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Billion Dollar Bombers

Posted in MLB, Yankees on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Forbes has released its annual estimate of major league baseball franchise financials, and the Yankees once again sit atop the list. Thanks to the opening of the new Yankee Stadium, the Yankees franchise value jumped 7% to $1.6bn, or nearly twice the value of the next highest team and a shade below the value of the Mets […]

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Something Sort Of Grandish!

Posted in Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on April 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Did Curtis Granderson officially become a Yankee? An extra inning home run off of Jonathan Papelbon at Fenway Park seems to meet all the criteria for such a moment. While Granderson will get most of the accolades, the three inning performance by Chan Ho Park deserves its fair share. I wasn’t very excited about Park after his Opening […]

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Game3: Yankees vs. Red Sox

Posted in Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

John Lackey makes his Red Sox debut, while Andy Pettitte begins his 12th season with Yankees. The last time the Yankees saw Lackey, he angrily left the mound in Anaheim after being lifted for a reliever in the 7th inning of Game 5 of the ALCS. The Angels would wind up winning that game, but Pettitte […]

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Collusion Cloud Looming?

Posted in Baseball History, MLB on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

According to AP, the MLBPA is investigating the possibility that baseball’s owners colluded to keep salaries down over the off season. ”We have concerns about the operation of the post-2009 free agent market,” new union head Michael Weiner said Tuesday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. ”We have been investigating that market. Our […]

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What A Relief…Or, I Am Joba Hear Me Roar!

Posted in Game Recap, MLB, Yankees on April 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Defense was the early theme as the Yankees allowed Jacoby Ellsbury to reach base on a fairly routine pop up. It looked like Marcus Thames should have made the play, which plays to his reputation. Thames is a solid righty bat against lefties, but he doesn’t do that well enough to justify defense like he put […]

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Game 2: Yankees vs. Red Sox

Posted in Game Recap, Yankees on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Yankees and Red Sox are back in action, this time with Jon Lester facing AJ Burnett. The current Red Sox lineup has had considerable success against Burnett, fueled in large part by AJ’s 8.85 ERA against Boston last season. Meanwhile, the Yankees will have to lean on the Captain and Arod because the rest […]

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Stop Whining…

Posted in MLB, Yankees on April 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

That was the message sent by Yankees President Randy Levine to Brewers Owner Mark Attanasio in an interview with ESPNNewYork.com. “We play by all the rules and there doesn’t seem to be any complaints when teams such as the Brewers receive hundreds of millions of dollars that they get from us in revenue sharing the […]

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