(Syndicated from The Yankee Analysts)

A few guys that have worn the #25 for the Yankees have had special moments during their time in Pinstripes.

For instance, the man who currently dons that uniform number for the Yankees, Mark Teixeira, had his lone special playoff moment, so far, in October 2009 when he hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to seal a 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins.

In order to even get to that moment, Teixeira was instrumental in guaranteeing the Yankees a chance of even making it to extra innings when he opened the bottom of the ninth with a single. The Yankees found themselves down 3-1 and the Twins were looking to tie the series 1-1.

After Teixeira’s single, Alex Rodriguez stepped in and took the fifth pitch he saw out to the Yankee bullpen to tie the game.

The teams held each other scoreless until Teixeira led off the 11th inning with a line drive home run to left that bounced off the top of the wall and into the seats. It gave the Yankees a 2-0 lead in a series they would go on to sweep in three games.

Next up, we have the man who wore the number before Teixiera, Jason Giambi, who had his special moment within the first two months of joining the team.

It was a rainy Friday night in May in the Bronx and the Yankees found themselves down three runs in the bottom of the 13th inning against the Twins. The game was tied 9-9 going into the top of the inning when Sterling Hitchcock gave up three runs to give Minnesota a 12-9 lead.

The Yankees came up in the bottom of the 13th against Mike Trombley and twelve pitches later was walking off the field a loser.

Shane Spencer singled to lead off the inning, Alfonso Soriano flied out, Derek Jeter hit a single and Bernie Williams walked to load the bases. Giambi stepped in and took the first pitch he saw into the right field bleachers for a walk-off grand slam. The Yankees won 13-12.

Joe Girardi wore #45 for the first half of the 1996 season. He switched to #25 when Cecil Fielder came over in a trade with the Tigers, letting Fielder have the number he had worn with the Tigers.

Girardi’s moment is one that is always referenced when talking about the late 90′s Yankee dynasty. At the time it happened it just seemed like an ordinary  triple but because it put the Yankees on the board first and they were able to hold on to a 3-2 victory to secure a win in the decisive Game Six of the 1996 World Series, it became the stuff of legends.

It is shown over and over and over again when those years are referenced along with Charlie Hayes catching the pop up in foul territory to end the game and the series.

And finally, we have Jim Abbott, who wore #25 in 1993 and 1994.

There are a few reasons why Abbott’s moment was special. One, he was born without a right hand and was able to make it to the Major Leagues and pitch. Two, he made history.

On September 4, 1993, I was in my den, watching the Yankee game with my father. It was a Saturday afternoon for me. I was newly 19-years-old and recovering from being out late with my friends the night before. In fact, I watched the game in my pijamas.

And why is this game so special? It’s because Abbott, the pitcher born without a right hand, pitched a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians.

It wasn’t an overpowering performance by any means. Abbott walked five batters and only struck out three but he able to do something that hadn’t been done by a Yankee pitcher in 10 years. Dave Righetti had pitched the last Yankee no-hitter on July 4, 1983.

I remember the last out of the game, Carlos Baerga hit a grounder to short, Randy Velarde scooped it, throw the ball to Don Mattingly who pumped his fists in triumph when the ump signaled the last out. I also remember the look of relief and joy on Abbott’s face when realizing just what had happened.

Moments like these are what makes being a baseball fan so special. You never know what can happen.

(This post was originally published on The Yankee Analysts)

Hideki Matsui announced his retirement yesterday after 10 seasons in the Majors – seven of them with our New York Yankees – and I thought it would be fun to take a look back at his time in Pinstripes.

For this post, I chose to focus on specific games I attended during Matsui’s Yankee tenure so I could tell some stories. Some are just random games, there’s a playoff game in there and a game in which he wasn’t even a Yankee.

I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane and please, feel free to leave your memories of Matsui in the comments section following this post.

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I have something to admit before I actually start this post. The ladies at our Cardinals blog Aaron Miles’ Fastball do a weekly feature in which they pick a player to write a love letter to. I think it’s a great idea and since I’m fresh of ideas of my own, I’m stea– er, borrowing the idea for this post.

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Dear Raul,

Thank you.

