New York Yankees Alex Rodriguez Drops Scott Boras
Swinger
Having already secured a 10 year $275 million deal New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has dropped Scott Boras as his agent, going with Pittsburgh attorney Jay Reisinger instead. Boras will continue to get a percentage of the deal but will no longer be around for the endorsements. However since Rodriguez’s revelation that he used steroids the opportunity for him to be a spokesman has gone down.
Resinger firm has been handling Rodriguez’s legal and government affairs since February 2009. Resinger also is part of the legal team that represented Sammy Sosa and Andy Pettitte in their dealings with Congress on performance-enhancing drugs. He also represented Rodriguez during his admission to using steroids.
Rodriguez will be 43 when that contract expires.
Jose Canseco Lets Twitter Know He’s Been Subpoenaed
Oh Now He's Michael Corleone?
Jose Canseco is no Chad Ochocinco when it comes to Twitter and sometimes that can be a good thing but let T-World know he’s been subpoenaed in the Roger Clemens case.
The former Major League Baseball slugger says the FBI came to his house this morning and served him with a subpoena to testify before a grand jury investigating Clemens. The fact there is a grand jury trying to determine whether Clemens committed perjury before Congress in February 2008 has not been a well-kept secret.
Canseco also mentions Andy Pettitte, however Pettitte’s name has never surfaced as being investigated after the New York Yankees pitcher apparently came clean before the same House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Canseco went on to compare the situation to the “Godfather” by tweeting
“Its like the godfather when I thought I was out they drag me back in. And now it begins again,bye the way my testosterone levels were”
I’ll be sure to keep my eye on this.
Andy Pettitte Re-Signs With New York Yankees
18-9 In Postseason
The New York Yankees have agreed to a deal worth $11.75 million with their No. 3 starter Andy Pettitte. The 37-year-old southpaw is coming off a nice bounce-back year, where he went 14-8 with a 4.16 ERA, he went 14-14 with a 4.54 ERA in 2008 and was most impressive in the postseason.
Pettitte went 4-0 with a 3.52 ERA in the playoffs and became the first pitcher in major league history to start and win all three clinching games, ALDS, ALCS and World Series. He is the major league record holder for career postseason wins and innings pitched, 18-9 in 40 postseason starts.
With Pettitte now slotted behind CC Sabathia and A.J. Burnett, the Yankees still have to fill the back end of their rotation but it’s pleasure to see the Deer Park native in one more season.
19 More MLB Players Opt For 2010 Free Agency Before Deadline
On the last day to file for Major League Baseball free agency sum 19 players got their names in right before the deadline to make themselves eligible to pursue Article XX B (2) of the Basic Agreement. Bringing the total to 171 out of the 183 eligible with 8 players having their options picked up by there current team.
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| PLAYER | POSITION | TEAM | |
| 1 |
Paul Byrd | SP | BO |
| 2 | Chris Woodward | 3B | BO |
| 3 | Chad Fox | RP | CC |
| 4 | John Grabow | RP | CC |
| 5 | Kip Wells | SP | CI |
| 6 | Rafael Betancourt | RP | CO |
| 7 | Juan Rincon | RP | CO |
| 8 | Jason Schmidt | SP | LAD |
| 9 | Braden Looper | SP | MIL |
| 10 | Claudio Vargas | SP/RP | MIL |
| 11 | Elmer Dessens | RP | NYM |
| 12 | Fernando Tatis | 1B/3B/OF | NYM |
| 13 | Jerry Hairston Jr. | 2B/3B/OF | NYY |
| 14 | Andy Pettitte | SP | NYY |
| 15 | Scott Eyre | RP | PHI |
| 16 | Rich Aurilia | 1B/3B | SF |
| 17 | Randy Johnson | SP | SF |
| 18 | Brian Shouse | RP | TB |
| 19 | Gregg Zaun | C | TB |
The New York Yankees Are Your 2009 MLB Champions
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The New York Yankees are Major League Baseball’s World Champions after winning Game 6 of the 105th World Series 7-3 over the Philadelphia Phillies, who I wrongly predicted to win in 5 and keep the championship in the National League.
