Alex Rodriguez

A-Rod's Not The Yankees' Only Playoff Goat

I've always resisted the idea that clutch hitting exists, I guess because I don't like the notion that baseball is something more than a game - that it brings out something heroic in an athlete. I pretty much agree with Bill James's early assessment on the topic, which was that what a batter hits ... More >>

Take A Seat, A-Rod -- It's October

There have been home runs in baseball history bigger than Raul Ibanez's 9th inning, game-tying shot last night or even his 12th inning game-winning swat. Bobby Thomson's, after all, won a pennant; Bill Mazeroski's won a World Series. But I don't think any pair of home runs turned so many careers o ... More >>

Don't Worry About Andy Pettitte -- Worry About Tex

You could tell that it was a special day at Yankee Stadium when the Bleacher Creatures broke from tradition and started a chant for Andy Pettitte which got most of the 41,000-plus to chime in. I don't recall the Creatures ever chanting the starting pitcher's name when they do the first inning lineup ... More >>

Derek Jeter: What Are the Yankees Going to Do With Him?

​Derek Jeter is my favorite player -- that is, my family's favorite player. I have played the 3,000th-hit homer over and over. It is my favorite baseball moment of the new century, with the possible exception of Johnny Damon's race to third base in the World Series against the Phillies. Now, ... More >>

Alex Rodriguez, Joba Chamberlain, Derek Jeter 'Most Overrated' in Baseball? Please.

Joba to pollster: Rate THIS!It isn't often that the Daily News gets something like this right, but the cover story "Bronx Jeers! Jealous Nit-Wits Rip Yankees Stars in Player Poll" has it down. In the current issue of Sports Illustrated, three Yankees are the answer to the question "Who is the most ... More >>

LeBron James and A-Rod: When Analogies Attack

​There are some fascinating new issues surfacing in the aftershock of LeBron James's decision to join the Miami Heat, most notably Tyler Kepner in yesterday's New York Times. Kepner makes several valid parallels between A-Rod and James, such as "like Rodriguez, James grew up without a father ... More >>

"May The Holidays Bring An Oscar for Mo'Nique...

​And a pawn shop willing to give her equal value for it." That's what the holiday card from the famed comedy club Carolines on Broadway says, among other things. And here are some of the other things:

Crazy Yankee Chick: ONE. WIN. AWAY.

​I started this entry on Sunday night (well, technically early Monday morning), and I was going to wait til I got into the office to write up the game, seeing as it's 3am etc. But in my excited victory celebrations that involved a lot of arm bashing and elbow bumping, I developed a giant sof ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: WE'RE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!

​CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES FOR THEIR 40TH AMERICAN LEAGUE PENNANT! Good God. I don't even know where to begin. On the 25th of October, Yankees clinched their World Series spot with a 5-2 win. Their 110th of the season, making their playoff record 7-2, as they head into the fi ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: Blowout win puts Yankees on the brink...!

​I think I might have been just as happy with the score as I was with the fact that the Yankees won last night. I don't know if my heart could have handled another extra innings monument to high anxiety. A pitchers' duel would have sent me into seizure fits. (Of course, an Angels' hit parade ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: Stadium Ghosts Return to Help Yanks Win 13-Inning Debacle

​ "I'm getting too old for this." "My heart can't handle any more of these tight games." "This is just getting ridiculous." "UNBELIEVABLE." Yep, I'd have to say I agree with all of those. I'm still not exactly sure what the hell happened last night at Yankee Stadium. There wasn't a lot ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: The Clock Winds Down, Fans Wound Up

​"The anticipation must be killin you." --Text message, 7:32 pm "46 hours, 41 min til 1st pitch. But who's counting?" --Text message, 9:17pm "I'm trying to get people to start calling me Fung Wah." --I'm not going to dignify this with a timestamp, but it bears mentioning since this is the ty ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: Running Diary of Series Clincher

​CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW YORK YANKEES ON SWEEPING THE AMERICAN LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES! Instead of a straight recap, we're doing it running-diary style. Because years from now when I'm locked up and under observation for some new breed of manic psychosis, these entries will be invaluable to ... More >>

Crazy Yankee Chick: Where the Wild Things Are Not

​Maybe I was just oblivious to it all the other years, but for some reason, it seemed like whenever booth announcers were short on talking points, they defaulted to the current Wild Card playoff system. Everyone had an idea on how to best construct the postseason process so as to best preserve ... More >>

