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Yankees Win. Phillips Fired. Deadspin Sued. Best Firewalled. Simmons Touring.
This is going to be an incredibly short recap, because most of this stuff is in my Press Coverage post over at The Sporting Blog today. So read it there, not here. > We discuss, the Yankees making it to the World Series. WIll the weather be a factor? Will ‘northeast corridor’ nature of the ...
Press Coverage: Phillips Fired, Deadspin Sued, Best Disappears, Simmons Explodes & More
Press Coverage: Phillips Fired, Deadspin Sued, Best Disappears, Simmons Explodes & More
sportingnews.com — Sports in the social media age are a strange thing to cover. While the big story of... the weekend is the culmination of a dream scenario for Major League Baseball – the Yankees making it to the World Series – the nightmare scenario for one ... (more) Press Coverage: Phillips Fired, Deadspin Sued, Best ...
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OH BTW, IT’S A YANKS-PHILS WORLD SERIES
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop — Since we are a “generalist” blog, we’re somewhat obligated to point out that the New York Yankees wrapped up their 40th American League pennant this year after beating the Los Angeles Anaheim California Pacific Time Zone Angels in Game 6 of the ALCS last night. Long story short: the Angels made a bunch of errors and the Yankees’ expensive players finally came up with some big hits. The irony of it all–as pointed out by Dan Levy, among others–is that the projected Game 1 matchup will pit C.C. ...

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