Posts Tagged as ‘sports’

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!

November 5, 2009

Told Ya!

How ’bout them Yankees, huh?
As one of the guys said, “All’s well with the world.”

November 2, 2009

Game Four

Dirty Play
Three nights, three games, three pitchers: it was all the same story. Philadelphia pitchers pummeled A-Rod on every one of his first at-bats. The first time, you figure,  maybe it was intentional, maybe not. Second time, you strongly suspect something’s going on. Third time, it’s obvious their pitchers agreed beforehand to hit A-Rod at [...]

October 28, 2009

Baseball Posts on Dirty Laundry

Maybe I’m overly obsessive, but I feel compelled to write this note for the edification of my readers–so here goes.
Predictably, Dirty Laundry gets a lot of hits to the baseball topic at this time of year. From what I can tell, people go searching under players’ names–Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, etc.–and they’re led to my [...]

October 26, 2009

The Baseball Playoffs

“They say that baseball breaks your heart, but what they don’t tell you is that it gives you heart attacks.”– Confessions of a She-Fan
This morning I’m breathing with great relief. My stomach is calm, and my nerves have stopped jangling—and all because the New York Yankees won against the Angels last night, ending an extremely [...]

October 22, 2009

Phillies Win National

Congratulations to the Philadelphia Phillies, who crushed the LA Dodgers and now await another crack at the world title. Too bad for Joe Torre, and too bad it won’t be a Dodger-Yankee match–but I’m content with the excitement generated by last year’s champs trying to hang onto the title against…well, I certainly hope they’ll be [...]

October 20, 2009

World Series Playoffs

So, here we are in the midst of the Championship Series for the American League and the National League–the ALCS and NLCS. In the ALCS, Yankees won two games, and the LA Angels won their first game last night. In the National, Phillies won three and Dodgers one–leaving the Phillies, last year’s champs, just one [...]

October 3, 2009

Not My Kinda Town

I’m having one of those days when I’m convinced I was dropped off here from some other planet. Call me an alien (as in alienated), but I just cannot relate to the crying people of Chicago. Rejected! It’s shocking! Absolutely unbelievable!
There could be, and probably are, about a million reasons the IOC chose Rio de [...]

October 1, 2009

Boys of October

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.–Vince Lombardi

‘Tis October, a month that in years past filled me with panic and dread, as it signals the opening shot of “The Holidays.” Since I became a baseball fan, however, [...]