Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Oct 7, 2011, 10:22 pm
Well, Yankees fans. Here we are again. The curtain has dropped on another season and unfortunately things didn't end up going our way. Mission 28 will have to wait another year. As I was getting condolences today from friends and family members on the loss, I tried to explain that it actually was...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Sep 7, 2011, 8:45 pm
... has these funks. If you remember, the Yankees lost 5 straight back ... innings. I felt extremely disconnected from the Yankees Universe. When I had ... to everyone who's ever frequented the blog and/or interacted with ... have all made significant contributions to the team. Low risk, really ...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 16, 2011, 9:35 pm
I didn't get to see much of the game tonight. The 6:40 start time kind of made it tough to watch. I had a shot to watch the beginning but my wife, aka Butterfingers, dropped my son's tadpole habitat on the kitchen floor and as she put it, tadpole fecal matter was everywhere. That shifted bath duties...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 14, 2011, 11:37 pm
I didn't get to see much of the game tonight. The 6:40 start time kind of made it tough to watch. I had a shot to watch the beginning but my wife, aka Butterfingers, dropped my son's tadpole habitat on the kitchen floor and as she put it, tadpole fecal matter was everywhere. That shifted bath duties...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 13, 2011, 11:26 pm
The Yankees offense is currently terrible. That's it. Peace, love and Pinstripes, J-Boogie
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 10, 2011, 10:22 pm
I really like how the title of this blog sounds when I say it out loud. Say it with me: Freddy Garcia leads Yankees to 3-1 victory. Freddy Garcia leads Yankees. Freddy Garcia. How awesome is that? I love it when one of Brian Cashman's "trash heap rejects" does well. I hope the haters recognize that ...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 9, 2011, 8:33 pm
Am I the only one out there who is beyond exhausted? It's been a rough few days and the lack of sleep is catching up with me. I'm pretty sure I fell asleep a few times today while driving to work. I'm also pretty sure that I dozed off once or twice on the way home from the office. I spent the la...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 6, 2011, 11:12 pm
I'm not sure how this post is going to turn out. I could feel myself dozing off as Mariano Rivera was picking up his 12th save of the season. Shortly after the game ended I did fall asleep for a few minutes. I have that sleepy feeling in my head and I'm getting drowsy. It's been a long week. But...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 5, 2011, 8:31 pm
Work totally beat me down today. So much so that I forgot that the Yankees were playing this afternoon. By the time I remembered it was too late. I pulled the game up on the radio and there was one out in the top of the ninth. I was so bummed that I missed it. Wanting to know what I missed I went to...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 4, 2011, 9:32 pm
I had the full intention of watching tonight's Yankees/Tigers game but I opted not to after shortly after I turned it on. I flipped the TV to the game after one of the bedtime shows my kids watched ended just to get a quick update. I saw one pitch. It was the first and only pitch to Magglio Ordonez....
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 2, 2011, 10:35 pm
Tonight's game was another one of those games that I didn't get to pay a lot of attention to. First 3 innings or so were spent with the kids. The next 4 innings were spent tinkering with my laptop, which I'm happy to report is functional again. Yay me. I paid a little attention to it in those 4 inni...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - May 1, 2011, 9:20 pm
Greetings everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine, as it usually is with 3 kids in tow, was very busy. I realized that 4pm games are a horrible time for me to watch Yankees games. When it's a 1pm start, I can usually fit most of it in as that's when my kids nap. With a 7pm start I might m...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 29, 2011, 10:47 pm
The hot streak that the Yankees rotation was on had to come to an end at some point. Freddy Garcia was not sharp tonight. I saw very little of Garcia's outing tonight. By all accounts he was not sharp. Some of my twitter peeps even used the word shaky. I would agree with that based on what I saw. He...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 28, 2011, 10:09 pm
Now that's what I'm talking about. The Yankees had it all working tonight. A great outing from the starter. An offensive explosion. It's good when everyone is on the same page and they fire on all cylinders. CC Sabathia pitched a great game. Typical CC. I got a late start on giving my kids their bat...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 27, 2011, 9:42 pm
It has not been a fun couple of days for me when it comes to some of my material possessions. Last week it was my car. This week it's our laptop. I think it's on its last legs and I've been trying to rescue it from the grave on and off for the last 2 days or so, mainly trying to pull stuff off of it...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 26, 2011, 11:55 pm
Like last night, I don't feel like blogging much after that loss. I could cut and paste yesterday's blog into this one, change a few things, and it would work, but that would be lazy. It was a tough loss and there a plenty of things you can point to as contributing factors but the bottom line is whe...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 25, 2011, 10:35 pm
What a horrible way to kick off a homestand, right? That was such a frustrating game to watch. So frustrating that I don't really want to blog about it. But being the trooper that I am, I will. But there's not really much to say. Excellent job by A.J. Burnett. He was outstanding. It's a shame that t...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 24, 2011, 9:05 pm
I'm going to start this blog by saying this will not be my best work. Today is my last day of vacation and I have to return to work tomorrow. I've had a pretty busy week off and I've somewhat tortured myself by sleeping about 5-6 hours per day. I'm in desperate need of some serious sleep and I've im...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 23, 2011, 11:22 pm
