Posts Tagged as ‘Jorge Posada’

November 7, 2009

Letterman Does Yankees

A few Dave Letterman jokes about you-know-who, taken from the MLB site:
“Long season, brutal season, 162 games, 40 or 50 playoff games, and then the best of 30 in the World Series. Finally, now, they get a well-deserved rest, and then on Monday they report to Spring Training.“
“The Yankees, your world champion Yankees, they have [...]

November 6, 2009

Yankees Theme Song

I didn’t even know one existed!

August 24, 2009

Posada: Perfect

November 7th: Post-World Series Update: Now’s a good time to evaluate the Posada/Burnett situation–now that the Yankees are the world champions. Here’s what one fan said on the MLB site:
Posada getting up there in age…The only problem is taking Posada’s bat out of the lineup during the playoffs. Still, the Yankees did fine with the [...]

June 29, 2009

Mariano Rivera Gets 500th Save

Last night Yankees closer Mariano Rivera got the 500th save of his career. He also, incidentally, got his first RBI of all time, on his third at-bat. That’s the third at-bat of his entire 16-year career. Rivera comes in to save the game in the 9th inning so, even in Interleague play in a National [...]

June 24, 2009

All-Star Voting

This is an emergency call for all you fans of Yankees and/or Jorge Posada, primero pitcher, clubhouse leader, wonderful father, and all-around great guy: get yourself over to the All-Star Game page and cast up to 25 votes so Posada might beat out Jason Varitek of the (holding nose) Red Sox and Joe Mauer of [...]

August 1, 2008

Trading Baseball Players

Final: Pudge is a Bronx Bomber, Manny’s a Dodger, and Posada’s Down for the Count
The hottest news in baseball a few days ago was of catcher Ivan (Pudge) Rodriguez leaving the Detroit Tigers to become a New York Yankee while Jorge Posada went DL to undergo surgery. But then, Red Sox manager Terry Francona went [...]

July 22, 2008

The Man Behind the Plate

October 26, 2009: If a search for Jorge Posada led you to this post, I’m terribly sorry to disappoint you. This is an old post, and has nothing to do with Posada’s current catching situation–which, by the way, is not all that dramatic. Nonetheless, if that’s what you’re looking for, I wrote a little bit [...]