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"It doesn't hold noise, or home-team fervor, anywhere near the way the old place did," he said. "The old Stadium was our 10th man — a loud and frenzied cauldron of pinstriped passion, with a lot of lifers in the stands."
Roberts hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the ninth inning, and the Yankees beat the Los Angeles Angels 4-3 Tuesday night for just their second victory in seven games.
Infielder Brendan Ryan has been activated from the disabled list by the New York Yankees after being sidelined since spring training with cervical spine nerve injury.
While he embarks on his farewell tour, collecting the comedic, geriatric doodads from his foes, it surely irks Derek Jeter to find his stats well south of his normal, Cooperstown metric.
"Jon, I feel bad for you man," the all-time MLB saves leader said to Stewart in regard to the host's fandom. "You've been suffering all these years."
Mo admires Dustin Pedroia for his determination, all-out hustle and will to win. You know, all the things lacking at times in former Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano.
LA scored three runs on five straight walks in the eighth after Jered Weaver escaped a based-loaded jam with no outs in the top half, and they hung on to beat New York 4-1 on Monday night.
He was in town not only to see Jeter but to appear Monday on late-night TV with David Letterman, another star planning to step away soon: "I'm sad to see some of these guys retiring. I'm not far behind."
Wil Myers hit an inside-the-park homer, his latest big hit against the New York Yankees, and drove in four runs as the Tampa Bay Rays battered an ineffective CC Sabathia in a 5-1 victory Sunday.
There was a time when Lou Gehrig was feeling fairly good about his chances against the disease that ultimately took his life at the age of 37.
The big winner in all this could figure to be the Yankees, who will host a tired Tampa Bay squad for a three-game set starting Friday.
The good news is it is a Grade 1, which means there is no significant disruption of the involved tissue.
No makeup date was immediately announced Wednesday. The Mariners say the teams will play their regularly-scheduled game Thursday night at Yankee Stadium.
Right-handed starting pitcher Michael Pineda has a Grade 1 strain of an upper back muscle. He cut short a simulated game in Tampa, Fla., after experiencing tightness in his lat and an MRI revealed the injury.
Cano said it wasn't a big deal or much of a distraction. But on Twitter, a debate raged over whether Seattle's slugger deserved that sort of treatment in his return to the Bronx.
There's some bad karma floating around the Yankees' Michael Pineda right now.
A handful of Yankees fans were given the opportunity to boo a cardboard cutout of Cano. And boo they did. Until the 2009 World Series champion walked out from behind the cutout.
The Mariners second baseman is hoping for a rousing welcome when he's introduced in the Bronx for the first time since bolting in free agency. Good luck with that.
Jacoby Ellsbury walked into Fenway Park last week fearing the worst. Similar thoughts have to be racing through Robinson Cano's head right now.
Albert Pujols hit one of Los Angeles' four home runs, C.J. Wilson kept New York in check again and the Angels roughed up the road weary Yankees 13-1 Friday night.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says the sport will wait until after the season to study whether the rule preventing pitchers from using pine tar should be changed.
"I wouldn't allow it, and I was a pitcher," Gooden told WFAN co-hosts Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts on Friday. "I'm all for pitchers, I'm all for the 2-1 ballgames. I love to see pitchers dominate. But it's illegal. It's in the rulebooks."
I thought I would round out this discussion by choosing all-time teams: one comprised solely of Yankees and the other with players from the New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Mets.
John Farrell misused a valuable piece of information. And with one rash decision, Boston's manager might have done the Yanks a huge favor.
If anything, "instant" replay -- whatever you think of it -- will help umpires with the "old" transfer rule. Just return the rule to what it used to be. Immediately, if not sooner.
