slate.com - 20 days ago
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Nick Swisher, No. 33, of the New York Yankees. Nick Swisher, No. 33, of the New York Yankees A handful of players on both the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies have played this year's World Series with a wad of tobacco in their mouths . Have baseball players always used smokeless ...
joeposnanski.com - 19 days ago
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The following is a screed about the Yankees
payroll. If you are a Yankees fan uninterested in...
a screed about the payroll, don’t read it. You won’t enjoy it. Go out, buy a championship T-shirt, reminisce about this great team, enjoy the ...
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The Yankees Payroll
sportsillustrated.cnn.com - 18 days ago
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The following is a screed about the Yankees'
payroll. If you are a Yankees fan uninterested in...
a screed about the payroll, don't read it. You won't enjoy it. Go out, buy a championship T-shirt, reminisce about this great team, enjoy the victory. I'm ...
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The best team money could buy
mlb.fanhouse.com - 20 days ago
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by FanHouse Newswire NEW YORK (AP) -- The
New York Yankees have won the World Series, beating...
the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game 6 behind Hideki Matsui 's record-tying six RBI. Andy Pettitte won the clincher Wednesday night, pitching the Yankees to their elusive 27th ...
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Yankees Capture 27th World Series Title
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Oh, I get it — Nick Swisher is being ironic!
thefightins.com 20 days ago —
New York Yankees right fielder Nick Swisher sure thinks highly of himself, don’t he?
The soon-to-be journeyman player was giving interviews from his posh locker at the Yankee Stadium clubhouse yesterday (nice newspaper clippings, asshole) ...
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riveraveblues.com 10/24/2009 — The postseason so far has not agreed with Nick Swisher . He’s just 3 for 29 with three walks, far from the production he posted during the regular season. He started off the ALCS with two hits in two games, but his last hit came in Game 2. ...
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feedproxy.google.com 10/24/2009 — We'll do a quick series on the blog where we'll look at what everyone's been saying over the interwebs:
Buster Olney points out that Nick Swisher is having a miserable series, going only 1-for-13 in the first 5 games, but his patience at the plate is still there.
Sam Borden says Swisher ...
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pinstripealley.com 10/24/2009 —
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New York Yankees' Nick Swisher reacts after flying out to end the ninth inning of Game 5 of the American League Championship baseball series against the Los Angeles Angels ...
Yankees could sit slumping Swisher
mlb.mlb.com 10/24/2009 — By Tim Britton / MLB.com 10/23/09 7:45 PM ET NEW YORK -- Nick Swisher sauntered to his locker Friday, opened up a pair of Louisville Slugger boxes storing new bats and turned to the cluster of reporters slowly encroaching. "Let's get this over with," ...
Swisher, Melky giving it back to Philly fans
nydailynews.com 23 days ago — You may have noticed Nick Swisher and Melky Cabrera taunting the Phillies fans in the outfield during Game 3, faking them out at the end of some innings as though they were going to throw the ball into the crowd, only to pull it back and run off the ...
Nick Swisher, Joanna Garcia and the "Jake Plummer Grizzly Adams"
legendofcecilioguante.com 28 days ago — I'm still undecided on this whole apocalyptic World Series match up. That aside, I'm slowly coming around on at least one Yankee -- his name is Nick Swisher. Sure, at one time I kinda likened him to the overrated Eric Byrnes-type who nobody could seem to shut up about. Constantly using words ...
Out of heartbreak, Swisher’s back on Cloud 9
yankees.lhblogs.com 23 days ago — During Andy Pettitte’s postgame press conference last night, Nick Swisher stood to the side and listened. When it was over, he began to applaud then looked at the room of reporters and said, “Nobody claps?”
When he went to the ...
Yankees take 2-1 series lead with Game 3 win
scoresreport.com 24 days ago —
Apparently all Nick Swisher needed was a fire lit under his ass.
Swisher, benched in Game 2, homered and doubled in the Yankees’ 8-5 win over the Phillies in Game 3 of the World Series on Saturday night. With the victory, New York takes a 2-1 lead in the best of seven series.
Alex ...
Swisher is Off
baseballmusings.com 10/24/2009 — What’s the difference between bad luck and really being in a slump? Missing a fastball right down the middle :
Just how bad is Swisher hitting right now? In the Yanks breakout seventh inning, he made both the first and last outs. The last one hurt especially. Robinson Cano had just ...
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SI.com - MLB 20 days ago
1. So the World Series comes down to this: the old and familiar. Stop me if you have heard this before: a Yankees team with Andy Pettitte, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera trying to get through Pedro Martinez to a world championship. Game ...