Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Washington Post: Tom Boswell: Yankees Are Monuments To Baseball Success
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posted on May 21, 2013 at 02:30 AM by The Yankee Clapper to aging, great baseball players, injuries, pennant race, veteran leadership, yankees
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Boz pays homage to the gritty, gutsy, scrappy, first place 2013 underdog Yankees:
Read More...Perhaps for the first time in their history, the Yankees now epitomize exactly the kind of team that always used to try to beat them: a group of inspired-by-adversity, too-old-or-too-young, one-last-chance players who band together to prove that baseball is a team game, not just an aggregation of talent and fat contracts.
Put a few all-star seasons, such as Cano’s 31 RBI, Kiroda’s 1.99 ERA and Rivera’s 16 ...
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1. Walt Davis posted on September 29, 2012 at 01:23 AM # hit 0 | hit 0Alfonso Soriano went 1 for 1 ... with 3 walks. None intentional.
But even more amazing ...
Mike Jacobs, yes that Mike Jacobs, was the DBacks 1B ...
and the Cubs intentionally walked Mike Jacobs.
Theo, Jed or one of the geeks in the computer lab might want to send Dale an email about that one.
PFFT! That road has already been trodden by Mike Rizzo and company, and look where it got them.
No, Davey Johnson is not available to manage the Cubs in 3 years, so don't even ask.
We won't talk about last night's debacle, thank you very much.
Colorado could get there as well. A six-game losing streak to close out the season would do it. (they're at 62-95, having lost last night)
McCutchen left the game Thursday but played Friday. Something subsequent?
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