Great Yankee montages on Youtube

You may not know this but I am a big time sucker for video or audio montages. I have no clue why but I love them, it's like all the players greatest moments sealed, signed and dilevered, often with music that I enjoy. So here are two different videos from two different accounts.



That video is from SuperYankeesBaseball , he has a ton of different current Yankees and other MLB player video montages. My one issue is that some of the videos freeze and that on some the sound is a bit too load, but still the clips are great.



The A-Rod video is from YouTube user YanksNG22. No diss to the video above, but this is one of the most professional looking montages on YouTube. Very well done.

If you have created your own montage or have one that you recommend, send it my way. Maybe I'll even add it to the site.

Yankee Stadium Expierences: Yankees vs White Sox 4/28/2011

$20 for parking near Yankee Stadium!

Rain was in the forecast, but that couldn't stop me from going to the first game in close to a month. In fact this was the first game in my plan I was going to all season, since I sold off the other games. After exiting the Major Deegan via exit 4, my friend and I found parking for $20. The lot is a pretty far walk from Yankee Stadium, but it beats paying the extra $15 and is close to the Gateway center which charges $30.

As the promotion they were giving away grass seed, the irony was that across the street where the old Yankee Stadium once stood, grass was being put down. Its a strange yet nice site to the old stadium that way, I just keep reminding myself that it's better that its turned into a park than them making its a parking lot.

Tough to see, but grass is back on
the old Yankee Stadium site.

After arriving inside the new structure I checked out what was new, the answer is nothing really. At gate two they were having some sort of group outing, and part of the area was roped off, their was no batting practice and the tarp was on the field, so instead it was time to indulge in nachos from Wholly Guacamole.

Eduardo Nunez started at shortstop instead of Jeter, he made a pair of errors in the night and my new name for him is now Error Nunez, but let it be known I like him much better then Ramiro Pena.

The game itself was exactly what you want to see as a Yankee fan. CC Sabathia was dealing and the Yanks bats came alive without Jeter or Tex. Surprisingly the crowd looked pretty good from section 235, sure their were some empty sections but nothing that would make me think that it would be the lowest attended game in new stadiums history (40,081).

The sky looked really cool after it a quick shower.
But the stupid metal side was in the way.

The game eventually turned into a blowout and some dummy's began to do the wave, I don't care that it is 8-0, I still hate it. After that the most exciting then was the Yankees scoring a few more runs and some kid accidentally tossed a Yankees hulk hand over the upper deck and it landed a few rows in front of me.

Final score: Yankees 12 White Sox 3

Pride, Power, Pinstripes and spam??: Yankees Release list of all season ticket holders information

D''oh

Earlier this week, a Yankees ticket agent sent an E-Mail accidentally to over 1,000 of his clients releasing personal information from all 17,000 Yankee season ticket plan holders. While the information did not include social security number or any type of banking information it did list the following: Name, address, email address, phone number, seat location and Yankees account number.

The list was first reported on Monday when a member of the NYYFans forum reported receiving the list from his agent Ken Cleary, setting off more panic than when Rafael Soriano comes into a game.

Then on Wednesday the Yankees sent an email apologizing to season ticket holders, for the whole mess up. But shouldn't the Yankees do a bit more than say sorry via email? Now I understand that no banking information was leaked but personal information, is still something very private. For a first class organization they should take the time to first change every ones account numbers no matter how inconvenient that could be for Yankee subscribers and for the organization and secondly sign everyone up that is on the list for fraud protection insurance.

I have yet to see the list myself but I am sure that my information is on the list as well if all season ticket holders info is listed. Does it bother me, kinda but I realize that it was a simple mistake by the ticket rep (more on that in a minute) and that almost all of that information could be found by searching for someone on the Internet or through social networks.

Yeah that guy, is the one who did it!

The other thing is that Yankee fans are calling for Ken Cleary's head, wanting the organization to fire him. The guy made a mistake that could cost the Yankees alot of money in the long run if they have to reimburse the fans, but he shouldn't be fired over it. Most Yankee ticket reps are younger kids just out of college, and in this economy it is tough to find another job. I wouldn't be against the Yanks possibly reassigning him to another area, but I would hope that Lonn Trost and the rest of the ticket department has a heart and doesn't fire him right on the spot.

Since Monday, NYY Stadium Insider, Dead Spin and all the New York papers have picked up this story. Some reports have said that some fans have already received phone calls and emails from scams and ticket brokers, if this is true the Yankees will have so explaining to do.

Talkin Baseball:The Hot Corner podcast 4-26-2011

Last week Talkin Baseball:The Hot Corner was live but the recording was messed up so no podcast ever went up, sorry about that. But forget about the past because this weeks Talkin Baseball was jam packed (with Joe Szadok poking fun at David Otero and myself).
Some of the topics we discussed in this weeks episode were:

• Would you ever want to see your team get no hit,if you are at the game?
• The rift between Jeter and A-Rod, Phil Hughes injury and the Yanks out homering everyone
• The Mets bullpen, Chris Young and Ike Davis
• The new playoff possibility
• Our trip to Sonic
• We chatted with Patrick Reddington from Federalbaseball.com about the Nationals
• And to end it we did our weekly true/false segment and followed it with our players and worst of the week.

