Archive for June, 2009

Yankee Memorabilia – Close to your Heart

Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Robert Riles asked:


A professional baseball team that is popular for the various Yankee memorabilia available in the market. Yet another team that plays in the National league and has won many championships is the Yankees and whose Yankee memorabilia is equally popular. The Yankee memorabilia consists of player’s uniforms, balls, the bat and even the face masks worn by some. A baseball that has the signature of all the players is one of the most popular products that are in demand. Apart from this, there are many caps and bats used by the players on sale. Some of them are available on the internet and the sites claim that the products are all original and 100% genuine. There are fans all over the world who will be more than happy to pay any asked price just so they can own that memorabilia
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Don Larsen and **** Ruth are some players who were considered saints and their pictures area available in all stores for sale. People who enjoy a good game of baseball would love to have these in their room to show off their passion for the sport. Then, there are others who simply collect souvenirs and place it in their curio. These are typically people who travel a lot and bring in some gift or curio piece from that town. Some cleats used by players are also part of the collectible, apart from this are the coins, gloves, and even few lithographs. These can be wall mounted or placed on a stand in your hallway. In baseball, the home plate is also considered valuable and when the match is over, there are some who might take it with them as a memory of the game. The cloth on which the pitcher wipes the ball, his cap are all high on demand.

At times, we wonder if people have gone crazy and lost it, which is why they go after Yankee memorabilia instead of wanting to enjoy a game on the television. But these people are not crazy; they are simply in love with the game and are completely involved in it. Which makes them follow the lives of all the players, get emotionally involved in the match to a point where some go into a depression if their favorite team loses the match. So, by collecting Yankee memorabilia, they are simply holding on to a piece of history that they think was truly memorable and worth cherishing for the rest of their lives. If a person walks into a sports store and goes straight to the collector’s shelf, they are more than just passionate about the game and are interested in knowing more and spreading the game to more people. There are people who are part of a club or forum where they talk about certain players, and discuss about the game and such. This gives them a lot of fulfillment and adds joy to their lives, also they could be discussing what other collectibles are available and where as well.



LAZARO

RedSox fan on Torre what are the Yankees’s Thinking?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Kevin asked:
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I am a die hard RedSox fan and I have to say Joe Torre is one of the best managers in baseball. He always has his team ready to play and is one of the classiest guys in baseball. Anyone else think the Yankees should bend over backward to accomidate Torre

ALFREDO

Top 50 Fantasy Baseball Players

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Anthony Wayne asked:


The top 50 players in Fantasy Baseball, according to the ***** staff at Fantasy Baseball Dugout.
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Alex Rodriguez, 3B, New York Yankees

David Wright, 3B, New York Mets

Miguel Cabrera, 3B, Detroit Tigers

Matt Holliday, OF, Colorado Rockies

Albert Pujols, 1B, St. Louis Cardinals

Johan Santana, SP, Mets

Ryan Howard, 1B, Philadelphia Phillies

David Ortiz, DH, Boston Red Sox

Chase Utley, 2B, Phillies

Jimmy Rollins, SS, Phillies

Jake Peavy, SP, San Diego Padres

Grady Sizemore, OF, Cleveland Indians

Jose Reyes, SS, Mets

Prince Fielder, 1B, Milwaukee Brewers

Hanley Ramirez, SS, Florida Marlins

Adam Dunn, OF, Cincinnati Reds

Mark Teixeria, 1B, Atlanta Braves

Carl Crawford, OF, Tampa Bay Rays

Ichiro, OF, Seattle Mariners

Brandon Webb, SP, Arizona Diamondbacks

Josh Beckett, SP, Red Sox

Francisco Rodriguez, CP, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

Justin Verlander, SP, Tigers

Lance Berkman, OF, Houston Astros

C.C. Sabathia, SP, Indians

Ryan Braun, 3B, Brewers

Vladimir Guerrero, OF, Angels

B.J. Upton, 3B, Rays

Victor Martinez, C, Indians

Aaron Harang, SP, Reds

John Lackey, SP, Angels

Jonathan Papelbon, CP, Red Sox

Carlos Zambrano, SP, Chicago Cubs

Dan Haren, SP, Diamondbacks

Travis Hafner, DH, Indians

Scott Kazmir, SP, Tampa Bay Rays

Curtis Granderson, OF, Tigers

Eric Bedard, SP, Baltimore Orioles

Nick Swisher, OF, Chicago White Sox

Magglio Ordonez, OF, Tigers

Carlos Beltran, OF, Mets

Alex Rios, OF, Toronto Blue Jays

J.J. Putz, CP, Seattle Mariners

Alex Gonzalez, 1B, Padres

Daisuke Matsuzaka, SP, Red Sox

Robinson Cano, 2B, Yankees

Alfonso Soriano, OF, Cubs

Brandon Phillips, 2B, Reds

Carlos Lee, OF, Astros

Roy Halladay, SP, Blue Jays



WILL

Baseball and the Steroids Issues

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Jimmy Spier asked:


In 5 last years the increasing popularity and the use of the illegal substances like steroids in the principal baseball of league created a public outcry and carried out to the bills of indictment, the arrests and congressional hearings. Some even put the principal baseball of league on the par with the fighting professional because it is now a doped play or extract of the juice and old man, the disks hard by the greats like Ruth and the Aaron hank can easily be broken per few athletes on steroids and to have become without significance. Glance right with the Obligations of Barry for an example.

