New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman caused a little bit of a stir on Tuesday night, when he instructed Yankees' third baseman Alex Rodriguez to "shut the bleep up".
"Sweet Caroline", the Neil Diamond song that has been played in the middle of the eighth inning of every Boston Red Sox home game since 2002, was played at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night, during the New York Yankess/Arizona Diamondbacks match-up.
News reports circulated recently that Major League Baseball and the Drug Enforcement Administration were investigating a clinic in Miami, Florida, run by Anthony Bosch, as being associated with performance enhancing drugs.
Many believed the world would end on 12-12-12.
It hasn't happened but here's some earth shattering news.
Kevin Youkilis is going to the New York Yankees.
Sources say the former Red Sox third baseman has agreed to a one-year, $12 million dollar contract...
The Detroit Tigers said "sweep dreams" to the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the ALCS Monday, dominating the Yanks by the score of 8-1. The Tigers return to the World Series as American League champions for the first time since 2006. Leading the way for Detroit was...
The Detroit Tigers have pushed the New York Yankees to the brink of elimination in the ALCS after Justin Verlander's pitching jewel on Tuesday night. Taking a shutout into the ninth inning, Verlander and the Tigers left Game 3 with a 2-1 victory, putting them up 3-0 in the best of 7 series. Other key performers were...
The New York Yankees struggled to score runs against Baltimore in the American League Division Series
They're hitting just .192 against Detroit pitching through two games in the American League Championship Series.
They've lost their captain to a broken ankle...
The baseball playoffs start today with the new format of having two wild-card teams play each other in a one game, loser go home format.
The Baltimore Orioles are in Texas to take on the slumping Rangers tonight. Lefty Joe Saunders get the start for Baltimore, while Yu Darvish takes the mound for Texas in a game to start this evening at 7:30.
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Mark Texiera, who missed ten games because of a calf injury, re-aggravated the calf Saturday and might be lost for the season.
Texiera, who was hurt hustling to first base to try to beat a game ending double play, will miss at least the next four games, but Yankees manager Joe Girardi fears his first baseman could be out even longer...
One of the stories that has baseball fans enthralled this year is the success of teams that in recent history haven't been very good.
The Oakland A's could be a wild card...or even a division champion.
The Washington Nationals have the best record in baseball...
It's probably safe to say that the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox don't particularly care for one another.
It's probably also safe to say that their respective fans bases don't either.
Sports Illustrated recently conducted of poll of 232 MLB players, asking them to name the phoniest player in the game.
To no one's surprise, New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was the runaway winner.
Despite having the best record in all of baseball, the New York Yankees have had their share of injuries this season, some of them to key players.
You can now add Alex Rodriguez to that list.
This may be the second best catch that Dewayne Wise has ever made. The only catch is, it wasn't a catch.
Back in 2009, while with the Chicago White Sox, Wise robbed the Rays' Gabe Kapler of a home run with a fantastic, juggling catch, preserving a perfect game for pitcher Mark Buehrle.
New York Mets' closer Frank Francisco just added a little fuel to the fire of the New York Mets/New York Yankees rivalry by calling the Bonx Bonbers "chickens".
For years, I've argued that the closer role in Major League Baseball is an overrated, overvalued position.
Now, don't get me wrong, I think bullpens, as a whole, are underrated, but the closer role is overrated.