You exceeded all expectations this season and provided Yankee fans with some of the most exciting moments we’ve witnessed in quite a while. In fact, some of them seemed like they belonged to a bygone era known as the late 1990′s/early 2000′s.

Your heroics in the American League Division Series took us all back to the days when there seemed to be nightly heroics in the playoffs.

In the regular season, you also had some amazing moments. More specifically your performance against the Oakland Athletics on September 22.

What a game that was!

We all thought your tie-breaking home run in the bottom of the fifth inning of that game was amazing but that was nothing compared to the tie-breaking home run in the 13th after the A’s took a four run lead. To be honest, I was close to shutting the game off after they took that lead but something stopped me.

Did I know you guys were going to come back and win? No. But I had a feeling something was probably going to happen and I didn’t want to miss it.

When that pitch from Pat Neshek left your bat, I leapt off the couch up in my den and started jumping up and down. I screamed out, “I knew it!!!” then yelled “Woo!!”

What we didn’t realize was that was just a precursor to what was going to happen in the Division Series.

With the Yankees down 2-1 in Game Three and with the way most of the team hadn’t been hitting the ball all series, things looked pretty dire in that bottom of the ninth inning.

When Joe Girardi inserted you in the game in the place of Alex Rodriguez people were floored. After you hit that 1-0 offering from Jim Johnson into the right field seats, people were on their feet.

But you weren’t done. Nope. You wanted to give people another reason to scream a string of expletives, in a good way, of course.

And you didn’t waste any time in that 12th inning. Poor Brian Matusz came in to pitch and only had to throw one pitch. As the ball was travelling into the seats, my Twitter feed blew up. If I could have taken a screenshot, it would have been a blur. But here’s a sample of what people were saying.

“HOLY SH**”
“HOLY F***** SH**”
“NO F***** WAY”
“HE DID IT AGAIN”
“HOOOOOOOOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT”

And the exclamation abuse was off the charts but with good reason, you took us back to 1999 with that performance. A pinch hit game-tying, game-saving home run in the bottom of the ninth and the game-winning home run in the bottom of the twelfth?

Amazing.

The year may not have ended the way we wanted but you were a big reason why we had things to cheer about. So again, thank you for 2012, thank you for coming to the Yankees and thank you for those moments.

We really appreciated it.

Love,
Yankee fans everywhere

c/o Wikimedia Commons user Gryffindor

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Jim Thome is the man responsible for the Yankees taking the field to the Guns n’ Roses’ classic ”Welcome to the Jungle” and that the tradition started during the 1997 ALDS. Thome (at least in my version of history), when asked if the Indians were ready for the playoff atmosphere of the Bronx, said something to the effect of, “It’s a jungle out there.” Hopefully 2012 Jim Thome and his new team are treated to the same hospitality he anticipated 15 years ago.

Anyway, here we go again. It seems like whenever the Yankees take on a team in the ALDS that isn’t from the Land of 10,000 Lakes, we can expect the series to go the distance and be filled with exhausting games. You can also expect a game or two to end with an A-Rod strikeout (trolltrolltroll), and the mass media rants that will follow. Given that the first two games with the O’s have already provided us with 17 innings of tense baseball and 1 A-Rod-K-to-end-the-game, it would probably be prudent to brace oneself for more of the same over the next several days. With the Orioles yet to announce their pitching plans for Games 4 and 5 (if necessary), let’s take this one at a time.

Game 3: Miguel Gonzalez vs. Hiroki Kuroda
Wednesday 10/10: Yankee Stadium, 7:37pm EST on TBS*
*Will be moved to 8:37pm EST if  DET and CIN finish sweeps tonight. Gross. 

Let HIROKtober begin! Joe Girardi, sensing that Hiroki was starting to look a bit gassed in his September starts, opted to go to Pettitte in Game 2 to provide Kuroda with some extra rest. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. Oh, and NBD, but this also means that Hiroki will get to pitch at Yankee Stadium instead of Camden Yards. Hiroki at home? A veritable beast: 11-6, 2.72 ERA, 1.005 WHIP, .219/.268/.347 against, and 3.61 K/BB in 132.1 IP. Both of Hiroki’s starts against the O’s this year took place at the Stadium. He was excellent against the April version of Buck’s Boys (7 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 4 K in a 2-1 victory) and fairly solid against the torrid August version of the Orioles (8.1 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 0 BB, 4 K in a 6-1 loss).

