David Wells thinks the Yankees will sweep the Phillies on the road and take the series in five. He also doesn’t think highly of the City of Brotherly Love in his latest NY Post column. You can tell that Wells has no love lost for the city of Philadelphia as he shares the bad experience [...]

The Yankees and their fans will have the pleasure of the Citizen’s Bank Park experience this weekend. Buckle your seatbelt because it’s going to be a wild ride. For all the complaining about Yankee Stadium this year CBP had it beat back in 2007 when just under three homers a game were hit. We all [...]

I found this quote over at Amazin Avenue interesting as I made the morning rounds yesterday: Centerfield Maz takes a look at last decade’s Carlos Beltran: Kevin McReynolds. It got me to thinking if that was true. I’m not sure if the author, Joe Budd, actually saw McReynolds play or is going by historical news and [...]

I was speaking to a couple of friends this afternoon that were at the game last night. They were Yankees fans who obviously aren’t familiar with the poor behavior that accompanies Philadelphia fans during their visits to opposing stadiums. Apparently there was a loud contingency of Phils fans that caused fights and even started trouble [...]

Make no mistake about it- no one likes to see the Phillies win less than I do. I grew up in Cherry Hill, NJ, less than 20 minutes from Veterans Stadium. However, raised properly by a Brooklyn Dodgers fan, there was never any threat of my becoming a Phillie Phanatic. In other words: not only [...]

We saw Pedro Martinez turn back the clock at Yankee Stadium last night. During my World Series preview show Phils beat reporter Scott Lauber talked about how surprised many have been about Pedro’s performance on the field and in the locker room. The Phillies are so pleased there is speculation that Martinez might be given [...]

A.J. Burnett may have finally put any doubts to rest with his performance last night. Burnett had electric stuff, especially his curveball, and held the fort down just enough for the Yankees bats to get going in the 3-1 win. It seems listening to Cliff Lee a night earlier talk about confidence during the postgame [...]

The excerpts from Tim Donaghy’s book “Blowing the Whistle” appear to have nothing to do with Major League Baseball. Or does it? Here are some of my favorite excerpts courtesy of Deadspin: We had another variation of this gag simply referred to as the “first foul of the game” bet. While still in the locker [...]

The healthcare debate has been raging for months now. During the summer the former Governor of Alaska accused the White House of creating “death panels” in their version of health care. Little did Governor Palin know that Team Chernoff at WFAN have created another panel that could signal the death of sports radio here in [...]

During the summer I was talking to a league source that believed one of Omar Minaya’s biggest failures was that he ignored some of the good baseball people in the Mets organization. One of those people was Sandy Johnson who originally was brought in to mentor Minaya in 2004. I was told that Johnson had [...]

Maybe Roy Halladay wasn’t the best pitcher available at the trade deadline. Cliff Lee, who just two years ago was sent down to AAA, dominated the Yankees last night at the Stadium and made it look easy. He did it the old “Ray Miller way” as he worked fast, threw strikes, and changed speed. The [...]

Blogniks and the more hyperbolic writers out there have been writing since roughly about 6½ seconds after the Yankees won the AL pennant, that the Yankees Must Win Game 1! It’s the most important game!!! A Must Win!! I disagree. I believe the most important game has already been played. It was pitched by Andy [...]

You might know Tom McCarthy for his past associations with the Mets, Rutgers and Princeton. Now in the second season of a five-year broadcasting contract with the Phillies, McCarthy, a native of Jersey City and Central Jersey resident, is as excited as anyone as far as the 2009 World Series is concerned. The 41-year-old, who [...]

It’s easy to forget that Chan Ho Park was a New York Met for about five minutes. His inauspicious start and poor performance at New Orleans will not go down in the great annuls of Mets history. What I do think about is why the Mets didn’t try park in a relief role. I do [...]

John Smoltz got into the World Series spirit by opining on how to beat the Yankees to Tom Verducci of SI. Many will wonder why the Phillies would listen considering this is Smoltz’s line against the Bombers in August. Here is what Smoltz had to say: “I’ll tell you what I would do against them,” [...]