Yankee fever, need for Jet relevance & adieu to ‘Sports Reporters’ ...
In the same couple of weeks, the Yankees have come back from 9-1 to beat the Orioles,
hitting one into outer space in the bottom of the ninth.
Then on Friday afternoon at Wrigley, two outs in the ninth, two strikes on he reaches down and hits a 3-run shot and the Yankees beat the Cubs.
There is no more wondering if the Yankees are for real. The Yankees are for real. There hasn’t been a Yankee team this fun to watch since the last time they won it all. The operative word being fun. Tell me who else is the favorite to win the AL East right now? The Washington Capitals have never really had a lot of guys you’d call Mr. May, have they?
You watch the Rangers play the way they did in Games 3 and 4, and you scratch your head all over again about how they could blow three 2-goal leads in Ottawa last weekend.
Do you see people camping out to be the first to get those $495 sneakers? After watching the YankeesCubs game on Friday afternoon, you almost started to think they should call Chicago the Windy City. Something catchy like that. Every time a ball was hit in the air, the outfielders were chasing it around like it was a Frisbee.
Can you put me down as somebody wondering why it sometimes sounds as if they’re fitting for a gold watch?
My HOF friend, wonders how long it’s going to take for No. 99 to be the biggest selling jersey in major league baseball. By the way? I was never all that fascinated by exit velocity until No. 99 came along.
You have to say the Orioles grade pretty high in stubbornness. And while we’re on the subject: I think is just now crossing home plate at Fenway after that home run he hit Thursday night. The thing about the Jets is this:
The football season gets a lot better around here when both teams at MetLife are in play.
So you don’t want to write them off in May.
You don’t want to look at them as the football version of the Knicks. But, man, they make it hard on their fans.
has always been one of the good guys, so I sure do hope he starts hitting soon. You watch the Celtics and Wizards and start to get the impression that the Orioles and Red Sox like each other more.
That really was the first time a bill just making it through the House of Representatives like the health-care bill did the other day inspired a keg party.
You actually started to get the idea in the Rose Garden that they were about halfway to a toga party.
As early as it is, you have to wonder how the Red Sox do anything this season without
And here is one more thing that is making the Sox look like something less than the Warriors, as
called them: They field the ball sometimes as if they’re playing in my old East Side Bar League for the immortal Runyon’s Bobcats.
On that play Friday afternoon when threw out Castro, didn’t it look as if Castro sort of needed some kind of GPS finding his way to home plate? We do our final “Sports Reporters” for ESPN on Sunday morning, after more than 28 years. Man, it’s been fun. More fun than you think, more than you know. will be there today, and and But you have to know:
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