And here we are again. The New York Yankees stumble into the All Star Break with the bitter taste of sweep lingering on their tongues, and the distance between them and the AL East leading Red Sox now stretched out to 3. And as customary for this team since the turn of the century, the [...]

Only cowards insult injured majesty. –Aesop
When it comes to sports, I can live with steroids and drug use every day of the week and twice on Sunday, before I can stomach the pathetic rejection of integrity and character that manifests itself every time I have to listen to the latest journalist try to leverage another [...]

“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.” –Albert Einstein
Every year I try to do something different with my team, and every year I have the same team. It’s the story of [...]

Last year the Yankees traded in their inexplicable mystique for an experimental litmus test — whether it’s gauging the efficacy of Torre by replacing him with Girardi, revealing the true importance of the bullpen, or, best of all, underpinning the quantitative merits of A-Rod. And for the first time in 12 years, the Bronx Bombers [...]

I was just waiting til A-Rod finished the second half of his sentence before writing about him…
Although some have lambasted ARod’s inexplicable self-imposed insistence on digging the biggest hole in the history of life, I for one was grateful for his unerring aversion to lucid articulation. The loony tunes hours at my gainful employment [...]