Turkey Day Plus One

Happy Belated Thanksgiving, everyone!
I’ve got my nose in my computer screen writing a book for someone else, so there’s precious little time to blog. I just wanted to mention a few small things:
• What I’m grateful for:
yesterday’s meal–the taste still lingers
grateful for my typing fingers
for my grandsons, for my children
no more rhymes–that’s the list.
• The [...]

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 [...]

Yankees Theme Song

I didn’t even know one existed!

Told Ya!

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]