Kinda cool.
Sliding Into Home: A Yankees Blog: 3D Pre-Rennovated Stadium
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Perez Back, Team Still No Better than ’08, Manny March 2
A little busy being Clark Kent today. Quick hits:
Ollie, three years, $36M. Good. I like Ollie. However if you accept my premise that Wagner/K-Rod is a wash, the team is basically no better than the 2008 team that couldn’t beat the Phillies.
And Million Manny March 2 is Thursday. Whoever is organizing this I assume you do google alerts on yourself, please contact me so we can share the info!
Million Manny March 2
New York Daily News, NY –22 hours ago
Assuming Manny Ramirez doesn’t sign with the Dodgers before Thursday at 7 pm, the spirited group that staged a demonstration outside of SNY’s studios during …
New York Daily News, NY –
Assuming Manny Ramirez doesn’t sign with the Dodgers before Thursday at 7 pm, the spirited group that staged a demonstration outside of SNY’s studios during …
Citi storm still out there
I’d love to write about a baseball game or an interesting transaction, but there continues to be nothing happening so all I have for you is tales of naming rights.
Newsday is on the change the name kick.
It’s easy to call it something else. It’s even easy to take the big letters down. Isn’t there a Citi logo on the end of half of the seat rows? That sounds like a lot.
And if not Citi what should they call it? Mets Field? Jackie Robinson The Dodger Stadium? Ebbetts Field?
I’d love New Shea, but we’ll wind up in Gatorade Stadium in a few years anyway. Might as well keep the Citi name but allow them to restructure the deal so they don’t have to pay the Mets right now.
Highlights from last week
I usually do this on Sunday but (a) I posted 5 or 6 new things yesterday and (b) figured you were watching football. This week we had a lots of non-Mets stuff but I can only write about Manny Ramirez so many times.
The Curse of Lee Mazzilli was the most popular article, thanks to a link from Mets Blog.
Joe Torre’s book has dominated sports-talk. The complete Larry King CNN interview is over on the left-hand panel of Mets Police.
Many folks checked in to read about the Million Manny March which I thought was underpromoted, but a good idea.
Yesterday when everyone was in football mode, we wrote about Save The Islanders! and a scary warning about tickets from the Yankees.
Folks love looking at pics of New Yankee Stadium. Also here and here .
Football fans may be interested about a Proposed Change to NFL Overtime , and of course the Steelers won the Super Bowl!
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Steelers Win Super Bowl 27-23
Congrats Steelers!
NY Sports Examiner: Steelers Win Super Bowl 27-23
The Steelers are now the only NFL team to win six Super Bowls.
The game was pretty much as expected for much of the first three quarters, with a better defense and a better team winning. Pittsburgh had their boot heels on the necks of the Cardinals but were unable to provide the crushing blow. By the end it was a heart-racing classic.
The defining play of the first half came with Arizona on the verge of taking the lead. Kurt Warner had the Cards moving but was intercepted by linebacker James Harrison who returned it 100 yards. Instead of leading or tied, Arizona found themselves trailing 17-7.
The Steelers played the possession game throughout the third quarter. John Madden said it best when he said that the Steelers would do what they do, “Run and play defense.” Pitt stretched the lead to 20-7 and this looked like another bad Super Bowl reminiscent of those from the 70’s and 80’s.
Then Kurt Warner (31-43 for 377) found his magic.
Arizona made it a game in the fourth quarter with a 4 minute 87 yard drive capped by a Larry Fitzgerald touchdown. Warner completed ten in a row across two drives, and with about five minutes to go it seemed momentum had changed in favor of the Cardinals.
The second drive stalled but Arizona pinned the Steelers on the one yard line. On second down the Cards nearly pinned Willie Parker for a safety. On the next play Roethlisberger connected with Santonio Holmes for twenty yards and a first down – but holding in the end zone negated the play, and Arizona was awarded the two points.
Arizona ball with just about three minutes to go and 65 yards between them and the Lombardi trophy. Warner hit Larry Fitzgerald again for a 64 yard touchdown, and suddenly incredibly the Cardinals had the lead 23-20.
With 2:37 it was time to see if the Steelers were champions or not. Big Ben held tough, converting a crucial 3rd and six under the pressure of a blitz. The Ben & Holmes show took over(4 for 73 on the final drive), and Roethlisberger found Santonio in the corner of the end zone with :35 to go and immortality.
