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Baseball Today: Friday, September 7
Projo Sox Blog — ... PROUD FATHER: Joba Chamberlain's father will be at Kansas City when the Yankees play the Royals this weekend, and admits ''[there'll] probably will be a tear or two running down my cheek'' at the sight of his son in a Yankee uniform. (New York Post) ...

Bronx Banter: Field of Dreams Moment
Bronx Banter — Joba Chamberlian's father, Harlan, will be travelling from his home in Lincoln, Nebraska to Kansas City this weekend to see his son. According to the New York Post: Harlan always believed in his son but even he is surprised by Joba's meteoric rise in the Yankee bullpen. "It's more astonishing than anything," he said. "It's beyond my wildest imagination. And as a father, I just want to reach out to my son and touch him. "I just want to hold him for a few minutes. I'm more anxious to see my son right now than anything else. If he pitches, that's frosting on the cake." Harlan has lived with polio since he was nine-years old.

The Week In Quotes: September 2-9 by Alex Carnevale
Baseball Prospectus — ... . "Most of all, Joba's a good person. He treats people right. I can't say that enough. I'm always telling parents to spend time with their kids and telling kids to work hard and be good to people. It will pay off in the end." --Harlan Chamberlain, who was able to watch his son pitch in the major leagues live for the first time since his debut with the Yankees. "We'd go to wrestling shows and sit right up front. He always had a way of getting us to where we needed to be." --Joba, on his father, who was stricken with polio as a child. (Kevin Kernan, New York Post ) THE FALL OF MAN, THE RISE OF QUESTEC "The first pitch to me with the bases loaded was in my batter's box, inside. Now you tell me how I'm supposed to hit that. We have to get QuesTec here in this ballpark. We've got to. Umpires have got to be held accountable." -- ...