It’s been a special season to date for the Long Island Ducks, but if they don’t win the next two games on the road against York they will go home without completing their goal of winning the Atlantic League Championship. The York Revolution defeated the Ducks 9-6 to take a 2-1 lead in the Championship [...]

The Yankees have announced their Triple-A affiliate will play its home games in six different locations in 2012: Rochester, Batavia, Syracuse, Lehigh Valley, Buffalo, and Pawtucket. This is due to renovation of PNC Field, which will take the entire 2012 season. The Mets not only rejected the Yankees request to play at Bears & Eagles Stadium in [...]

The Yankees and Tigers open the ALDS tonight at the Stadium. After two consecutive years where we have seen the Yanks treat the Minnesota Twins like the Washington Generals, this year sees them take on a Detroit team that is a lot like them. The Yankees come into this series looking a lot like the [...]

Listen to a special edition of my show as I am joined by Steve S. of The Yankee Analysts as we breakdown the Yankees-Tigers ALDS matchup. We discuss the historic night of Wild Card action and how additional playoff teams will impact the drama. We also breakdown Yankees-Tigers and give a series prediction. CLICK HERE TO [...]

The Long Island Ducks were defeated by the York Revolution 9-0  tonight in Game Two of the Atlantic League Championship Series at Bethpage Ballpark. The series is now tied at one apiece. York was one of the best offensive team in the Atlantic League and they showed why tonight hitting 3 homers off Ducks starter [...]

It was pre-ordained. It was a team that was predicted by so-called baseball experts to be one of the greatest in baseball history. A team personally handcrafted and built by a genius named Theo Epstein, a man many considered to be one of the greatest GM’s in baseball history. Yes, everyone celebrated from Harvard Yard [...]

Former Mets manager Steve Phillips is on the verge of winning the Sirius XM Fantasy Baseball Experts League and talked about it with the RotoExperts yesterday. What was his strategy? Phillips claims he turned over 23 of his 26 players on his roster during the course of the year. “Trader Phillips” acquired Matt Kemp and [...]

Yesterday night started with a typical media fake outrage talking point in the Jose Reyes batting title controversy. Regardless of the fact that players before Reyes have sat out to protect their stats, somehow the New York media found it offensive that Reyes elected to bunt for a hit to start the game, and then [...]

It’s been a wild September (pun intended!) for both leagues Wild Card teams. We could very well see 1-game playoffs in both leagues if the Braves, Cardinals, Rays, and Red Sox all win their respective games. Game 7 TV brings up back to a classic pennant race that resulted in a one-game playoff. Everyone remembers [...]

We cover all sorts of New York baseball stories here. The Mets and the Yankees are at the core of what I discuss, but baseball in this town is so much deeper than just the two big league clubs. You have great stories throughout the minors, college, and even amateur ranks. The Long Island Ducks [...]

The Mets wrap up the 2011 season this afternoon, which makes it a great time to assess where this team is a year after they fired Omar Minaya and brought in Sandy Alderson. Record-wise the team is no better, but for the first time since Minaya’s first year on the job there appears to be a [...]

Legendary Star Ledger sports writer Jerry Izenberg breaks the story and gives all the dirty details about how the Yankees had reached agreement with Essex County and the Newark Bears to move their AAA team from Scranton to Newark for ONE YEAR, as their Scranton ballpark gets much needed renovations. It would have been not [...]

A.J. Burnett very well may have a great shot to pitch Game 3 of the ALDS. Joel Sherman laid out the Yanks strategy in a recent column. Here are two important items to remember when you are thinking about Game 3: One: There is an off-day scheduled the day before, so the entire bullpen should be [...]

The last time the Mets blocked a minor league team from coming into the Tri-State Area it led to the wildly successful Long Island Ducks and the Atlantic League. Seventeen years later the Mets play the baseball grinch again by blocking the Scranton Yankees from playing their 2012 International League home schedule at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium [...]

Earlier today, I took the Boston media to task for how they handled the John Lackey divorce news, and chastised them for how they handled the situation. I was particularly hard on the Dennis & Callahan Morning Show for how they handled it: I can wonder about the local media that covers the team making [...]