The Red Sox bullpen had an ugly Saturday afternoon by giving up 13 earned runs in 3 innings. That is a meltdown of epic proportions, but it appears the 8th inning sing-along at Fenway perturbed Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe. If they play Sweet Caroline between innings, somebody should get fired. I’m sorta serious. [...]

Back in the 40s and 50s the United States was facing a huge threat – communism. During this era, thousands of Americans were accused of being Communists or communist sympathizers and became the subject of aggressive investigations and questioning before government. Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy led the brigade with the “Hollywood Blacklist” and investigations by the House [...]

So the Yankees did as expected and did not tender a contract to Chien-Ming Wang. Reports tell you that a few American League and maybe a couple more National League teams may take a shot at the Taiwanese hurler who probably won’t pitch until May or June at the earliest. Wang, of course, after winning [...]

Last night NYBD contributor Frank Russo joined me on the show as we sounded the panic alarm for the Yankees. Not me of course, but Frank was very concerned about the Yankees recent poor play and the Red Sox easy schedule. Enter Zack Greinke and a big win in Anaheim and all is well in [...]

via Peter Abraham of the Journal News UPDATE, 4:47 p.m.: Dave Robertson (elbow) has been shut down and is going to see Dr. James Andrews. He’s been pitching with “tightness” for about 10 days now. The hope is, Girardi said, that it’s not serious and he comes back after some rest. It would be a [...]

I have been following the dialogue by Neil Best and Murray Chass regarding the “death” of the general sports columnist. Not only is Best right on target about the future of journalism, but anyone in the industry that doesn’t see this needs to be immediately shown the door. This goes for radio as well. Let [...]

- Some, including me, were saying earlier this year that K-Rod might be reaching Mariano level of performance. Last night the contrasting ninth innings proved the divide is still very large between Mariano and second best. According to Peter Abraham, Mariano has converted 100 of 103 saves since 2007. The only thing more automatic is [...]

- Good to see George Steinbrenner back in town last night. It’s funny that, and this is a good thing, that the Yankees are just your ordinary, boring, winning team. The Bronx doesn’t burn anymore, but rather, Flushing. – I know this isn’t New York related, but the whole Erin Andrews “peep show” annoys me. [...]

- I still don’t understand the bullpen situation with Girardi. Today he started ok by doing the obvious: Bringing Aceves in for Chamberlain. I have no problem with Albaladejo next, but Veras was used for multiple innings. Where were Bruney and Tomko? If the Yanks had blown this game bullpen management would have been to [...]

If you missed it earlier, Peter Abraham of the Journal News joined me during the 6:30 hour on NYBD Radio. We talked about the following: – Why the atmosphere in the clubhouse does matter and has contributed to Yankees success this year. – The importance of Johnny Damon to this ballclub and why he is [...]

Kick off your Memorial Day Weekend tonight at 6pm with NYBD Radio. Mike Shapiro, author of the book “Bottom of the Ninth” will lead off the show. His book tells the story of how Branch Rickey and Casey Stengel tried to create a third league, the Continental League, in order to stave off the dropping [...]

I have been a Brett Gardner fan since the times in 2005 I saw him play in short season Staten Island. He and Jacoby Ellsbury of the Lowell Spinners were the two fastest guys in that league that season. Gardner hit .284/.377/.376 with 9 doubles, a triple and FIVE home runs! Add in the tremendous [...]

Not sure how many of the”common fans” this will impact, but Pete Abe has it all outlined at his blog. I will be discussing this, as well as other business of baseball topics, with Maury Brown, president of the Business of Sports Network, tonight. I would like to hear comments from Yankees fans about their [...]

It has been reported by Peter Abraham that Xavier Nady has apparently seriously re-injured his elbow and will have season ending elbow surgery. Nothing is yet official from the Yankees, but Nady did have Tommy John surgery several years ago, and did feel a sharp pain in his right elbow last night. This hits at the [...]

According to Peter Abraham’s LoHud blog Jonathan Albaladejo has once again made the Yankees team right out of spring training. Albaladejo, acquired from the Nationals for Tyler Clippard, has impressed again this spring with 9 2/3 innings, allowing only eight hits, one ER, one walk with eight strikeouts. Clippard, meanwhile, is best known as probably the [...]