by Cecilia Tan of Why I Like Baseball It’s officially SABR day in America and many SABR chapters are having Hot Stove meetings today and other shindigs to celebrate. (Schedule). I’m a member of the Boston chapter, but also one of the first “online chapters,” the SABR charter[...]
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January 30th, 2010 - 8:59 pm § by Cecilia Tan § in General Baseball, SABR
SABR DAY IN AMERICA Trivia Quiz
January 22nd, 2010 - 7:40 am § by Cecilia Tan § in Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, General Baseball, New York Yankees
DVD Review: World Series 1945, 1946, 1947
by Cecilia Tan of Why I Like Baseball • Tonight corwin and I continued our time warp through history, watching the next three World Series films in order with 1945, 1946, and 1947. In my mind these three series’ were The Goat Curse Series, Slaughter’s Dash, and Jackie’s First. A[...]
January 6th, 2010 - 2:02 am § by Cecilia Tan § in General Baseball
So Long Lefty, So Very Long
In honor of Randy Johnson retiring today, I’m re-posting this interview I did with him during Spring Training 2006. He sat in a chair while I stood on my feet and he was still almost as tall as I was. He was one of the figures in that clubhouse you rarely saw the Yankees beat [...][...]
November 5th, 2009 - 7:35 am § by Cecilia Tan § in New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies
2009 Champions
by Cecilia Tan of Why I Like Baseball The Yankees’ road to their 27th World Championship was a little like what I went through today to finally witness their crowning, requiring all the resources of technology and media at my disposal in order to follow the game. When the first pitch was thro[...]
November 3rd, 2009 - 6:16 am § by Cecilia Tan § in New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies
World Series Game 5 Recap, sort of
by Cecilia Tan of Why I Like Baseball So, I’ve been sitting here for more than half an hour staring at the computer screen instead of writing my game recap. It isn’t that the Yankees lost tonight, it’s… well, yeah, okay, it is. They lost. No, I’m not having flashbacks[...]
November 2nd, 2009 - 7:35 am § by Cecilia Tan § in New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies
2009 World Series: Game 4 Recap
by Cecilia Tan of Why I Like Baseball If it weren’t for Chase Utley’s ownage of CC Sabathia, the Yankees might have been going for a sweep of the Phils tonight. As it is, they now hold a 3-1 lead in the series, and in all eight previous World Series in which the Bombers took a [...][...]
November 1st, 2009 - 6:27 am § by Cecilia Tan § in New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies
World Series Game 3 Recap
by Cecilia Tan of Why I Like Baseball Well, sometimes predictions in baseball pan out. Citizens Bank Park was advertised as a homer haven, and six balls left the yard tonight, three from each team. Sometimes they don’t, as who could have predicted that Andy Pettitte would have the same number[...]
October 23rd, 2009 - 5:48 am § by Cecilia Tan § in Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Yankees
ALCS Game 5 Recap: Pitching, Pitching, Pitching
It was a game in which 280 pitches were thrown, but it was the very last one that decided it. It was a game in which no pitcher was happy. In tonight’s game, Phil Hughes took the loss, and in postgame interviews put all the blame on his own shoulders, but the Yankees’ six-run uprising [...]
October 21st, 2009 - 6:07 am § by Cecilia Tan § in New York Yankees
“Alex the Great”
by Cecilia Tan of Why I Like Baseball He has homered in three straight postseason games. He has now tied the record for consecutive postseason games with an RBI at eight. Sharing that record currently with Ryan Howard and Lou Gehrig. He has 11 RBIs thus far this postseason and a combined ALDS/ALC[...]
October 18th, 2009 - 6:50 am § by Cecilia Tan § in Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Yankees
ALCS Game 2: Thirteen Inning Classic
by Cecilia Tan of Why I Like Baseball Well, I jinxed myself when in my recap of Game 1 of the ALCS I mentioned that a low-scoring pitchers’ duel is so easy to summarize. So of course Game 2 had to be a crazy extra-innings classic full of missed opportunities and twists of fate. It began with [...]
