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Derek Jeter Stubs His Toe, See?
Earle Combs in Cooperstown
I always wonder how many readers actually care about the Yankees past this year, or the last few years, with the cutoff on their interest always moving forward, day by day. I know my traffic reinforces this pattern. If I write about the impact of a minor injury (hence today’s ...
Pujols and Holland in Pinstriped Company
Albert Pujols' three home runs on Saturday night put Mr. October back in the news.
Games Three and Four of the World Series games could hardly have been any more different. Saturday night’s slugfest, won 16-7 by the Cardinals, featured a record-setting offensive performance by Albert Pujols, ...
The Accountability Dance
Albert Pujols' failure to answer for his part in Thursday's ninth-inning mishap wouldn't have flown in the Bronx. (AP)
Even if you don’t have a dog in the hunt, or bear equal apathy (or antipathy) towards both teams, the first two games of this year’s World Series have been gripping ...
The Uncertainty of Everything, World Series Edition
Maybe this World Series isn’t the one readers of this blog would have had–”Maybe” is probably not the right term there–but the first two games have been tense, close confrontations, crisply played. My sense of how long a baseball game should be has been ruined by too many ...
Albertageddon is Causing Some of Us to Crack
His deadline for an extension having come and gone, Albert Pujols gets to wait like the rest of us. (AP)
We’re less than half a week into spring training, and the pressure must be getting to the best of them. It certainly couldn’t be the heat, not in February.
Yesterday, with Albert Pujols’ ...
Who Needs Posada When You Can Have Pujols?
Albert Pujols: Teixeira for check, and mate. (AP)
Take this for what it is, a bit of speculation on a slow news day: I have no greater pretensions here that gnawing over a current controversy from a Yankees point of view. Last week, I spent some time considering the possibility that the Cardinals might ...
Two Months In
You can’t say the first two months of the season haven’t brought us fascinating division races. In the AL Central, the Twins have played outstanding baseball at their new home and are on a 98-win pace, threatening to blow out the Tigers, who are just plodding along in their Tigerish fashion. Despite ...
