I’m back! After a two-week hiatus, I’m back on the blog. A lot of things happened over the last couple of weeks. The Yankees and Mets opened their 2011 campaigns and the Knicks qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2004. The NFL is still filled with uncertainty, but the draft is rapidly [...]
For the 14th consecutive year, the New York Yankees are No. 1 on Forbes’ list of baseball’s most valuable teams. The Yankees are worth $1.7 billion. The New York Mets, on the other hand, are one of only three MLB teams that did not see a rise in value from last year. In terms of [...]
Joe Torre’s ending with the Yankees in 2007 and his co-authored controversial book The Yankee Years seem to all be forgotten as the four-time World Series champion manager will return to the Bronx in 2011 on Old Timer’s Day. Torre returned to the Bronx for the first time last year for George Steinbrenner’s memorial service. [...]
Ivan Nova is battling veterans Freddy Garcia and Bartolo Colon for a spot in the Yankees’ starting rotation. The three pitchers are competing for two back-end rotation spots. It looks like Garcia and Colon will be competing against each other for one spot because Nova may have just sealed up the other after a no-hit outing [...]
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter will be featured in April’s issue of GQ magazine. Here’s one great excerpt from the article: He’s Tiger without the car crash, Kobe without the rape trial, Brady without the jilted pregnant girlfriend, A-Rod without the…well, everything. Jeter also donned the cover of an issue of GQ in 1998.
From Bruce Levine of ESPN Chicago: In addition to the Nationals, the New York Yankees are following all of Silva’s outings, according to major league sources. Both teams need to fortify their rotations. The Yankees could easily absorb most of Silva’s $12 million salary for 2011 if they like what they see from the veteran pitcher the [...]
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