Again, allow me to reiterate that I agreed with Girardi’s move to let Hiroki recharge his batteries for another 2 days, but I feel obligated to point out that extra rest has not been so kind to No. 18 as of late. Hiroki last pitched on October 3 against the Red Sox, so he will take the hill with a full week from start to start.  This season, Kuroda made 3 starts on 6+ days’ rest and allowed 23 H, 13 ER, and 8 BB in 18.2 IP. The good news? That’s a pretty small sample size. Over his career, Hiroki has been very solid on extra rest, turning in a 3.07 ERA over 18 starts and 111.1 IP.

Miguel Gonzalez is probably one of the last pitchers anyone expected to see taking the hill for a playoff game in Yankee Stadium this year. Signed originally by the Angels in 2004, Gonzalez bounced around their minor league system for several years with middling success before returning to the Mexican League for 2 years. After returning stateside, having Tommy John surgery, and spending some time in the Red Sox system, Gonzalez excelled enough for the Orioles at AAA this year to earn a mid-season call-up. In 14 starts, Gonzalez was a model of consistency for the O’s, going 9-4 with a 3.25 ERA and helping the pitching staff weather a myriad of injuries.

While Gonzalez is still a relative neophyte, the trusty division-heavy schedule provided the Yankees with 2 glances at him this year. Gonzalez was stellar in both outings, going 2-0 with a 2.63 ERA and 11.2 K/9 in 13.2 IP (both at Yankee Stadium). The O’s have been cautious with Gonzalez’s workload this year given that his only 100+ IP season in pro ball was in 2007 with the Angels’ AA affiliate. As a result, nearly a third of his starts this year took place on 6+ days of rest, and the results are quite good: 7 ER in 25 IP over 4 starts, with K/9 of 6.8 (season K/9 of 6.6). His last outing of the regular season was October 2 against the Rays. Knowing that the division still hung in the balance, Gonzalez went 6.1 innings, striking out 7 while allowing only 2 hits and 0 runs. Suffice to say, the Yanks may have their hands full.

Annoying Orioles Player to Watch: Mark Reynolds (who else?). The career numbers against Hiroki are very, um, Reynolds-esque (5-for-27, HR, 6 RBI, 10 K) but he has burnt the Yanks time and time again this year. I’m mentally preparing myself for at least one or two more big hits this series while I’m screaming “DON’T THROW HIM A STRIKE!!” at the television.

Yankee to Watch: Eric Chavez. A brief foray into this morning’s NYC talk radio underworld led me to believe that there is a vast contingent of Yankees’ fans who would like to see A-Rod benched in favor of Eric Chavez. Frankly, I’m happy that no one that I associate with holds this view. While benching A-Rod may be absurd, it may behoove Joe to get Chavez some ABs in Game 3 (maybe DH A-Rod?) since he’s the only Yankee with even moderate success against Gonzalez: 3-for-6, HR, 2 RBI. I know that Girardi has said that there won’t be any “shake-ups” but I’m a big Chavez supporter, a DH day for A-Rod isn’t inconsistent with what has been the game plan up until this point, and I don’t think anything is lost by getting Chavy in there at the expense of someone like Ibanez (who may be even more valuable off the bench as a PH, as we’ve seen).

From the Non-Pinstriped Postseason Action Department: Over in the Senior Circuit, the Giants will be trying to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Reds on TBS at 5:30pm EST, while the Tigers will attempt to vanquish the A’s on TBS at 9:00pm EST. I’ll be getting my fill, and you should too. Most importantly, enjoy the night off, folks, and try not to get too stressed out about the shifting start times (like I have been). Hopefully the NYC weather clears up, and we get the Stadium rocking from the first pitch tomorrow.

Andy Pettitte, who didn’t pitch at all in 2011, is your Game Two starter in the ALDS. Just in case you just returned from a voyage to deep space and have missed the last 17 years, here’s what you need to know.

