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 […]

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, […]

I’m nor­mally a fan of the XM Base­ball morn­ing show with Buck Mar­tinez (who will be for­ever ruined to me thanks to Triple Play ’99) and the other guy, but they were pulling some things out of their ass this morn­ing. They were doing some seem­ingly “on the fly” dis­cus­sion of last year’s dead­line trades […]

Alex Rodriguez is sched­uled to make $27 mil­lion a year for the next three years after this sea­son is com­plete. He can elect to ter­mi­nate this con­tract in order to receive more money, upwards of $32 mil­lion a year, and tack­ing on addi­tional years to his con­tract that would likely be his last huge money […]