nydailynews.com - 3/25/2009
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After watching the well-intentioned U.S. team lose four times at the World Baseball Classic and get blown out by Japan on Sunday in a semifinal, there would seem to be no way around it: We're not that good anymore.
Stadium Deconstruction: The Harsh Reality of the End of "The House that Ruth Built"
heartbeatofthebronx.blogspot.com 4/8/2009 — Even after the completion and opening of the new stadium across the street, "The House that Ruth Built" still stood in tact. Though it represented every timeless memory of the Yankees' storied past, its insides looked nothing like we had all hoped to remember it. The exterior walls appeared ...
Bondy: K-Rod and friends make it look as easy as 1-2-3
nydailynews.com 4/7/2009 — Francisco Rodriguez bundled away the baseball after the 2-1 victory Monday, so he can put it "in a place it belongs in my home." K-Rod made it all appear ridiculously easy, throwing 10 pitches, eight of them for strikes.
Bondy: Spoils of Victory
nydailynews.com 4/4/2009 — It is nice to treat players in a first-class fashion. It's kind of worrisome, however, to treat them like visiting potentates. They're already making too much money. Do they really need that free pass to a luxury spa every day?
Even If It Is Built, They Still Won’t Come
sportmeisters.blogspot.com 3/24/2009 — By Ryan of The Sportmeisters
So, after years of debate, the Florida Marlins are leaving their current home in Dolphins Stadium, and are finally getting their own retractable roof stadium in Miami. Here’s the thing; if people don’t go now, what makes a new stadium any different?
They Built This Citi, Now Use It
cnbc.com 4/6/2009 — Posted By: Darren Rovell Sunday's New York Times reports that Vikram Pandit and Citigroup's top execs not only won't be throwing out the first pitch in Citi Field when the Mets stadium officially opens in a couple weeks, they likely won't even ...
World Baseball Classic All-Tournament Team Announced
bizofbaseball.com 3/24/2009 — World Baseball Classic, Inc. today announced the members of the 2009 World Baseball Classic All-Tournament Team. The selections were voted on by a panel of journalists who covered the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Japan pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka repeated as World Baseball Classic Most Valuable ...
The World Baseball Classic Is What It Is
bizofbaseball.com 3/25/2009 — The second edition of the World Baseball Classic ended its three-week run amidst a torrent of criticism, most of it undeserved. Critics pan the Classic for a number of reasons, chief among them the timing and lack of interest in the U.S. Baseball purists decree the imposition on Spring Training ...
Final Thoughts on the World Baseball Classic
mvn.com 3/25/2009 — A trophy and medals? Man, those WBC'ers really know how to roll! The World Baseball Classic. A cool concept spoiled by poor planning. Imagine a recurring event in which the top baseball players in the world gather to play for their home countries ... and they're actually all ...
The House That Ruth Built, Now Open For Corporate Cookouts
newstadiuminsider.blogspot.com 4/21/2009 — In something of a nice gesture by the Yankees, the team allowed the construction company who built the new Stadium, and is tearing down the old one, to have a corporate cookout in the sacred cathedral of sports this past Thursday, Opening Day 2009. ...
World Baseball Classic Sees Attendance Record
bizofbaseball.com 3/23/2009 — It won’t be a massive increase from 2006, but World Baseball Classic, Inc., MLB, and the MLBPA should be more than happy given the dismal economy to see record attendance for World Baseball Classic ’09. Tonight’s attendance of 43,630 for the semi-final between Japan and USA was the ...