I admit my MLB postseason predictions where my worst ever and about as foul as that after taste from vomiting, utterly nasty, Ryan Howard, and I will go sit somewhere till pitchers and catches report in February.
I am glad to see the core four back on top especially Derek Jeter and the best closer of all time Mariano Rivera. Captain Cheeseburger Sabathia welcome to the champion stage, you deserve it. If the Yankees didn’t win it all, then Mark Teixeira you would be enjoying an ass ripping for not producing at all during the postseason with your bat. You didn’t bring the bat but you did bring the five fingers covered in gold, credit for shining in another area of your game when the bat went ice cold.
Brain Cashman your a champion once again but your off season surely doesn’t get any easier with some tough decisions lingering on free agents Johnny Damon, Andy Pettitte, and World Series MVP Hideki Matsui, who didn’t make those decisions any easier.
A big congratulations to Alex Rodriguez, the 2009 season really was all about you, now your a World Series champion, and no one can take that off your resume.
Hey lets not forget Chien-Ming Wang is a champion too.
As for the Phillies, great job, I do wish you could have given me one more night of baseball but you didn’t. That club option on Cliff Lee is without a doubt gonna be picked up. It’s a shame that Cole Hamels pretty much checked out on the season back on June 14 and that Jamie Moyer got hurt right as the season pretty much ended, he would have been a nice option.
You know it’s coming so lets just say Brad Lidge you blow in every way known to mankind, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.
Congratulations to George Steinbrenner and his New York Yankees on their MLB record 27th World Series title. Get well Boss.
The “Core Four” Return
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It’s first season in and its first shot at baseballs ultimate showcase as the new Cathedral in the Bronx will host the 2009 World Series. Andy Pettitte followed the time-tested formula of handing the ball off to a Yankees bullpen anchored by Mariano Rivera to secured the Yankees 40th American League pennant with a 5-2 victory over the Angels in game 6 of the American League Championship Series in front of 50,173 fans.
It was another marquee moment in the inaugural season of the new house, where New York logged the Majors’ best home record and remained undefeated in postseason play, authoring a new winning tradition.
Pettitte became baseball’s all-time leader with his 16th postseason victory, breaking a tie with John Smoltz and setting a new record with his fifth career victory to clinch a postseason series. Rivera’s moved alone into first place in career LCS saves with 12 as Dennis Eckersley had 11. CC Sabathia became the eighth Yankees player to be named Most Valuable Player of an American League Championship Series.
Joe Girardi continuing to wear No. 27 as a reminder of the mission at hand, his club opened Spring Training thinking about segmenting its season into stages, keeping its eyes on the prize at the end of the line.
On Wednesday, the Yankees will open their first World Series since they lost to the Marlins in 2003. That six-year drought represented the fourth-longest stretch without a pennant in franchise history. The last time the Yankees won a World Series was when the Bombers defeated the Mets in a five-game “Subway Series.” Only four players Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte remain from that squad.
The Yankees didn’t win a pennant until their 21st season in 1921, while also experiencing spans of 12 years (1964-76) and 15 years (1981-96) between AL titles. The Yankees have been to the World Series seven times since ’96, five more times than any other team during that period.
The Bombers’ 40 appearances in a title game or series are the most among the four major North American sports. The closest team to New York is the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens, who have been to the Stanley Cup Finals 34 times. The Canadiens’ 24 titles are also second among major sports franchises to the Yankees’ 26 championships.
Philadelphia is expected to start Cliff Lee enticing a pitching match up between former Cleveland teammates and the past two AL Cy Young Award winners when he takes on CC Sabathia in the World Series opener. The Phillies won two of three at Yankee Stadium in May.
