Past A Diving Jeter

How the fuck is that possible? Why didn’t anyone tell me about this article?
The Yankees are an organization that thinks it can control everything, from the media to the climate.

This sentence is ugly. And not just regular-ugly. It’s Youkilis-ugly.
Did you know the dugouts in the new Stadium are air-conditioned?

Nope, but I do now. And [...]

A few quick notes on this weekend’s sweep, which I actually managed to watch most of (fuck you, Cablevision):
- Over four games, Boston managed to put up a line of .174/.300/.250.
- Their season OPS dropped ten points.
- 5 XBHs in four games is a bad strategy if your goal is to win baseball games.
- We [...]

As we slowly approach the midpoint of the season, it’s important to look back at the dumb shit that’s happened already in order to write terrible blog posts. While doing this, I noticed that events from this season keep reminding me of stuff from years gone by. Through innumerable hours (0.7) of painstaking research, I [...]

First off, I need to point out the fact that Joel Sherman was right about something:
Please let’s not begin another round of Joba to the eighth inning talk after the eighth-inning meltdown Thursday night by the Yanks in Fenway. Unless you have a machine to clone Chamberlain.
Because in case you hadn’t noticed, Chamberlain currently is [...]

Ian O’Connor has uncovered the newest scandal to rock the Yankees’ clubhouse: their pitching coach may be a bigoted piece of shit. Behold:
Dave Eiland, pitching coach, stepped into the postgame buzz with a message for any Yankee arm traumatized by the unforgiving nature of the world’s first $1.5 billion Wiffleball field.
Ian: Maybe you don’t know [...]

I’m kind of upset about this, because Kepner has been the least awful of the New York baseball writers for quite some time. However, this line from his latest blog post has completely destroyed that.
I’ve always enjoyed listening to Mike Francesa on WFAN. He’s an insightful, provocative listen, and he knows his stuff.
Part of my [...]

I was originally planning to tear apart today’s Joel Sherman column, but I got derailed by a pair of issues:

I realized that I agreed with a lot of what it said.
It occurred to me that I’ve read essentially the same article a few hundred times already this month.

So while I’m going to pull pieces [...]

Neil Best of Newsday posted a full transcript of the now-famous Lonn Trost conversation. Holla at Scott Proctor’s Arm for digging that up.
I doubt that it needs any further commentary.
Neil also linked to this a few days ago, which I found interesting as hell. Any journalism students out there might want to check out the [...]

A group of terrorists die-hard Yankee fans have launched a movement to get Nick Swisher selected for this year’s All-Star Game, as MLB left him off the ballot. From their official headquarters (VoteSwisher.com):
Swisher is a player who gets it. Not only is he a throwback player who is always hustling and working hard; but he [...]

[Note: This is gonna be a short one, as I'm in enough pain that I can barely think.]
So apparently Mark Teixeira was interviewed by some jerkoff from the Sporting News over the weekend. I kind of wish I had never run across it.
Q: Did you enjoy your time with the Angels?
Teixeira: It was the [...]