Lou Piniella is one of three famous managers who have announced their retirement at season’s end before the 2010 season has actually ended. (What a great way to prevent yourself from being fired [joke]). Since Sweet Lou has received so…
2010
What Yankees Fans are Complaining About
Sports fans generally don’t have any perspective because of the day-by-day nature of baseball. Their memories are bad, they get caught up in the moment, they become high and crash instantly, make snap judgments, and a truck load of other…
Do the Tampa Bay Rays Make Brian Cashman Overrated?
2010 New York Yankees Payroll: $206,738,389 (13 players make over 5 million) Yankees Win/Loss Record: 66-39 2010 Tampa Bay Rays Payroll: $72,323,471 (3 players make over 5 million) Rays Win/Loss Record: 66-39 You do the math. With George Steinbrenner dying…
Yankees Trade Analysis: Lance Berkman, Austin Kearns, Kerry Wood
When I heard the news that the Yankees acquired Lance Berkman from the Houston Astros, I was ecstatic. Berkman is one of those understated hitting superstars that most of America has never heard of. Since he started playing as a regular…
Joba Chamberlain Voted Most Overrated Baseball Player 2010
Sports Illustrated conducted a “players only” poll to determine who is the most overrated player in baseball. Joba Chamberlain is the most least respected of his peers. He needs to gets his act together, and maybe try a diet supplement…
2010 All Star Game: Why Didn’t Joe Girardi Pinch Run David Ortiz with A-Rod?
The 2010 MLB All-Star Game was a great showcase of National League pitchers, and the current pitching era we are currently in. With the American League lineup, you would have thought the AL would have scored more than 1 run…
George Steinbrenner Dead of Heart Attack: Ding Dong the Boss is Dead
George Steinbrenner died in Tampa this morning after getting a heart attack last night. He was 80. The Yankees owner was truly The Boss of the New York Yankees from 1973 all the way up to 2003, when his health…
2010 All-Star Snubs and Baseball Allstar Game Controversy: Who Cares?
Every year…every year it’s the same thing in the week or two preceding the MLB All-Star Game in July: fans, MEDIA, and some players and managers complain about some aspects of the fairness or rules of the All-Star Game. The…
Bob Sheppard: Voice of Yankee Stadium Dies
Bob Sheppard, the PA announcer at Yankee Stadium has died at the age of 99. Players, announcers, clubhouse attendants, and everyone inside baseball mourns his passing. He was known as being the most polite man you could ever meet at…