Baseball Toaster was unplugged on February 4, 2009.
The Yanks rolled over the Rangers last night, 8-2. Alex Rodriguez hit his first homer in a couple of weeks, Robinson Cano and Johnny Damon and Mr. Minky had some nice at bats, and it was a peaceful, easy night in the Bronx for the Bombers.
Meanwhile, Anthony McCarron has a good piece on Mariano Rivera in the Daily News this morning.
"It's easy when everything goes fine," Rivera said. "You show your true character when you struggle like this. I don't know what people are thinking about me, but I know I feel the same way as I did last year and the year before. I feel real good, the velocity is there. It's nothing I have lost, it just happens. If you are a closer, you're going to blow saves and get saves. There's no in between."I feel I'm being tested right now, my character, my faith, how I conduct myself. It's different. But I love it. If God allows this test to be on me, hey, I'm willing to carry it. We are just starting; we'll see where we finish.
"I'm going to battle," Rivera continued. "I'm not going to sit down and start crying and wonder what happened. No, I'm not going to second-guess myself. I'm just going to do what I have to do. I believe I'll finish strong."
Yo go Mo, we're behind you every step of the way.
Mo rules no matter what.
to put it lightly, i respect the hell out of that man. not just for his numbers, but the way he carries himself off of the field as well.
an aside: yahoo's player profile mentioned that hughes is now expected back sooner than previously expected. i have been buried in papers and finals preparations... what have i missed? should i get my hopes up already?
Long Live The King
http://www.republicaupdate.com/2007/05/red_sox_love.html
Mo: his saying what he said makes me feel much better.
Now, if Moose can go seven tonight and Proctor starts serving his suspension, maybe our bullpen can get back up to par?
"No lack of grit in Mientkiewicz's game"
Sometimes I think they do this just to amuse us.
Quote from Mighty Mink: "You feel like you've done your job when you look down and you're covered from head to toe in dirt," he said.
http://tinyurl.com/yv5fau
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18544315/
By the way, I was reading each comment (haven't done that in a while), and it feels real nice to have a mini reunion.
6 ROFL!
http://tinyurl.com/2uzqnp
That Manny sure is a strange, strange dude...
This is why I f*cking LOVE this man! No fear...
He's also got a long history of some seriously great baseball writing.
And I say this as a Yankee fan.
23 Do people think that Yankee-haters aren't also, eg, Pirates fans? That they wouldn't rather have a Pirates WS title? Baseball, in its infinite economic wisdom, makes that pretty unlikely--but it has provided the Yanks to root against in the playoffs, regular as clockwork...it's the next best thing, for revenue, than actual parity. (And yes, I know, the A's, etc etc--dosen't disprove my point.]
As for the Pirates playoff futility, you can blame MLB's "infinite economic wisdom", but I prefer to blame the team's infinite stupidity. The last time I checked, the Yankees and Pirates do not compete for a playoff spot.
The ownership system is probably the most broken aspect of all professional sports. What qualifies someone to be an owner and make huge decisions on budget and salary that determine your teams success? oh, you mean, just being filthy rich is what qualifies you?
Too bad he didn't air his apology thru Shaughnessy rather then your blog, then he'd be able to tack on a third day complaining about how he was misquoted by media members with an agenda...
here's a bit of the article:
When asked if he would suggest his players "just kind of dance around" the subject of Bonds, Francona said: "Or shut up."
"Yeah, I actually talked to Schill yesterday about it, and you know again, he's never been short on opinions, and so many of them are insightful, I just thought this was an area where you're better off just leaving it alone," Francona said. "And he didn't. And you know again, the problem is, it makes it tough for me, is that he comes to the ballpark and doesn't talk to the media so I'm left to kind of clean up the mess which I really don't feel like, but, again, I've been with Schill a long time. Nobody's more crazy about Schill than me. I just ask him to kind of zip it a little bit, and I think he will."
i love that francona said he talked to schilling yesterday, and then mr. tells-it-like-it-is pulls a 180.
i wish i had a video game joke i could use at his expense, but alas, i don't.
I can only imagine what that clubhouse was like with 38pitches.com and Boomer Wells in it at the same time. Come to think of it, I don't want to imagine it.
Speaking of the Red Sox - many of us like to harp on Murray Chass, and with good reason. I'm not looking to ignite a debate about MLB, alcohol, and steroids, but I did think Chass wrote a great article here:
http://tinyurl.com/ywz7r7
and deserved some props for doing so.
"And even the Red Sox have their generous moments: Mike Lowell acknowledged that the Yanks signing Clemens was essentially what Boston did with its astronomical qualifying bid to sign Daisuke Matsuzaka for more than $100 million in total expenditure."
Interesting, isn't it? The Yankees spend about $20 million ($28 million prorated) to sign the best pitcher in the National League, by a wide margin, from 2004-2006. The Sawkz spend $51 million and change just to keep a pitcher from talking to another team.
Yet somehow we're the cash-flinging goons.
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