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Pride of the Yankees
Fans know them as one of the winningest sports franchises in history. Detractors refer to them as the Evil Empire. They are both admired and criticized for using their buying power to land high-demand free agents year in and year out.
The New York Yankees are a sports dynasty unlike any other – a national institution known as much for their success on the field as they are for their unique uniforms.
When new players put on their Yankees jerseys, the sports media will talk at length about the Bronx bombers who came before. Such legendary hitters as Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio and Roger Maris have donned the pinstripes during the pinnacles of their illustrious careers.
The same is true of pitching greats Whitey Ford, Catfish Hunter, and Mariano Rivera.
Streamlining Baseball’s In-Market Streaming Service
Bud Selig has outlined terms in a June 19th memo that the remaining 30 Major League Baseball teams, aside from the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres, and have been sent specifying details for an in-market plan that allows teams to offer live streaming games and resolve the current local blackout issues.
Selig called the framework, “a fair and practical outcome to break what I have called the in-market streaming ‘logjam.’” Although the deal did outline a 50-50 revue split between the MLBAM and the local interests that could very well be adjusted as early as 2011 in order to “determine the fairness of the allocation and the impact upon industry economics.”
With the onset of the Yankees and Padres deals as well as MLB President Bob DuPuy’s expectations that “a majority” of the MLB teams will have similar local streaming deals as soon as next year but most teams may have been waiting to see just how lucrative the local streaming services would be before bartering a deal.
Yankees Bold Streaming Move
With most teams looking for more ways to bring the fans to the staduim, the Yankees make a bold move by offering local streamed online games.
“We know there’s a demand” for streamed New York Yankees games, Bob Bowman, the chief executive of MLB Advanced Media, said in a conference call. “The No. 1 e-mail issue we receive is the out-of-market blackouts.”
Current available options for the service by the YES Network through service provider Cablevision at either a $19.95 a month or $49.95 price point, for the rest of the current season, giving fans streaming Yankees game coverage. The concept is laid out but how much convenience does the TV experience bring to a baseball viewer? I would say that on the job streaming may in fact be the ticket with so many computer related working professionals. However with the games only being streamed to New York Yankees fans in the local New York area, the reach may be slightly minimal for the time being.
Troubled Players – Darryl Strawberry
A prodigy and one of the most feared sluggers in the game of baseball with 335 home runs and 1,000 RBIs in a 17-year career with the Mets, Dodgers, Giants and Yankees.
Yet during his career alone his undeniable drug problem kept the potential of this star studded player from reaching his full potential. All together injuries, drinking and cocaine addiction sabotaged his career with 3 suspensions from the MLB due to substance abuse.
“The drinking and drugging, that was a way of punishing myself and the fans, too,” Darryl Strawberry said of his early years playing with the expectations and stress of his career with the New York Yankees. “I figured, ‘If you want to get negative on me, you won’t get the best out of me.’”
One of the games brightest stars, unfortunetly his personal life was that of a literal mess. From spousal abuse and divorce to federal tax evasion and battling cancer and his drug additions.
Yankees Wang Out Progress
With a clutch two run homer the Yankees rally to beat the rangers at a time when Chien-Ming Wang needed it most in his return to the Yankees pitching rotation.
After a solid start Wang began giving up runs in both the third and forth, as well as the fifth innings. Not necessarily an impressive start by any means but his return to the starting MLB lineup looks promising and allowed for the rangers to come together and show composure on the offensive side of the ball.
With trouble fooling batter when throwing his sinker into the mix. Having surrendered five runs on just seven hits in 4 2/3 innings Wang left the game early trailing 5-1. Yet the Yankees rallied into a 8-6 victory.
A-Rod First Pitch Homer
Rodriguez made solid contact with the first pitch he saw this season in a Major League game, blasting a three-run home run off the Orioles’ Jeremy Guthrie on Friday at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
The first-inning shot cleared the wall in left-center field, soaring over the marked distance of 364 feet and producing a mixed reception from the road crowd, many of them New York Yankees fans. Scoring on the homer were Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira, providing a 3-0 lead for starter CC Sabathia.
The game marked Rodriguez’s return from right hip surgery performed on March 9 in Vail, Colo., repairing a torn labium and costing him 28 team games. Rodriguez had hit three home runs in 44 overall rehab plate appearances while working out in extended spring training in Tampa, Florida.
“It feels good to be back. I’m excited,” Rodriguez said before the game. “I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time. It’s been a long road from Colorado to Tampa and now Baltimore. I’m happy to be here.”
Learning When to Tip with A-Rod
Alex Rodriguez more recently referred to as A-Roid is yet again at the forefront of allegations all stemming from a slander book written by Selena Roberts’ titled ‘The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez’.
Still battling to come back from hip surgery Rodriguez may not have to answer to more then just his steroid use with the New York Yankees. A-Rod allegedly signaled apposing batters as to what to expect on the ensuing pitch if his teammate was going to be throwing a fastball, change up or breaking ball.
But why would A-Rod go through the trouble? With every good scandal there has to be significant reason and this one may prove far fetched. Supposedly during blow out games Rodriguez would pitch tip to apposing players with the hope that they would return the favor in order to help him boost his stats.
Texas Rangers second baseman Michael Young disregarded the allegations outright stating, “I was 40 feet away from him and I never saw that.”
Make or Break MLB Ticket Pricing
5.4 percent increase in ticket prices, but this increase is mostly due to the Yankees and Mets new stadiums. MLB Commissioner, Bud Selig, had warned teams last October in consideration for their 2009 ticket pricing and the Yankees may have wished they listened after opening their $1.5-billion ballpark this year.
“I think if anybody in any business had known where this economy was going to go, they would have done things differently,” Co-owner Hal Steinbrenner admitted.
But these changes are affecting more then just fans and what they have to fork over simply to see the new Yankees stadium. Local businesses in Upstate New York are in fact being forced to up their process as well increasing the bottom line across the board when looking to catch a game.
A-Fraud Synonyms Abound
MLB.com has decidedly banned the Alex Rodriguez nickname, A-Fraud, from it’s personalization feature on replica MLB jerseys.
An MLB spokesmen told CNBC that MLB.com does not allow fans to personalize products in a way that it deems inappropriate, derogatory or profane. So in the name of censorship you just won’t be able to say you got your jersey from MLB.com, they are taking a stand.
You can thank Joe Torre’s book, ‘The Yankee Years,’ for first mention of the nickname A-Fraud.
A Little Fun On A-Rod
I never though that a simple image would cause so much racial taunting among comments.
The premis is simple. MLB fans taunting Alex Rodriguez during the third inning of the New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays game, Saturday July 12th.
Even in all seriousness smiles turned into a calm stare as the front fan is caught awaiting Alex’s reaction.
Pretty simple, and humorous right?
Evidently some readers got bitter.
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