Somebody needs to call the Baltimore cops because a crime was just committed in Camden Yards. Wow. Talk about a massacre. CC Sabathia was on cruise control tonight. Despite scoring 3 runs the Orioles couldn't really touch him. It was a very free and easy outing for CC. Had the Yankees not tore the ...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 21, 2011, 11:42 pm
If you are one of my Twitter followers than you may have seen tweets about this yesterday. If not, here's a story about how I could have died yesterday. The Yankee bits and pieces will be after the story. I don't live too far from Toronto so I usually try to make it up for at least part of every Yan...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 19, 2011, 11:12 pm
It doesn't happen often, but it happens. The great Mariano Rivera blew a save and the Yankees lost in extra innings. Like I said, it happens. Apparently, with Mariano, it happens more often in March and April than it does during any other point of the season. Mo's career save percentage in March...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 19, 2011, 3:42 pm
As I've done in the past, I occasionally come across or am sent a book that I want to share in the "Boogie Down Book Club." It's been a while since "the club" has last met but I have a book that I wanted to share called, "The Yankees Baseball Reader: A Collection Of Writings On The Game's Greatest ...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 18, 2011, 9:42 pm
I'm sure everyone has figured this out by now but if you haven't here's the headline: Russell Martin is pretty cool. Earlier today Russell was on Twitter and he sent out a tweet that read, "Answering 'random' questions between 4pm and 5pm today. Spread the word. Thanks." And as he said, he spent ...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 18, 2011, 2:42 pm
In my postgame post from last night I talked a little bit about Brian Cashman and what I dubbed his "scrap heap rejects," aka Eric Chavez, Andruw Jones, Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia. Missed it? Yeah, not surprised. Anyway, I wanted to hit on it again, so here it is, slightly edited: How smart d...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 18, 2011, 12:05 am
I'm having some serious writer's block right now. I don't know if it's caused by lack of sleep or what, but I'm blanking on how to open this post. I just let out a huge yawn so it's probably due to a need for sleep. I'm going to try and keep this post short and sweet. Whenever I say that I end u...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 16, 2011, 5:15 pm
Take that Texas Rangers. Freddy Garcia just shut you down. Yankees win. Thuhhh Yankees win. Freddy Garcia made his first start of the season and he was exceptional. He went 6 scoreless innings, giving up only 2 hits and 1 walk, on only 84 pitches. And he did all that against arguably the best pe...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 15, 2011, 10:35 pm
The Yankees lost what I think was a very winnable ball game tonight. It was frustrating to watch and there really isn't a whole lot to say about it. It was a sloppy game to say the least. The Yankees tied a record tonight and unfortunately that's not good. They grounded into 6, count 'em 6, doubl...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 14, 2011, 10:41 pm
That was a great Yankee win tonight. Down 5-0. The bullpen shuts things down. A run saving kick save by Joba. Clutch hitting in the 9th. A walkoff in the 10th. Pie in Nick Swisher's face. Add that all up and it's a great Yankee win. Another horrible start by Phil Hughes. I didn't see the first 2 i...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 13, 2011, 10:03 pm
To the tune of New York, New York: Start spreading the news. They're back in 1st place. I know it's only been 10 games. But it's still 1st place. Feel free to sing along. You know you want to. Sorry for that. It's been a corny kind of day. How about that A.J. Burnett? He's now 3-0 in 3 starts. ...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 12, 2011, 2:45 pm
Based on the number of people that get directed to the site by doing a web search looking for how they can watch Yankees games when they're on My9, I think I've become the official source on how to watch these games. Well, for those of you coming here looking how to see the game, I have great news f...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 11, 2011, 9:37 pm
Dear Yankees Offense, Please start hitting the ball. Sincerely, Yankee fans everywhere Seriously, outside of Cano, A-Rod, and Russell Martin, nobody is really hitting. Take a look: Swisher = .219 Jeter = .206 Teixeira = .182 Granderson = .172 Gardner = .167 Posada = .138 Two-thirds of the Yankees...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 10, 2011, 11:11 pm
I'll give credit where credit is due. Hat tip to Josh Beckett on pitching a masterpiece. 8 innings pitched, 2 hits, 1 walk, 10 Ks, no runs. That's a shutdown performance right there. As they say, good pitching beats good hitting, and that's exactly what happened tonight. Josh Beckett was everyt...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 9, 2011, 9:40 pm
How sad are the Boston Red Sox? Wow. They're 1-7, in last place, and currently have the worst record in all of baseball. I hope the Fenway Faithful take notice of that tomorrow at the ballpark when they see the standings on the Green Monster. The Red Sox, simply put, are terrible. Outside of Dustin ...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 8, 2011, 6:04 pm
Even the sun shines on a dog's ass every now and then. I love that saying. It basically means, even the losers get lucky every now and then. That's how I feel about the Red Sox win over the Yankees today. Sure, the Sox win is a moral victory for a struggling team. But if you're excited about it as a...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 8, 2011, 5:52 pm
Got an e-mail earlier letting me know about an opportunity for people to get free tickets to the upcoming Yankees/Orioles series at Yankee Stadium. Here are the details: On Saturday, the guys in the recently unveiled MLB Fan Cave are giving away 1,000 free tickets for all three games in the upcoming...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 7, 2011, 10:39 pm
Didn't see it. Listened to it on radio. Happy they won. Bring on the 0-6 Boston Red Sox. Ha ha ha. 0-6. Can you say "overrated?" Told you. Really quick. Peace, love and Pinstripes, J-Boogie
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 5, 2011, 10:42 pm
Yeah, I'm all kind of pissed right now. Freaking Joe Girardi. What the heck are you doing my man? His bullpen management cost the Yankees the game tonight! And I don't want to hear from anyone that it's only April, or that it's the 5th game of the season, or that it's only one game or only one loss....
