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Breakfast Links: A Quick Wind Sprint Around Spring Training

Posted in Baseball, Link Roundup, Mets, MLB, Red Sox, Yankees, tagged on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Jorge Posada reported to camp along with the rest of the catchers, although this season he is ticketed as the DH. Although Posada has not yet given up on getting back behind the plate, he seems to be slowly embracing his new role. Now, the question is how much longer does Posada have left in […]

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Breakfast Links: A Quick Wind Sprint Around Spring Training

Posted in Alex Rodriguez, Arod, Baseball, Link Roundup, MLB, Yankees, tagged on February 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Entering camp, the big story surrounding C.C. Sabathia was how much weight he lost over the offseason (and how he did it). On the first day of spring training, however, the story quickly changed to the likelihood that he would exercise the opt clause in his contract. If not for the Sabathia overload, the big […]

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Valentine’s Day MLB Style: From Slim Love to Jim Ray Hart

Posted in Baseball, Humor, MLB, tagged on February 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Thanks to its long history, baseball is the perfect sport to commemorate any Holliday, or even Halladay for that matter. In February, everyone has their mind on Valentine’s Day. Just ask Bobby, Corky, Ellis, Fred, Joe, or John. After all, you don’t have to be Cupid Childs to appreciate a day dedicated to Love. Just […]

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Managing Expectations: A (Baseball Card) Pictorial History of Dashed Hopes and Broken Dreams

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, MLB, Yankees, tagged on February 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

(In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeAnalysts). Although every manager comes to Spring Training with at least a little bit of hope that they’ll be able to lead their team to glory, the landscape of postseason baseball is littered with many of their broken dreams. To illustrate […]

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Best Known for Managing 1979 Champs, Perseverance Is What Really Defined Chuck Tanner’s Long Baseball Career

Posted in Baseball, Baseball History, Minors, MLB, Yankees, tagged , , on February 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Chuck Tanner’s place in baseball history will forever be as the patriarch of the 1979 “We Are Family” Pittsburgh Pirates, who overcame a 3-1 deficit in the World Series to upset Earl Weaver’s Baltimore Orioles. However, it doesn’t seem fair to boil down an over 50-year baseball career to just one moment. Tanner’s baseball journey […]

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Chavez Seeks to Resurrect Career with Yankees Dynasty he Once Declared Dead

Posted in Baseball, MLB, Yankees, tagged , on February 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »

(In addition to appearing at The Captain’s Blog, this post is also being syndicated at TheYankeeU.) This morning, a clean cut Eric Chavez trotted out to third base at the Yankees’ spring training complex in Tampa and began taking ground balls. Eager to embark on a second career, Chavez told the assembled group of beat writers that […]

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With Cuomo, Do Mets Have a Friend in Need?

Posted in Baseball, Mets, MLB, tagged , on February 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The appointment of former New York governor and one-time presidential hopeful Mario Cuomo as a mediator in Sterling Equities’ dispute with Madoff trustee Irving Picard was the first bit of good news for Fred Wilpon in months. On the surface, this move by the bankruptcy court seems to suggest a reigning in of the overzealous […]

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