• He has pitched 263 innings in the postseason
• He has given up 271 hits
• He has given up 112 earned runs
• He has struck out 173 batters
• He has walked 72 batters
• He has given up 31 home runs
• He has a 3.63 ERA
• The Yankees are 26-16 in his playoff starts

And here are some links for you to read about tonight’s starter:

• Yankees turn to veteran Andy Pettitte, past playoff hero, to give them two-game lead in ALDS – NY Daily News
• Game Two: Andy Pettitte Starts For The Yankees – Star Ledger
• Yankees’ Pettitte Back To The Mound In The Playoffs – SI.com

So the MLB PR account tweeted the Top Ten selling jersey list and Derek Jeter ranked first for the third straight year. Considering how many people bash him, I’m surprised. Of course, maybe some people are buying his jersey to urinate on or to burn. Who knows.

Here’s the complete Top 10. Notice who is not in there, MVP candidate, Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers.

Mark Teixeira is coming back to the Yankees, again; returning from his stint on the DL because of that calf injury he suffered in that game in Baltimore that the Yankees lost on a horrible call at first base that affected the outcome of the game and that now looks to affect the outcome of the AL East Standings.

Remember how people were speculating and saying, “What if the Yankees and O’s finish tied? This game is a big reason why.” Well, here we are. The Yankees and Orioles are tied atop the Division with three games left so it looks like fans can be in for a bumpy ride.

As I explained in my Quick Hit last night, if the teams finished tied after 162 games, they play each other on October 4th in Baltimore in the now infamous ‘Game 163.” The loser will play Oakland on the 5th and the winner will meet Detroit (if they win the AL Central, which they looked poised to do) in the ALDS.

I can barely handle the playoffs but the possibility of a tiebreaker and then a play-in game? That might be too much for me to deal with this week.

Being so emotionally invested in one team gets to be too much sometimes. Of course, it’s my own fault, I could take a step back and look at things from a different perspective. But then again why should I? We’re all fans in our own way and if I want to be nervous and if my face chooses to break out in what I affectionately call ‘playoff zits” then so be it.

Flickr image by Maisa_NYC

For many people, whether they’re watching on TV or in person at the ballpark, the game of baseball is a form of escapism. It’s a few hours away from everyday life when people can forget their troubles and become engrossed in watching their favorite team(s).

For others, it’s a form of therapy in a way. No matter how bad life seems to be going, sitting in the ballpark and watching baseball makes them happy.

I’m one of those people.

I have Bipolar Disorder. I had been struggling with it for most of my adult life without knowing what it was and I was finally diagnosed in January 2007.

I’m very open about having Bipolar because to be honest, I don’t want it to be a stigma anymore. Many people are ashamed to admit to having issue with mental illness and with the way its talked about in today’s society, I don’t blame them.

We have a long way to go in how we treat people with mental illness but there are strides being made. What a lot of people don’t realize is that having a mental illness is a lot like having a disease like diabetes and it’s often treated in similar ways: You’re monitored by doctors, you take medicine and you have to live with it the rest of your life.

Does my Bipolar Disorder affect me everyday? Yes. Every single day and some days are worse than others. That’s why I love baseball so much. It helps me to forget what’s happening in my life and I can focus on the game.

In fact, I often call Yankee Stadium my happy place because no matter how I am feeling on a given day, the second I walk into the Great Hall, I forget my troubles and become engrossed in Yankees baseball.

It’s my home away from home. It’s also a form of therapy.

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I first set foot in Yankee Stadium in August 1983. I was a couple of weeks shy of my ninth birthday and my dad was finally taking me to see live baseball.

When I was very young, before my brother was born and we moved to the suburbs, my parents and I lived in an apartment in upper Manhattan. My bedroom happened to be next to the living room and I’d go to bed listening to the games. Unbeknownst to me at the time, my dad was making me fall in love with the game of baseball before I even really knew what it was.

So on the day I was finally getting to go the Stadium I was ecstatic but I was also a little annoyed at my father for waiting for long to take me. At the time, I didn’t realize that he was being pretty smart about it. Now that I’m an adult, I understand why he waited so long. I often see people with their young children at games and watch as they spend most of the time tending to the children and not paying attention to the game. That’s no fun.

Being a native New Yorker meant that I had seen the Stadium many times from afar as a young child – I had passed it many times in the car on the way downtown – and on television but nothing prepared me for walking inside of the Stadium. I didn’t speak. I just looked around at everything.

