World Series

The Big Three; Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and manager Joe Girardi, it appears, will have to wait until the end of the 2010 campaign to restructure their contracts.

"People just have to understand that everybody does business in a different way,” Steinbrenner said to reporters following Tuesday’s news conference to announce the details of the inaugural Pinstripe Bowl.

Another Oscar night filled with people who are completely useless to society explaining their thoughts and ideals to it while holding a golden naked man has passed, but the quest for a different trophy has begun.

And I, another useless person to society, would like to explain my thoughts and ideas of what each team needs to do to hold the Commissioner's Trophy at the end of the 2010 MLB season.

With spring training beginning, now is the perfect time to get your arguing shoes laced up for another year of baseball.

And what better way to prepare one's arguing than with some predictions that w

"The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game."

Those were the words of Mickey Mantle, who played in many big games. On Oct. 8, 1956, Mickey Mantle had one of the best games of his great career.

Tim Marchman of Sports Illustrated recently ranked the 30 general managers in baseball and the Yankees GM Brian Cashman ranked pretty high at No. 3 behind Andrew Friedman of the Tampa Rays and Theo Epstein of the Boston Red Sox.

3. Brian Cashman, New York Yankees

Chan Ho Park spoke with reporters about becoming a Yankee even though he had a better offer from the Phillies and also had an offer from the Washington Nationals.

Here are some quotes from his first day in camp :

The Yankees are fresh off a World Series championship.  They have no steroid-scandal distractions, no major injuries, and all but about two or three spots of the roster have been solidified.  Yes, things are good for the Bombers.

However, the Yankees have issues that could flare up this season.  I’ll try to address the 10 biggest, or at least most obvious, questions (potential problems) the Yankees could have in 2010:

There's been some chatter recently about realigning the teams of Major League Baseball.  Perhaps it's because the collective bargaining agreement is about up for re-negotiating or maybe it's simply due to the fact that there isn't a whole lot of substance to write about the first week of Spring Training.

Nevertheless, it's an interesting topic to debate, but I find myself on the side that believes baseball's six-division structure works well just the way it is. 

I have read a boatload of preview articles for the 2010 season, plus many articles on the 2010 Derek Jeter-led New York Yankees and their attempt to be the first team to repeat as World Series Champions since, well...the Jeter-led Yankees of a decade ago.

Most pundits agree that the New York Yankees have the best team in baseball and, coming off a 103-win, 2009 regular season and a World Series title, it is hard to argue.

Newsday ran down a list of Nick Johnson ’s injuries that he’s incurred over his career. I’m not going to copy that list word for word exactly, but they should get all the credit for this post.

As many of you know, I was on the NY Baseball Live radio show with Joe Boesch on Sunday night. For those of you who are not familiar with the show, it’s a program on WGBB 1240 AM in New York that focuses just on baseball.

I was on with Joe for about 20 minutes and we talked about a wide variety of topics.

Here is a recap of the show:

We talked about Johnny Damon signing with the Detroit Tigers and what it means for Detroit.

I gave my opinion on what teams had a good offseason and who are the teams to beat in 2010.