George Stein­bren­ner passed away today from a mas­sive heart attack. He was 80 years old. Stein­bren­ner was the prin­ci­pal owner of the New York Yan­kees and the def­i­n­i­tion of “hands-on owner” from the time the own­er­ship group he led pur­chased the team in 1973 until 2007 when he tran­si­tioned the day-to-day oper­a­tions of the Yankees […]

OK. So appar­ently Alex Rodriguez has a torn labrum in his hip, which will either put him out for 10 weeks (accord­ing to his brother), 4 months (if the Yan­kees feel he needs surgery), or not at all (the ini­tial approach the Yanks are tak­ing.) admis­sion that he took steroids

The Bal­ti­more Ori­oles have picked up for­mer hyped cen­ter field prospect Felix Pie from the Chicago Cubs for starter Gar­rett Olson and minor league pitcher Hank Williamson. Pie needed to be dealt because after six sea­sons, you stop being a “prospect” and start being the guy who couldn’t make the major league ros­ter. His days […]

Mil­wau­kee receives: RHP Scott Line­brink Padres receives: RHP Will Inman LHP Steve Gar­ri­son LHP Joe Thatcher Thoughts: Line­brink was a nobody until the Padres got him off waivers from the Astros

I’m a big fan of the guys at firejoemorgan.com , espe­cially since I’ve been known to dis­ect arti­cles like they do while read­ing them. So I took a shot at tak­ing apart one of the New York-based news­rags (sadly, prob­a­bly the best of the three tabloids) arti­cles focus­ing on one of my new Yan­kee man-crushes, […]