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Congratulations, New York Yankees!

As you may recall, I am a life long fan of the New York Yankees, so it would be remiss of me to not take a brief moment to congratulate the 2009 New York Yankees on their 27th World Series title. Winning the World Series is of course always special, but this one [...]

Thoughts On David Ortiz’s Steroid Use

I wasn’t going to comment on the recent news concerning David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez testing positive on a performance enhancing drug test back in 2003, but I thought as a proud Yankees fan, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention it. The thing is… well, it’s complicated. My feelings about it [...]

Yankees / Red Sox Rivalry

If you haven’t caught on by now from reading this blog, I’m a pretty big Yankees fan. I’ve been routing for them since I was a little kid and my parents would take me and my younger brother to at least one game almost every season. Living in Connecticut can make being a baseball fan [...]

Manny Being Manny, Suspended For 50 Games

Manny Ramirez Suspended 50 Games for Use of Fertility Drug
“…testing by Major League Baseball showed that Ramirez had testosterone in his body that was not natural and came from an artificial source, two people with knowledge of the case told ESPN’s Mark Fainaru-Wada and T.J. Quinn. The sources said that in addition to the artificial [...]

We Want Torre

Chants of “We Want Torre” could be heard in the 9th inning of Tuesday night’s game versus the Red Sox, as the Yankees lost their 5th consecutive game (and every game so far this season) to our division rivals. It was pretty painful. I don’t know that we necessarily want Joe Torre back [...]