The Obligations of Barry became inserted towards the end of 90s while the new athletes like McGwire and Jose Conseco became more popular for the girdling homeruns. The obligations were a large athlete, but it was ageing and right like his/her father was directed for the retirement. The obligations and each one knew differently than this Conseco and the others took with steroids. It was inevitable that the Obligations would start to take steroids because it was very jealous and had an insatiable appetite to be the chief, it could not be held being in the second place with no matter whom and it saw the great results of McGwire and Conseco.

The Obligations of Barry started to take many types of steroids by its trainer Greg Anderson. Its physique, career and baseball would be never identical. The obligations were better after the steroids than any time in its career. The steroids had raised its career and had probably made him the best player in the history of baseball because it now struck 722 races of house of career. Only some of the largest players in the history of baseball ever struck in this range. It is similar so that Tiger Woods made in the golf and its Jack driving out Nicklaus with its 18 titles of commander of career. The difference is that Tiger Woods is a true champion and does not employ the renforceurs or drugs like illegal steroids or the fraud in some way. The kids can look until him as a true hero.

Tiger Woods worked and was exerted very hard, it is also human while it passed while treating much the loss of his father. The wood of tiger by its large play and ethics raised the professional golf and its base of ventilator to all the high ones of time. The Obligations of Barry, in addition, devastated the principal baseball of league and its rich history. Discs are not supposed to be broken on a daily or monthly basis. The discs are right that the discs of the size, by the real heroes love Joe DiMaggio, Ruth, Joe Déchaussé Jackson, Aaron hank, coat of Mickey and Ty Cobb. They did not never employ steroids and were large players both moving and stop the field.

What each professional athlete must include/understand is that our kids see them like gods, hero and mentorats. Its step approximately money, its approximately play. Ninety-nine percent of professional athletes never become the large ones like Rod Carew, Michael Jordan, or the moon of Warren, but they all are printed in our children. Each one remembers the negative ones like emotive McEnroe and its accesses, Rae Caruth and O.J. Simpson which maltreated the legal system and their fame to make the murder, steroids, playing and the expulsion of the legend Peter Pink of baseball. The chiefs of these professional sports must soon realize that these players corrupted and in some ruined connections future of the sports like the principal baseball of league.

See the immediate obviousness of each one as of this one must make is to look at the number of reduction in visitors to the hall of baseball of re-elected in Cooperstown, NY. It was almost each young imagination of boys to see the equipment carried by **** Ruth, the ball which was signed by Reggie Jackson and its team-members of Yankee, the stories of the size and the large obstacles and obstacles which were surmounted by certain by the legends. The rare charts of baseball by players with strict standards like Honus Wagner which had its drawn charts because he did not want to be associated the cigarettes and the tobacco. The significance of the rich history of baseballs suffered considerably and will continue until something of energetic is done.

The athletes like the Obligations of Barry which cheat and of increasing drugs of illegal execution of use should be prohibited and immediately removed baseball and other sports. They should receive the punishment worse than Peter Pink and should be stripped of all the discs, titles, and history in the play. Left somebody who worked hard, overcame the adversity and the large obstacles, and not ever cheated and had great ethics, standards and was a true hero is that to determine their destiny. Somebody like the Aaron hank. Overall discs of Aaron of hank, the large discs, the hard manner and them are tarnished by the tastes of the Obligations and others of Barry. The Aaron hank, like the walker of Herschel, overcame a very weak education, racism, misses resources and by the fine determination became one of the largest athletes never.

It is downtime the commercial mercenary attitude and to again obtain with the foundations these sports. We forgot what really the play means. There is a reason for which in Brooklyn they always remember embusqués of Brooklyn. Leave not let the great play of the baseball be ruined by people like Obligations of Barry. They must be removed play, their completely eliminated history and to start again. It is the only manner of maintaining or of saving the image of the professional baseball.



NORMAN

Who, besides me, is loving the demise of the YANKEES?

Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Addicted2Fishing asked:


haha Mariano Rivera is getting old and can’t be the Ace that the yankees NEED him to be. Yankees drop to 5-7 this is amazing. Im a New Yorker too and am a Mets fan (rightfully so). just goes to show you that you cant by the best team in baseball

DONOVAN

Besides the Yankees, which team do you think has the best infield?

Monday, June 22nd, 2009
J B asked:


They should not be just good at batting but also fielding. Not enough emphasis is put on fielding for most teams. I looked at some teams to figure out who, but I couldn’t really find any one team that has the best. The Tigers would have, but there’s Sean Casey who’s not good at hitting or fielding. Then there’s the Phillies…Ryan Howard getting 10 errors at the easiest position in baseball (besides DH)? So who?

RAMON

Is it it sad that the theyre making a new shea stadium and yankees stadium?

Saturday, June 20th, 2009
Jennifer C asked:


i think its stupid, cuz its history…thats where a bunch of baseball players had there success and everything…why are they even making a new one?
i know right Yankees stadium especially…it was really big back then and there were many famous players

CLARK

What’s the next best thing to a Live Mets or Yankees game in NYC?

Friday, June 19th, 2009
Manu D asked:


I’ll be in NYC for three days on August 12,13,14.

I really really wanted to go see a baseball game but neither teams play in new york on these dates. I’m a big fan of baseball, hockey, basketball and football.

What’s the next best thing available on these dates in NYC that I can attend in terms of sporting event?

Thanks

JODY

Have you heard stories about couples break up or divorce simply beacuse they root for rival baseball teams?

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Happy day asked:


Like, Husband roots for Yankees and Wife is a die-hard Red sox fan?

KENNETH

Who else thinks baseball is the best thing ever invented?

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Yankees4life !Lets Go Yankees! asked:


I do.

Oh and btw…Go Yankees!

EMILIO