It was so dark in the old Stadium, even during the day so when you walked out of the tunnel and saw the field for the first time, it was like a vampire being blinded by the sun.

The Stadium seemed so grand and I made sure I looked at everything as we made our way to the seats. I looked out to the pitcher’s mound, I looked up at the upper deck above us and marveled at how high it seemed. I looked over at the big signs above the bleachers and the frieze above them. I looked toward the Yankee dugout and over toward home plate.

It’s amusing because nearly 30 years later, I am the same way. I’ve been to the new place a lot in the nearly four full seasons it’s been open and yet, I still act like I’m seeing everything for the first time.

That day back in 1983, our seats were in the first row right behind the left field wall – in those days, the wall was all the way back to the seats. Having an unobstructed view was a pleasure.

The other thing about that day that made it so special for me was that we were there for a doubleheader. Yes, I was seeing two games for my first trip to the Stadium.

My dad brought me and my friends John, Billy and my crush Joe. I think dad regretted that decision within the first inning. The boys were misbehaving. (I, of course, was a perfect angel.)

I actually can remember what I wore that day. It happened to be my favorite outfit to wear that summer – a white top and shorts outfit that had pastel pink, yellow and blue on it. The top’s straps tied at the shoulders.

I remember having my first Yankee Stadium hot dog and it seeming like the best hot dog I ever had in my life; my dad got us peanuts and we shared a bag – now I can eat a whole bag myself.

There was a ‘funny now looking back at it but not so funny at the time’ moment when I was playing with a mustard packet, squeezing it over and over again until it had enough, burst open and splattered all over my poor father who was wearing white from head to toe. I remember him yelling at me, and I remember how embarrassed I was that he did that in front of the boy I liked.

One of the best moments of the day was when my dad was talking to Dave Winfield during warm ups between the games – Winfield was playing left field. I was in awe at the time and couldn’t say anything. They were talking like they were two old friends. My dad has never had a problem talking to people no matter how famous they are. I really wish I had inherited that trait from him.

The Yankees won both games against the Toronto Blue Jays that day and from that day on, I was hooked on live baseball.

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After the September 11th attacks of 2001, baseball played an even bigger role in my life. What I didn’t realize at the time was that witnessing those attacks on television set off a chain of events which led to my Bipolar diagnosis. It also led to my losing friendships, losing my apartment and losing jobs.

But the one constant for me and the one thing I never lost, was my love for baseball.

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend to five playoff games in 2001. I’ve always said that those games helped everyone keep their minds off what was happening downtown, even if it was only for a few hours a night.

I was there the night the Yankees went down 0-2 to the Oakland Athletics. I was there the night they defeated them to clinch the Division Series and move on to the American League Championship Series. I was there the night Alfonso Soriano hit a walk-off home run against the 116-win Seattle Mariners in Game Four of the ALCS. And I was there the night Mr. November was born.

I am lucky to have witnessed a lot of exciting – and not so exciting – moments in both Stadiums. And I am thankful to have baseball be a part of my life. Sometimes I wonder what life would be like without it and I cringe at the notion.

I feel like baseball gives me a reason to keep on going. That may seem silly to some but it’s true. A lot of people with Bipolar have suicidal thoughts and I’ll admit to having them every once in a while but the thought of not going on and not existing anymore is too scary for me to comprehend.

So I soldier on, with baseball and writing about baseball helping to guide me through the sometimes murky abyss that has become my life.

And this Sunday night, I will be in my therapist’s office to watch the Yankees take on the Boston Red Sox. I hope it’s a good session.

The New York Yankees are currently the best team in baseball.

They have a record of 57-34 and since May 30 they’ve scored three-or-more runs in every single game – that’s a 42-game streak if you’re keep score at home. They’ve also averaged 5.31 runs per game during the streak and have only lost 11 games. So why are so many people complaining?

It’s because a lot of Yankee fans are never satisfied.

One of the biggest complaints I hear people talking about incessantly is that the Yankees hit too many home runs.

Yes, suddenly hitting too many home runs and scoring runs are bad things. The train of thought is that the Yankees will be shut down in the playoffs if they rely too much on home runs because they will be facing much tougher pitching. Now, this could be true but so far, the Yankees have held their own against some big name pitchers – David Price, King Felix and Justin Verlander to name a few. Also, it’s July. How about enjoying what we’re watching and stop being such Debbie Downers?

