An alternate scenario as food for thought: it's spring training 1996, and despite all pleas not to, Steinbrenner goes ahead and deals Rivera to the Mariners for Felix Fermin. Fermin blocks Jeter for a bit but in the end Jeter does come up, Yankees win in 1996, and despite no Rivera to take over from John Wetteland…
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Amazing, I'm going to have to bring that out at dinner tomorrow. Shana Tova!
Must have been a fucking dull life spending 90 years waiting for Rovell to do this
Why am I having to explain a joke on Deadspin? Good lord.
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Here's what happens when an American coach comes to Canada.
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Carter wasn't the tying run. The score was only 6-5. Rickey Henderson, on second, was the tying run, Paul Molitor was the winning run on first. So Carter's run didn't actually matter, it just made the final score 8-6 instead of 7-6. To call Alfredo a home run threat even in his prime would be laughable, and at…
I don't see the big deal here. This has to be a pretty typical reaction for a player when they join the New York Knicks.
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I realize Brett Lawrie is a younger player, but the Jays did the same thing with him this year. Because Lawrie got hurt during training for the WBC he missed all of spring training, so their plan was for him to rehab for most of April, and use it as spring training to get his timing back. But then Jose Reyes…
Here's the one thing I've always wondered, as a Jays fan: Carter came up with runners on first and second and one out. John Olerud's spot was behind him...except Olerud, the 1993 batting champion, had been lifted for a pinch-runner in Alfredo Griffin, the light-hitting infielder playing what turned out to be his…
It was a fucking weird series too. That 15-14 game was legendary. Only thing it didn't have was a position player pitching.
It was a down and in slider. Williams threw the same pitch twice in a row, and Carter missed it the first time. Mitch left the second one up and Carter was looking slider the whole time. Awful pitch selection.
Sportsnet (who owns the Blue Jays) re-aired the series up here this past spring. It was a lot of fun to re-watch. I forgot how plucky that Phillies team was, even 20 years later as an opposing fan. I respected them as underdogs but man that team was fun to hate. Although I will say Schilling's game 5 might be the…
+1 and I smile every damn time I see this. Thank you Joe!
Shows up for his introductory press conference dressed as a Mountie. Skates with the Maple Leafs on his off-days. Runs off to vacation in Whitehorse during the all-star weekend, where he's then spotted serving as the skip of an entry in the historic Yukon Territory outdoor curling tournament, which he does while…
This is all setting up for Harvey's arm to fall off three pitches into the All-Star Game because Mets.