Matsui and Rivera: Behavioral Models for TV
They didn't jump up, pump their fists, look to the heavens, or even smile. They just did their jobs in a non-demonstrative, professional manner -- with a dignity rarely seen on commercial television.
They didn't jump up, pump their fists, look to the heavens, or even smile. They just did their jobs in a non-demonstrative, professional manner -- with a dignity rarely seen on commercial television.
Tony Sachs | Posted 11.12.2009 | Sports
For my money, there was one unsung hero, one key player, that transformed the New York Yankees from a third place team in 2008 to World Series champs in '09.
Chris Campbell | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
The Yankees clearly have many, many great years ahead of them, and likely will for generations to come. But the game just doesn't feel the same anymore.
Robert E. Murphy | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports
The temperature in New York is 48 degrees as I begin to write this, three hours before the start of the sixth game of the World Series at Yankee Stadi...
Martin Nolan | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
Pinstripe paranoia, a seasonal ailment, has plagued many of us since 1949. Then, in 2004, came deliverance, along with reduction of sorrow and a fresh perspective.
Tony Sachs | Posted 11.05.2009 | New York
Win or lose, once the playoffs are over, whether you're popping the bubbly or doing the thousand-yard stare in the opposing dugout, there's no more baseball.
Posted 11.03.2009 | New York
The World Series will be won this week, but the Commissioner's Trophy isn't the only title up for grabs. And while the games are decided on the field,...
Eugene Michael Santiago | Posted 10.28.2009 | New York
Now there are players who are excited to be Yankees, and to play for their first World Series appearance. Sure, they too got big checks in the off season, but they wanted to play for a team.
Len Berman | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
But what's with the umpiring? The umps, in perfect position, blew two straight calls last night against Nick Swisher. I'm not in favor of replay in most cases. I am in favor of getting these umps eyeglasses.
Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
The Internet is aflutter with accustations that Yankees' closer Mariano Rivera prepared an illegal spitball in last night's ALCS game against the Ang...
Len Berman | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
On paper rain helps the Angels. If games get rained out, off days go away. And since the Angels have 4 starters and the Yankees 3, edge to the Angels. Of course, the Yankees have Mariano Rivera.
SNY.tv | Sam Borden | Posted 08.15.2009 | New York
When the Yankees open up the second half of the season on Friday, they'll do it with a three-game series against the American League Central-leading T...
New York Daily News | Anthony Mccarron | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York
A few minutes after recording the 500th save of his career - against the Mets, in their new ballpark, in the Subway Series, no less - Mariano Rivera w...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics
Now that you can give crap to people without actually having to give them anything in reality, here is my virtual gift list for this holiday season.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
For years now a central piece of the progressive worldview is that progressives are enlightened Americans in a sea of their ignorant, bigoted and narrow-minded compatriots.
Tony Sachs | Posted 10.17.2008 | Entertainment
This silent September finds the New York Yankees out of the playoff chase for the first time in 15 years as fans count down to the final game at Yankee Stadium, which takes place this Sunday.
Forbes | Tom Van Riper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Major League Baseball's free agent shopping season is shaping up as a ho-hum affair. The cupboard of big names is a little bare. Expensive high impac...
Charles Warner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Media