Why does everything have to be a conspiracy for the Yankees? Derek Jeter has his shoulder separated in an accident in Toronto last year, and players — even their upstanding manager Joe Torre — question whether the Blue Jays catcher may have intentionally driven his shoulder into Jeter’s. Ridiculous. Then Jorge Posada accidentally has his nose broken while sliding into… View Post
Green Fields of the Mind
I’ve always loved this piece, so here it is now on my site. The Green Fields of the Mind It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains… View Post
Revisionist history, revisited
As I said yesterday, I figured there’d be more … Three additional points: You say that my final point (that the Braves are the ones manipulating history) is off-target because the media and MLB, and not the Braves, are the ones who say the streak for the Braves is at 12. But the Braves web site itself says the streak… View Post
The Yankees’ revisionist history
This is why people hate the Yankees. It’s not just that they appear smug and elitist, they are in the ways they skew and manipulate data to make themselves look better. Kind of like the Bush Administration. The following appeared in The New York Times yesterday: Two Sides to Every Streak It’s not enough that the Yankees dominate baseball history;… View Post
An uphill bat-tle
As I sit here watching the Mets and Pirates (and the Yankees and Red Sox … OK, and the Rockies and Cardinals and the Brewers and Astros), I look at the batter’s boxes and remember how bad public fields are. If I ever have a son, I’m going to do what a family friend did with his: Teach him to… View Post