Enjoy, but tune in every Tuesday from 7-9pm on WCWP.org and WCWPSports.org for the live edition as we talk everything baseball.

Should Russell Martin's hot start effect the catching prospects?

The sweet sound of John Sterling calling a Russell Martin homer in french. While John Sterling's calls might be lame or hated by Yankee fans, it does mean the bombers have added at least a run on the board. Last night at Camden Yards in Baltimore Sterling had the chance to yell his "Russell has muscle" line twice, to add to his total of  6 so far this season. So with Martin's resurgence, the question many Yankee fans are asking, is it time to trade Jesus Montero and some of the other catching prospects?

Let me start by saying that the Yankees could and likely should trade any of the prospects if the right trade comes along. The prospects I am talking about are Jesus Montero, Austin Romine, J.R. Murphy and Gary Sanchez. I don't think that anyone would complain if Montero was sent to Seattle and the Yanks got back Felix Hernandez in return, but their would be an outrage if the Yanks wanted to ship him off to Chicago for someone like Carlos Zambrano. So the deal must be right for the Yanks, but what about the over load of catchers in the minors with a top 10 catcher in the majors? Well I think it's safe to say that of course it is just April and Martin could just be having a great month. He is injury prone, and is set to put up career highs, I think its safe to say that nobody would expect Martin to hit close to 40 homers this season, but that's the pace he is on track for. Martin has been the arguably the Yanks MVP thru the first 17 games, and is so valuable Joe Girardi has sat him just once all season.

While Martin is having a great season in the majors, four prospects are pondering their future in the minors. Montero is the lighting it up in AAA hitting .414, he did struggle during spring training, but that shouldn't effect his overall out look. Romine is more of a defensive catcher, but could proved the occasional hit, Gary Sanchez is very young but could be similar to Montero in a few seasons. Murphy is the biggest unknown, but is suppose to be a fair all around player. The Yankees won't need four catchers, but shouldn't trade them all.

Martin has been on a hot start but will it last? Looking at past history I doubt that. At the trade deadline of the Yankees wanted to trade away one of the catching prospects for a pitcher of equal value I would have no issue, but at this point no need to trade away a bright future for a hot start.

Another April rain out for the Yankees

So for the third time this season the Yankees will have play at a later date. Tonight's game against the Baltimore Orioles was rained out, and while no make up date was announced it is not a major issue since the division rivals play each other so often.

But the rain outs are a major issue in a different aspect for the Yankees. The rain out could be made up either this weekend (no issue, but very unlikely), in mid May or late August (both issues).



Jorge Posada can run as far as he wants,
but won't be able to avoid a rain out.

If the Orioles were to elect to make up the game in the middle of May (May 18th and 19th), it would come when the Yankees are already set to play 17 straight days. The Yanks might not mind this option as much as expected since most of the games during that stretch are at home, and right before they go to Baltimore they play the Rays in Tampa, only a short trip away. But the Orioles might not opt for this option,most teams would rather get the most money they could from selling tickets and concessions and the two game set is during the middle of the week (Weds/Thurs) and the teams would be forced to play a double header, so one game would be during the day, another loss at the gate since school is still in session and people would be at work.

The other option would be to battle it out at the end of August, the bombers are currently set to play 12 straight games during that time. Of course the temperatures would be much warmer and as an older team the Yanks probably would not want to have to play 13 games in 12 days. The four series against the Orioles is on the weekend and a Monday, so as long as the make up was during the weekend the Orioles would be making their money back.

What's with players running before rain outs? This
time before the O's got rained out at the stadium.

The likely make up date will be sometime in August since the weekends would satisfy Peter Angelo and the O's, and it would be more flexible of what day the game could be made up.

Of course the Yankees still need to make up a game against the Twins and Orioles at the stadium sometime before the season ends, so the end of the season could be rough for the bombers.

Doesn't matter if the Yankees have had the logo for over 100 years, they are getting sued!

This isn't the logo the Yanks
are being sued over, this was
created by Louis B Tiffany
in 1877.

For one of the oldest pro sports teams in America, and using the same logo for over 100 years, it doesn't prevent the Yankees from being sued for using their logo.

According to CNN New York resident Tanit Buday, is suing the Yankees claiming that her uncle was the one who created the Yankees logo and was never paid for it. The logo that is in question is not the famous interlocking NY, but rather the use of the top hat and bat. The famous interlocking NY was created in 1877 by Louis B. Tiffany, while the Yankees cursive writing with a baseball behind it was created by Henry Keller in 1947.

This logo was created by Henry
Keller in 1947, but the bat and
top hat are in question.

Honestly this is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of. It sounds like this woman is not upset because her uncle never received credit but it sounds as if she is out for a big pay day. I really don't understand how someone could sue after such a long period, but I guess that's what makes those laws so tricky.