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Grotesque George Steinbrenner is Bigger than Beautiful Babe Ruth!

Last night, at the new Yankee Stadium, the Steinbrenner family proved — once and for all and for all of eternity — why they are the most obnoxious family ownership in all of sport.  There was a public unveiling of the “George Steinbrenner bronze memorial” in monument park, and Steinbrenner’s plaque was bigger than Babe Ruth’s and Lou Gehrig’s and Joe DiMaggio’s and and Yogi Berra’s and Mickey Mantle’s plaques combined!

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The Edification of Xenophobe Michael Kay

The New York Yankees are the most successful franchise in the history of sport — and they deserve to have a non-xenophobe as their main television play-by-play announcer and as the host of CenterStage on YES.

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The Beauty in Jim Joyce's Botched Call

Major League Baseball umpire Jim Joyce made the wrong call Wednesday night and ruined Armando Galarrago’s shot at pitching a perfect game. In the end, everyone hates the Ump, without realizing the sort of blatant error Joyce made is precisely why baseball is so pristine as America’s pastime.

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Clemens Still Juiced in Denial

Roger Clemens is still in protection mode instead of confession mode and every time he opens his mouth he hurts his chances of ever getting into the baseball Hall of Fame.

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Does Robbie Alomar Have AIDS?

The news headlines in New York this morning are screaming that former Mets baseball player Robbie Alomar had AIDS.

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From A-Rod to A-Fraud to A-Hole

Baseball fans have become cynical in the light of their childhood stars.  Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens and now A-Rod have all been tainted by the ongoing steroids scandal that seems to prove the entire game is a sham.

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Tearing Down the Yankees

Yankee Stadium — THE Yankee Stadium — played its last game yesterday after a stellar 85-year run that now leaves “The House that Ruth Built” to fall into demolition rubble.

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