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 4, 2011, 10:37 pm
I'm coming to find that having 3 kids makes it very hard to watch night games. The whole putting to bed process takes roughly 1.5 hours from start to finish, beginning around 7pm and ending around 8:30. It starts with baths, then some TV, followed by books, then bed. It's a tough schedule for a die-...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 3, 2011, 10:23 pm
Well, you can't win them all. Today's loss was all about the pitching. When you score 7 runs, rack up 12 hits and 3 walks, and hit 4 HRs, you should win. The trio of Yankee pitchers today did not do anyone any favors. Whenever the Yankees would score a few runs the pitchers would give them right bac...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Apr 2, 2011, 10:34 pm
Are you like me? Did you breathe a huge sigh of relief after A.J. Burnett's start? The last thing I wanted to see today was Burnett implode and pick up where he left off last year. A.J. wasn't lights out today but for my money it was a great start. He had exceptional control, throwing 2/3 of his pit...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Mar 31, 2011, 8:49 pm
Happy Opening Day Yankees fans! I'm sure I can speak for all of us when I say that today was a truly awesome day. Baseball is back. The Yankees won. All is right with the world. As I do every year I took time off from work to watch the opener. I got together with a couple of buddies at a local wate...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Mar 31, 2011, 10:36 am
Hey hey what do you say? I'm so happy it's Opening Day! It's been a long offseason. Made even longer because I didn't pay much attention to the offseason, or to Spring Training for that matter. I don't know why but I just couldn't get into it. I think I saw or listened to about 2 games worth of base...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Mar 30, 2011, 10:01 pm
It's that time of year again. Time to make some predictions for the upcoming season. I'm not really sure why I make these. I'm never right. First, let's take a look back at last year's predictions: I predicted that the Yankees, White Sox, Rangers, Phillies, Cardinals and Dodgers would win their resp...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Mar 29, 2011, 9:47 pm
Hey everyone. We're less than 2 days away from the start of the 2011 MLB season. I can't believe it. It seems like just yesterday the 2010 season ended. Time certainly does fly. Thank God for that. I must again apologize for my long absence. I'm finding it very tough to find the time to blog with 3 ...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Feb 4, 2011, 9:04 pm
I wrote a post yesterday about Andy Pettitte's retirement. In the post I talked a lot about how I thought it affected the Yankees. I also added some commentary about Andy himself and I wanted to repost that part as I'm afraid it got lost within the rest of the post as it was at the bottom. If you re...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Feb 3, 2011, 9:23 pm
Ladies and gentleman, the dookie has hit the fan. I didn't think this day was coming but it has and I am totally bummed out. Andy Pettitte, aka one of the greatest Yankee pitchers ever, aka one of the greatest Yankees ever, aka one of the Core Four, aka one of if not the best big game pitchers EVER,...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Jan 29, 2011, 10:38 pm
Some of you may remember way back when, April 3, 2009 to be exact, I shared with you a hilarious video from Nine More Outs. Quick recap: 3 friends go to a baseball game and pretend to be super-fans of the home team. They videotape their shenanigans and hilarity ensues. They refer to it as their Stad...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Jan 27, 2011, 8:23 pm
I've got to admit it. I am beyond baffled at the number of Brian Cashman haters that seem to be out there. No matter what he does Brian Cashman can do no right. I don't get it. Message to the haters: I don't think you get it. If any of you happen across the post, I'd love to hear some sound log...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Jan 20, 2011, 7:40 pm
It's really hard to believe that 5 years ago today I started writing this Yankee blog. My how the time flies. It certainly hasn't felt like five years that's for sure. It still boggles my mind that anyone wants to read my thoughts and opinions. Over the 5 years I've had visitors from 125 countries/t...
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Jason D. posted an article on Baseball & The Boogie Down - Jan 13, 2011, 9:57 pm
Greetings and salutations everyone. As usual, it's been awhile since my last post. It's been a pretty quiet offseason so I've been spending it with the fam. There are some things I could have blogged about but I don't want my blog to be a news source. There are enough of those sites around and I...
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