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“I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can…”

Jay-Z – Empire State of Mind (ft Alicia Keys)

On the same night when Michael Jordan was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame…sports history was being made in a place just as hallowed as Springfield, MA. The Bronx, NY is as synonymous with legends, and lore as the Olympics…the main reason is because of the team and players that compete at 161st Street and River Avenue…The New York Yankees.

It is in my opinion appropriate that the Captain, Derek Jeter breaks the all-time hitting record, once held by the “Iron Horse” Lou Gehrig on September 11th. Jeter is accustomed to winning, as he opened the 3rd -inning with a single down the right field line for career hit number 2,722. Read the rest of this entry »

After 85 years, Yankee Stadium closed its doors for good Sunday night.

Yankee fans have had very little to cheer about this season, but New York closed “The House That Ruth Built” with a 7-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

Next season, the ballclub will move next door to the new Yankee Stadium, but even with a state-of-the-art facility, it will never be able to match the history and tradition of the old ballpark.

R.I.P. Yankee Stadium.

“I don’t like baseball being singled out. Everybody that knows sports knows football is tailor-made for performance-enhancing drugs. I don’t know how they managed to skate by. It irritates me. Don’t tell me it’s not more prevalent. The number in football is at least twice as many. Look at the speed and size of those players.”

A lot of baseball people thought that baseball would be the last sport that it would be a problem in and probably just ignored it too long. But the fact is it’s been in football a long time and it’s been in basketball, I’m sure. Why baseball is being singled out, I don’t know. I don’t know. I know all the excuses — `Well, it’s America’s game and it’s the statistics.’” 

- New York Yankees Senior Vice President Hank Steinbrenner on the steroid issue in Major League Baseball compared to the National Football League.

Just in case you needed another reason to the hate the New York Yankees, Hank Steinbrenner is your man.

Of course he thinks the NFL has a bigger steroid problem – Jason Giambi, Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte all were accused of using performance enhancing drugs in the Mitchell Report.

I miss George Steinbrenner already compared to this clown.