sox right now, who entered the night trailing the Rays by seven games in the American League [...]
Published on: 26th April, 2010
New York – Doesn’t Chipper Jones look like a shell of himself, so far? The 38-year old (where have all the years gone?) third baseman of the Atlanta Braves has played with the R word (retirement) for a couple of years now. He injured a hip yesterday against the Mets by just swinging the bat. Those are [...]
Published on: 20th April, 2010
NEW YORK — The Mets told everyone how important it was that they get off to a good start. More than that, they gave everyone the impression that their manager’s job security depended on getting off to a good start. That said, Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya, both fully aware of how hot their seats [...]
Published on: 10th April, 2010
New York – It was a cold, dreary night for baseball in front of a sparse Mets home crowd with the teetering Mets facing the even worse Washington Nationals. Not a formula for a rip-roaring night of baseball, right? Instead, the Mets turned it into a night of home runs and line drives as they [...]
Published on: 28th February, 2010
NEW YORK – Joba Chamberlain was only ten years old in 1995 when the New York Yankees began their incredible run of American League playoff appearances — a streak that has now reached its 13th consecutive year with Wednesday’s wild-card clincher in Tampa. Their playoff entry in ’95, after an absence of 14 years, was [...]
Published on: 12th February, 2010
New York - Former Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas has called a news conference for 11 a.m. Friday at at U.S. Cellular Field to announce his retirement. The White Sox are expected to announce at that time that Thomas’ No. 35 will be retired the summer, according to major league sources. A source speculated the [...]
Published on: 15th January, 2010
New York – Carlos Beltran, the New York Mets star centerfielder, number three hitter, and highest-paid position player has just put a tremendous crimp in the team’s 2010 season hopes and dreams. And, the team isn’t happy about it. Beltran, without getting the team’s permission as required by his player contract, had surgery yesterday on [...]