I received an email yesterday promoting a new sports site called LockerBlogger. It's a sports social networking site. Pretty cool. Anyway, they wanted to tell me about an interview they did with Yankee hitting coach Kevin Long.
It's a good interview. Long talks about how different each player on the team is, how his approach for one player might not be the same as it is for another player. Also, his answer to the question of who he thinks would make a good hitting coach one day is pretty interesting.
Have a look:
The results are in!
The Rush Limbaugh Poll ran on two sites, this one and Bleacher Report. Both "precints" reported similar results. A total of 50 people voted in both polls, the answers breaking down as follows:
1. Continue rooting for the Yankees- 31 votes
2. Start rooting for another team- 9 votes
3. Stop folloing MLB- 10 votes
Frankly, I'm a little shocked. Personally, I could never root for a team Rush Limbaugh owned, Yankees or not, even if he were only a minority owner. But my heart would always remain with the Bronx Bombers, so I could never start rooting for another team.
Next post: An ALCS update.
I heard a broadcaster say that the actual phrase "walk-off win" is attributed to Dennis Eckersley. Eckersley called the pitch he threw to Kirk Gibson, which led to that famous homerun, his walk-off pitch. He called it that because, he said, "After I throw it, I walk off the field."
There were 15 of those pitches thrown at the new Yankee Stadium during the regular season this year. See all 15 of them in this great YouTube video:
After an almost excruciatingly long lay-off, the ALCS will finally begin tomorrow night at Yankee Stadium, weather permitting. The coming rain storm will likely lengthen what was already being thought of as a long series. The schedule-makers will have their hands full trying to reschedule games for this ALCS.
Looking past Mother Nature, the series breaks down like this:
Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group of investors seeking to buy an NFL franchise. When I first learned that he was part of this group I wasn't sure what to think. I'm not much of a football fan, so it was hard for me to form an opinion on the matter. But then I started to think about it terms of baseball, and it was much easier to decide.
How about you? What would you think if Rush Limbaugh was part of a group of investors who bought the New York Yankees? Assuming you are a Yankee fan, would you continue to root for the Yankees? Would you start rooting for another team? Voice your opinion by voting in the poll near the top of the left sidebar.
Happy voting...
On Saturday I heard a radio talkshow host joke that, in his upcoming ALDS start, Carl Pavano might finally help the Yankees in their quest to win a championship.
He was right!
Well, not exactly.
I had to work last night so I relied on my Blackberry to find out what was happening in Game 2 of the ALDS. When I checked it shortly after 9:00 PM the Yankees were trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the 8th. I checked again, shortly after 9:30 and it was tied at 3 in the bottom of the 11th. When I checked once again, a few minutes later it was over, a 4-3 final in favor of the Yankees.
Right away I wondered who had provided the heroics. Who was the hero of the game? Who got the pie in the face? I couldn't search my phone for that info, lest I be written up or, perhaps, fired. So, I waited until I left the store and, on my way to the subway I checked, and began to think: Okay, so maybe I was wrong about Alex Rodriguez.
Going into last night's game against the Twins, Alex Rodriguez could not get a hit with runners in scoring position if his life depended on it. After his second at-bat you could hear the boo birds coming to life, but he silenced them the third time he came to the plate, hitting a single to left-centerfield, scoring Derek Jeter. He later got a second RBI-single, once again plating The Captain.
As the playoffs begin today I'm realizing that my last post was more than a week ago! My apologies to everyone. It was unavoidable, mainly because of a stint in the hospital.
I'm feeling a lot better now and looking forward to writing a post tomorrow about tonight's game against the Twins and Yankees.
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