And playing into this silly train of thought? The media.

Case in point, last night I had the displeasure of watching Baseball Tonight on ESPN. It wasn’t by choice, it was because I was too lazy to leave the room. Anyway, Orel Hershiser and Doug Glanville were ranking the best lineups in baseball. Where did they place the Yankees? Not in first. In fact, Glanville put the Yankees fourth. The reason? Too many home runs.

Really? I just shook my head at the TV.

Another thing that has been occurring with great frequency because the Yankees have been so good is that people are booing Alex Rodriguez just because they can. It seems like no matter what he does, he’s booed. The whole team could be held hitless but if he grounds out, he’s booed.

It’s unbelievable. It’s as if the 2009 playoffs, never happened.

Guys like Tino Martinez and Scott Brosius are put up on pedestals for having one or two big playoff home runs and poor Rodriguez, who nearly carried the Yankees on his back into the 2009 World Series is still persona non grata in New York. (Okay, I’ll give Brosius props for his 1998 World Series MVP but it was really the only good series he had in his entire time as a Yankee.)

During yesterday’s game, a ball was hit to Rodriguez and as he charged in to make the play it took a funny hop and he couldn’t make the throw to first. The crowd booed. Then in the next play, the batter hit a pop up to Rodriguez, he caught it and the crowd cheered derisively.

Really, people?

Oh, and did I mention the Yankees were up 6-0 by that time in the game?  This sort of stuff makes me apoplectic and it also makes me hate being a Yankee fan. Well, okay, not hate, that’s too strong a word but it is really embarrassing. The whole booing just to boo nonsense got old years ago. Enough is enough.

So stop complaining about a team that owns the best record in baseball.

Stop booing Alex Rodriguez just to boo him.

And stop acting like spoiled brats. You’re embarrassing the rest of us level-headed Yankee fans.

This is going to sound a little silly but I like to tell people that Derek Jeter and I grew up together. Sure, he was in Michigan while I was growing up in a suburb of New York but we are the same age – exactly two months apart – and we did, in a sense, grow up together. It just happened later on in life.

And I proudly watched as the “kid” who was the same age as me became a Yankee legend.

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On Opening Day 1996, a young shortstop was inserted into the starting lineup for the New York Yankees. The Yankees hadn’t had a lot of luck with the shortstop position in recent years and this rookie was only in the lineup because Tony Fernandez, who was supposed to be the Opening Day shortstop, was injured.

After a home run and a jump throw to nail a runner at first helped lead the Yankees to victory, on a blustery day in Cleveland, a legend was born.

Not bad for someone who regarded as the fourth best young shortstop in the mid-1990s. Alex Rodriguez of Seattle, Nomar Garciaparra of Boston and Rey Ordonez of the Mets were the other players in a crop of young shortstops that were expected to outlast and outperform Jeter. A couple of them may have outhit Jeter in some categories – power numbers especially – but no one, not even the biggest Yankee haters, can deny that Jeter has remained consistent throughout this career.

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*This post is a rant and filled with my opinions. You don’t have to agree and you have been warned.*

Let’s get this out of the way right now Yankee fans. Yesterday’s game sucked. It sucked up one side and down the other. It was frustrating from the start and just got worse as the hot, steamy, dank day went on. With that said, can everyone please stop trashing the Yankees?

My goodness, the team is 20-6 in their last 26 games and people are acting as if a two-game losing streak is the worst thing ever. I’ll give you a hint, it’s not.

At yesterday’s game, I was surrounded by people who did nothing but complain all day. Granted there was a lot to complain about but you’d have thought the Yankees had lost 10 games coming into yesterday and that they were in last place. It was like Twitter on steroids.

And speaking of steroids, the Alex Rodriguez bashing got to be too much for me. I’m one of the most staunch Rodriguez defenders you’ll ever meet. I can’t help it. I like to defend the people who get the most lip from people. Though, I’ll admit, right now he does deserve some of the criticism. But yesterday, I had a guy near me in Section 234 who was talking about how he’s not clutch and then was bringing up guys like Tino Martinez, Scott Brosius and their clutch-ness (His made up word, not mine).

Lesson time kids…

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