sports.espn.go.com - 3/4/2008
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TAMPA, Fla. -- From the day he walked into his new office at Legends Field, Joe Girardi has strived to put his own imprint on the Yankees -- distancing himself from Joe Torre, without diminishing the legacy of the most successful Yankees manager of the past 50 years. Talk about the need for political finesse: Girardi knew the clubhouse was full of Torre loyalists, all the way down to the ...
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The Old Soft Shoe Dances No More In The Bronx
WasWatching.com —
Via an ESPN.com feature by Bob Klapisch:
Mike Mussina seemed to be speaking for the entire team when he said, "We loved Joe [Torre], but we all knew things had to be different. Especially the guys who've been here a while and haven't won, we were very disappointed at the way things had been going."
No one says so in quite so many words, but the Yankees had become comfortable with Torre, perhaps too much so. It didn't help that the Yankees hardly ran at all last spring -- "We learned you have to do more than take grounders and BP and then hit the ...
Joe Torre is gone, but not forgotten - not in a good way
NYY Stadium Insider is now New Stadium Insider - Please update your bookmarks! —
Players unmotivated? CHECK Pitching staff mishandled? CHECK Falling asleep on the bench? CHE--- ummm, never mind, NYY Stadium Insider has yet to confirm that rumor. So far this Spring, numerous Yankee players have sounded like fans on a Yankee message board while taking not so subtle shots at their former manager. Let us review: Out of shape/unmotivated: "I knew I was in bad shape last year," Abreu said. "I don't want to make excuses for myself [about why]," said Abreu, 33. "I was in bad shape. I knew for sure that I needed to be in better shape this spring." Abreu, who said he weighs 215 pounds ...
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"In 1941 Ted Williams hit .400. Nobody has done that since in baseball but that year he didn't win the Most Valuable Player because Joe DiMaggio had a 56-game hitting streak. I feel like we as Americans are watching two historical figures battle it out."
Mets, Yanks featured on Sunday night slate
weblogs.newsday.com 3/4/2008 — ESPN has announced its Sunday Night Baseball slate through late July.
The Mets have three scheduled appearances and the Yanks have two, with one game against each other.
Here is the list:
March 30 Atlanta at Washington
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Aging Moose Has Become Easy Prey
sports.aol.com 3/4/2008 — Mike Mussina was once an integral part of the Yankees rotation, but I fear those days are in the past. After a rough 2007 season, during which he went 11-10 with a 5.15 ERA and performed so erratically that he even got busted down to bullpen duty for ...
Museum of Dice-K —
Bleacher Report - MLB 3/4/2008
Daisuke Matsuzaka is a national treasure back home in Japan, and now they're making it official. On February 23rd, the Daisuke Matsuzaka Museum will open in Wakkanai, Hokkaido (his father's hometown). The museum will contain over 180 different ...
Papelbon Not Getting The Contract He Wants! —
Bleacher Report - MLB 3/4/2008
Jonathan Papelbon made a few outspoken comments this afternoon on his contract status, which will need to be resolved by the March 11 deadline. His agents, Seth and Sam Levinson, were in Fort Myers yesterday to discuss the situation with the Red ...
Igawa not lost in Yanks' pitching gem —
Major League Baseball News 3/4/2008
It may have been only a spring game and it may have been cut short in the sixth inning, but the Yankees' "perfect game" on Tuesday afternoon caught manager Joe Girardi's eye. Most encouraging was the work of Kei Igawa, who shook off a rocky spring debut.
Girardi no stranger to team's philosophy —
Major League Baseball News 3/5/2008
The new man in charge around Yankees camp is Joe Girardi, and clearly, the 2006 NL Manager of the Year has big shoes to fill. Then again, after serving as the Bombers' catcher for the dawn of Joe Torre's championship era, he needs no introduction to ...
