April 2009 Archive
Are the Yankees Cursed? Maybe, but Not the Way You Might Think
April 21, 2009
To say the Yankees are cursed used to be a laugh. The Red Sox were cursed. The Yankees were just the lucky result of the whole Bambino thing. But since Boston ...Wind Tunnels and Concourses: Another Reason Not To Blame the New York Yankees
April 21, 2009
The Yankees and Cleveland Indians opened the new Yankee Stadium and it became the biggest story in baseball for the first two weeks. The old Yankee Stadium did have a ...Is Chien-Ming Wang a Buy Low Opportunity?
April 20, 2009
Chien-Ming Wang, a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, has had an absolutely terrible start to the season. In three starts this season, his record is 0-3 with an ...Chien-Ming Wang: A Buy Low Opportunity?
April 20, 2009
Chien-Ming Wang, a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, has had an absolutely terrible start to the season. In three starts this season, his record is 0-3 with an ...For Love Of The Gate: MLB Breaking Fan’s Hearts and Wallets
April 20, 2009
Time has a way of stripping us of everything we love. It lures away our youth, diminishes our health, and steals our innocence. Sometimes, the latter of these is the ...Freddy Sez, “Let Me In!”
April 20, 2009
First the empty box seats, then the albatross of home runs, and now this from the New York Post: Freddy "Sez" Schuman, the one-eyed, cookware-clanking octogenarian who's been an unofficial pinstripe ...The Torn Hip Labrum Is the New “In” Surgery
April 20, 2009
Forget about those old fashioned procedures such as Tommy John elbow surgery, torn MCL's and ACL's in the knees and the labrum surgeries in the throwing shoulders. The new surgery appears to ...Steroids Are Peformance DE-HANCERS
April 20, 2009
Beating the Dead Horse Have I rendered my opinion about Performance-enhancing substances to you yet? No? Well, allow me—steroids are misunderstood. They receive too much credit for assisting athletes on the field ...An Open Request for Major League Baseball To End the Steroid Era
April 20, 2009
On December 17, 2007, Senator George Mitchell published his 20-month study on Major League Baseball players that used anabolic steroids and human growth hormone (HGH). Eighty-nine current and former players were ...Facing Reality: The Dontrelle Willis Syndrome
April 20, 2009
Dontrelle Willis is a 6'4" 225, 27-year-old out of Oakland, CA. He begin his major league career with the Florida Marlins in 2003. That year he went 14-6,160.2 innings pitched,142 strikeouts, and ...