Baseball Today: Thursday, August 28
Projo Sox Blog —
... STINK BOMBERS: That was the Daily News' back-page headline, and appropos it is, because, as the New York Post's George King put it, it was nothing less than "[the] end of the baseball world as a generation of Yankees know it." Colleague Joel Sherman agrees, saying this will be the first September in a decade-and-a-half ...
Schadenfreude 58 (A Continuing Series)
The Joy of Sox —
... Maybe it has something to do with Joe Girardi, and the clenched-jaw vibe he gives off, maybe it doesn't. But these Yankees sure haven't responded to tough times the way they did for Joe Torre in recent years.Recent years, John? You mean how well the Yankees finished in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007? Kat O'Brien, Newsday: And so the 2008 season ended for the Yankees, by any realist's measure.>George A. King III, Post: The Steinbrenner family and Jack Nicholson saw last night what a lot of other ...
Thursday Reading
Three Idiots on Sports —
... Over the Pylon previews the 'cuse. In baseball news, the Yankees committed season ending suicide last night. Speaking of suicide in sports, Shawne Merriman may very well ...
Down, out, and done
New York Yankees Fan Blog —
Well this is what it's come to. A lot of requiems -- here , here , and here , just to cite a few -- and some pictures of fat ladies singing . It's hard to disagree with anyone who thinks the Yanks' playoffs hopes are shot , or at the very least that last night was, as Pete Abe calls it, a "crushing blow." It would take something miraculous -- which is not to say impossible -- for the Bombers to make the playoffs. About last night's game, well, there's not much you need to know. They couldn't play defense (another classic Bobby Abreu ...
