Minor Changes
I've tinkered slightly with the design of the blog, adding a few blogs into the lists on the left while consolidating the professional bloggers into their own list. In particular, I added the blog Yankees For Justice into the Yankees Blogs category. It's a terrific blog full of good people stories and politics, as well as insights about the Yankees. It also comes from a similar political perspective to mine, which is generally speaking from the left, which should be little surprise to regular readers here. I'd also recommend reading a couple other non-Yankees blogs, such as The "Next" Peter Gammons, written by a promising student named Eli, and Fans on the Field, written by Dan and Jason Mathers. The latter is a Red Sox blog, but I genuinely appreciate their humor; plus, their perspectives on the game are often quite good. Dan's recent post on Zelig was spot-on.
I may add other lists for political blogs and websites, as well as one for music I'm listening to. There's only so much space here and, while I could use another column on the other side for everything, I don't want to either clutter the blog, or decentralize the posts I write, or elongate the posting space, which will inevitably happen if I change the side-column format. Many of my posts are long enough as it is.
thanks for those tips i'll check out the next gammons as well as the sox site. here is a top for you...his name is mike sommers and he is a very knowledgeable guy.
http://www.lvyankeefanclub.com/blogs/
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Thanks, Mike. It's a good blog, and I intend to add Summer Frieze to the blog roll later.
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For anyone watching the game today, things have been interesting. Wang breezed through the first, but struggled in the second, allowing four hits and three runs. he wasn't really creamed, but gave up some ground-ball singles. In the second, Shelley Duncan creamed a two-run homer to center. In the third, the Yankees worked Sabathia over but could not score with the bases loaded--not because they failed, however. Melky worked a walk after being down 0-2, A-Rod stroked a terrific hit-and-run single through the hole at second, Giambi worked a walk to load the bases, and Duncan the Invincible pasted a long drive to deep center that Sizemore tracked down for the final out. A great center fielder--though he's no Coco Crisp--Sizemore made it look easy when it was anything but. Duncan really cranked it, a good sign.
Shelley's got to play.
Wang is warming up in the fourth, getting Frankln Gutierrez looking and Cabrera on a weak ground ball to Giambi.
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im here and i'm loving this game...hard to post and watch on a laptop at thye same time, but will check in here at the end of the inning
GO Shelley
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...the greatest center fielder francona's ever seen...
we had fun with that one, didn't we?
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Hey Mike. I just got back from a brief but exhausting stint at the gym. Shelley is having a tremendous Spring.
We sure have gotten a lot of mileage out of Francona's Crisp-love.
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Oh yeah, and A-Rod is quietly batting .500. Amazing.
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this team has so much energy that even jose is tagging up at 2nd and making it to 3rd beating the throw.
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yesterday granderson and today sizemore are yankee killers
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Agreed on both fronts, Mike. Jose Molina for Jeff Kennard was a total steal, and the team's running has surely paid off, both in preparation and base-path aggressiveness.
Sizemore is a great player. I'm wondering whether or not Rasner makes the team as a long reliever, or is sent to AAA. Rasner otherwise looked pretty good, fanning two. But batters destroy his mistakes.
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i'd take patterson or karstens over rasner any day. at least patterson gives them something with that kinda odd delivery
i love brett gardner. everything about him
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