It’s only April, and losing three games in embarrassing fashion to the Red Sox is no reason for the Dumbrenners to fire Cashman and Girardi and start to trade away all our top prospects for over the hill veterans in order to try to salvage the inaugural season at the new Yankee Stadium. You can’t help but look at the standings, though, and wonder how good an idea it was for the Yankees to let Torre go in order to hire Girardi. It’s not Girardi’s fault that the team he has doesn’t match up well against the Red Sox, but at the same time, you can’t say that the Yankees under Girardi exude the same quiet calm that the Yankees did under Torre. Even in his last years at… Continue reading
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The first night game at the new Yankee Stadium. So far, so good for the Yankees. We’re up 4-0. The bad news is that the Neophytes have had a lousy night so far. But, the night is young for the Neophytes. It’s been nice seeing Giambi again.
Since I had agreed to judge at the National Public Policy Forum, I sold my tickets to today’s Yankee game today. On the way home, I checked the score of the Yankee game – it was 20-2 at the time. 20-2? They buy this team a $1.3 billion stadium and they lose to the Indians, the Cleveland Indiands, the guys with the racist team logo that hasn’t won a World Series since 1948. I know, I know … it’s only one game, yeah, that’s easy to say if you’re the friggin’ Indians. This is crazy. Thankfully, I had dropped Wang from the Neophytes, so even though the Neophytes’ great April run is over, at least they aren’t t completely in the crapper. Actually… Continue reading I’m playing hooky today from work and going to open day at the New Yankee Stadium. Stay tuned to this blog, where this evening I will let the few people who are interested know my impressions of the baseball’s new cathedral… Continue reading |
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