Sports Page
Contact us at sportspage.tumblr@gmail.com
Named one of the "100 Best Tumblrs Of All-Time" by Complex magazine.
One of the "10 Sports Tumblrs You Absolutely Should Be Following" by Business Insider.
One of the "The 25 Best Sports Tumblrs" by Bleacher Report.
-
justcheese Pop Pop gets a treat? -
mikelavery Untitled -
passthemike Pass The Mike -
bluemeanies As Weary-Hearted As That Hollow Moon -
bradfjords Rhymin' and Stealin' -
endzonebasedunk Shoot The J -
selkies football makes me really mad -
shuaaaat SHREPTHEGNAR -
sorachamary The Perpetual New Englander -
thegreg The Greg
#Yankees on verge of getting Casey McGehee for Chad Qualls from #Pirates @Joelsherman1
It’s since been confirmed.
I’m going to be a guest on the Yanks Go Yard Show/podcast tonight at 8 to talk about the upcoming series against the Red Sox, the trade deadline, Josh Beckett, ect. You should listen and even call in if you wish.
But don’t get overly joyed if you’re a Yankee fan. He’s not the Ichiro you know and love. He’s headed for career lows in most offensive categories. He’s not the great leadoff hitter he once was with a.261 avg, and .288 obp. With the Yankees lineup he will be batting 8th or 9th as opposed to top of the order. However, he could get a decent boost playing in Yankee stadium and with that lineup. Don’t expect him to steal a ton of bases either, he has 15 this year. With all of that said, with Gardner out for the year, it’s an upgrade in the outfield. It was a good move and he moved from one of the worst records to the best. It’s hard to root against him and will be nice to see him in the postseason.
Trades, trades, trades!
In the past few days a handful of trades have gone down.
- The Yankees acquired Ichiro from the Mariners for DJ Mitchell and Danny Fahrquar.
- Tigers acquired Omar Infante and Anibal Sanchez from Marlins for Justin Turner, Rob Brantly, and Brian Flynn.
- The White Sox acquired Brett Myers from Astros.
- The Braves aquired Ryan Dempster but didn’t actually acquire Dempster but might still acquire Dempster.
Pettitte will miss six weeks after he was diagnosed with a fractured left ankle
Pettitte has been a good starter since returning (3-3, 3.29 ERA). Him and CC gong on the DL at the same time will surely hurt the Yankees. Let’s hope he learned not to use the same “recovery methods” as 2002. It seems like Freddy Garcia will take one of the rotation spots. I’m not sure who will take the other.
That’s a clown catch, bro!
(Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images)
20 years ago, the New York Yankees signed a kid from Kalamazoo, Michigan, giving him a $700,000 signing bonus, $125,000 to cover college, and he was never heard from ever again.
Except for the five World Series rings, 3,000+ hits and a Hall of Fame-caliber career in the bigs.
Thanks for everything, Derek Jeter.
Yesterday evening Tara and I were riding the G train home from the park and a visibly intoxicated man got onto the car and asked us if we were “Irish or Scottish.” at first I thought he was asking about our heritage, but after looking at the bottle he was holding and the way he was sloshing around I think he may have thought we were talking with accents that is how many sheets to the wind he was. So normally when a drunk man talks to me on the subway I am mean as hell so he’ll leave me alone but maybe because Tara doesn’t live in NYC she hasn’t been hardened yet? So she kept engaging him and I am so glad she did because of where this conversation went.
She told him she was visiting from Boston and that is when he said, “Oh yeah, I’ve played at Fenway a few times.” And I scoffed and rolled my eyes because BUDDY you are wearing chef pants on the G train and you’re fat and don’t even try to hint to me that you’re a former major league baseball player. I asked him if he was a Yankee fan or something since he had a negative reaction to Tara being in town from Boston and he said, “Why, do you recognize me?” And I was all “Come on! What’s your name then?” So he told us his name was Chuck but he would not give us his last name. He also overheard us talking about our upcoming trip to Minnesota and then he told us he used to live there. At this point we were just kind of egging him on so I asked him if he has ever played professional baseball and he said he couldn’t answer that but that he was recently divorced from his wife and “Are you sisters? Want to come uptown with me? I’ll just have to change first.”
When we got off the train Tara decided to google “baseball minnesota chuck yankee” and I was all, “Can you believe that guy? He tried to hint to us that he was a former major league baseball player!” And that is when this came up on Google:
It was Chuck Knoblauch. We were being hit on by Chuck Knoblauch on the G train.
Good to see ol’ Chuck still has the yips when it comes to the ladies.
