O.K. -- This will come as a surprise to most of you, but I am not upset that the boys did not make it to the postseason. Frankly, I was secretly relieved. To be honest, I was exhausted by the end of September. Between the All Star Game, and all the hype about the final season at the Stadium, I was t...

AND THEN THERE WERE THREE ...as in just 3 games left at Yankee Stadium. After this series against the Birds of Baltimore, it's off to the wholly unnecessary new Stadium being built just a Ruthian blast away from the current cathedral of American sports, set to be demolished next spring after every l...

Paul Rogers singing for Queen. Brett Favre in a Jets jersey. Chris Russo on Sirius.  All sorts of unthinkable shit occurs in this crazy modern world, and as such, the New York Post’s Joel Sherman wonders, will the New York Yankees someday be “the organization that made offers Torre and ...

I've not talked much about baseball lately as I've been distracted with some weirdness in my professional life. Nonetheless, I have been watching Yankee Baseball. The ballclub has been active on the tradewire of late. It seems that they have addressed some glaring deficiencies. Before I begin discus...

Topps has plundered and riffed on their own back catalogue since 1980, when they released a baseball set that looked eerily reminiscent of their set from 1974. 1980 also saw the release of Topps Basketball, itself a riff on the 1978 baseball design. (You could even make the case that the plundering ...

The Yankees are in town for a weekend series, and this would be a nice time to retire the stupidest chant in the world: Yankees suck. Now, before you go all Hank Steinbrenner on me, hear me out, wrote Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen. I don't like the Yankees. I never did, though as a kid I liked...

Still hard to imagine that Bobby Murcer is no longer with us. Hey, check out these two tributes to Murcer by Jon Laneover at YES....

Now I know how fans who idolized Mickey Mantle felt on the summer day of August 13, 1995, when The Mick succumbed after a graceful and courageous battle with liver cancer. I experienced those feelings last Saturday afternoon, when I clicked onto MLB.com and saw that Bobby Murcer had passed away....

Yes, I love baseball. Bobby Murcer was my favorite player when I first started playing SS in the little leagues and his passing Sunday did hit me pretty hard. So I do check out th eHR derby from time to time during th eall star break. I could have went there, but my doctor says I can’t fly unt...

YES, of course, I stayed to the bitter end — barely — my friend Teri had to leave at 11:15 to get the last train back to Jersey, but I hung in there with my new friends in section 8, row J. What an amazing night! Just amazing. I am soooooooooo lucky that I got tickets, (long story, involving per...