Interview: MSNBC's Willie Geist on New York Baseball, His Jeter Love, His Desire to Drill Pedroia, and More

​ We're pleased to see that our Morning Joe favorite Willie Geist has finally been given his own TV show. Way Too Early With Willie Geist now leads off MSNBC's morning schedule, airing (if one "airs" on cable) at 5:30 a.m. (That's 2:30 a.m. Pacific time, where the show is no doubt known as Wa ... More >>

Jockbeat: A-Rod, A-Rod, Selena Roberts, and all that Chass

Selena Roberts's credibility is dropping faster than attendance at Yankee Stadium.  According to a report by the Sporting News, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, is being panned all over the place and "isn't exactly flying off the shelves."   Since you can't access my May 8 rev ... More >>

Our Favorite April Fool's Day Post So Far

"While the Yankees knew they would be without their starting third baseman until mid May, the team received a bombshell just minutes ago when baseball commissioner Bud Selig announced a 50-game suspension for A-Rod this morning." -- River Avenue Blues. We approve the delicate play of what we know s ... More >>

Drinks of Our Lives

Adam Pieniazek @ Flickr The New Yorker features a selection of recession-friendly cocktail recipes that are more allegorical than drinkable. Quench your financial woes with a Broke & Tan, Blackberry Sling or Trickle-down Punch. But The Boston Globe isn't being so coy with its timely tipple story. A ... More >>

New York Baseball Sex News

Ex-Met Roberto Alomar continues to deny charges alleged in an ex-girlfriend's lawsuit that he is HIV-positive, and the Post finds him back in New York, "looking thin and accompanied by a beautiful woman," to meet lawyers and discuss his defense. The Times says that while HIV testing is a requirement ... More >>

Jockbeat: A-Rod And The Record Books

How about a drug test for everyone commenting on the A-Rod scandal?  Let's start with MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, who according to USA Today, says that he's " 'just heartsick' about Alex Rodriguez's admission of performance-enhancing drug use and would not rule out punishing him or adjusting ba ... More >>

The economy needs steroids, but Alex Rodriguez confesses he took 'em

The Congo War: a report by Al Jazeera from this past November. The deadliest war since World War II — the slaughter in the Congo — drags on and on amid relatively little notice. Arabs and Jews are still killing each other, and Israel's about to elect an even harder-line government. ... More >>

Jockbeat: What The Press Is Getting Wrong About A-Rod

On the day when the Senate votes on a stimulus package to attempt to remedy the most serious financial crisis in U.S. history, the New York press got their priorities right: the lead stories are all about whether a baseball player took drugs six years ago, before they were banned by his sport. Not a ... More >>

We're saved! Yankees bail out New York City!

End of Yankee Stadium 1.0: The Good with the Bad

Morning Papers: Queens to the Bronx, "Baaa" to "Booo"

Too Much, Too Soon, Two-Headed Turtle

Advice to Madonna, Lindsay, Katie, and Meth Addicts

Stay away from clowns! Just continue to be ones yourselves. (And other Dear ABBA suggestions.)

Divorce Court: The Latest on Christie Brinkley, Alex Rodriguez

He's Out! Alex and Cynthia Rodriguez Divorce

The Singer and the Infielder: The Ongoing(?) Saga of Madonna and Alex Rodriguez

A-Rod, LiLo and Uma: Celebrity Craziness Roundup

A-Rod U-Turn?

Torre's gone, but the slugger may return

Is There a Curse of Don Mattingly or A-Rod?

Time to Cash In the Cashman

Looking for a goat after the Yanks’ defeat? Don’t blame Joe

Staining Names

The A-Rod rumor mill: When steroids come innuendo, logic flies out the door

Analyzing A-Rod Through his Children's Book

Bronx Bumblers

How can a team with four Hall of Famers fall so far?

God Returns to First

Notes from the grapefruit league, Yankees edition

Your Turn: Where the Yankees Spend Big

Letters

Atlas Slugged

Alex Rodriguez is one of the greatest Yankees ever. And the whole world is on his back?

Fantasy Baseball

A fan's notes: How the Yankees became the Freuds of Summer

Curses!

The Red Sox finally win it. But who's to say another drought isn't just beginning?

The Era of the Darn Good

Where Have You Gone, All You Young Joe DiMaggios?

The $25 Million Man

The Real Reason Baseball Players Are So Rich

Back on Track?

Yanks: Wait Till Next Year

Our Year in Sports

2000 Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll Results

Mystery Train

On the Subway with Denny Neagle and other Celebrities

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