Congratulations Yankees. You did it. You spent more money than the rest of the league, built a fancy new launching pad, and delivered the 27th championship in your franchise’s proud history. Pat yourselves on the back.
All jokes and disgust aside it’s great to see Jeter, Pettite, Posada, and Rivera pick up their fifth rings. Steroids blemish Andy’s career but those four guys are about as likable as guys on the other team can be.
The same can’t be said for Yankees fans. Even though they lost the Clash of the Cretins to Philadelphia these videos show New Yorkers in all their glory. Read the full story
The Chicago Cubs are continuing their 100 years of World Series solitude, and are taking the appropriate amount of crap for their effort. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart broke out a pie chart that shows Chicago Cubs fans are stupid.
As the New York Yankees prepared to turn out the lights on one of the most famous stadiums in the world, Yankees’ third basemen Alex Rodriguez was getting himself prepped for the occasion. Rodriguez didn’t take photos or try to take home pieces of the ballpark. No, nothing like that. Alex decided to take a trip to the beauty salon. Read the full story
“I don’t blog but I have the mentality of a blogger.“
Jimmy Traina gets bombarded with emails on a daily basis, all from bloggers hoping to get linked on Sports Illustrated’s Hot Clicks. When he’s not trimming down the list, the native New Yorker is hanging out with Erin Andrews and fulfilling lifelong fantasies like chilling with the Yankees. I spoke to Jimmy on Friday as he was waiting to go to a Billy Joel concert. The conversation is after the jump. Read the full story
New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez finds himself in some sort of media storm every couple of months. He’ll walk out of a hotel with a buxom blonde friend, yell at opposing third baseman while they’re trying to field a pop up, or exaggerate the number of drug test he took in a given year. In all of those instances A-Rod brought the heat on himself. He didn’t need somebody manufacturing drama for him.
Things must have gotten too quiet on the A-Rod front for MLB.com over the weekend. Rodriguez was planning to go to Miami on Monday to be with his expectant wife. A pretty normal thing for a man to do. MLB.com ran this headline: Read the full story
