Band On The Run

Just for the hell of it.

Some Vintage Matsui

With tonight's rainout in Detorit, it's time to take a look back at some early Hideki Matsui. I don't mean Yankee rookie Hideki Matsui, but Japanese All-Star Godzilla. Here goes deep against Al Leiter in a 1998 All-Star game in Japan.



A young guy named Kei Igawa strikes out Godzilla, not once, but twice. Like that would happen today.

Good Day Sunshine

It's today that Game 6 isn't right now. This is perfect October baseball weather.

Win #6 Victory Song

6 down, 5 to go

"You shook me all night long"

ALDS Game 3 Victory Song

3 down, 8 to go.

Some Boss for the Boss.

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Game 3 Music to Fire You Up

Some music to get fired up by.

Playoff WIn 2 Victory Song

2 down 9 to go.

Playoffs Win 1 Victory Song

Hopefully there will be 10 more of these!

Pat Benatar - All Fired Up

Get Ready For The Showdown

In case you missed it on YES Sunday, here's the great recap/montage of the 2009 season.

Get Ready For The Showdown
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Celebration: The Movie

Some video of yesterday's clubhouse celebration, courtesy of Marc Carig and my hometown paper, the Star-Ledger.

I Got It

In 40 years of going to baseball games, I have not once caught a foul or fair ball. I was there when my brother got a foul ball off the bat of Dave Winfield, and Pete Rose hit a BP ball off the hands of an unsuspecting friend.

And there are people who have incredible luck. No, I don't mean the rich kids with the nets behind home plate or those who line up in the outfield during BP. I mean kids like this one:

And maybe more remarkably, I got this link from Alyssa Milano on Twitter.

Jorgie's Barehanded Catch

Heck of a play by Jorge Posada in last night's game.

It's Just Like Being There

With a limited number of highly priced, individual game tickets and outrageous parking, this may be the closer you get to be in Yankee Stadium this year. Hanks Yankees.com found this video tour of the new digs. Great find guys!

Tropical Storm Hanna in OBX

A brief glimpse of what's going on down in the Outer Banks today.

Tropical Storm Hanna in OBX

A brief glimpse of what's going on down in the Outer Banks today.

Minor Game Major Brawl

A pitcher is in a Dayton, Ohio jail this morning, charged with felony assault after a huge brawl broke out in yesterday's Peoria Chiefs-Dayton Dragons Single-A baseball game. What started out as a heated argument between the team's managers, escalated when Peoria pitcher Julio Castillo fired a baseball at the Dayton dugout. To make matters worse, Castillo missed, and instead hit a fan sitting behind the dugout. It also emptied the Dayton bench and the melee was on.

It all started in the 2nd inning when Castillo beaned Dragons batter Zach Kozart, who had to leave the game. As an aside, the next batter hit a grounder that caused Castillo and 2nd baseman Gian Guzman to collide. Guzman broke his leg and was taken off on a stretcher. Castillo's night was only going to get worse.

After giving up a pair of 2-run hits, Castillo hit Angel Cabrera, who had hit a walk off home run the night before. The next play was a grounder and Cabrera took out his frustrations on Chiefs shortstop Nate Samson. That brought acting manager Carmelo Martinez (Ryne Sandberg was away from the team) out to argue with home plate ump. Dragons manager Donnie Scott joined the argument and was shoved by Martinez. That set off Castillo and it "game on".

10 minutes later, 17 players were ejected, leaving the umpires in a quandary. They no longer had enough players to finish the game. Midwest League President George Spelius made the odd decision of telling the umpires to reinstate enough players to finish the game. Why not just suspend the game until Spelius could review the video of the incident, which he was going to have to do any way.

Meanwhile, Castillo was to be arraigned this morning. It could mean deportation and a loss of a work visa for the 20-yr old native of the Dominican Republic.

Minor Game Major Brawl

A pitcher is in a Dayton, Ohio jail this morning, charged with felony assault after a huge brawl broke out in yesterday's Peoria Chiefs-Dayton Dragons Single-A baseball game. What started out as a heated argument between the team's managers, escalated when Peoria pitcher Julio Castillo fired a baseball at the Dayton dugout. To make matters worse, Castillo missed, and instead hit a fan sitting behind the dugout. It also emptied the Dayton bench and the melee was on.

It all started in the 2nd inning when Castillo beaned Dragons batter Zach Kozart, who had to leave the game. As an aside, the next batter hit a grounder that caused Castillo and 2nd baseman Gian Guzman to collide. Guzman broke his leg and was taken off on a stretcher. Castillo's night was only going to get worse.

After giving up a pair of 2-run hits, Castillo hit Angel Cabrera, who had hit a walk off home run the night before. The next play was a grounder and Cabrera took out his frustrations on Chiefs shortstop Nate Samson. That brought acting manager Carmelo Martinez (Ryne Sandberg was away from the team) out to argue with home plate ump. Dragons manager Donnie Scott joined the argument and was shoved by Martinez. That set off Castillo and it "game on".

10 minutes later, 17 players were ejected, leaving the umpires in a quandary. They no longer had enough players to finish the game. Midwest League President George Spelius made the odd decision of telling the umpires to reinstate enough players to finish the game. Why not just suspend the game until Spelius could review the video of the incident, which he was going to have to do any way.

Meanwhile, Castillo was to be arraigned this morning. It could mean deportation and a loss of a work visa for the 20-yr old native of the Dominican Republic.

Sign This Kid

And let him work with Abreu on going to the wall.

Sign This Kid

And let him work with Abreu on going to the wall.

Some Thursday Inspiration

If this doesn't get your heart pumping nothing will. Kudos to With Leather for finding it.